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   Donald Ball (donaldball@triangletoot.party)'s status on Tuesday, 08-Oct-2024 23:58:23 JST Donald Ball

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   @inthehands @j_bertolotti @ColinTheMathmo @mothninja I agree, but am curious about your perspective – it seems to me that the path of the… curious bohemian through the academy is less accessible than it once was, as students have shouldered more and more of the financial burden of education. Students have more at risk, so they’re responding rationally to the perverse mismeasures of the academic system.

   Is this a thing or am I projecting?

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   Space Catitude 🚀 (terryhancock@realsocial.life)'s status on Wednesday, 25-Sep-2024 07:18:49 JST Space Catitude 🚀

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   @atomicpoet

   Huh. I had an Amstrad in the 80s. It was basically an IBM-PC clone. Had a choice of DR-DOS or MS-DOS, and this weird "Gem" window system.

   Is that the same system? I believe we got it from a local store in Fort Worth, Texas.

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   clacke (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Thursday, 15-Feb-2024 16:16:09 JST clacke

   In Sweden, higher education is split into "school of higher education" ("högskola") and "university" ("universitet").

   To become a university, a school of higher education must perform a certain amount of research rather than just teaching, and depending on the subject, a school of higher education might only be allowed to award bachelor's degrees, whereas a university can award master's degrees and doctorates.

   In English communications, most of these institutions call themselves a "university", regardless of whether they are an "universitet" in the Swedish system.

   Is there any distinction like this in the UK or US systems? Is there a shorthand for expressing something similar to this distinction in English?

   I know the US has some community colleges that don't call themselves universities, but I don't know if that's anything more than an informal prestige thing or if there is an actual difference in services? And then there are a bunch of places that call themselves "university" but don't seem very serious at all, so I guess it's not a protected title?

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   Louis Ingenthron (louisingenthron@qoto.org)'s status on Thursday, 14-Dec-2023 01:24:14 JST Louis Ingenthron

   Given how most Americans can't afford a lawyer and how those Americans who can afford a lawyer use said lawyer to abuse the legal system to their gain...

   Let's just stop and take a moment and realize how amazing it is that this country has a longstanding public defender system.

   Is it perfect? No, of course not. But imagine how fucked we'd be without it.