The context of this cartoon sums up exactly my experience with Austin Coding Academy.
They boast a 90+% placement rate, but then don't tell you until later that that's for those who don't drop out. But even then, that number seems suspect from my own experience.
Somehow, after coding for 40 years (I made this in one day, just because I didn't like daily limits on the NYT version), and just taking their course as skill maintenance, and as a way to ease into the industry, they were "unable" to place me, while the little cutie girls who could barely sort an array all got hired almost immediately.
I keep saying "how can I blame them?" I mean, it's a bunch of horny nerds who just got a billion dollars in venture capital. Who would you hire? But I'm not going to pretend it's not insulting.
So now, every time I see one of their fancy diversity photos, I gently point out that "I'm not seeing a lot of diversity here -- looks like everybody's under 35).
Gives advice to "tHiNk thINk ThInK bEfOrE YoU pOsT oN SoCiAL meDiA"
Immediately disregards own advice.
I'm watching it now, just because I'm a fan of Joel McHale
According to their website, yes it is.
My best friend's been telling this same story for 20 years, but not as a dream.
Yeah, the organization can shout from the rooftops that they weren't forced to do anything, but their names were literally put on a list and not only made public, but were presented as news.
The attribution says the data goes to 2016. I'd sure like to see the same chart for the last three years or so, but who can't figure out what it would look like by themselves, amirite.
Local weatherman glances around nervously...
I own a nice guitar, but I don't try to bump GnR offstage. It's just to play with.
You can like guns just to play with. We went shooting all the time as kids. It's always aluminum can season!
TL;DW: Matt Walsh goes around asking people, "What is a Woman?"
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I thought "woke" was code for gay.
In fact, I have a whole head-canon around the idea that God only lets Hell and Death people loose on the Earth during Apocalypses (apocalypsi?), and when those people realize they're alive they say, "I'm woke," and proceed to rush back right where they came from.
At my old job we clocked in and out of work by using a face scanner. It was creepy. I was a janitor.
Is that a fancy way of say "albino?"
2023: Sniffles Pandemic
W.H.O.: for the safety and wellbeing of all the people, we must confiscate all your guns to rid the world of this terrible sniffling disease. Don't ask how they're related--it's science. Trust dze science! Or do you want Grandma to die again?!
At least the article links to an existing copy of the conversation on Rumble.
Take that, YouTube's Inflated Sense of Relevance!
It's certainly not cheap. A lot of times when the strawbs or blackbs are about to go out of date I can get them on the cheap, but I haven't seen any discount avocados, yet.
As for what happens to it--I live in a "home for broken people," so I can tell you first hand that when a lot of the produce is starting to go out of date, it often ends up here. I got some barely wilty celery just the other day, and there's almost always a box full of those tiny potatoes and leafy something-or-others.
This guy.
I eat dragon fruit, kiwis, strawbs, bluebs, and tons of blackberries ("blackbs" is hard to say--but I do). I like to make eggplant parm, and I even bought a head of cabbage once (because I was drunk and thought it was lettuce). And I'm real happy about onions.
Now that my taste buds have evolved (that's what my best friend says), I'm all about broccoli and cauliflower. I eat them just with some ranch as a snack, and have three unopened bags of M&Ms that have been sitting here for a month.
Surprisingly, not a huge fan of bananas. Maybe I'm burnt out on them. I also like those tiny cherry tomatoes.
The one thing I can't get behind lately, though, is the $2 avocados. I was going to make up a batch of guac last week just to see if it was cheaper than buying it already made, and didn't make it past the first ingredient.
You tell people a thousand times not to believe anything the news tells them, and a thousand times they go, "Oh, I know!"
Then the first salacious headline comes along...and they're all in.
"You will own nothing" because we will own everything.
I just picked one from the list at random and found this patent.
Apparatus and method for remotely monitoring and altering brain waves
I looked this up myself--not entirely to see if this guy really didn't have a handle on "it is" versus "its", but I'm not going to say that didn't play a part.
From the replies, it just looks like this is one of those things that's going to stay a "scam", "conspiracy theory" or "plain nonsense" until it is relevance is no longer applicable, and then it will be revealed as it is veracity having been common knowledge the whole time.
You can call it the Hunter's Laptop Effect or the Birth Certificate Paradox..
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I've always laughed internally at the short-sightedness of that silly saying. Life's been around way longer than either of those things, and will continue to be so long after they're both gone.
Or like those people who keep going on about "You only live once." Well, that's entirely up to you sir or ma'am, but some of us like it here, and have zero problem ceding that this Life is the Lord's.
Government: "As soon as the 'emergency' is over, we'll give all those special extra powers up. Trust us, bro."