The big one is to be more careful with money - if you screw up your finances, it causes a HELL of a lot of relationship stress, especially in a marriage.
The big one is to be more careful with money - if you screw up your finances, it causes a HELL of a lot of relationship stress, especially in a marriage.
I think a lot of crooks fall into that “just smart enough” category.
Right - but you’re not really the audience. The audience are the people in the room, paying $8,000 for a networking event, the proceeds going to a “not-for-profit” that seems to do no actual charitable work, but which pays its top people seven-figure salaries.
As I replied to someone else - it’s actually like a…
This sort of thing is giving administrators a new tool to “reign in” or “deal with” faculty. That’s one of the reasons they’re gravitating to it.
In addition, the massive increase in the number of professional staff and administrators required to deal with student issues/support/life, institutional planning and…
We’re going to have to agree to disagree on that. You do realize that the videos are just a way of them drumming up more “members” who pay huge fees to attend the sessions in person? The events are actually networking events for “the somewhat-less-great-and-good” - it’s like a slightly downmarket, franchised version…
Perhaps spending some of that revenue they’re generating on things like summer science programs for underprivileged kids would be more of a help. But hey, that’s not nearly as splashy and media-friendly. Hard to put on YouTube. They’re a not-for-profit online media company with very little actual charitable output.…
I think the entire “improving the world” bit is bullshit, and until they start disclosing how much (or more likely, little) they give out in “scholarships”, I’m going to assume that the not-for-profit status is basically a pile of horseshit.
And there’s a point where “palatable” becomes “pablum”. They’ve certainly…
I’m hardly the only one making the critique. It’s actually a pretty common one. Go look at TED’s IRS 990 form. They certainly pay their top few employees a LOT of money! And they haven’t been overly forthcoming in the past on how much they actually hand out in scholarships. Just because it’s a not-for-profit doesn’t…
I think the entire overarching tone of TED is awful. And I’m not going to judge someone’s scientific achievement or life’s work by their talk. In fact, TED means that anyone who is merely good at doing won’t get the same level of recognition as someone is both good at doing and good at talking about it or packaging…
I just get a “you’re a better person because you’re discerning enough to listen to this talk” vibe from the whole enterprise that I find completely offputting. The “cloud of smug” producing “Toyonda Pious” from South Park has nothing on this.
They’re sort of bullshitty, faux-inspirational “innovation” talks. It acts like short talks - each largely geared around a single idea illustrated by the personal experience of the talker - can somehow make a difference in anything. It’s “changing the world” via personal anecdote.
By stressing “innovation” and…
Really not sure - that teacher might’ve just had a policy of not accepting them in general - some don’t. Sometimes they start off taking them, but at a certain point (after years and years), they decided that they were tired of disposing of them. Some (more at the high school level) won’t accept anything edible…
My kids all had the same kindergarten teacher. During conferences, class events, etc, she’d sometimes go a bit off-script, get a little too honest, and stop just short of saying something completely inappropriate.
She was awesome.
This is why my wife won’t live in - or next to - the town that she teaches in. She doesn’t really want to run into parents and the kids in her private life.
By the way - the Atlantic just published a story today about how a quarter of adjunct professors are getting some type of public assistance . . .
Actually, I’ve known a number of adjuncts over the years. It sucked for them. Trying to piece together full-time employment while getting paid between $3,000 and $4,000 per course per semester in an incredibly expensive part of the country, plus not getting benefits if they were only part time at each college or…
Great - that means that the fact that there’s a working Lyme disease vaccine - that you can get for your dog but not for you - sucks even more.
Actually, classic freak shows - before they started getting somewhat paternalistically banned - arguably gave the “freaks” the ability to make a living, and potentially a community that was more accepting than wherever they were from. BAnd people were interacting with them in person, rather than through a television.…
At this point, can we just declare that the folks running TLC are terrible, soulless husks of humanity who just travel around the country looking for the latest Palinesque “Real America” grotesquery to parade in front of viewers until the inevitable happens? And then they start all over again . . .
Their real life…