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TexasEd last won the day on November 21 2019
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I did not see any mitigating circumstances which was one of my complaints. Put all his energy into the life’s not fair and I’m a victim argument.
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I read an article on the birth rate issue a month back. The teen pregnancy rate has dropped significantly which is great, but the fertility rate among women 20-24 also took a major hit and the growth has been in the 35-39 and 40-44 populations. This shift creates a few problems in that the delayed fertility means that instead of family generations being spaced 20-30 years apart they are shifting later. This means that instead of having 3 generations in a 75 year span you only get 2 or less. This compounds the population growth rate issue.
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Yes, I have seen it in technology services but that is an even more complicated story. You have to add in that the US does not graduate enough people with tech degrees to meet demand so there is the whole H1B and offshoring issue that could have been addressed if more people had decided to get technical degrees or training. If you made some posts in another thread on this topic about that experience I did not see it so sorry if I'm not addressing the points you found most pertinent.
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I think it would have resonated more in roles where men are actually a majority of the new talent pool. Citing media, communications, etc. when two thirds of new graduates since 1983 are women is kind of stacking the deck. Using an anecdote about individuals getting passed by when all the new talent it an outgoing tide against you and just citing the outputs without the inputs, I can't take the argument seriously. I do agree that it can radicalize men but they are not pursuing college degrees at the same rate as women in an increasingly information-based economy. This is the coal miners complaining that there aren't any great coal jobs anymore when if they want to work in energy they should be joining the navy to get nuke training and move where the jobs are.
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I think there is definitely an impact of the diversity push and I think diversity is valid from a perspective of understanding the audience you need to have people that represent that audience. But as a person that loves to look at data I find some really interesting things in the article. A few quotes: Take issue with "overwhelmingly" when the stats are 57-43 and "majority male" which is anything over 50%, so technically half +1. First assuming that we go from 57-43 to 49-51 over 5 years, that is not as drastic as I think he wants it to be. Not to mention that most of that shift came from new hires in entry level positions so how would that happen. He talks a lot about the hiring/demand side of the equation but only skirts the supply side. The percentage of the US population with a college degree by gender flipped from being majority male to majority female in 2014. This was driven by recent graduation numbers. As of 2024 college bachelor's degree rates among 25-34 year olds is 47% for females, and 37% for males. So you could assume that in fields without a heavy male bias that women would be graduating at an even higher rate than men. I would put the media roles he focuses on in that likely to outpace the general population which is backed up by this really cool animated chart that says by 2022 women made up 63.7% of all bachelor's degrees in communication. Seriously, click on that link. It shows that only 33% of Communications majors were women in 1970s, hovered around 60% from 1983 through 2010s and then up to two thirds after that. "Nearly two-thirds" sounds really close to that 63.7% of new college graduates figure I posted above so the hiring is matching the new graduate pool from the previous link. At this point I skimmed the rest and then got tired of reading.
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BOOM MOTHER FUCKER - Will Muschamp's Triumphant Return
TexasEd replied to Nueces River Rat's topic in Football
Except for the sprinkle of shit in it that was a great ice cream sundae! -
This is what I'm here for, I'm waiting for the Johnny Football laying on a swan in a pool chugging from a bottle stage.
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BOOM MOTHER FUCKER - Will Muschamp's Triumphant Return
TexasEd replied to Nueces River Rat's topic in Football
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The tariffs are applied to raw materials too. The US does not grow latex, it is all imported. All tires that include latex) I think it's all of them, there are synthetic/petroleum sources but I think all tires have at least a blend) have the tax. If they were made offshore then they would be taxed on the final product too. I bought my new tires in January because of this even though they were made in USA because the latex came from southeast Asia.
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pics of shirt not showing up but I think I know the one you're talking about.
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Dan Bongino Wants Republicans to Have Their Own Safe Spaces
TexasEd replied to atomheartbevo's topic in Cloak Room
Trump was not kicking back any of the Pardon money to the FBI for bringing the charges.
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