WetBeardHairs

WetBeardHairs , 10 months ago to worldnews in This public university just announced massive layoffs. Is all higher ed at risk?

Because math and science are large interconnected fields that you simply cannot learn from a textbook study. You must speak with other people about many different topics so you can broaden your understanding of where your education fits in the world around you.

Have you ever studied a particular subject and wondered “OK… I can solve that problem now. Why did I learn it?” Textbooks are notoriously bad at explaining the why.

WetBeardHairs , 10 months ago to worldnews in This public university just announced massive layoffs. Is all higher ed at risk?

Lmao. Nope. I’ve done both. Online classes are a fucking joke. Maybe some schools do it well, but most treat online classes like a correspondence course.

WetBeardHairs , 10 months ago to fediverse in Idea: fediverse of ecommerce. Time to dethrone amazon and ebay. What do you think?

Using Stripe or equivalent must be used for such a platform. The sellers would just get a check or bank transfer, they’d never need to handle a credit transaction.

WetBeardHairs , 10 months ago to asklemmy in What is an absurdity that has been normalized by society?

I would like to see enforcement and expansion of profiteering guillotines.

WetBeardHairs , 10 months ago to worldnews in This public university just announced massive layoffs. Is all higher ed at risk?

Grant money from researchers is a drop in the bucket. That money mostly goes to flesh out laboratories with fancy equipment and pay for research assistants.

WetBeardHairs , 10 months ago to worldnews in This public university just announced massive layoffs. Is all higher ed at risk?

It’s the facilities costs that have truly exploded in the past couple of decades. Every university is in an arms race to build the biggest, most advanced campus possible. They’ve forgotten that their goal is to be a place of study and instead they’re trying to have world-class architecture so they can woo students. Students would go there so long as the damn programs are well run and they have a good reputation.

Just stop the gigantic capital projects and suddenly you’ve got plenty of capital. Hmm.

WetBeardHairs , 10 months ago to worldnews in This public university just announced massive layoffs. Is all higher ed at risk?

Very few faculty and staff make high salaries. But the facilities costs are insane. Universities could do just fine without building another $50 Million dollar building. Growth for the sake of growth needs to stop. If that happens, then suddenly tuition costs would be under control.

WetBeardHairs , 10 months ago to worldnews in This public university just announced massive layoffs. Is all higher ed at risk?

Because part of a higher education degree is actually talking with people.

WetBeardHairs , 10 months ago to asklemmy in do you use e-inc tablets?

Yeah, you’re not kidding. Last I heard, full color eink was at less than 1 hz refresh rate.

But I can dream too!

WetBeardHairs , 10 months ago to asklemmy in What's a scam that's so normalized that we don't even realize it's a scam anymore?

In my state it requires a six week class, passing a test, then working under a licensed broker for 6 months. I considered it.

WetBeardHairs , 10 months ago to asklemmy in What's a scam that's so normalized that we don't even realize it's a scam anymore?

No one can because of laws written by real estate agents who turned into legislators.

WetBeardHairs , 10 months ago to selfhost in All your chats in one app - Self-host Matrix with Bridges and Cloudflare

“Oops I sent that goatse meme to my boss, not my friend” is not a fuckup I want to have. Segregation of apps is sometimes a virtue.

WetBeardHairs , 10 months ago to asklemmy in What's a scam that's so normalized that we don't even realize it's a scam anymore?

Real estate agents getting 6% commission from the seller.

WetBeardHairs , 10 months ago to linux in Star Labs reveal their new StarLite, a Surface-like Linux tablet

Yeah, I am really disappointed it isn’t running on an ARM processor.

WetBeardHairs , 10 months ago to memes in I was 27 at your age, son

Steven Wright did it better.