Resentment towards elites who sold us all on a bunch of bullshit. The elites have failed us in nearly every way and that in turn made it easy for a populist like Trump to step in and start telling the lies that a certain demographic wants to hear.
Mind you, I'm not saying that it makes any logical sense, I'm just explaining what I believe happened, or at least a big part of it.
Well something like 10 percent of us are still unionized. I'm technically in management, but I'm still a union member and I 100 percent support my union brothers and sisters over ownership. That said, having a unionized workforce is actually good for my company's owners because it allows them to bid on highly lucrative projects that aren't really viable for non-signatory contractors for technical reasons having to do with safety and insurance.
That doesn't make any sense. Anything involving math is relatively easy because there's only one right answer. A lot of people have this backwards because they have shitty math education and seem to think higher maths are akin to some kind of alchemy.
While it's not entirely ruled out, the lab leak hypothesis is looking less and less likely for a variety of reasons. The most likely suspect at this time is a raccoon dog sold at a specific wet market in Wuhan about 7 miles away from the WIV lab. This has not been proven yet either, it's just the most likely, so ultimately we still don't actually know.
There was a deep-dive article about it in the NYT Magazine recently.
We understand perfectly, we just think it's bullshit. All of the countries that are consistently ranked as providing the best quality of life for their citizens share a suite of features, none of which are communism. No amount of condescension on your part will change this.
You won't be prepared for the exam unless you actually do the work ahead of time. That may not be immediately true in middle school, but it's definitely true by the time you get to upper division undergrad coursework, at least if you're in a competitive program. You really are only selling yourself short in terms of being competitive at the next level.
This is even more true in grad school where you are expected to produce twice as much in half the time.
Ok, so hand copy all your assignments from ChatGPT all semester and I, the instructor, will count them as 50 percent of your final grade. The other 50 percent is based on a hand-written final essay written in class. How do you think you will do?
I am old so all of my formal university education was completed decades ago, but people cheated back then too and in my experience it's usually way more effort than it's worth as opposed to just doing the work and coming out with the skills you'll need to be successful at the next level.
That's my dreary little bit of moralizing for the day.
You aren't wrong, in part at least, but I guarantee you that the person who doesn't have to set this thing up because they can quickly process information and produce compelling content on their own, without the aid of an LLM, will have a cognitive and competitive advantage in life. This may not be obvious when you are young and still in school.
I think you could do it with a civil suit filed in the appropriate jurisdiction. But IANAL, so that's just a guess. It seems like that's what they did with the guy in New Mexico.
For most people most of the time it's a perfectly fine quality of life. That said, it's a huge country with tons of variation so if you're looking for bad qualities, there are always plenty of examples to point to.
What pisses me off is that we are nowhere near as good as we could be and as we claim to be. There are some very powerful and objectively evil forces in this country.
Are you not self-aware enough to see how brilliantly you are making their point? This is the tyranny of small differences in action; either you're with me 100 percent, or you are cast out as an unclean bigot. This is why the Democrats are losing the working class that would otherwise be their natural allies. People have been yelling this at you for years, but for some reason you are unable to hear it.
I begrudgingly agree, but with the proviso that I may change my mind later. My problem with the hexbears is that a lot of them are less interested in intellectual honesty than they are in playing stupid word games and bludgeoning other users with walls of text that no one has the time or bandwidth to refute, and dishonestly claiming a lack of response as some kind of moral victory. Many of them are clearly not here in good faith.
Either the quote is applicable or it's not. Sartre's own political leanings have no bearing on that. Are you deliberately ignoring OP's intent because you don't have a response?
You kind of missed the point. Not sure if you did so deliberately or because you are simply obtuse. That's one thing I don't like about you guys; some of you are obviously being intellectually dishonest and playing stupid semantic games, but others seem to actually believe their nonsense, like you going on a rant about Sartre being a Marxist while totally ignoring the context in which the quote is invoked in the first place.
So which is it; are you trying to change the subject for some kind of quick "win," or do you honestly not understand OP's point in citing the quote?
Resentment towards elites who sold us all on a bunch of bullshit. The elites have failed us in nearly every way and that in turn made it easy for a populist like Trump to step in and start telling the lies that a certain demographic wants to hear.
Mind you, I'm not saying that it makes any logical sense, I'm just explaining what I believe happened, or at least a big part of it.