I click on CNN once a week. And whatever lies they tell usually give a hint at what the world governments are pressing towards.
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I blame the 1889 decision to keep philosophy out public schools in the US out of fear that it would foster revolutionary thinking in the working class. People who donât think critically are easier to control.
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i get all my news from tiktok and OG 
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There is an evil force in the schools today. Brainwashing but little true education. The Engineers of today are recieving little true education. That is the field I just retired from and have seen the quality of Engineering Grads plummet over the last 40years. Even at the Masters Degree level.
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Thatâs because itâs no longer about educating people in the hope they can improve society. Itâs about making money from education and if itâs hard to get a degree people will not bother putting themselves in a lot of debt for a piece of paper that says they have a good memory, and hardly any practical skills in whatever career they are investing in.
We have AI now apparently intellectual intelligence is no longer needed.
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@Shadey Something like that for sure. I just know somebodyâs getting screwed for tuition. I studied Engineering at home after work for 20 years. And I worked every trade of Machine Building Industry. I have patents in my name. And retired very tired from stretching myself for work. And my Education far exceeded the degreed Engineers education I worked with. But I worked the last 15 years of my life as a humble tradesman because awesome references werenât enough anymore. The new politically correct children did not honor my Engineering accomplishments. They bought their degrees so why should 20 years of home education and 30 years of hands on be good enough.
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I picked up a spare bag of maxibloom from ace hardware yesterday.
Had no idea they carried maxibloom. 
My TV spends 99% of itâs time showing old newlywed game/other old shows now a days. I ditched my cable over 10 years ago turns out I was just ahead of my time.
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i havent had cable for 20+ years to much free stuff on the smart tvâs
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Thatâs what I am talking about, you have knowledge from real life experience not a book or computer, your teacher was doing your job and learning from the mistakes. My daughter got a degree last year, it cost her 50,000 we helped with another 50,000 now she says she really needs a masters degree or Docterate to get anywhere in the field she is looking at for a career, hopefully she can keep working while she does the masters. Personally I think itâs a waste of money, she should do what you did and get the experience and knowledge through doing the job from the ground up, so she can understand it fully and know why something is not working and is completely different to what was taught in a class.
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Degrees are important but not always.
Some places you need a degree just to get in the door. Some places you need advanced degrees to climb the ladder.
Some places it doesnât matter.
But itâs good to keep your options open and if you have the luxury of time and money Iâd say itâs a wise move.
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Couldnât resist! 
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When my daughter finished school she said she didnât want to go to university, because she didnât know what she wanted to do, like me I still donât know what I want to do and I am 62 lol.
So we said what do you want to do with the 20,000 in your education fund. She said, she wanted to go walk about around the planet, we reluctantly agreed as she was only just 18.
She spent 10 months traveling all over the planet experiencin different cultures. She gave us some serious anxiety in India when she was almost abducted by a bogus hotel shuttle driver. Luckily the real driver called her when she was 15 minutes from the airport asking where she was. She jumped out the car and ran the next time it stopped at a junction. The real driver found her and got her back to the hotel safely.
These life experiences I consider more valuable than any degree. Although when she got back she said she knew what she wanted to do, and she would have to go to university. I was a bit pissed she blew sll that education money, but it all worked out in the end.
Four of her friends who went to university straight from school dropped out after 2 or 3 years, with no bit of paper to show for it.
There are pros and cons to everything 
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Travel is a great eye opener. But why not do both?
This is why Iâm a Foreigner.
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I turned off the news a while ago for a couple reasons I hold close to my heart.
(1) There is far more good in this world than bad, however, good doesnât get ratings.
(2) Most news companies have to skew the news, or outright lie, in order to get the piece out the door faster for those ratings.
Left or Right, Up or Down we all have to live on this beautiful earth together like it or not. We are all different because we are all pieces to the puzzle. How boring would the news be if most people got along in a common good 
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Iâm no saint, just my opinion. Carry on!
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Itâs not to get the piece out the door.
They lie because if they told the real truth, no one would listen to them anymore.
So itâs the only way they can stay relevant.
Media is a festering shithole these days.
Lob
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Good point!! Sadly very very true.
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's not just newsâŚ
When I come to work, there is regular talk in the locker room about last nightâs game, the news, the series⌠Likewise during breaks.
Itâs abnormal for me. Different people, different situations, age, education, life - they all have the same memories, experienced emotions.
When thereâs a bunch of like minds, itâs easy to find a way to manipulate them
Frightening
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Unfortunately they still have a lot of jobs that require degrees.
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I think they lie because evil has slowly taken over the world the last 50 years. By way of media and the schools they have a lot of people brainwashed. The peer pressure to follow is there too. In my day I did evil all on my own without brainwashing. And it was considered evil. But I knew inside myself that I being evil, without anyone telling me. Poor kids today
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I travelled a lot because I was a wild teen. And when I was in my 40âs an opportunity arose as a travelling machine tech that paid enough that my wife could be a stay at home mom. I did almost 20 of travel. I love culture
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