Perfect

I read that as “number 5 taters”

In the United States? They certainly can, and “fired for lying about credentials” gives the employer a reason to contest unemployment. But apparently there are enough employers that don’t cross-check that it can work as a strategy.

I’m not sure how I feel about that. On one hand, I value honesty and want to see dishonesty deterred. OTOH…if you can do the job, what’s the point of having the degree as a checkbox on the job application? Bullshit metrics should be removed.

Don’t give up the ship

British burned Washington

Battle of New Orleans happeenened after the peace treaty because news traveled slowly in those days.

That’s about it

Target launches a new product to try to revive its failing sales!

Personally, I felt like a “real adult” at age 30.

This question makes me think of a scene from one of the Little House On The Prairie books where one of the characters, a teenager (Mannie maybe?) is registering for a homestead in a new settlement area. The government agent is asking for his details: Name, birthplace, age.

“Oh, you can put me down for 18” wink

I’m half and half. Agreed that it’s fucked up, particularly if they’re actually talking about millennials and not gen Z.

But I disagree in principle about student debt. It’s a valid tradeoff to make (between getting a job straight out of highschool and going to college to open up better paying careers), and I wouldn’t have any problems with student loans if tuition were still reasonable.

I’d say the bigger problem is the structure of the economy. College is supposed to unlock a lot of “grownup jobs”. That breaks when you actually only have McJobs available after that big college investment.

The youngest millennials are 30. Student debt ought to be paid off by now for most.

I’m not sure if this is a fail of 1. “Kids these days are called millennials” (lol, whatever Boomer) or 2. The economy really is THAT much fail whale that a 10 year repayment term has become a 15-20 year repayment term for the majority.

And I would move 560 more… 🎵

To a new town about 4 hours away. I was 8, we moved because my dad got a new job!

I stopped reading at “the Internet got going in 1995”. FFS, even the web dates back to 1991!

Depends on how you look at it. Technically, it’ll never happen. The megacorps still need employees to do some tasks. They’ll still have some pocket money.

OTOH, you could say that it’s already happened. The plebs are broke, the middle class is basically gone, and the tax structure can’t support everything that the government wants to do. Eventually, borrowing runs out, and we get a crisis that makes the current economic troubles look mild.

I don’t relish this path.

I went to public school my entire childhood, and I’m awkward as fuck. Add that to your anecdote list

There might be something to it, but I’d need to see receipts.

Mostly, though, I’m suspicious of the motives and abilities (lack thereof) among the people who really go for homeschooling.

Eto wi’de noon e ɗemngal laawɗungal leydi Burkinaa.

But since the rest of the thread is in English, I hope you’ll forgive me for thinking of this in the context of predominantly English-speaking countries.

Bad examples, I think. Wikipedia is an encyclopedia. It’s cooperative and online, but it’s still just an encyclopedia. It’s not even a suitable source for a high school paper, much less anything more substantial.

Others have already noted the edit history. I think your concern about people making bogus changes is overblown. Malicious edits tend to get reversed pretty quickly (but again, double check for anything more important than a Lemmy comment).

Third time’s the Charmin*

I was led to believe this was a shit post community

I thought they were fantasy for the longest time! I remember reading a later Pern book (can’t recall the title anymore, sadly) where there was a computer system that got uncovered after like 600 years - surprise! SF!

Gah, sword of truth. I read that, ok, so there’s a hero’s journey thing going on, I can dig it - suddenly BDSM fanfic!

Nope, Goodkind ain’t for me. It was SO jarring!

Still, you also recommended Bujold. My fav! I’ll have to check out Valdemar.

Maybe not, but if they’d actually work on it instead of stringing us along, maybe there wouldn’t be hordes of loudmouths.

Also…keep in mind, they chose the author’s life. I find it pretty tone deaf for a famous person complaining about what fame brings when that’s the path they pursued.

Dragons? Anne McCaffrey’s Pern series is worthwhile!