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Messages - Frumple

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Not what it'll be next week, not what it was last week. Misk gave a go a bit upthread at summarizing it as "Whatever Obama wasn't." Adjusted appropriately for various things, such as current news, familial influence, congress noise making, the current maximum sustained northbound speed of the average unladen swallow in the middle of a class 3 hurricane, etc., etc.

E: Also has something like at least 50/50 odds of not being whatever a white house spokesperson says they are. It's something of a crap shoot overall.

7727
I can give you the comic it's from. Superman Volume 4, #20. Dunno what sort of context you're looking for, exactly, though. Apparently supes and lois got hitched and produced sprog, and the image is some slice of life interim where batman and robin number N come visit for reasons presumably explained somewhere in the first 19 issues.


7728
Eh, sure. Wasn't particularly interested in chasing goalposts anyway, tbh.

7729
Mate, you're the one doubling down on claiming even that much isn't enough to prove you wrong. You were rolling with the position that the employment rates that uni was giving was representative of the field. Given how impeccably shit the data used to calculate those rates was, all it takes is a >0.00% unemployment rate to give you plain information that what that university used was either wrong or a notable statistical outlier, and even if you take the time to separate out the ones still in school, you end up over that. So... yeah. If you're going to be making a claim like that, you might want something better than those unistats numbers.

7730
I linked one presuming you'd be able and willing to open and parse spreadsheet files, at least. Probably should remember that's asking a lot of people, some days :-\

7731
You might want to actually dig through the data -- which does, in fact, have subject specific stuff in it -- instead of dismissing it in favor of something that thought data points on ten students over two years mushed together meant sod all. Or maybe you don't, I'unno. You do you.

7732
Sho', man. Not on a spreadsheet capable device right now (and other places to be besides) so I can't dig through and point out the specific bits you'd want to be looking at, but you can scrum around and check the breakdowns and more nuanced stuff yourself. You'll be happy to find unemployment rates cheerfully existing in the fields you're talking about and underemployment loitering around, too, and a larger range of data (both over time and in regards to students checked) than the useless crap that independent third party was pandering.

7733
... and you're still insistently showing you have little to no idea how the workforce operates, these days. Notice how conspicuously exactly what positions were involved is lacking, or hours, various benefit etc. related stuff, so on, so forth.

Also, did you happen to check what those figures were measuring? I'll save you a little time: That was the data from 10 students, over two years. In the statistics field that's what you call "complete bullshit".

7734
Yeeaaaah, you're actually trusting a university's self-reported employment rate, shub. If you paid a single iota of attention to anything regarding that over the last decade or so, you'd know that's not trust well placed. You can bet yourself a nice drink that 100% does not mean 100% employment in a STEM field (in fact, precisely what you quoted gave a nice bit of fluffery lying about exactly what that can entail), or 100% lack of underemployment (i.e.  what doris was talking about), or 100% consistent employment, either. Assuming the 100% isn't a straight up lie, anyway.

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I mean... you can doubt all you like. That doesn't make that doubt accurate. Fact of the matter it's been a good few years now since STEM training meant a roughly 100% chance you were going to find work. It's still one of the most valuable areas regarding work availability, but some people get fucked all the same.

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Other Games / Re: Tome 4: Tales of Maj'Eyal
« on: April 12, 2017, 06:06:31 am »
I could half swear there's actually an addon that fixes that. Don't actually know, since despite having used only the old UI pretty much since the instant there was a new one, I've never cared enough about buff cancelling to check, but I think I saw or two directed towards fixing that at some point. Might be worth it to check if you give much of a damn about the feature, instead of regularly forget it even exists.

7737
... or you can not, because sometimes the jobs just aren't there. Oddly enough, a STEM degree, even a relatively high value one, is not a guarantee of work.

7738
No, no, or pretty sure there can be, even if you're throwing out the common usage of the term. Probably involve some sort of hallucination or memory modification, though.

7739
Even Genghis Khan would've released his tax returns.
... and now I have the mental image of a president genghis pelting reporters with skulls inscribed with his tax return information.

E: They are tiny skulls. President genghis carved the data into the skulls of prepubescent orphans to spite the fourth estate.

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General Discussion / Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« on: April 11, 2017, 09:13:21 pm »
Who knows what awoo lurks in the heart of man? The google knows!

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