The average college graduate has $28,000 in debt. It’s time to change that. Join Chris Rock, Amandla Stenberg, President Obama, Dr. Jill Biden, and others in support of making two years of community college free for anyone who’s willing to work for it.
Yes! This is good start in solving the student debt problem.
anyone else read a paragraph of academic prose and then stare at it blankly with no idea what you just read because it’s so clogged with jargon
this is an academia call out post and i’m here for it
also re: teens sitting around with their tablets and smartphones
like, if a kid can access the internet (with some privacy still) while also sitting in the same room as their parents, honestly that’s better and more social than what I did as a teenager, which was hole up in my room at my desktop computer that I couldn’t move anywhere else in the house
mostly what I see from the teens in my family is they will sit and scroll through their phone, but if something interesting starts happening, or a new person enters the room, or they see something cool they want to share, they look up and interact again, because they’re sitting right there with everyone else.
that is waaaay more social than 2002 me, hunched over my desktop for hours and only seeing my mom in passing when I went to microwave a burrito at 1am. way, way more social.
My whole family does this now. We’re all in the same room, but each on a phone, tablet, or laptop. Certain poop heads will shake their heads at how technology is dividing us.
But
Like
What do they think families have done for since ever? Talk constantly while playing educational board games every evening? No.
They’d each be reading, or sewing, or writing letters or some shit, and mostly sat quietly near each other but not bothering each other.
yes this
It reminds me of the whole “omg people on trains used to TALK to each other” argument. No, they didn’t. They read the newspaper or stared straight ahead avoiding eye contact.
what the fuck
a glimpse of utopia
It’s not uncommon for police officers to use this tactic to slow down traffic to provide opportunity and clear space for a short burst of work to clear the scene of an accident up ahead.
That said, the fact that everyone is rolling with it is fucking hysterical.
