Path: ...!weretis.net!feeder8.news.weretis.net!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Lasse Langwadt Newsgroups: sci.electronics.design Subject: Re: blame electronics Date: Sat, 27 Apr 2024 21:00:05 +0200 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 44 Message-ID: References: <662d2a1a$0$6542$882e4bbb@reader.netnews.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Sat, 27 Apr 2024 21:00:06 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="6b6af1162813e3985538c5494efffc69"; logging-data="561991"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18DrABWcqM5+Y2MlJfDYXapgoMMw/45zDU=" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:iqve4CrHXe1w4BCUgZXZ1WLtDIo= Content-Language: en-US In-Reply-To: <662d2a1a$0$6542$882e4bbb@reader.netnews.com> Bytes: 2904 On 4/27/24 18:38, bitrex wrote: > On 4/27/2024 12:11 PM, Bill Sloman wrote: >> On 27/04/2024 11:56 pm, John Larkin wrote: >>> >>> https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/26/opinions/opinion-the-cause-of-campus-chaos-zakaria/index.html >>> >>> TV, and now cell phones. >> >> But that isn't the problem. >> >> The real problem is much the same as the change in the American diet >> which has made Americans a lot fatter. >> >> People who sell food have tweaked it so that the people who buy it buy >> more of it - it doesn't matter the the manufacturers that their >> customers get fatter and die younger. >> >> People who sell opinions make their output more compelling rather than >> more informative, because that enlarges their audience. >> >> Being able to get stuff published in the New Yorker won't make you all >> that rich. Becoming a star on Fox News is much more profitable - >> Tucker Carlson is a depressing example. >> >> John Larkin's enthusiasm for climate change denial reflects his >> willingness to binge on the intellectual equivalent of junk food. >> >> We need an intellectual equivalent of Ozempic - critical thinking in a >> pill. Academic education is supposed to instill critical thinking, but >> it didn't work on John, or Donald Trump. > > > Even many US university students tend to be smart enough to notice that > the US seems to have endless money to fund foreign conflicts, but always > talks austerity when it comes to them and their future (or lack thereof.) > > "Haha you'll never afford a home even with a college degree but here's > another $50 billion for Israel and Ukraine, and there'll be another $50 > billion after that, and after that..." $50 billion is chump change compared to the US budget