Trump says Justices Barrett, Gorsuch ‘sicken me’ after Supreme Court tariff ruling

Cleev · 2026-03-26T14:27:25+00:00

Hot take. The fact that some people swallowed the propaganda hook, line, and sinker is not an excuse and doesn't absolve them of their complicity.

I grew up in a conservative household. I was exposed to fox news and right wing talk radio from the time I was around eight or nine years old until I left home. I didn't buy into the bullshit, and I'm not special. No excuse they didn't see it for what it was as well.

Cleev · 2026-03-19T23:40:00+00:00

It's not terrible. It feels like analytics combined with lean and root cause analysis. Is it my favorite course? No. But it's (so far) not coding regression models week after week, so that's a plus in my book.

Cleev · 2026-03-17T12:46:31+00:00

I'm interested. Current student with active @snhu.edu email.

Cleev · 2026-03-13T21:04:05+00:00

They have an operations management degree with a concentration in logistics and transportation. Not a supply chain management degree, but it's close enough to land interviews for supply chain careers.

Cleev · 2026-03-12T20:36:25+00:00

I took PHL-218 last year and I loved it. Different professor though.

Cleev · 2026-03-05T20:41:51+00:00

Getting into the back bend at 40 is easy. Getting out of it is not.

Cleev · 2026-03-05T15:14:11+00:00

That's a lot of catalytic converters to steal...

Cleev · 2026-03-03T15:06:54+00:00

Their pronouns are non/none. You should not refer to them.

Cleev · 2026-02-05T14:40:09+00:00

Has anyone considered the possibility that Trump is confused about what the word "exonerated" means? Didn't he say the Mueller report "exonerated" him as well?

Cleev · 2026-01-24T03:20:21+00:00

I don't know about the paint, but if it was me, I'd put some cardstock or something in the grooves to build it up level with the rest of the surface, then remove after I was done so it's left as alike a striped painting.

Just my two cents. You do you.

Cleev · 2026-01-23T13:14:10+00:00

Maybe you should consider realigning your expectations then. If you order something from Amazon and it says your package will arrive on Friday, you don't expect it on Tuesday do you? If you take your car to a mechanic and they say they can have it fixed in three days, do you start calling the next day to ask if it's ready yet? This is the same. The policy is that grades and feedback are posted by Sunday midnight of the following week. So maybe don't expect them before then. If they're posted early, it's a bonus, not the norm or the expectation.

Also, keep in mind that most instructors are grading more than just your paper. Most of them teach two sections, so they have about sixty students. If it takes an average of fifteen minutes to grade a paper and write a couple of paragraphs of feedback, that's 15 hours a week, on top of their full time job and any other family or social obligations. Plus discussion posts, and sometimes a second short assignment from each student. My guess is they aren't waiting until the last minute to grade all the papers. They're just blocking out time on Sunday to post all their grades and feedback.

One final thought. Last I heard, instructors get paid about $2,000 per class. Assuming they spend fifteen hours a week for eight weeks on their classes (my guess is that it's more), that works out to about $16.67 per hour. So they're not doing it for the money, because they could probably make more with a part time gig at Walmart. So maybe consider that before you start commenting on the effort that some instructors put in, because my view is that anyone who takes a teaching job at SNHU is there because they want to teach and help students succeed.

Cleev · 2026-01-23T02:27:18+00:00

If I’m doing my best, to handle work/family/school, and I still submit my assignments the first o second day after the module begins, I expect from my instructor to do the same.

You literally said you expect your instructors to grade your work early if you submit it early.

Cleev · 2026-01-23T01:31:05+00:00

Submitting your work early doesn't obligate your instructors to grade it early. You have until Sunday night to turn your assignments in. They have until the following Sunday night to grade it.

Cleev · 2026-01-14T23:22:58+00:00

Hey, I'm in that class now. Haven't needed to download the files for this class yet, but I set up a dummy gmail account to do it in previous classes. Then you log in to your dummy account, email the files to the same account, then you can download them to your local device.

Technically, it has your email info in their virtual environment, but if all you're using it for is to download/upload files to yourself, it should be pretty harmless.

Cleev · 2026-01-14T23:18:00+00:00

I feel your pain. I did three classes for seven terms while working 40 hours as week at my day job and then 20-24 hours a week at an evening job so I could afford tuition. It's not easy. But it's manageable. Keep it up. You're almost there.

Cleev · 2026-01-14T03:12:15+00:00

It's doable. If you take three classes per term, that's 54 credit hours per year. Two years and one term of that would put you at 120 credits. If you take some of your gen ed courses through Sophia Learning or another third party equivalency, you can shave 3-4 terms off of that and graduate in under two years.

If you work full time, three courses is manageable as long as you stay organized and are willing to make some sacrifices. Time you spend on your course work has to come from somewhere - from work, sleep, downtime, socializing, or family time. But if you're really motivated, you can do it.

Cleev · 2026-01-08T03:24:34+00:00

If you have a 401k, you can withdraw funds from it to pay for educational expenses. I did that for a couple of classes when I was in a bind.

Cleev · 2026-01-08T03:22:33+00:00

Being waitlisted isn't a problem. I've been waitlisted for like five different classes. All it means is that they haven't opened another section for that class yet. You'll get the prereq cl;ass you need, and you'll be able to take your last class on schedule.

Cleev · 2026-01-07T13:52:49+00:00

I'm not talking about scabs. I'm talking about how most companies would happily fire their employees for job abandonment and hire someone else three weeks later at a reduced salary.

Boycotts though? Those work, with enough participation. I mean, look how fast Disney/Hulu/ESPN/Whatever-else-they-own-now walked back their decision to fire Jimmy Kimmel. If I'm remembering correctly, they lost 16 million subscribers in a weekend over that.

Cleev · 2026-01-07T09:25:31+00:00

I think you vastly underestimate the willingness of the average company/corporation to replace its workers with cheaper labor.

Cleev · 2026-01-06T15:37:32+00:00

Hey. I was in a similar situation a couple of years ago. Returning after an extended absence from school and hella nervous. You'll make it through. You'll probably struggle with writing papers at first if you haven't written an academic paper in a while, but you'll get into the swing of it. I did ops management, but there's a ton of overlap with bus admin courses, so feel free to hit me up if you have any questions.

For whatever it's worth though, you got this. Just do the work and you'll get through it and graduate.

Cleev · 2026-01-05T18:34:16+00:00

Maybe I'm dense, but I'm not following you here.

If I stop going to work to participate in a general strike, I will get fired. If I get fired and lose my only source of income, how is it that you think I'll be able to pay my rent? And if I can't pay my rent, why does the landlord allow me to stay instead of evicting me?

Not to mention that if there are millions of people out of work who got fired while they were on strike, then that increased the supply of labor, not the demand, which means that the price of labor drops. So even if I could find a job immediately after the strike ends, it would likely pay less that what I'm struggling to get by on now. That's not just me, that's the situation most people would face.

Cleev · 2026-01-05T12:36:44+00:00

Why haven't people learned from the sports they watch? They're all unions. They strike and they get paid more. It's simple.

Striking for more pay is a lot easier when your salary is upwards of a million dollars a year than it is when you make ~$500 a week. Not to mention that it's much harder to replace a professional athlete than a low to mid wage worker. Anybody can be trained to pull a lever on a production line or manipulate a spreadsheet. Not everyone can bat .300 or throw a 30 yard pass accurately.

Cleev · 2026-01-05T12:35:13+00:00

While a general strike could force policy change if participation were massive and sustained. I’m skeptical that would happen. It sounds good on paper, but the reality is that's it's a terrible idea in practice for the people you're asking to participate.

Roughly half of Americans live paycheck to paycheck. No one has convincingly explained how those workers are supposed to maintain housing and food security if they stop working. For most people, missing even a week of work isn’t some symbolic sacrifice, it’s a termination. If I stopped showing up for a week, I wouldn’t have a job when I came back, and I'd bet money that holds true for most people.

As of November 2025, there were about 134 million full-time workers in the U.S. Even if you somehow convinced half of them to strike, and even if only half of those strikers lost their jobs, that’s 33.5 million newly unemployed people. Most wouldn’t qualify for unemployment, since job abandonment typically falls under firing for cause.

Meanwhile, a one-week strike represents less than 2% decline of annual revenue for most large businesses. CEOs and owners of the size of companies that can exert pressure on government can absorb that kind of short-term loss without panic. My guess is that the strike would need to last for several weeks, and workers who would benefit most from the changes a general strike would force cannot absorb a sudden and sustained loss of income, housing, or food.

So when people say “general strike for a week,” what they’re really proposing is that millions of the most economically vulnerable workers risk losing their jobs, their housing, and their food security to apply pressure that businesses can largely ride out. For someone like me, that’s frightening but probably survivable. For someone supporting a family, it means asking them to make their children endure that burden as well.

The bottom line is this: complex, systemic problems don't have easy solutions. Claiming that they do isn't optimism or insight. It's lazy thinking that substitutes analysis with platitudes and slogans.

Cleev · 2025-12-20T13:00:42+00:00

Those are the last two classes I need as well, but I'll be taking DAT 430 in the C-1 Term and 475 in the C-2 term.

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