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yes, of course, the person who had free university because of taxpayer grants is happy to see university made unaffordable by a rich, privately educated toff government.

i mean it's so facile. we all know that, politically, in terms of class warfare, this should cut against all of your principles. to say nothing of your own life experience and self-interest. but, no, because it's social sciences in the firing line, you're happy to see working-class people priced out of university.

pathetic.

just think materially and financially only, in your piggish way. every student in the UK pays the same exorbitant yearly fee of £9,000.

all those humanities undergrads are practically subsidising the resources and facilities-intensive STEM subjects with their loan money.

yes, nothing outside of STEM has ever been a benefit to humanity. there is nothing in life that is worthwhile outside of engineering.

Moved to tears by some of the most commercial of contributions to film, such as comic book Power Woman floating in space undoubtedly to an accompanying score honed for that effect.

Who could forget about the sultry 1992 classic, 'Brand X Semiconductor Catalog' with the MOSFET pin-up. Phew! Who needs novelists when you can have IC schematics … oh wait all that still needs technical writers and proofreading.

erm, yes, where did i say or imply anywhere that a university course is the only way to become a writer?

it's just overwhelmingly the case that, for creatives, a period of apprenticeship or historical study is necessary. could be a personal tutelage, could be a practice-based art college, could be an historical/theoretical university course. "time, space, materials and confidence" ...?

do you really think you're telling me anything new?

it's amazing that you came up in an era when young people literally had free university and the dole queue, years of being unpaid and debt-free and figuring out what they wanted to do. so much UK music/art/film in the 1980s and '90s came from that setup. but you're happy that university degrees are being constrained into a narrow definition of 'success'?

a middle-aged philistine. it's not big and it's not clever. and in other threads you're asking how to find a woman who actually wants to spend time around you. LMAO. learn to connect the dots my guy. get therapy and sort your toxic, hateful inward toenail of a personality. an artistic hobby might even make you more interesting to the opposite sex.

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the actual policy is a total nonsense, and all educators can see it. it's narrowly disguised social engineering. the requirement that all university courses should have '60% of leavers in a high-value job within 6 months' is craziness. that would shutter law degrees and most of the social sciences with very carefully delineated career paths (e.g. clinical psychology), for a start.

other studies have shown that humanities graduates tend to reach earnings parity with STEM jobs in mid-career. a slower start, admittedly, with the lack of high-paying financial and/or number-crunching jobs (and in fact many 'elite' humanities jobs rely on years of unpaid internships and depressed lower-rung wages). but the notion that any degree that doesn't generate a 'high-value job' within 6 months of graduation = 'dead-end' is just wrongheaded on about 3 different levels.

https://twitter.com/mrjohnofarrell/stat … 5O8SMJkI-w

anyway, the discussion is tangential. just funny that the people whom dilbert characterises as 'government by humanities idiots' are steadfastly dismantling humanities education. great analysis!

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I can't believe Ken sold out his other political science comrades and works for a multinational company. He became the man just so he could take a Korean girl on vacation a few times a month.

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Can we go to war with Russia? Look at that alliance. Unbeatable in a ground war.

I will convince glue eaters to drop out of high school and enlist for the bonus before the draft gets them.

SuperJail Warden wrote:

I will convince glue eaters to drop out of high school and enlist for the bonus before the draft gets them.

1960s: macnamara's morons
2020s: mac's morons

the UK (or more precisely boris in full puffed-up, LARPer churchill mode) are actually the most sanguine in western europe about a confrontation with russia, i think. france/germany would rather the ukrainians came to the negotiating table and ceded territory, even if they don't say it in such bald terms. countries like italy have no appetite for war at all afaik.

to be fair countries like spain and italy have never exactly been lynchpins of the NATO alliance. the countries that will count and which have kept large standing armies, including conscription, are russia's baltic neighbours and USA, UK, france and germany (probably in that order). turkey are a less-acknowledged NATO partner in these discussions but their location is obviously crucial, and they're doing quite a job of supplying their fancy drones to the ukrainians. much more important in these discussions than the spanish or dutch, anyway.

i would not doubt the resolve of countries like poland, finland, estonia, etc, to fight back against russia. nothing 'fragile' about their attitude towards russia. the bitter memories are too strong. they would at least all become massive quagmires of insurrection and armed civilians, as in ukraine.

presuming nukes were kept out of the equation, NATO would win comfortably on materiel alone. russia is spending its expensive cruise missiles on bombing shopping centres and killing 15 civilians at a time. not smart considering they can't access advanced tech supply lines anymore.

with that said, zelensky clearly wants to try and bring the conflict to some sort of conclusion this side of christmas. the conflict is already dropping out of news headlines and public consciousness; and hawkish LARPers like BoJo's days might be numbered. the next UK premiere will undoubtedly be cooler and more levelheaded on the drums of war rhetoric. it's foreseeable that fatigue will set in and people's appetite for ukraine will fall as the conflict drags on.

which will give out first: russia's sanctioned economy/supply lines or the rest of the world's care cup?

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