The "What Are You Doing This Moment" Thread
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Baroque
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The arts are absolutely valuable for several reasons, they're just rarely financially viable as a career. Kids with well to do parents should definitely pursue the arts and keep them alive.
Baroque
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I'd throw finance under the math/science umbrella. "Tech" also falls under science/engineering. I guess SEM doesn't have the same ring.
The Ozzman
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edit: most schools don't have a cool stem project. I think if a school was focused on stem it wouldn't be that successful depending on the area. Kids want to feel like the people on tv. Sports and arts work at least for the younger ones. Need something that they care about to help motivate them. If you tell them "I'm taking away your stem project if you don't do well in your academics!" they'd start acting up to get it taken away
That's only a testament to how backwards and degenerate a significant part of America is. I can't wait until China fucking kills us.
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business is a science hurr durr that's why you can get a bachelor and master of science in it
public funding should not be spent on special needs kids in art schools, at the very least put them in a trade school for fucks sake
liberal arts, ethnology, gender studies, and other shit degrees should be thrown out of every curriculum
public funding should not be spent on special needs kids in art schools, at the very least put them in a trade school for fucks sake
liberal arts, ethnology, gender studies, and other shit degrees should be thrown out of every curriculum
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Uh sorry buddy but business is a bullshit degree too. A person can also get a M.A. in many STEM fields, doesn't mean they're studying art.
Master_Yoda77
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"liberal arts"
*throws at every nearly every scholarly academic institution*
You do know that liberal arts has nothing to do with actually being a liberal, right?
*throws at every nearly every scholarly academic institution*
You do know that liberal arts has nothing to do with actually being a liberal, right?
CiG
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The one child policy, which is now a two child policy. I haven't read much about it for years but I remember hearing that the policy has created a very unbalanced male vs female dynamic, which has population implications etc.
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The one child policy, which is now a two child policy. I haven't read much about it for years but I remember hearing that the policy has created a very unbalanced male vs female dynamic, which has population implications etc.
They have over a billion people. Killing themselves would be encouraging people to have large families. The one child policy probably saved them a lot of grief they'd be suffering with right now had it not been implemented.
CiG
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Yes in the short term but how does it play out in the long-run? There is something like 125 men per 100 women and reproduction rates < death rates.
It just seems like a pretty weird situation.
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Do you actually think China will become so strong a world power that they'll be an existential threat? I thought you meant kill us economically or something.
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Yeah I meant economically and was pretty much just joking, but I think their selective preference for aborting girls is something that is starting to fade as they modernize (it's more common in rural areas), and the higher mortality rate of adult males helps to narrow the gap.
Funerary_Doom
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Catering to the interests of kids isn't backwards or degenerate. They still take science classes and science regents while in middle school, still have science and math fair, and still take math regents. Socially, however, you are giving them an outlet with arts and sports. Some of the best schools in Europe have this very same approach and the kids end up doing much better on standardized tests as oppose to making everything in school about curriculum.
