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12 hours ago, elfenix said:

constantly reminded that physicians can be brilliant within their field

Where are you seeing evidence of this on surly?

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1 minute ago, TwiceHorn said:

They in all likelihood would never have existed without a) funding from CPB and PBS and b) airing by PBS stations.  Private funding would have been obsessed with whether they could sell enough ads for Count Chocula in their time slot.

Private funding is always obsessed with growth above all else, even business model sustainability.

When your only goal is growth, and you don't give a shit about outcomes for the people consuming your product/service, you're gonna run that enterprise into ground and ruin everything that made it successful in the first place. It's half the reason I have a career - cleaning up that mess of bad foresight is a very very reliable means for finding work and engagements

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11 hours ago, Thetexashammer said:

Daily Wire is making wholesome kids media. Is everybody cool with Ben Shapiro getting a subsidy too? 

S1/E1: Kids, dryness is your friend. 

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16 minutes ago, Captainant said:

Private funding is always obsessed with growth above all else, even business model sustainability.

When your only goal is growth, and you don't give a shit about outcomes for the people consuming your product/service, you're gonna run that enterprise into ground and ruin everything that made it successful in the first place. It's half the reason I have a career - cleaning up that mess of bad foresight is a very very reliable means for finding work and engagements

To be fair, Sesame Street was created in the pre-Friedman capitalist era, when business was a bit less psychotic about growth and quarterly reports and share price.

But, profit motive, in whatever form it took in 1968 and prior still was not up to producing educational TV for kids.

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25 minutes ago, Captainant said:

Private funding is always obsessed with growth above all else, even business model sustainability.

Someone needs to read more Tuttle Twins to understand the wonders of the invisible hand.

Posted
13 hours ago, elfenix said:

constantly reminded that physicians can be brilliant within their field but are often complete dumbshits outside of it.

I worked in IT at a hospital for four years, and can confirm this fact. 

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19 minutes ago, TwiceHorn said:

Haha jkates negged this post.  I won't neg back, but I'll call him a fascist cunt.  Cunt. 

He’s established a creepy pattern of defending people who prey on children’s minds and bodies. I really hope he's not involved in any youth activities, like the Boy Scouts or Little League Baseball.

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30 minutes ago, bolverk said:

He’s established a creepy pattern of defending people who prey on children’s minds and bodies. I really hope he's not involved in any youth activities, like the Boy Scouts or Little League Baseball.

Or any position of authority in the Catholic Church. Or the Republican Party 

Posted
9 minutes ago, Js1 said:

Or any position of authority in the Catholic Church. Or the Republican Party 

Agreed, but Baptist should be the more immediate concern.

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Posted
1 hour ago, TwiceHorn said:

Haha jkates negged this post.  I won't neg back, but I'll call him a fascist cunt.  Cunt. 

Haha, I've noticed him doing that quite a bit in DT threads.  Not sure if I've ever actually seen him post.

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1 hour ago, MissingInAction said:

I worked in IT at a hospital for four years, and can confirm this fact. 

I have worked in a place that employs a number of PhD’s.  In the beginning of my time there, I was always impressed when someone had that level of education. 
 

The shine is off.  
 

The human brain is only used by us to what, 20% of its capacity?  Whatever the low number is that gets thrown around?

My theory is that PhD’s have crammed so much knowledge into that 20% of the brain we use in order to excel in their field of choice, that something else was forced out. 
 

Common sense.  The ability to perform basic maintenance checks on a vehicle. Simple bodily hygiene.  How to make a sandwich.  Not putting Dawn liquid into the dishwasher when you run out of Cascade so you don’t turn your kitchen into a scene from Mr. Mom. 
 

That sort of thing. 
 

Anymore, when I meet a PhD, I judge them in a way that asks the question “what has your brain given up to reach this level?”

M.D.’s are susceptible to this.  For God’s sake, there have been instances where someone went into the hospital to have a leg amputated, and they took the wrong leg.  You can make it a lot more easily with one leg than with none.  But no, they still had to go back in and take the other one. 
 

The absolute worst are the rare M.D./PhD.  My daughter works for UT Health in the TMC.  Her former boss was an M.D./PhD.  His family had to have paid someone to give him those degrees.  He’s an idiot. The staff had to babysit him to make sure he doesn’t try to use research grant funds on $2500 bottles of wine or $15k Christmas parties for the staff. 
 

Rant over. 

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Posted (edited)
4 minutes ago, Vanilla Strange Gato said:

I have worked in a place that employs a number of PhD’s.  In the beginning of my time there, I was always impressed when someone had that level of education. 
 

The shine is off.  
 

The human brain is only used by us to what, 20% of its capacity?  Whatever the low number is that gets thrown around?

My theory is that PhD’s have crammed so much knowledge into that 20% of the brain we use in order to excel in their field of choice, that something else was forced out. 
 

Common sense.  The ability to perform basic maintenance checks on a vehicle. Simple bodily hygiene.  How to make a sandwich.  Not putting Dawn liquid into the dishwasher when you run out of Cascade so you don’t turn your kitchen into a scene from Mr. Mom. 
 

That sort of thing. 
 

Anymore, when I meet a PhD, I judge them in a way that asks the question “what has your brain given up to reach this level?”

M.D.’s are susceptible to this.  For God’s sake, there have been instances where someone went into the hospital to have a leg amputated, and they took the wrong leg.  You can make it a lot more easily with one leg than with none.  But no, they still had to go back in and take the other one. 
 

The absolute worst are the rare M.D./PhD.  My daughter works for UT Health in the TMC.  Her former boss was an M.D./PhD.  His family had to have paid someone to give him those degrees.  He’s an idiot. The staff had to babysit him to make sure he doesn’t try to use research grant funds on $2500 bottles of wine or $15k Christmas parties for the staff. 
 

Rant over. 

Yep.  And I think both types of doctor suffer from "overspecialization."  Not only are they cramming in a shit ton of knowledge, it becomes increasingly narrow and specialized academically and professionally so that they can no longer see any type of forest for the trees.

Probably all of us suffer from this to one degree or another.  That's one thing I love about this forum: I increase my exposure to different subject matter constantly, from expert types in their respective fields.

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I agree. I liaise with a lot of PhDs and it’s amazing how they cannot follow simple directions for simple tasks, research anything outside of their area of expertise and just believe anything they read on the internet outside of their field 

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Something else occurs.

Since "we" don't like "subsidizing" frivolities like PBS, why are "we" considering renaming the Kennedy Center the Trump Center?

New Republicolibertarian thinking seems to say we should knock the fucker down and let UFC build an Octagon in its place.

And what about those fucking libraries?

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17 hours ago, DalTxHornFan said:

That is some real Mother Jones, Pro Publica, anti-frack stuff statistics that you are citing.  All kinds of businesses get to deduct their operating costs.  Accelerated depreciation, writing off unsuccessful expenditures, very normal.  Huge net benefit to our economy.

Percentage depletion has no relation to operating costs.  It is a perk granted by the Federal government to allow non integrated oil and gas companies (E&P and Royalty holders) to completely shelter 100% of their taxable income related to oil and gas activities.  I have been associated with a number of E&P companies, and none of them ever paid a penny in Federal Income tax (no matter what oil prices were). The only income based taxes they ever paid were a small amount of certain state Franchise taxes and Oklahoma State income tax (yay Oklahoma).  Please name one other industry that has been granted this level of subsidy by the Federal government.

besides religion of course, and please don’t tell me that religion isn’t a for profit industry

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Posted
1 hour ago, Beau Vine said:

Haha, I've noticed him doing that quite a bit in DT threads.  Not sure if I've ever actually seen him post.

He's popped into the Youth Minister's (and other pervs) Thread of Shame a couple of times to defend some prominent pedophile or their enablers, who he claims are "good people." And, of course, we can all guess with 99.999% certainty that he fully supports the one who's currently defiling the White House with cheap and tacky gilding and a paved-over Rose "Garden," while planning a major $200 million construction project ($2,222/sf) there that will fundamentally alter its character, and acting as if he never plans to leave.

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