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Big drop in kindergarden enrollment and birth rates across the country

greenmonster said:
Reconcile with your enemies and live in peace?
Love your neighbors?
Heal divisions?

No, those ideas are too radical, too subversive.
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I have a shirt that reads, "Love your neighbors means all your neighbors." :gsxrgrl
 
littlebeast said:
what’s pretty weird is for a member of an often maligned community (moto riders) to use that same sort of broad brush to malign another two wheeled community. i get that sensitivity is not among your kit, but logic often is. where’s the logic in fanning flames when personal safety, including senseless death is at risk?
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It makes a great deal of sense, when your entire commitment to the motorcycle community is based on the shared ability to go faster than everyone else on the road, not wait for traffic, and never, ever be in the way.

Bicycles on the road are literally the exact opposite of that.
Mike95060 said:
No. Im stronger and fitter than when I rode a motorcycle to work everyday. I Still have the same problems of trying not to get killed while doing it though.
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That sounds like a resounding yes. :dunno
 
Eldritch said:
It makes a great deal of sense, when your entire commitment to the motorcycle community is based on the shared ability to go faster than everyone else on the road, not wait for traffic, and never, ever be in the way.

Bicycles on the road are literally the exact opposite of that.


That sounds like a resounding yes. :dunno
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I guarantee i can get up a flight of stairs faster than you can.
 
Melissa said:
No one can ever take away your education.....
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There’s something about having a degree from a good school that carries you through life in my opinion.
Even if it’s in Anthropology or Humanities you have certification that, at 18, you took on a 4 year journey and saw it through to the end and graduated.
 
Climber said:
Meritocracy is a matter of perception and people who play politics found a way to take credit for other peoples' work and dumping their mistakes on others. I've seen this crap get steadily worse where people who spend 90+ percent of their energy to self-promotion moving up while the smarter people who put 100% of their energy into doing their job are getting left behind, not promoted and systematically undermined by the political players who are essentially useless.

What's really happened is that perception has eclipsed reality in importance so it's perception that's driving advancement, so the person that controls perception gets advanced in most cases.
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They may be smarter but they are less well-connected. That's the rub of elite schools. Mid-century, 10% of Harvard biz grads went into finance. In 2006, that number climbed to 30%. The people at the top are actually super-skilled. They play dumb really well, like some politicos aping southern accents when they have a JD from Harvard/Yale law. They are essential to the org, even if they have never spun a wrench.
CrazyCooter said:
I'd say it's arguably still healthy if you can afford it, makes you happy, AND you never get injured/wreck? :devil
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I own a late-model multistrada. It was billed (by me) as a "safety bike" as in HONEY IT LIGHTS AROUND CORNERS WHEN YOU TURN at purchase time. After 1198 the 1340 is calling me. lol
augustiron said:
That and they came from enough money to either pay for school, had a lot of money to pay for a great school, or at least had enough credit to get loans...
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Roughly $10M between private and subsidized sources for truly elite students. It's like 37 to 1 compared to middle class kids. check out "public/private schools"
Holeshot said:
Either way, the thing (higher education) has turned into a racket. The current/coming cost/ value favors premium trades, IMO.
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Telling middle class kids they can run the show if they matriculate from a decent school is indeed a racket. They are subsidizing elite education and many of them don't finish when they hit comprehension or social walls.
Melissa said:
No one can ever take away your education.....
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Can what you never had be taken away? Substandard education experiences are more the norm than otherwise, we just finally ran out of ways to juke the stats so now the blame game is starting...
Climber said:
IDK, I have a nephew who somehow didn't know that the college he went to for his masters isn Psychology wasn't acredited until he tried to get certified. 2 years and $$$$$ flushed down the toilet.
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That would never happen to an elite student, or even one of my students! If I had a nickel for every urgent meeting to thwart a commitment to "chef/trade" school leading to guaranteed employment. His money wasn't flushed down the toilet, it was flushed up.

"True, but you also can't sell it :(" Your human capital which is primarily educational (in our vetting system) is EXACTLY what you are selling. WTF dude? What do you think parents are socking away hard cash in 529s for? Why so much competition for spots if it wasn't fungible? Y'all need to read the The Meritocracy Trap post-haste. Anyway, the baby crash is compounded by lack of third spaces and social media keeping kids and young adults away from each other physically. The potential parents seeing the "racket" and rigged system is the other part. Not at all mysterious, but hard to see when you are swimming in it.

I have a hard-won degree from an elite uni and the reactions you get are comical at times. Applying to grad school I was waved in without the interview. Specifically, I was waved out of the panel interview I dressed up for and thought I did something wrong. No, just automatically accepted. Go bears, I guess...
 
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Eldritch said:
I mean, why on earth would I be interested in that? If you are trying to, and you are able to, I would certainly stand by out of your way. :dunno
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So, getting somewhere as fast as possible only applies OUTSIDE a building. Seems a little inconsistent. If you can have patience and grace inside a structure why can’t you have it driving too?

I’ll tell ya what, you become a champion of bicycle only infrastructure, complete separation of cars and bikes, federal dollars for rail trails and bicycle only lanes and I will HAPPILY never share space on the road with cars again.
 
In my experience, new college graduates are woefully unprepared for the real world. They fail more often than you might think.

When I first entered the medical device field, I did so as a technician. I worked hard, earned a promotion to associate engineer, and eventually worked my way up to principal engineer at a number of successful startups. All with a D- high school GPA and no college degree.

There are other paths than getting a degree.
 
greenmonster said:
I wouldn’t categorize mine as slow but the weight makes it ride smoothly which I like.
It’s lowered and stretched so cornering is a little compromised but it’s so purdy.
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I was joking! That's what people who don't know any better think! I just let them tell how much Busas sucked and how they only went fast strait.

I too prefer a slightly heavier, more stable, better riding bike over a light twitchy machine.
 
CrazyCooter said:
I was joking! That's what people who don't know any better think! I just let them tell how much Busas sucked and how they only went fast strait.

I too prefer a slightly heavier, more stable, better riding bike over a light twitchy machine.
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lol, ‘twitchy’ is my nickname for my dude’s motard. he didn’t have much use for it when we lived in the BA, and when we moved up to the mountains, a dude working on our property saw it, and made him an offer on it. he said yes, but then rode it around the local roads to make sure it was still in good shape, came back, and changed his mind. said it was born for this. he takes me two up on it. super fun in the twisties. it’s his fav now.
 
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