The percentage of U.S. adults holding an advanced degree increased by over 3% from 2011-2021. This increase in education is assumed to have a crucial role in America’s increasing economic strength over that time period. The expertise gained from such degrees is supposed to be valuable enough to outweigh the time and money put into grad degrees, both from the student’s perspective and the perspective of the schools and institutions that so often fund graduate degrees. In developing countries, college graduation rates are positively correlated with economic success. This same effect is thought to translate to America’s current explosion of higher education. This belief is held so strongly that the federal government spent 311,000,000,000 dollars on higher education in 2021. Continue reading “Educational Explosion: The Damage of Unnecessary Advanced Degrees”
Gangs of Jewish settlers are attacking the town of Yatma, south of Nablus, and set fire to the vehicles and houses of Palestinian villagers. pic.twitter.com/WpJNuyarF8
Another big source of Facebook’s “bread and butter” – namely, people’s personal data – has been highlighted in a new investigative report, which identified that source as the online mortgage brokers industry. Continue reading “Mortgage Brokers Leak Sensitive Data to Facebook”
Buried under the news from Google I/O this week is one of Google Cloud’s biggest blunders ever: Google’s Amazon Web Services competitor accidentally deleted a giant customer account for no reason. UniSuper, an Australian pension fund that manages $135 billion worth of funds and has 647,000 members, had its entire account wiped out at Google Cloud, including all its backups that were stored on the service. UniSuper thankfully had some backups with a different provider and was able to recover its data, but according to UniSuper’s incident log, downtime started May 2, and a full restoration of services didn’t happen until May 15. Continue reading ““Unprecedented” Google Cloud event wipes out customer account and its backups”
An Irishman says, “Ireland is gone,” as he walks through one of the most iconic streets of Dublin, which has been taken over by foreigners. pic.twitter.com/xyUbpLNkiK
— I Meme Therefore I Am 🇺🇸 (@ImMeme0) May 18, 2024
Dr. Robert Redfield, former director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), said Thursday that many officials who tried to warn the public about potential problems with COVID-19 vaccines were pressured into silence and that it’s high time to admit that there were “significant” side effects that made people sick.
🔥🚨BREAKING NEWS: It has been over 3 hours since the helicopter carrying Iran’s president crashed. There is no doubt that there was several lines of communication on the helicopter and persons. At this point every media source is unfortunately awaiting for confirmation on what… pic.twitter.com/7gVF2sXcx8
— Dom Lucre | Breaker of Narratives (@dom_lucre) May 19, 2024