military budget is 700 billion a year. so thats 7 trillion over 10

since Iraq I think last number I heard was 5 trillion

@Chump_or_Champ that would be ~6 Trillion or 600 billion a year

woops, yeah it might be 7

I'm waiting for AOC to question the Federal Reserve Chair Powell should be good

Red-Cortez would probably just say "People are too concerned with facts like 'the money to pay for this does not exist' instead of being morally right"

Reason I asked about military is cause the left is so fucking hell-bent on calling out defense spending.

I bet she has no idea what the Fed does

They have the gall to propose a 93 trillion dollar idea when, in their perspective, military expenditures are "way too much"

She has an Econ degree!

@codrod do we know if she graduated at the bottom of her class?

lol

"They just exploit the american people to get rich and refuse to print the money for my bill and make fun of me" is likely her response to that

Most colleges are easy to just pass through for the paper.

I saw one of her interviews. She basically drops ECON101 terms like "externalities" and "supply/demand". Her understanding doesn't really seem to expand beyond basic econ.

For baccalaureate at least

You're exactly right. University education is a fucking joke and I say that as a college graduate.

Fed Should throw in some money supply and velocity rebuttals to see if she even knows what the fed tries to do.

I took a technical path, graduated with a 3.something GPA. Doesn't mean shit. I'm still learning and studying on the job because University wasn't enough.

Yeah I was let down by my bachelors education

I know many kids that got their CS degree in my class that couldn't do the most basic fucking coding.

@exeventien what happened for you?

I work in the industry before going to get that piece of paper.. Complete let down.

@codrod same here. They just copy code from online cause the Professors are too fucking lazy to write original coursework. They copy their syllabuses (or syllabi) from online.

And they have TAs that learned coding from that same class, but not really.

So you got people grading code that can't code.

yup. Of the students in my graduating class, a solid 90% of them were jokes.

10% were solid hard workers.

I guess it follows the Pareto Distribution.

The upper level electives were pretty weak introductions to the material (most of the time), and the core coursework lacked important industry practice. The theory we covered was useful though, and you wouldnt ever see it if you only had work experience.

One guy who graduated a semester before me decided to prepopulate a class with var Table1, Table2,..., Table10.

In our group project

Not a collection or array. A hardcoded reference with numbers....

That probably explains why its so hard to get a job after finishing a bachelors, the companies get burned by idiots with degrees and no clue what they're doing

Is this Engineering field? @exeventien

yeah along those lines

To be fair (i write software at a company whose main product is engineering) industry standard isn't necessarily that uniform.

And your first job, you're just a basic drafter not an engineer.

Pareto is 80/20 but it's probably something along those lines

And from my earlier complaint. I didn't blame or hate on the groupmate/student for not using a collection properly. He was actually very interested in learning so I worked with him to teach him all the shit he should have learned the 3 years prior.

Don't worry though, this school taught me to introduce myself with preferred pronouns 😅