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Total Members Voted: 11

Voting closed: February 15, 2022, 10:51:36 AM

[josh]

https://www.cnn.com/2021/05/25/politics/marjorie-taylor-greene-holocaust-remarks/index.html

Too little, way too late: GOP leadership, FIVE DAYS after Rep. Greene's comparing masks to actions by the Nazis, have condemned her remarks.

[FlyingVProd]

We can have a studio in my neighborhood like Occidental in East Hollywood, Disney and everyone else uses Occidental.

https://occidentalentertainment.com/

Salute,

Tony V.

[Hairy Lime]

To name a few.
Might be fun but finding a job?
Not so much.

Video game Design
Music Industry Studies
Ethnomusicality
Vineyard Management
Informatics
Rhetoric
Comparative Literature

Informatics experts are in high demand.   As are coders and graphics designers for video gaming.   A friend of mine studied informatics, now has his own biotech company.
Some of the others are academic fields that have been around for centuries, and offer the chance to teach and do research.   Vineyard mgmt is part of agribusiness, and offers well-paying jobs.   The newer fields on the list have seen growth in demand for trained specialists,  which is why universities responded with courses.   

You seem to have cut/pasted again,  and with no idea what you're talking about.

None of those graduates are in high demand.
Not one.
As for cut and pasting, I made a list, albeit a small one, copied it and pasted it.
Sue me.

Informatics is the popular current term for computer science you cretin.

For one branch of it, but not all of it.

Only 945 informatics jobs on Indeed at the moment.
149 Vineyard Manager openings, but 900 other jobs that call for that training.
Over 1000 video game designer/developer jobs.

I'll grant Ward that there are only a few dozen jobs calling for Music Industry Studies. explicitly, but would wager a large amount of money that few of those with that degree are not going on to grad school - or ever planned otherwise. Studying any industry preps one for being able to understand others. See also: Liberal Arts majors and Philosophy Majors.

Hadn't heard of ethnomusicality as a field before, but I suspect that it aligns with ethnomusicology, for which there are some jobs out there. High demand? Nope - but how many ethnomusicality degrees got handed out last year?

Ward listed Rhetoric and Comparative Lit?!

Hahahahaha!

Setting aside that there are more than 800 jobs calling for a background that rhetoric is explicitly desired for, again, rhetoric is a stepping stone degree into a host of fields, including law.

Comparative lit is another major that was never intended as a terminal degree. But... there are more than 5,000 editorial positions, Ward. You think those are beyond a Comparative Lit major?! You know what other major is considered a good path for a future editor?! Rhetoric!

There is no major in editing.

Made that list up yourself, you claim?

You should be so proud. You found TWO majors that don't have tons of openings in their fields.

You got it backwards.
The higher the number of openings reflects lower demand most likely do to the annual salary.

From lowest and going up:
Legislators
Radio and television announcers
Graduate Teaching Assistants
Coaches and scouts
Rehabilitation Counselors
Proofreaders and copy markers
Reporters and Correspondents
Museum technicians and conservators
Agricultural inspectors
Biological technicians
Mental health and substance abuse social workers
Credit counselors
Child, family, and school social workers
Social science research assistants
Athletic trainers
Recreational therapists
Education administrators, preschool and childcare center/program
Statistical assistants
Exercise physiologists
Meeting, convention, and event planners
Fine artists, including painters, sculptors, and illustrators
Audio-visual and multimedia collections specialists
Music directors and composers
Farm and home management advisors
Interpreters and translators
Marriage and family therapists
Graphic designers
Archivists
Probation officers and correctional treatment specialists
Vocational education teachers, postsecondary
Interior designers
Judicial law clerks
Adult basic and secondary education and literacy teachers and instructors
Curators
Health educators
Set and exhibit designers
Tax examiners and collectors, and revenue agents
Camera operators, television, video, and motion picture

Legislators $24K
Camera operators $54K

All require a Bachelor’s Degree, a few a Master’s Degree.

I am pretty sure Red views college as a high end trade school. And that he would consider my degree in Justice, Morality and Constitutional Democracy "useless" after finding 0 ads for positions calling for that degree on Indeed.

[FlyingVProd]

A little boy was just killed in a shooting on the freeway here in Orange County.

We have different worlds going on here in California, for some people California is a resort state, a place of sunshine and cold drinks, and surfers, and Hollywood movie stars, etc, and for some other people it is a war zone of gangs, for some people this area is a hard core war zone.

It is always sad when children get killed.

We need to create a better society.

Salute,

Tony V.

[FlyingVProd]

We need Psychiatrists here in Orange County big time. There is a huge shortage of Psychiatrists here. 

We need to give the young people scholarships to become Psychiatrists.

Salute,

Tony V. 

[barton]

It is always sad when children get killed.

Generally true,  though I make an exception for children who kick the back of your seat in planes,  trains,  or cinemas.   

[kidcarter8]

Interesting catfight on the "view" about the loony fringes in both parties.

https://www.foxnews.com/media/the-view-blows-up-after-meghan-mccain-compares-the-squad-to-rep-marjorie-taylor-greene

The Squad says wearing masks are just like Jews wearing a yellow Star in Nazi Germany?

The Squad says wildfires were started by Jewish Space lasers?

There is NO comparison the left for the looney MAINSTREAM of the GQP.

Grow up. It only took you four years to realize Trump took credit for improvements to the VA made under Obama.

The GOP mainstream still thinks the 2020 election was rigged and cause for an armed insurrection.

No

[kidcarter8]

Trump's defense on the Jan. 6 speech (and related actions):

That as President, he had "absolute immunity" under the Constitution.

"The claims against former President Trump directly contravene the absolute immunity conveyed on the President by the Constitution as a key principle of separation of powers."

https://www.cnn.com/2021/05/25/politics/donald-trump-capitol-riot-immunity/index.html

In response to a lawsuit by ERIC SWALWELL

heh

[Hamilton Samuels]

He's only made the point here,  umpteen times,  that harsh incarceration laws for petty marijuana offenses were engineered to imprison blacks on a massive scale and use them as cheap prison labor.  A socially destructive policy that fixed no drug problem or violent crime problem.   

Either you've listened with an open mind to the facts and interpretations offered on those countless occasions or your mind was already made up and dead set on your bigoted and rigid worldview.

Guess you can't handle points of difference that are clearly noted and supported by fact, let alone follow a conversation, narrow-minded twit that you are.

[LarryBnDC]

NYCDA convenes grand jury in probe of Trump Org

[Hamilton Samuels]

One reason weed should never have been a schedule one drug is if you can’t get any your body isn’t going to make your brain think it’s a good idea to take money out of mom’s purse to get it. You might do that anyway but that would because you’re an asshole.

If you’re hooked on heroin, meth or coke  etc, you’ll smack grandma upside the head with a skillet that still has  catfish frying in it to get cash in order to boost.

That we’ve allowed generations of lives to be tossed into the maw of mass incarceration was a decision based on nothing but bullshit.

Racist bullshit at that.

Were you high when you wrote this?

Because you haven't connected one dot to another.

Clean this up.

BTW, there is research that links early marijuana usage to greater alcohol abuse among individuals. The amount of criminal and violent activity linked to alcohol abuse is quite significant.

Look up Harry Anslinger.

Look up Larry Bullslinger.

As usual you have nothing.

As usual, you lose again.

Some research suggests that marijuana use is likely to precede use of other licit and illicit substances45 and the development of addiction to other substances. For instance, a study using longitudinal data from the National Epidemiological Study of Alcohol Use and Related Disorders found that adults who reported marijuana use during the first wave of the survey were more likely than adults who did not use marijuana to develop an alcohol use disorder within 3 years; people who used marijuana and already had an alcohol use disorder at the outset were at greater risk of their alcohol use disorder worsening.46 Marijuana use is also linked to other substance use disorders including nicotine addiction.

https://www.drugabuse.gov/publications/research-reports/marijuana/marijuana-gateway-drug

Should've studied more at Hampton, Larry Bullslinger.

And this has what to do with the mass incarceration of marijuana users and sellers?

And you have made no salient or comprehensible point about either of those.

Cool.

You admit you’re full of shit.

We hit Larry's default setting. Again.

[LarryBnDC]

He's only made the point here,  umpteen times,  that harsh incarceration laws for petty marijuana offenses were engineered to imprison blacks on a massive scale and use them as cheap prison labor.  A socially destructive policy that fixed no drug problem or violent crime problem.   

Either you've listened with an open mind to the facts and interpretations offered on those countless occasions or your mind was already made up and dead set on your bigoted and rigid worldview.

Guess you can't handle points of difference that are clearly noted and supported by fact, let alone follow a conversation, narrow-minded twit that you are.

Such bullshit.

[Hairy Lime]

One reason weed should never have been a schedule one drug is if you can’t get any your body isn’t going to make your brain think it’s a good idea to take money out of mom’s purse to get it. You might do that anyway but that would because you’re an asshole.

If you’re hooked on heroin, meth or coke  etc, you’ll smack grandma upside the head with a skillet that still has  catfish frying in it to get cash in order to boost.

That we’ve allowed generations of lives to be tossed into the maw of mass incarceration was a decision based on nothing but bullshit.

Racist bullshit at that.

Were you high when you wrote this?

Because you haven't connected one dot to another.

Clean this up.

BTW, there is research that links early marijuana usage to greater alcohol abuse among individuals. The amount of criminal and violent activity linked to alcohol abuse is quite significant.

Look up Harry Anslinger.

Look up Larry Bullslinger.

As usual you have nothing.

As usual, you lose again.

Some research suggests that marijuana use is likely to precede use of other licit and illicit substances45 and the development of addiction to other substances. For instance, a study using longitudinal data from the National Epidemiological Study of Alcohol Use and Related Disorders found that adults who reported marijuana use during the first wave of the survey were more likely than adults who did not use marijuana to develop an alcohol use disorder within 3 years; people who used marijuana and already had an alcohol use disorder at the outset were at greater risk of their alcohol use disorder worsening.46 Marijuana use is also linked to other substance use disorders including nicotine addiction.

https://www.drugabuse.gov/publications/research-reports/marijuana/marijuana-gateway-drug

Should've studied more at Hampton, Larry Bullslinger.

And this has what to do with the mass incarceration of marijuana users and sellers?

And you have made no salient or comprehensible point about either of those.

Cool.

You admit you’re full of shit.

We hit Larry's default setting. Again.

But only because your default setting is being full of shit.

[REDSTATEWARD]

I never knew college courses for would-be lawyers contained a morality clause.

[bankshot1]

Boz

I am pretty sure Red views college as a high end trade school. And that he would consider my degree in Justice, Morality and Constitutional Democracy "useless" after finding 0 ads for positions calling for that degree on Indeed.

College and my liberal arts education helped me do independent research, analysis, and clearly articulate my findings. I enjoyed poli sci but those skills are and were applicable to several pursuits.

As an aside, college may be a high-end and expensive trade school, but for a lot of kids it exposes them to a lot of new and exciting learning and career possibilities they could have never imagined in a more constricted and defined universe. I mean once it became apparent that MLB 1st baseman was an unlikely career path for me, I was lost in high school.

Also the positive developmental impact of no longer under the watchful eye of parents and easier access to beers, bongs and babes can't be under stated.

Lastly, while Red's degree in TV and washing machine repair from JC, may jaundice his view of a liberal arts education and lead him to demean your costly degree in Justice, Morality and Constitutional Democracy, I suspect he attended the George Reeves Tele-Academy of Truth, Justice and the American Way. To this day Red is convinced he can leap tall buildings in a single bound. Sadly for the Mrs, he was only faster than a speeding bullet. Though, she did appreciate his ability to adjust the washer spin cycle.