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Rule

Yeah these 5 over 1s really ruin the neighborhood character of my suburban strip mall state highway hell.

Leave them as derelict auto body warehouses tyvm.

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Universities Have a Computer-Science Problem

It's a top down problem. The universities didn't invent it. For years, candidates have campaigned on "lrn2code" so much so that we make fun of it here. They weren't saying that to bring new perspectives or art to the discipline. They were saying it because tech jobs have basically become the only path to the middle class. Small wonder, then that enrollment situations are what they are.

I graduated from UC Berkeley's College of Engineering with a CS degree right as the recession hit. Even then, I could see the demographics of my classmates trending away from your typical nerds who just like being on the computer into guys who were just after a paycheck.

Point being, like everything, this is a systemic issue. Give people one path out and they'll take it. The US economy is basically just giant business conglomerates and tech companies. Myopic capitalism has led us to this.

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Up to 800,000 Brits going to Euro 2024 warned: German beer is stronger

I went to a bar in Ghent and the bartender told me that British students would constantly wreck themselves because they wouldn't adapt their drinking culture to Belgium's.

However, in true Belgian fashion, I think the thing that bothered him the most (even more than the vomiting) was that they'd order round after round of the same beer, which would exhaust his supply of the appropriate glassware.