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re: Vivek going up in flames
Posted on 12/26/24 at 2:33 pm to LsuNav
Posted on 12/26/24 at 2:33 pm to LsuNav
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I don’t believe this. Neither of my kids got interviews from said companies and they had excellent GPAs from regular schools. I have always heard the affirmative action/DEI crap but never seen any real evidence of it. I have seen a lot of evidence of good old boy network hiring which you never hear anyone whine about on this site.
I have no idea about the realities in tech
But I can tell you that informally polling the GPAs and LSATs of students at any law school (or any other professional school metrics) would immediately provide the evidence you're talking about
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Posted on 12/26/24 at 2:33 pm to Bobby OG Johnson
Oh, now he clarifies after making fun of people for a day. Wonder why he chose now…
Posted on 12/26/24 at 2:33 pm to Mid Iowa Tiger
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What’s better a low to mid 4 40 yard dash or a perfect SAT score?
What's funny is that I was a successful high school athlete, the jock that Vivek was referring to, who turned down academic scholarships to schools like Rice and Tulane in order to go walk on at TCU to play baseball (before switching to football).
I feel like the experiences and lessons I learned playing sports were just as beneficial to me if not more than the experiences and lessons I got via my education. It's possible to be able to exceed at both sports and academics.
Where Vivek gets it wrong is he feels like we don't have enough qualified Americans for STEM roles which is bullshite. Go to any computer science related sub on reddit and its nothing but posts about how people graduated with masters degrees in computer science who regret majoring in CS because they can't find a job. Labor shortage my arse. If there was a labor shortage I wouldn't have had to move to Miami for my current job and my Iraq War vet former co-worker who got laid off with me wouldn't still be out of work.
Posted on 12/26/24 at 2:35 pm to CarolinaGamecock99
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He only cares about enriching himself with cheap labor
When did this become a bad thing on here?
I need to bump old threads and posts by the same people who used to scoff at Leftists and their "living wage" or the "fight for 15"
Posted on 12/26/24 at 2:35 pm to CarolinaGamecock99
We need to fight back on Elon’s Operation Pooperclip by any means and get back to Operation Paperclip!
Posted on 12/26/24 at 2:36 pm to boomtown143
Posted on 12/26/24 at 2:36 pm to boomtown143
Posted on 12/26/24 at 2:36 pm to goldennugget
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Where Vivek gets it wrong is he feels like we don't have enough qualified Americans for STEM roles which is bullshite
Post the data. Not anecdotal evidence
Posted on 12/26/24 at 2:37 pm to goldennugget
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I feel like the experiences and lessons I learned playing sports were just as beneficial to me if not more than the experiences and lessons I got via my education. It's possible to be able to exceed at both sports and academics.
Having your kids plugged in and doing well (even if not at elite levels) academically, athletically, in the community, socially, etc. should be the "normal" that Vivek refers to. That should be the benchmark. Some kids won't, of course, and that's ok. Hence we have some nerds.
I agree with him that our current "normal" is a problem, but not because it lacks a singular focus on academic and particularly STEM outcomes.
Posted on 12/26/24 at 2:38 pm to boomtown143
That X post/tweet is the first thing close to what I referenced initially.
It's sad how far this forum has fallen, where an old, popular theory can't make it by page 10
It's sad how far this forum has fallen, where an old, popular theory can't make it by page 10
This post was edited on 12/26/24 at 2:38 pm
Posted on 12/26/24 at 2:38 pm to 50_Tiger
I'm a Trump guy, but he and Elon need to go back to doing whatever they were doing before they got involved.
Posted on 12/26/24 at 2:38 pm to SlowFlowPro
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I need to bump old threads and posts by the same people who used to scoff at Leftists and their "living wage" or the "fight for 15"
Leftists/wokesters are closer to correct on many issues than classical liberals, it is just for the wrong reason, or wanting the wrong outcome from their observations.
Posted on 12/26/24 at 2:39 pm to SlowFlowPro
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When did this become a bad thing on here? I need to bump old threads and posts by the same people who used to scoff at Leftists and their "living wage" or the "fight for 15"
You aren’t even a good troll anymore
Posted on 12/26/24 at 2:39 pm to boomtown143
Yeah but what that post gets wrong is that they weren't just "jocks" at all.
Maybe the poster understands that, of course.
Maybe the poster understands that, of course.
Posted on 12/26/24 at 2:40 pm to SDVTiger
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You have to be the most pathetic poster ever
Cut and paste..
Cut and paste....
Posted on 12/26/24 at 2:41 pm to Pendulum
The only flames I see is from a person on fire speaking TRUTH to why America as a Nation is falling so low in INTELLIGENCE.
Posted on 12/26/24 at 2:41 pm to Pettifogger
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Yeah but what that post gets wrong is that they weren't just "jocks" at all.
Those guys were more like some past UW O lineman that majored in electrical engineering.
The somewhat rare smart jock.
Posted on 12/26/24 at 2:41 pm to OBReb6
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Leftists/wokesters are closer to correct on many issues than classical liberals, i
That's a 180 stance for here, historically
I wonder when MAGA types will finally admit I was right about it's Leftism (and Trump's)
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it is just for the wrong reason, or wanting the wrong outcome
Y'all are aligned here 100%
Posted on 12/26/24 at 2:42 pm to Caplewood
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You aren’t even a good troll anymore
I'm not trolling
I've always been a proponent of freedom (well since late 2005)
Posted on 12/26/24 at 2:43 pm to OBReb6
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Leftists/wokesters are closer to correct on many issues than classical liberals,
Do you think there should be a minimum wage based on some mythical "living" scale?
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