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@prequelsnet prequels appreciation week: day 5 — found family

↳ The Disaster Lineage

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“i‘m sorry anakin, for all of it“

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I haven’t done realism in at least 5 months ugh

Reblogs appreciated lmao

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Why aren't we talking about the real reason male college enrollment is dropping? (Celeste Davis, Oct 6 2024)

"White flight is a term that describes how white people move out of neighborhoods when more people of color move in.

White flight is especially common when minority populations become the majority. That neighborhood then declines in value.

Male flight describes a similar phenomenon when large numbers of females enter a profession, group, hobby or industry—the men leave. That industry is then devalued.

Take veterinary school for example:

In 1969 almost all veterinary students were male at 89%.

By 1987, male enrollment was equal to female at 50%.

By 2009, male enrollment in veterinary schools had plummeted to 22.4%

A sociologist studying gender in veterinary schools, Dr. Anne Lincoln says that in an attempt to describe this drastic drop in male enrollment, many keep pointing to financial reasons like the debt-to-income ratio or the high cost of schooling.

But Lincoln’s research found that “men and women are equally affected by tuition and salaries.”

Her research shows that the reason fewer men are enrolling in veterinary school boils down to one factor: the number of women in the classroom.

For every 1% increase in the proportion of women in the student body, 1.7 fewer men applied.

One more woman applying was a greater deterrent than $1000 in extra tuition! (…)

Since males had dominated these professions for centuries, you would think they would leave slowly, hesitantly or maybe linger at 40%, 35%, 30%, but that’s not what happens.

Once the tipping point reaches majority female- the men flee. And boy do they flee!

It’s a slippery slope. When the number of women hits 60% the men who are there make a swift exit and other men stop joining.

Morty Schapiro, economist and former president of Northwestern University has noticed this trend when studying college enrollment numbers across universities:

“There’s a cliff you fall off once you become 60/40 female/male. It then becomes exponentially more difficult to recruit men.”

Now we’ve reached that 60% point of no return for colleges.

As we’ve seen with teachers, nurses and interior design, once an institution is majority female, the public perception of its value plummets.

Scanning through Reddit and Quora threads, many men seem to be in agreement - college is stupid and unnecessary.

A waste of time and money. You’re much better off going into the trades, a tech boot camp or becoming an entrepreneur. No need for college. (…)

When mostly men went to college? Prestigious. Aspirational. Important.

Now that mostly women go to college? Unnecessary. De-valued. A bad choice. (…)

School is now feminine. College is feminine. And rule #1 if you want to safely navigate this world as a man? Avoid the feminine.

But we don’t seem to want to talk about that."

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the original leeroy jenkins video was posted may 11th 2005… 10 years ago today… yowee

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Jewel Saix - Kotobukiya HMM Lightning Saix custom [Zoids]

Classy, flashy, and quicker than lightning, the Jewel Saix is the luxury sports car of the Zoids world, going 0 to 300 in the blink of an eye!

Hand painted with Tamiya Color semigloss black, Mr. Hobby metallic gold, and Folkart colorshift pastel purple (on a Tamiya Color silver base).

It was nice to go back and give this old kit some love with a new coat of paint, I think I built this one 14 years ago now?? Its super floppy and I couldn't take it apart fully for fear parts had become too brittle, but I'm really happy with how this custom turned out. Its a well loved Zoid, haha!

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VEGETA

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Computer. Iris by the goo goo dolls. Loud enough to kill.

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soulmates 𓍼

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Sleeping pupper

(via)

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white supremacists one day decided to frame woke as a bad thing and use it as a perjorative and y’all just immediately went along with it posing absolutely no resistance now i gotta hear ppl say “it’s not woke to be antiracist”

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its always like be careful this song might become a memory. this cologne might become a memory. this brand of beer might become a memory. i time travel all the time

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The more that the deportation system in your country is fast, cruel, and not subject to appeal the easier it is for people to say,

"Accept my bad actions or you'll be deported."

This applies equally to legal immigrants, illegal immigrants, and people who are temporarily in the country seeking asylum, visas, etc.

I do not understand why people find this confusing.

If you're here on a work visa, and the consequence for being fired is that you are immediately spirited off to a concrete cell which is lit 24/7 and you aren't allowed to contact anybody and eventually they ship you off to an arbitrary city without any of your possessions,

Then your employer has a ton of leverage to say, "Yes we are making you work unpaid overtime and ignoring our supposed obligations under the contract you signed, but if you complain we'll fire you and good luck contesting it from inside your cell or from another country while you look for housing and a job."

That is how "strong border enforcement" creates an underclass.

People seem to respond to this by pretending I'm talking purely about illegal border crossings by people without visas and then explaining that it's fine to go round those people up. Which is simply beside the point.

Honestly border policy appears to involve simply ignoring how immigration works and pretending the policy only applies to criminals crossing the border without a visa.