New York City is so broke it’s considering renting out parts of the Brooklyn Bridge to raise money.
Fun fact: the expression, “If you believe that, I have a bridge to sell you,” comes from a late 19th-century scam where fraudsters sold quitclaims to the Brooklyn Bridge. A quitclaim lets you sell whatever interest you might have; you don’t actually have to own it. People who didn’t know that bought in and got scammed.
Now, it seems, you might be able to get at least partial rights to the bridge, and this time, it’s official!
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Iran is the worst ever so we had to start a war with them. They are responsible for every bad thing in modern history. We’re almost done. Since this war is shorter than most wars, it hardly counts. We’ve pretty much won but we’re going to do some warring a little harder for a little while longer but basically, it’s done. And also, we’re the best ever.
Not much of what he said was true but what does that matter when you’re justifying a war that was based on a lie?
Normally it is wise not to read too much into what President Trump says but this was a prime-time, nationwide address. It feels like he is asking Americans to brace for impact because a ground invasion is coming and when it gets bad, as it is predicted to, just remember we’re almost done.
“We’re going to hit [Iran] extremely hard over the next 2 to 3 weeks,” he said. “We’re going to bring them back to the stone ages where they belong.”
This kind of savage rhetoric sounds a bit genocidal, doesn’t it? It almost feels as if Gaza was a warm up act to what we’re about to witness.
Iran preemptively responded to the President’s speech with this letter to the American people. They rightly point out that “Iran has never initiated a war.” The letter says that the “Iranian people harbor no enmity toward other nations, including the people of America, Europe, or neighboring countries.”
It is ironic that the Western world is calling Iran barbaric while our leaders talk openly of death and destruction as justified and began this war by killing children.
If we are being prepared for a brutal and bloody ground invasion, was this the pep talk we needed or America’s last rites?
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A new report shows that advanced degrees don’t always pay off, especially in the humanities.
Researchers looked at students in Texas who pursued advanced degrees after a bachelor’s degree. They found about what you would expect: a medical or law degree does pay off, even after expensive student debt. However, an advanced degree in psychology or social work has a negative payoff. Meaning you will never make back what you put into this degree and it does not increase earning potential.
Students are told to “follow their passion,” take on debt, and trust that the system will reward them later. For many fields, it simply doesn’t.
So why do they exist when they only serve to make indebted young people with unusable skills? Probably because payoff is not the point.
Universities are pricing degrees based on demand, and there is still endless demand for credentials, even when they don’t translate into income. These students don’t listen when someone tells them that a queer theory degree is not profitable because they find it fashionable and impressive. It can open doors in credential-driven fields, even if it doesn’t increase actual productivity or earnings.
It is less of an investment. It is more like an expensive identity.
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What’s Trending
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Artemis II is trending because NASA launched a rocket carrying four astronauts to orbit the moon. This is supposedly the first time the U.S. has returned to the moon since the 1972 Apollo 17 mission. Heavy emphasis on supposedly.
Jonathan the tortoise is trending because the world’s oldest known tortoise died at the age of 193.
Deontay Wilder is trending because he claims that one of his daughters was conceived when the mother injected…well, read it for yourself if you want to know. It’s a crazy story.
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