Yeah, About Those 12,960 Man-Hours

 A kid gets about 12,960 man-hours of education before he gets dumped out the front-door.  It would be more but I subtracted lunch-hours in this mess.

If you counted PE, bad-weather days, and the hundred-odd days wasted on various issues.....it's probably closer to about 9,900 hours of useful time.

My issue is that you really don't need intense discussions on gender stuff, pronouns, or a hundred other social things.  

Yeah, that 9,900 man-hours are of some value.  

If they aren't of true value.....maybe we should shorten the whole mess down to eight years of school and just dump you at that point.

The fact that you might get 720 of those man-hours with some science teacher who refuses to teach evolution?  Yeah, that might be a problem.

The fact that you might waste 600 of those man-hours with a math teacher who can't get twenty different math concepts across to you?

The fact that you might have some teacher trying to explain something of no use to you in the real world.....for thirty hours each school year?  

Maybe in the end....hours do matter.

Yeah, About Those Other Twitter Outcomes With The Poison Pill Business

 If you gaze at the end of this 'poison pill' business.....I noted Daily Wire giving the best three endpoints:

1.  Musk still wins by completing the proxy contest to remove the directors and overcomes the poison pill.

2.  Somewhere in this 'fog'....Musk finds a couple of helpers in getting shares and forcing the board to a end-point.

3.  Musk simply walks to the exit....recovers his investment money (maybe some profit), but leaves the company facing tons of lawsuits (we shareholders would be angry over the value of our stock).

Under option 3....there's this long-term problem....Twitter needs to come up with cash to fight the stock-holders in court, and profit-margins would disappear.  In simple terms.....they would not be able to sustain the cost of operating the company.  I'd almost call this end-result a poison-pill-poison-pill because it makes your future less likely in the end.

Under option 2, I think most of the big-boy investment companies would be in absolute fear of where this takes the company in a destructive market.  Just having Musk say X and Y company were in absolute fear....would hurt their chances of profits in the future for any business.

My question....wouldn't this be the right time to get Zuckerberg to toss his billions into this, and fight the evil Musk....bringing Twitter into the friendly Facebook empire?  

Yeah, About Those Cameras

If you were a statistical guy....you would be asking in a random year....how often are cam system down?  

'Sparky', your IT guy would likely say 14 minutes of the whole past year....due to a thunder-storm.  

But it does beg questions just how often this does occur now.

In that NYC subway episode....the only shot you have is the guy with the cellphone coverage....nothing from within the car itself. 
 

Yeah, About Those College Debt Folks

 For probably a decade, this topic has been on my mind.  I was one of the 'lucky' people who had the Air Force pay for the bulk of my education, and probably over a five-year period (early 1980s)....I probably spent $5k for my whole 'bill'.  

I have this one particular area of the discussion that I tend to focus upon....the people in the middle of this current mess.

First, there are the one who were told over and over for the final four years of high school....they were 'gifted'.  They had mostly a 'B' average.  They get convinced on the college idea, and sign up to spend the first year at some nifty college (dorm living).  

These are the people who learn at the end of the first semester that they aren't that gifted, marginally passing half their classes and failing the rest.  Part of their issue is partying....but they were dragged to the end of high school by teachers who act more like used-car dealers....than instructors.  

At the end of the 2nd semester....it's a lousy landscape, and they owe around $15k on college debt (don't even bother telling Dad that his $10,000 contribution went toward the cost of a car, beer, and partying).  

This is the guy/gal who will quit....have a crappy $15k in debt stuck to themselves, and job-wise....end up at the Quickie-Mart, tire-sales guy, or working evenings as a bartender.  

The second person is the one who goes after a worthless degree....wasting four years to achieve it, and will eventually learn that while starting pay is $30k a year....even after ten years....they probably won't make more than $40k.  That $80k in college debt will take three decades to pay off.

The third person is the one who ends up marrying another idiot who also has $80k of college debt, and both will spend decades arguing over debt and marginal lives.

The fourth person is the one who learns at the end of two years of college.....they hate their subject area, and can't bring themselves to refocus on something else because they already have too much debt on their back.

I don't have a lot of pity for any of these people.  I think if someone did a poll on college graduate folks with extreme debt.....the bulk of them by age thirty would admit they are miserable.

Fixing this?  How can you (as the government) offer some deal to pay off $10,000 or $20,000....without compensating the guy who never attended college?  You know....the guy who spent three weeks at some trucker school, and covered the cost entirely.....who is fairly happy at age thirty.