[News] Brexit
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Dave
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And not having a degree almost guarantees complete ignorance of it.
I thought the media was run by people WITH degrees. Which means.....people who rely on the media are relying on people with degrees to give them their information but it's unreliable because the people who rely on it are people without degrees. The conclusion is you cannot trust people with degrees.
You should be aware..I don't have a degree. And I know plenty of people who have one that watch Fox News. I'm pretty sure that having a degree or not is less of an indicator than, say, geographic location and upbringing.
Not having a degree is not the same as being uneducated.
Dave
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Okay I tried to use your words and turn them around. Let me clarify. If you don't have any underpinnings of education in economics, it's extremely difficult to gain any meaningful insight to macro- and micro-economics. That isn't to say that you can't, just that those who do not have education tend to look more at sound-bytes and very slanted "feelings-based" economics from suspect sources. Yes, like Fox News.
(I should never post while sitting in meetings. I tend to be succinct to the point of incomprehensibility.)
GasBandit
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I know plenty of people with humanities and STEM degrees (so it's not just liberal arts majors!) who are just as ignorant about economics and world politics as any yokel dropout you could name, and you're still painting with a reeeeeally broad brush there, pilgrim.
Also, education doesn't cure confirmation bias.
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yeah um. it's a little classist to people that can't afford school. And also with the low barrier to all the information on the internet...
Gibraltar voted Remain at 95.9%, so the Spanish government is furiously masturbating. Gibraltar's residents don't want to be Spanish, but they don't want a border with Spain.
Time for Spain to kidnap some monkeys.
Dave
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Yeah, there's a low barrier for information. How much of it is good or accurate? It's the three pillars rule: easy to access, good information, easy to understand. Pick 2.
And I work in an open admissions university. Anyone with any grades can go here. We have the poorest of the poor and those in the 1% who go here. Yeah, books and loans can be a barrier of entry, but we work with everyone. I'm also on several scholarship committees to try and help people out. So not elitist at all. I just find that way, WAY too many people get their information from sources that are suspect. Like (again) Fox news or Facebook.
This really gets more and more dumb with every new detail (I had no idea any of that area was Britain before this).
So. after todays fucking insanity, with god knows how much money wiped off the uk markets, and mas uncertainty to follow.
Cameron has announced his resignation in october, he won't be pushing the button on article 50, because he's too much of a fucking coward to do the deed himself. the next prime minister is all but guaranteed to be Boris Johnson. god help us all. farage is just sitting back with his pint and cackling like the fascist fucksponge that he is. jeremy corbyn, leader of the opposition, was next to useless during the referendum, and faces a vote of no confidence too.
Boris wants a 'slow and careful' exit, and isn't rushing to push the button. The EU however, rather understandably, is telling him 'fuck you, do it ASAP', because in order to stamp out any chain reactions of this kind of shit, they have to make an example of the UK. soooo... we're probably fucked further. "trade deal like turkey gets" is being thrown around at this precise moment, which is ironic, given the panic about turkey joining the EU got us into this mess.
I have no idea what this going to do for my job-hunting, as a recession in a rapidly collapsing country is not the best place to start a job in the games industry.
scotland will leave the UK almost inevitably now.
and IAN PAISLEY of all people, IAN FUCKING PAISLEY
IS TELLING NORTHERN IRELAND PEOPLE TO GET AN IRISH PASSPORT IF THEY CAN.
which might be the most insane piece of news I've seen today.
Cameron has announced his resignation in october, he won't be pushing the button on article 50, because he's too much of a fucking coward to do the deed himself. the next prime minister is all but guaranteed to be Boris Johnson. god help us all. farage is just sitting back with his pint and cackling like the fascist fucksponge that he is. jeremy corbyn, leader of the opposition, was next to useless during the referendum, and faces a vote of no confidence too.
Boris wants a 'slow and careful' exit, and isn't rushing to push the button. The EU however, rather understandably, is telling him 'fuck you, do it ASAP', because in order to stamp out any chain reactions of this kind of shit, they have to make an example of the UK. soooo... we're probably fucked further. "trade deal like turkey gets" is being thrown around at this precise moment, which is ironic, given the panic about turkey joining the EU got us into this mess.
I have no idea what this going to do for my job-hunting, as a recession in a rapidly collapsing country is not the best place to start a job in the games industry.
scotland will leave the UK almost inevitably now.
and IAN PAISLEY of all people, IAN FUCKING PAISLEY
IS TELLING NORTHERN IRELAND PEOPLE TO GET AN IRISH PASSPORT IF THEY CAN.
which might be the most insane piece of news I've seen today.
Because they still think of themselves as an island, a thing they've been doing for tens of thousands of years.
--Patrick
If shit gets bleak for you, would emigrating to Israel be an option? IIRC they help you relocate, and they do have a tech industry.
I've been looking at places... in case. maybe new zealand, I've heard good things.
You can be a hobbit!
I'm still waiting for @Grytpipe-Thynne to weigh in.
Assuming they haven't taken away his Internet access, of course.
--Patrick
Assuming they haven't taken away his Internet access, of course.
--Patrick
If I see Jeremy Clarkson roll up his sleeves, I'm going to assume he's about to punch someone.
woopsie!
Dave
Staff member
The best line I heard about the whole thing was on NPR and it was not a line that was said on purpose. They were talking about France leaving and they called it "Frexit". They then asked the German they had on the panel if they would ever leave and the person said, "No, there will be no "Gerxit". The NPR correspondent said, "Because the name would be horrible!" Then they giggled.
It doesn't translate into text, I guess, but they pronounced it like "Jerks it."
It doesn't translate into text, I guess, but they pronounced it like "Jerks it."