The Weather Guys TM have been saying we’re in for snow starting sometime Wednesday. They haven’t said how much to expect, but to listen to one of the network news shows this morning they’re acting like it will be yet another Snowpocalypse in the Northeast. If it is, all I can do is hope that the trusty RAM 1500 will be back from the body shop before then. (Just staying ahead of the rust.)
Yesterday I mentioned how it seems to be that the amount of aggressive driving has increased, wondering it if was just my perception or if other people have noticed it to. It turns out it wasn’t just me. A number of people I’ve asked have noticed the same thing, with some saying it’s been really bad over this past week. It has certainly been a problem here in New Hampshire with a large number of fatal motor vehicle accidents, many which make no sense unless one factors in aggressive or distracted driving.
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File this under “Why were they surprised this has been happening?”
It seems that no matter how good the the GPA is for Berkeley graduates they aren’t getting any job offers.
Recent college graduates aren't fairing any better than the rest of the job seekers in this difficult market.Is what O’Brien has concluded true? Or is it true only for Berkeley computer science students? Is this a problem at MIT, Carnegie-Mellon, UIUC, Cal Tech and other university students?
A college professor admitted that he's seeing it happen to some of his former students who did extremely well but are having a hard time finding work. In a LinkedIn post, James O'Brien, a professor of computer science at UC Berkeley, insisted that it's become a bleak reality for many college graduates because even though they have their degrees, a job isn't coming as easily as it should.
"Tech degrees no longer guarantee a job. Lately, I'm hearing similar narratives from students. Previously, a Berkeley CS graduate, even if not a top student, would receive multiple appealing job offers in terms of work type, location, salary, and employer," O'Brien explained in his post.
He noticed that even outstanding students with 4.0 GPAs were now reaching out to him, worried because, despite their impressive transcripts and experience, they weren't receiving any job offers. He concluded that this was happening because of an irreversible trend that is also part of a broader issue that's impacting almost every job seeker in every area.
Writes one commenter from the linking Instapundit post:
There’s another element to this you don’t often hear about; curriculum. I spent a 30 year career in higher ed, supporting the university in IT, as well as doing a little teaching in CS. Employers very definitely look closely at the curriculums of universities, even those with stellar reputations, if they begin to see patterns of unpreparedness in their employees from those institutions. Shadow bans, and even very public denunciations, can and do result with respect to hiring from universities whose recent grads aren’t meeting expectations.Is this the case with Berkeley?
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It’s a good thing I wasn’t drinking anything when I read the following:
Hilarity Ensues After Report on a Possible 2028 AOC Presidential Candidacy
Eager to move beyond the failure of their undemocratic installment of Kamala Harris as their nominee in place of President Joe Biden to thwart another Trump presidency, speculation has already started as to who their 2028 contenders might be.If Gruesome Newsom and Occasional Cortex are the best the Democrats can bring forward for 2028, then they have a big problem.
Among them is Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), who, since bursting onto the scene in 2018 and becoming a media darling in the process, has become little more than just another entrenched Democrat face in the crowd...
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Honestly, I don’t see it happening – but if it did, it’d be amusing to watch Gavin Newsom try to mow right over her and other high-profile candidates, including perhaps even Kamala Harris herself to get the seat he wanted in 2024 but didn’t.
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The once great nation of Canada has accelerated its decline into ‘woke’ (and broke) nation. It’s latest bit of foolishness (or stupidity)?
A small town in Ontario is being fined for not flying a “2SLGBTQA+” flag.
WTF?
The Ontario Human Rights Tribunal is an instrument of soft tyranny that exists largely to impose degeneracy. It is punishing the township Emo (pop. 1,434) for failing to fly a flag in honor of depravity…What makes this even more laughable is that the township doesn’t even have an “official” flagpole from which to fly such a flag.
Borderland Pride requested Emo to declare June as Pride Month and display a rainbow flag for one week but the township refused, resulting in a years-long process in which the tribunal ruled against the township.Being forced to give the self-described “2SLGBTQA plus people” free money isn’t enough. The citizens of Emo must have their faces rubbed in moonbattery…
The tribunal ruled Borderland Pride will be awarded $15,000, with $10,000 coming from the township itself and the other $5,000 coming from Emo mayor Harold McQuaker.
The nonsense that has been forced upon the Canadian people keeps piling up and getting worse. Civil right have been whittled away one by one by a government that is increasingly hostile to those rights...all in the name of ‘equity’.
I would like to think that eventually Canadians will come to their senses and boot out the present government and Prime Minister bag and baggage, restoring sanity to the Canada.
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And that’s the news from Lake Winnipesaukee, where winter has settled in, more snow (may) be on the way, and preparations for Christmas are under way.