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Dilbert_X wrote:

Students are voting with their feet, sorry.

Just wanted to use this an opportunity to make a shout out to right wingers discouraging their kids from going to college any college because 'college is for liberals' etc. Good please lock your people out of the knowledge economy.

he’s saying the decline in the humanities is because students are ‘voting with their feet’.

enrolment in humanities courses in the UK has nose dived since they tripled the tuition fees. same as in the US since the financial crash.

or, to put it another way, as inequality has grown, social mobility has stalled, elite professions have pulled up the ladder, etc, humanities has become more and more isolated as a tiny minority concern for upper-middle class monied people.

dilbert reads these political policies, that is, tripling tuition fees and marketising education, as ‘students are voting with their feet’. like it’s a principled turn away from the humanities. like it’s inevitable that they’d decline because, of course!, they are ‘useless subjects’.

not aware of any of the australian context. thanks for that.

More Aus context - the education system struggles to deliver people competent at maths to university, so they tend to pick non-maths courses.

uziq wrote:

https://twitter.com/craigjdaly/status/1496226377229602818?s=21

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yikes

Anyway, twitter not really endearing myself by tossing up an unclosable popup if I try to scroll down. I used to just attribute those mostly to obnoxious, parasitic aggregators. But calling twitter parasitic probably isn't too far off the mark.

unnamednewbie13 wrote:

uziq wrote:

https://twitter.com/craigjdaly/status/1496226377229602818?s=21

😬

yikes

Anyway, twitter not really endearing myself by tossing up an unclosable popup if I try to scroll down. I used to just attribute those mostly to obnoxious, parasitic aggregators. But calling twitter parasitic probably isn't too far off the mark.

you have mentioned this like three times.

twitter is free. it costs nothing to sign up.

if you don't want to sign up, you can still see the fucking tweet. lmao. it's not like it's paywalled or behind a content block or anything. you just can't scroll endlessly through replies/related tweets.

this is not enough of an issue to warrant multiple complaints over. free-to-use social media platforms encourage you to sign up in shock horror bullying tactic!

A lot of people have mentioned a lot of things a lot of times on this forum, zeek. I hardly stand out in that regard. Twitter is "free," but so are STDs. I prefer websites when they're not trying to strongarm me into signing up, and I prefer to sign up for websites that don't employ those kinds of tactics. I probably wouldn't buy software that spams me with registration popups during its trial phase either.

Three times doesn't even come close to how often you've talked about Korea stuff, just to name one thing. You've also griped about me bringing up something more than once, at least that many times.

Sue me.

We should all try to be nice to each other.

Last edited by SuperJail Warden (2022-02-23 06:55:29)

unnamednewbie13 wrote:

A lot of people have mentioned a lot of things a lot of times on this forum, zeek. I hardly stand out in that regard. Twitter is "free," but so are STDs. I prefer websites when they're not trying to strongarm me into signing up, and I prefer to sign up for websites that don't employ those kinds of tactics. I probably wouldn't buy software that spams me with registration popups during its trial phase either.

Three times doesn't even come close to how often you've talked about Korea stuff, just to name one thing. You've also griped about me bringing up something more than once, at least that many times.

Sue me.

korea is a topic of discussion. complaining three times or responding to every linked tweet with an ‘omg twitter is so evil it tries to make you sign up!’ is autistic.

again, it takes 20 seconds to register for an account. email, password, done. don’t want to give an evul sOciAl mEdiA company an auto-generated, throwaway email address? er ok. then maybe just stop scrolling on the links?

like what can anyone say. if you don’t want their sign up dialogue box you can … literally read the tweets anyway. just don’t scroll. i honestly don’t know what to fucking tell you. continue being precious about twitter though. fight the power !

apple literally has a feature that will fake an email address for you on any sign-up form.

you could sign up and even have your device auto-complete the form.

total time and effort: 10 seconds maybe.

or just keep complaining about it on an internet forum. that’ll show ‘em.

If its so exciting post a screenshot.

Half the time people post twitter links its impossible to figure out which of 100 terse snippets they're really referring to.

"oooh ooh check out this savage twitter burn"
-> 20 pages of fuck knows what

Last edited by Dilbert_X (2022-02-24 03:26:18)

uziq wrote:

ah yes, everyone who takes a humanities subject does it simply because they’re not good enough at math. that’s exactly how human intelligence works.

what do you have to say about the science lecturer above complaining about having his pension axed by 30%?

“it’s the market, sorry son, your contributions just aren’t valued”.

“why should society and taxpayers pick up the tab so that science teachers can enjoy retirement?”


you really are a piffling intelligence.

anyway.

the tories are introducing measures to deny university funding/offers to anyone who doesn’t pass with high levels of literacy as well as numeracy.

it’s all very well to talk about ‘people being encouraged to do english and humanities because there’s a dearth of good maths skills’. what about illiterate STEM types?

so under the new system it looks like you wouldn’t be admitted very far up the university system either, dilbert. imagine the wisdom of this system: requiring imperial students to be good at analysing shakespeare. genius.

of course, what this stuff amounts to really is just class warfare by other means. it always affects the disadvantaged, people from difficult backgrounds with disrupted early-life education, etc, the most. certainly nobody from a good fee-paying school is going to sweat over passing their basic english/maths requirements.

illiteracy is just as much of a problem as innumeracy. and making out that ‘the world of work’ and your average office job requires pre-university-level math skills any more than it requires literacy, communication or analytical skills is pure farce.