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I can't see how a starter gun is going to cause a panic leading to crushing/trampling of masses, or anything remotely close to those kinds of consequences.

During daytime hours it's usually pretty legal to make all kinds of sounds.

If someone wants to nitpick the "gun" here, just rig an internal combustion engine that backfires as loud as a gun, or literally put in a speaker / horn that can produce the same sound.

There's ways around all the little "but what about" in this scenario.

Now, it seems like your point of view is that all the knowledge and experience of a university education is useless anyway.

I think standardized testing is not a good way to measure if someone has achieved the learning objective of a lesson. I'm hardly the only one to think this way. It's great for testing how good someone is at rote memorization of facts for a single test for topics that are never brought up again so immediately forgotten. If you do it in person with pens and paper the kiddos can just read their neighbors shit, or sneak in a cheat sheet. Did this not happen in every single class you've ever taken from K-12 and then 4 years in a uni? Did for me!!!!! I promise. I never needed to cheat, but there was always someone within eyeshot doing it. I'm not a snitch.

why the fuck arent you filthy rich yet?

Lack of motivation, lack of a million dollar loan from mommy and daddy. You can't teach motivation really. My upbringing was free room and board until I was 18.

Tell me when you make your first million

Already there man... 300k in 401ks, 350k in non-retirement fund investments, 500k townhouse with 50k mortgage left on it as a rental. 600k condo too.

Saying “no eligible for rehire” is enough to poison your reference.

HR departments are routinely told not to disclose that information by legal because it can result in a defamation lawsuit.

it's not illegal for a prospective employer to ask the employee or formal employer that question, sure. A former employer would be putting their neck on the line though, because anybody can call your employment verification line. Very, very often employment verification is outsourced to eliminate any possibility of this liability.

If the policy is to never provide that information and you never provide it, you never have to go to court to prove that they are not re-hirable for a legitimate reason as a defendant in a defamation lawsuit. Background checks are typically not performed until an offer is on the table with a contingency for the former. Again, in massachusetts, the outcome of a background check must be legally provided to the one under scrutiny. If the thing that doesn't check out is that employer's statements, the evidence is right there. Lawyers drool over this shit.

Lol, english classes have always been the biggest joke of college for me. All you do is write an outline, pull some bullshit quotes to back up your argument from the source to satisfy MLA, and write enough to satisfy the word requirement. It's all bullshit. it's all opinion. Easy A for me, except when i'm forced to write by hand.

If you really want to make people learn how to write professionally without computer assistance like spellcheck or LLMs, give them a fucking typewriter. It's how I learned to type as a kid in the 90s. At least the typing skill is transferable and you get a great understanding of why applications like Word function the way they function.

I would argue that in person exams with no resources to do research goes against how the world works for most white collar workers.

Few are unable to research on the internet to verify information, or at least look at say a man page for coding or look up past stuff on stackoverflow, if they are working through a problem.

Standardized testing is just not as useful as-is. I do great at it and can typically pass exams without really studying the material, but others are not so lucky.

I've met people who can flunk exams but talk about the problems, go into how they would fix it, and work through a problem to implementation and testing in the real world.

Oh, and LLMs are the new typewriter, for better or worse. It's unlikely we are going to have a future where they are not readily available. We already have models that run locally and do not transmit data anywhere, and AI customized to your own data that is not shared is already a service provided by Microsoft.

Education needs to evolve with technology. It's always been 5-10 years behind the curve.

Maybe we should be using LLMs to proctor tests and generate interactive testing. Grading can be verified by a professor reading a transcript to verify hallucinations didn't occur or influence the results. We can even have LLMs monitor the working process of people to help determine what are the most efficient ways to work custom tailored to individuals. This is just one idea of many potential options.

Because nobody ever cheated on a paper exam before.

Imagine how terribly different games would be if someone had patented “A action where a user presses a button to swing their weapon, and if that weapon hits an enemy, that enemy takes damage.”

I'm sure nintendo will have a patent for using a command for a menu to use an effect that buffs, heals, or harms. That way they can prove they are the ones who invented JRPGs too.

Why is there nothing in place to punish Ninendo for doing shit like this?

Patent law is rigged. Legal monopolies shouldn't exist.

If you do get fired, and your employer flags you as “not eligible for rehire” that’s a big chunk of your career you can’t reference anymore because its now a black mark.

Legally the business cannot say anything whatsoever about job performance or any reason behind hiring in terms of employment verification, at least where I am in Massachusetts. Employment verification here can only say dates of employment, starting job title and ending job title. Nothing else. If they say more is a massive liability and absolutely anybody can call up asking for employment verification, there's no vetting.. so getting caught telling more information is very possible.

Being banned from employment from one employer doesn't usually do anything, and again, if you didn't have a job to begin with and needed that foot in the door, and old small-midsize company that has zero real power, influence or clout beyond their domain will have zero impact on your job prospects. If you never get past offer phase it's unlikely.

If you're in a highly specialized field where there's only a handful of people who can do your job then yes, EVERYONE in that field probably knows just who you are! But you can't fake it till you make it at that level. low level managers and early-mid career white collar roles? Yeah you can bullshit your way through a lot of those.

Umass boston was largely a joke. I do agree with that.

It's mostly a time and money sink for a piece of paper unless you're going into a profession that requires it... though you don't usually need a degree, instead you need to pass various certifications. There's even wacky exceptions like not needing a degree at all to take the BAR exam in Vermont.

Then there's the hyper conservative colleges out there.... I couldn't tell you at all how those go but I wouldn't assume very well.

Preach. I can do nothing but agree, and I have insider info in the insurance industry, pharma and healthcare. It's all a game to make the rich even richer and the politicians are colluding in such a bipartisan fashion you'd think the parties were fully unified.

Sure those are all well and good ideas. My wife works in HR and she's yet to work at a company that calls the registrars office. They do criminal background checks all over, but rarely do they go beyond that. We're in mass, so we're entitled to a copy of our background check performed by the business, if you're in a similar situation i'd recommend checking it out.

That being said, if you're applying for a job you're never gonna get an interview for (Director or Manager roles without an MBA or BS) then you have quite literally nothing but your time to lose.

What's the consequences of not lying on your resume? you can't get a good job.

What's the consequences of being caught lying on your resume? you lose your good job.

What's the consequences of not getting caught? You get paid to do the job that didn't require the degree to begin iwth.

The consequences are the same whether or not you do it. The benefits greatly outweigh the risks.

lol, you think most of those guys went to college?

Welcome to how the world works. I promise it gets worse as you look around.

Humans are evil.

Wow, look at that! The price of strollers just went up 5k!

Replace strollers with basically anything related to birth or infants. 5k more to spend? 5k more to earn by big business selling wares.

This assumes the hospital doesn't determine that you seem to owe 5k more for that one out of network service provider they slipped in while you were distracted during birthing.

I hated TLJ. I grew up on the OG and saw the awful prequels in theatres despite knowing they were bad.

Too much bad writing. Too many plot holes. Too many monumental changes to how the universe works.

If they've moved and it's on an old email... yeah... good luck getting that 1099 to them at the old address without an email.

I don't really think that's the case. If you live in an exceptionally partisan area then there's little impact to voting.