No that means you have to pay for shit that you don't really own and that you can't return if you don't like it.

>But am I the only one who's first reaction is "Fuck hunters" anyway?

Yes? Anyone that says that is clearly ignorant of the need for hunting in maintaining environmental balance.

Unless of-course we want to bring back natural predators and have the problem of children, pets, and live stock being attacked.

And maybe even do better. The trick is to know who exactly to put in those 80%.

I actually like this spelling. The sounds that have exact equivalents use the Latin alphabet and those that do not are replaced by the character's native system. Cause his name is not Pyotr or Peter or Pierre or whatever else. It is Pëtr indeed.

Well, it is Пётр. Russian П is not P, Т is not T, Р is not R.

T is not T is not correct

well, maybe, just maybe, that's because the socio-economic status correlates positively with cognitive abilities and the kids somehow inherit the traits of their parents?

Meh. Dumb rich kids end up with positive college and career outcomes regardless of their test scores. Let’s not suggest that wealth correlates to ‘better traits’.

I like how clearly you distinguish "evil" and "not legal" :)

Nonsense. Education is not about taking a course or reading bunch of books. The big part of education is being able to directly ask a knowledgeable person once you're stuck. You can ask the community of course but the quality of community answers is more than often just trash.

> The big part of education is being able to directly ask a knowledgeable person once you're stuck.

Stuck on what? For an undergrad, those problems can easily be solved by going online or to a tutor for a fraction of the cost. And that's for STEM based problems, humanities is all about flattering whatever opinions the professor personally holds.

The best piece of advice I got was from one of my english highschool teachers who told me a story about how when he was in university he was getting graded really poorly on essays until he basically regurgitated what he thought the the professor wanted to hear.

It's been a while since I've been to university, but I think it probably still holds.

Another unique bonus of university education: in my undergrad one of the professors noticed that I cared about the subject material more than my classmates.

Due to this he gave me opportunities to perform research in areas that I didn't even know existed.

Had I not gone to a university I never would have been exposed to these areas of technology.

Now you know why businesses love university graduates! Being told what you want is a prime mover in business.

Now back to my TPS reports.

"humanities is all about flattering whatever opinions the professor personally holds" - maybe at some universities, but not at a good liberal arts school.

Good liberal arts schools don't really exist in the US anymore, unless we're talking about something like St. John's College or maybe some Catholic universities. I believe the capture of university humanities departments by critical theory is pretty complete at this point, and the sciences are rapidly being colonized.

It seems possible to me that people of a less analytic personality type can improve learning using the cue, "imagine you wanted to socially impress a particular person, an academic". The same way a weightlifter who doesn't study the anatomy of external hip rotation can get good results with "screw your feet into the floor", or GPT-3 from "Let's think step by step". It leverages instinct to do what isn't understood consciously. I agree you're going to need originality to really excel.

I think you’ve defined a tutor. Tutors cost less than college tuition. And top professors answer emails from non-students, sometimes they teach for free on MOOCs. Perhaps you’re on a very narrow field where knowledge is extremely scarce, but that’s atypical.

For the cost of a college education at some places you could likely hire a knowledgeable professor of the skill set you’re interested in to live with you for four years.

Nobody will loan you money to do that, howvevr.

People would probably loan you money for that if you have the income or collateral to support a loan.

ehmmm... From the recent Bloomberg article I read the Russia claims ~6K dead and some unspecified western experts estimate it rather ~15K. Now USA lost ~60K in Vietnam. Sorry, that is not "as many or more". Nowhere near.

15k is still way too low based on the number of verified vehicle kills. The losses for Russia are staggering.

15k KIA mean 45k casualties. Now, this might be a bit too low: 7k funeral reported on Russian social networks when most of the armed forces aren't from areas with cheap internet access.

Russia is mobilising 300k men (and probably more) to replace 6k dead?

They are mobilising to increase presence and unit rotation along the frontline, without having to decrease their presence along their borders with other countries.

Funny. I actually do the opposite.

Oh I do the opposite too. Possibly more regularly.

I'm very comfortable with pirating, but if I actually end up benefitting/consuming the product I try to find a way to pay for it.

It could be much worse. I for one often get web sites open in French...

Same thing here. I'm in Flemish Brabant, very close to the Antwerp border. Google Maps geoip puts me even more north. I have an English browser and OS (granted, with some Belgian regional settings). Yet a lot of web sites choose to show their French version as default.

And to top it off the language switch is often hidden away in some bottom corner so it takes you way too long to find it.

Give me back my old internet!