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There are, of course, lots of other endeavours that have the same dynamic – a lonely pursuit of a glittering prize that ultimately most fail to win.
For me it wasn't the pursuit of a PhD but getting a degree, full stop. My folks had invested so much getting me to university, no matter what it took. At the time they thought anything less than a degree was for losers, to my detriment.
Now, I've probably used up my lifetime EFTS limit (thanks a million, Prostetnic Vogon Joyce) and I can't risk another bad tertiary education investment, so on-the-job training is my best bet now. That is, if there's still a company out there that doesn't dismiss it as some kind of 'Old Labour' relic.
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Up Front: Dear Dudebros, in reply to ,
You know something I don’t understand, where did John Kerwin’s anxiety and depression come from? That campaign was good for helping men get a bit real, which helps with better sexing behaviour, but it’s done nothing to explain why such a large number of New Zealand men are so fucked up.
I'd say another aggravating factor is de-industrialisation, which affects mostly men without university degrees. It's sadly no coincidence that Donald Trump has actively pitched to America's Rust Belt working class that he can somehow reopen the steel mills and car factories. In Britain it was a similar thing with the Brexit vote.
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Up Front: Dear Dudebros, in reply to Emma Hart,
Because the two incidents that sparked it, the Chiefs' debacle and the Kuggeleijn trial, were men attacking women, and people were all 'boys will be boys' and 'what was she expecting'.
Turns out there's a term for my aforementioned theories, and it's called pinkwashing.
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The guilty parties blame rape and sexual harassment on 'exposing uncovered meat'. But the very same guilty parties also want Muslim women to 'strip off'. This tweet illustrates just a few examples of that inanity. They also think anything to address the 'boys will always have raging hormones' is PC gone mad, especially when it's the likes of Tony Veitch.
The common thread? The guilty parties somehow think women are their copyright. I'll leave it to Laurie Penny to deconstruct the whole thing better than I can.
* http://www.huffingtonpost.com/labourlist/france-tells-women-what-n_b_221803.html
* https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/dec/22/this-isnt-feminism-its-islamophobia
* http://www.newstatesman.com/politics/feminism/2016/01/after-cologne-we-cant-let-bigots-steal-feminism -
Hard News: The Unitary Plan and grown-up…, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
We will also discuss whether Christchurch should organise a solidarity sleep-out in cars to highlight the housing crisis here.
If if happens, how about holding it outside Gerry Brownlee's electorate office?
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Speaker: Confessions of an Uber Driver…, in reply to BenWilson,
Or maybe a STASIesque bank of people watching a video stream, statistically narrowed down by triggers. It will employ 50 geeks for 5 years designing it. At the end it will be 90 percent as reliable as a dude sitting there and smelling some arsehole puking in his car.
A variant of the “Russians used pencils in space” theory: in Russia, dash cams are commonplace in cars, as the number of YouTube videos go to show. But only because they’re required by law for insurance purposes.
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Just when we thought communal toilets in Sochi 2014 set records, along comes #RioProblems.
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I know exactly who I'm voting for: anyone who believes that ladders of opportunity are a public good rather than an accident of privilege.
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Speaker: Darkness in New York, in reply to bbrooks,
No Republican has ever won the White House without Ohio, and 538 rate it as the third most likely tipping point state
And given that Trump has made a strong pitch to left-behinds in Rust Belt states like Ohio, it’s a plausible scenario. He’s a master at peddling snake oil, and politics is no exception. In this case, he’s basically promised the Rust Belters that he’ll bring back the car plants & steelworks, while conveniently ignoring that his clothing merchandise is made by the same Mexicans he wants to wall off, and by the same Chinese he wants to tariff.
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Hard News: RNC 2016: A literal shitshow, in reply to nzlemming,
Finally, although the RNCinCLE is the gift that keeps on giving, this:
http://www.philly.com/philly/news/politics/20160722_Daniel_Pipes__With_Trump_as_nominee__time_to_quit_the_GOP.htmlThe Republican Party nominated Donald Trump as its candidate for president of the United States - and I responded by ending my 44-year GOP membership.
I hope his feeling spreads.
Then again, Pipes endorsed Ted Cruz, who's equally insane as Trump but for different reasons.