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What is there to argue? Like there's video evidence of it happening
There were no construction workers killed in the collapse! It was all fake!
The CIA caused the ship to lose power!
The ship was remote controlled! There wasn’t actually anybody on board until after the collision!
The “construction workers” were actually deep state black ops agents that were there to loosen bolts on the bridge to ensure it collapsed when the ship hit it.
And so on… Never underestimate the fantasies that conspiracy theorists can come up with.
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Same with 9/11. That doesn't stop people.
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What the hell are people debating here? A 150.000 tonne object crashed into a structure made of thin sticks (comparatively speaking). There is no doubt that the bridge would collapse. Especially since an arch is only stable if it is undamaged.
Yes, but you forget: lots of people are stupid.
George Carlin never fails to be accurate: Think about how stupid the average person is, then realize that half of them are even stupider than that.
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I have had more PhDs recommend against college than for it. I'm not joking. It's scary.
They'll tell you that if you can get by without a degree, by all means do or at least heavily consider it.
Education is undoubtedly important, as often evidenced by people's lack of it. But even those who ran the gauntlet decades ago have lost faith in the system.
And now we have a whole new litany of problems on their way because of the rising prominence of GenAI and I can confidently say that academia is wholly unprepared for the shit storm coming it's way.
We always seem to equate common sense and education.
I've met some dense people with PhDs. And some smart people that never got formal education.
Obviously best case is smart and educated. But you can't teach someone common sense.
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Just out of curiosity - which country was your sample from, if I may ask?
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I'm guessing that's more because they've spent a good decade or so working on their degree, which is probably too specialized to get the job they want in their field.
There is such a thing as too much college too. PhDs are very handy if you want to be a professor or go into a very specialized field and hope there are available jobs. Not so much for everyone else.
There is also the cost to benefit ratio. Even IF you can get a job in your chosen field, the cost of the education to get there and the increasing pace of industrial change as required knowledge grows and changes can make your degree not really worth the effort. While I certainly don't know for sure, it could be conceivable that the world might not even miss half of collage graduates produced today. And most people could make a living with a "simpler and more focused" technical education.
The world will always need carpenters, plumbers, electricians, accountants, and garbage collectors. And perhaps not so many people with a Master's degree in library sciences or maybe with the advent of AI, even human programmers.
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I have no formal training in building bridges. I actually only learned what a bridge was yesterday. Anyway, here's what I think happened and I will fight anyone who tells me different.
and I will fight anyone who tells me different.
That' more proactive than most sudden bridge experts who just call anyone who tells them different a liberal cuck.
Just use HostNetwork, why would you use a bridge
Same dunce heads who argued against vaccines