THANKS. I didn’t get the flag joke at first @sukhmel@programming.dev

Dang, we had barn cats as a kid, and then dad let one inside, and then more, but they would demand to go outside regularly so my parents let them, but the prettiest one, a calico, was always so proud of her catches, she’d leave them on the welcome mat like a present. Sometimes the whole bird, somtimes just like the feet left, she must have been hungry those days.

what green marks are you referring to?

surprised this wasn’t a lemmygrad user

already exists. https://old.lemmy.ca I was surprised to learn how many different front ends my instance already had. I’m not sure what it takes to get it integrated on your instance

grrr…why so many podcoasts these days? One of the things I appreciate about NPR & misses.org is they, eventually, post full transcripts of their podcasts online. (Either they have really good speech to text technology, or it scurinizetley edited by humans.)

I think we have different ideas of what “no cost” means, unless I’m incorrect and that university professors and support staff in Europe are volunteers.

and I have one without a STEM degree. And I’m personally amazed how many of my engineering colleagues who have, often advanced, degrees who seem absolutely clueless.

I don’t know mate. I studied Political Science and Outdoor Recreation when I was in university, and when I got out I jumped from non-profit to non-profit making a difference and doing what I loved, all while needing to work 1 or more additional jobs to pay my bills, eventually taking a call center job instead, that taught me technical skills that allow me to now make good money in a corporate environment, which allows me to finally have enough free time to do what I actually want to do and enough money to donate to causes I care about.

Yeah the North American higher education industrial complex is a scam. To the point that a lot of the better paying jobs (doctor, nurse, etc.) include having requirements to pay the school to work for a time without getting paid AND they forbid you from having an additional job at the same time, it sure seems to me like they are trying to make sure that “lower class” people never get in those kinds of jobs. Unless your parents are rich, you aren’t going to be able to do that.

You sure sound like someone from the marketing department of a university. Making college “free” would need a heck of a lot of other changes to go along with it, or we will only have even more educated idiots than we do now.

rape is wrong, nothing changes that. Men rape women, do you want to deport all men?

currently, I believe India takes the cake on that particular front, at least prime minister Modi does. For example, the ruling part is making all schools, public & private, remove references to evolution and the periodic table of the elements from grade 10 science curriculum as it challenges Hindu Nationalist ideas of Indians being the first peoples, and the greatest scientists.

why would living in a different part of the world effect one’s morality?

While I find this mildly amusing, don’t think we should be counting screen shots of others’ social media as memes.