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You know... Living an American Life or an UK one. I know its impossible without a degree but why mind refuse to come out of it.
Why my mind is always thinking the impossible?
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Impossible without a degree? No. Possible with a desirable skill. Can't argue that having a degree doesn't help, because it makes the detection of "desirable skill" easier. Getting certain computer certificates can help even without a formal degree. Having a successful business helps.
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My degrees are not in computing, though they did involve computer work as a means to an end.
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Come to the UK as an illegal immigrant and you'll be put up in a hotel, have free healthcare and benefits - all at the expense of the British taxpayer. Its easy.
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G., while national pride might bias my views, apparently tens of thousands of illegal immigrants think living in the USA actually IS a desirable thing to be achieved.
NauticalGent
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I wish the incredible number of immigrants coming here - legally or otherwise - felt the same way...
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Anyone being born in the USA has up to now had a huge advantage over being born in many other countries. There are exceptions of course.
But with the demand for a university education, why is it that so many people today, even the staff in large companies cannot appear to read and understand a letter. Receiving a sensible reply with a letter is impossible today. And never, ever ask more than one question in a letter. Only one question is given an attempt at a reply. Just don't expect the reply to make any sense. If you contact someone who lived through the Covid years, don't expect a reply anytime soon.
I recently emailed a letter to a national company and received the following reply:
"We want to help answer your queries as quickly as possible. Please see below our 5 most Frequently Asked Questions that we hope will answer your query."
This is after I'd told them in the letter that I'd already looked through their FAQs and wasted some time chatting with their cretinous AI robot.
It is as if they are unable to grasp anything that is longer than a text or a tweet. Sometimes they get the spelling right but that's about it. Mental arithmetic involving any number beyond five is a total mystery to most of them. It is possible of course that universities are taking intelligent young adults and training them to be slightly older idiots. Maybe that's what it is?
But with the demand for a university education, why is it that so many people today, even the staff in large companies cannot appear to read and understand a letter. Receiving a sensible reply with a letter is impossible today. And never, ever ask more than one question in a letter. Only one question is given an attempt at a reply. Just don't expect the reply to make any sense. If you contact someone who lived through the Covid years, don't expect a reply anytime soon.
I recently emailed a letter to a national company and received the following reply:
"We want to help answer your queries as quickly as possible. Please see below our 5 most Frequently Asked Questions that we hope will answer your query."
This is after I'd told them in the letter that I'd already looked through their FAQs and wasted some time chatting with their cretinous AI robot.
It is as if they are unable to grasp anything that is longer than a text or a tweet. Sometimes they get the spelling right but that's about it. Mental arithmetic involving any number beyond five is a total mystery to most of them. It is possible of course that universities are taking intelligent young adults and training them to be slightly older idiots. Maybe that's what it is?
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Cotswold
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For as long as anyone can remember around 20% of school leavers are unable to read and write. I can never understand why generation after generation of school teachers find this acceptable.
In Britain we tend to copy the USA. Maybe because our politicians think they know what they are doing over there. They'll try it because it avoids thinking. Which is why we end up in the same mess as you but a few years later.
You had thousands of illegal immigrants, so we had to have some. Criminals ship them over the channel, then Border Force and RNLI operate as free taxis to help them ashore. They give them back their outboard motors and help them get back to France for the next trip. As with the USA no real attempt is made to stop the smugglers, which just makes you think that some politicians are involved and making money somewhere along the line. Last week in one day nearly 600 boat people arrived. That's 600 more goat herders, who are now 600 out of work goat herders, joining the thousands of goat herders already here. Often robbing, murdering and drug dealing, when they aren't in the pub spending the money the government has given them. Tax will have to up every year to pay for this ongoing fiasco.
In Britain we tend to copy the USA. Maybe because our politicians think they know what they are doing over there. They'll try it because it avoids thinking. Which is why we end up in the same mess as you but a few years later.
You had thousands of illegal immigrants, so we had to have some. Criminals ship them over the channel, then Border Force and RNLI operate as free taxis to help them ashore. They give them back their outboard motors and help them get back to France for the next trip. As with the USA no real attempt is made to stop the smugglers, which just makes you think that some politicians are involved and making money somewhere along the line. Last week in one day nearly 600 boat people arrived. That's 600 more goat herders, who are now 600 out of work goat herders, joining the thousands of goat herders already here. Often robbing, murdering and drug dealing, when they aren't in the pub spending the money the government has given them. Tax will have to up every year to pay for this ongoing fiasco.
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AccessBlaster
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I wonder who has been in charge of education for the last 60 years? Here is a hint "D" and their teacher's union.
