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Musk is not alone in thinking that the overabundance in MBA degrees is ridiculous. The real question is, who created the positions that mean that so many such graduates can find jobs? What is definitely true is that those guys (and girls) are overpaid in general. What I have found after twenty years of experience is that almost any decently sized company or organization will have far too many middle-management roles. Most companies could weed out over half of those out and it wouldn't make any real difference to their productivity and it would save them a bundle in wages.

There were no great actors before roughly the 1970s?

That's my favorite party too! Unfortunately haven't been able to play much this past week.

The book is very good, read it a couple of years ago, very much worth your time if you are interested in the story.

Hadid sisters finding themselves threatened by official Israeli government accounts for mildly supportive messages towards Palestinians is a bit over the top.

I haven't followed much of the Will Smith and Jada drama, mostly because I don't really care that much. Haven't there been many rumors about infidelity in the past though? I definitely remember strong rumors about him cheating on his wife with Margot Robbie when they filmed Focus together.

I had totally missed the fact that Jefferson Hack and Anouck Lepere had divorced over a decade ago. A bit deal was made about their marriage at the time.

What other girl do you mean?

Watching Mike Flanagan's new show, THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER. I have seen three episode. So far it's my least favorite of his.

@Cult Icon Are you a fan? Can't remember if you ever posted her or not.

Do you know how much climate change cost Europe in lives and infrastructure costs just in the last few years? It's bonkers to me to find something that is already happening, already costing lives and destroying homes, roads, businesses, ... is deemed less of an issue that some vague and minor threat of nuclear war. A threat that was there for fifty years during the cold war but it was never used an excuse to not care about other stuff.

I don't get why this means I should be more worried about nuclear war today than I was yesterday? Putin nuking Ukraine is a hypothetical. One I don't believe will ever become a reality because he cares too much about his own hide and there is no scenario in which he deploys nukes in which he survives. Meanwhile, climate change is already costing lives and billions in infrastructure each and every year. Just this Summer, parts of Greece had the equivalent of a year's worth of rain in Belgium (so not the annual rainfall in much dryer Greece itself) over the course of two days. But apparently you are insane if you say you care more about those real-life costs that are ongoing and ever more costly than some hypothetical notion of nuclear war. Okay. Maybe I should worry about aliens invading too, while I am at it.

Okay so what would you put the chance at? Strategically it makes zero sense for Russia to use nukes right now.

It is close to 0%. But even if it is higher than that, it isn't already a tangible threat to lives the way climate change is. But I guess those deaths don't count somehow.

There are people already dying from climate change. Including in my own country (Belgium). https://www.vrt.be/vrtnws/en/2021/07/18/from-railroads-to-tap-water-the-impact-of-the-floods-is-huge/ And that isn't even taking into consideration the infrastructure costs, which are massive too. The estimates of one billion in this old piece turned out to be laughably low.

Well, how many people died in the last year due to extreme weather events caused by global warming and how many died in a nuclear attack?

I have to say the level of discourse in U.S. politics has degraded almost in real time over the course of the past ten to fifteen years in a manner that is almost impossible to wrap one's head around.

She's gorgeous alright. What is her real name?

Is that the Polish YT try-on girl with the nice legs?

I remember one of Johanna Lundback last social media posts before she shut down all of her public accounts was complaining about companies still calling her for modelling work when she had made it clear to them she was retired. I believe one of those companies was Nelly.

She actually looks a bit like Kate Li in the middle of those three pictures, that's who I thought it was at first.

Models who just vanish from the industry overnight are weird. I remember Johanna Lundback just stopped working almost instantly too.

It's weird they didn't think they would get backlash for that post. The thread is just person and person calling out the hypocrisy.