Wow, Mike, your university experience reminds me of one of my classes. In our Technical Communication department, we had a professor named Phil Bereano. A class he taught was called "Technology Assessment," which seemed...interesting...in that particular department. But one of the reasons I took the class was that the professor himself was fantastic. Sadly, I do not remember must of the details, but much of the theme was largely what you experienced: working to understand both the benefits and costs of technology, now and in the future.
I am sorry your alma mater caved. I can understand, though, what financial pressure does to a university because my department is not gone likely because of it. Back in the aughts, when state governments were slashing education funding, my former Technical Communication department morphed into Human Centered Design and Engineering. And eventually, they stopped offering my degree completely. As best as I can infer, the move was made at least in part because there is more research money in HCI than in technical communication, and the research money was necessary to keep the department afloat. And that's what makes what the current government so insidious: Using the financial pressure of tens and hundreds of millions of dollars on a whim to bend individual and institutions to their will at a level never before seen in a federal level is outright cruel. And as we all know with this government, the cruelty is the point.
"One of the craziest bits about covering the systematic dismantling of democracy is this: the people doing the dismantling frequently tell you exactly what they’re going to do. They’re almost proud of it."
You misspelled "actually, demonstrably, deliriously"
"Mysteriously" doing a lot of heavy lifting in that headline.
Trey and Matt just scrapped their plans for next season.
Well, it looks like he got DeCheatis, his sycophant down in the fascist state of Florida, to give him his due.
"colorful" carrying a lot of weight there.... :)
The cruelty is the point.
The cruelty is the point.
The cruelty is the point.
This just proves yet again that the cruelty is the point for Rethuglicans.
These are the same people
...who say dead children are the "cost of doing business" of keeping and bearing arms.
You give him credit for one too many digits.
Private equity...
...kills everything creative that it touches.
Be careful what you ask for
"Lady L" speaks against "unsavory content," but we all know what he'll miss if it is banned.
With Republicans...
The cruelty is the point.
University Classes
Wow, Mike, your university experience reminds me of one of my classes. In our Technical Communication department, we had a professor named Phil Bereano. A class he taught was called "Technology Assessment," which seemed...interesting...in that particular department. But one of the reasons I took the class was that the professor himself was fantastic. Sadly, I do not remember must of the details, but much of the theme was largely what you experienced: working to understand both the benefits and costs of technology, now and in the future. I am sorry your alma mater caved. I can understand, though, what financial pressure does to a university because my department is not gone likely because of it. Back in the aughts, when state governments were slashing education funding, my former Technical Communication department morphed into Human Centered Design and Engineering. And eventually, they stopped offering my degree completely. As best as I can infer, the move was made at least in part because there is more research money in HCI than in technical communication, and the research money was necessary to keep the department afloat. And that's what makes what the current government so insidious: Using the financial pressure of tens and hundreds of millions of dollars on a whim to bend individual and institutions to their will at a level never before seen in a federal level is outright cruel. And as we all know with this government, the cruelty is the point.
I believe you left out a word in one sentence
Did you mean: "Disagreeing with Israel’s actions and/or supporting Palestinian independence is not — and never has been — antisemitism."
As Negasonic Teenage Warhead said in the first "Deadpool" movie: "Now there's a stupid."
By "dozens of criminal enterprises" seeking a goon or two completely devoid of a moral center you mean other police departments, right.
He has, many times, dumbass.
The amount of ignorance and stupidity in just two sentences here is off the charts.