Month: April 2024

Higher Education Lower Expectation

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Vain Jangling
Those who attend higher education are believed to be mature, intelligent, future leaders for a productive society.

What is the purpose of attending higher education? To pursue further learning? To develop skillsets for a specific job market? To achieve a degree or degrees toward opportunities in leadership positions? Students attend for various reasons—But one would think it would include to better themselves and those around them.

However, what we are seeing today is anything but higher education, mature, intelligent, future leaders, with a (honest) desire to better themselves, others, and the institutions. What is being exposed is the depravity of mankind, by way of misinformation, rejection of truth, with a desire for destruction of property, persons, and the very rights that give them free speech and peaceful (peaceful) protests.

It is vain jangling to believe one is achieving moral high ground and are worthy of respect when their chants and actions point toward anarchy, extremists, terrorists, and the like. We should not expect or accept lower expectations by higher education. If one believes change is needed—Go about it the right, moral, legal, intelligent way. It is mere vain jangling for one to believe these actions are anything other than hatred, riotous, intolerance.

“We do not negotiate with terrorists.”
One who favors or uses terrorizing methods for the accomplishment of some object, as for coercing a government or a community into the adoption of or submission to a certain course; one who practises terrorism.
—American Heritage® Dictionary

Political Capital Debt Cancellation

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Vain Jangling
We are helping people by canceling their student debt.

What is honestly happening with the promises of “canceling student debt”?

First, it must be admitted that a person chooses to take out a loan. Whether for school, vehicle, home, or for any personal reason, it is a choice an individual makes based on their assessment of wanting or needing something (now) that they cannot afford (now).

Second, the commonsense agreement (commitment) between the borrower and lender is that the borrower will repay the loan according to the agreed upon terms. It is at this point that the borrower can choose to accept the terms of the lender or seek out another lender. —We understand, many factors can go into the terms and how they may vary from person to person, loan type to loan type, but that is a different discussion.

Third, the cancellation (or proposed cancellation) of debt should be between the lender and borrower. If the lender chooses to cancel the debt of the borrower (for any reason they deem acceptable) it is their choice. The borrower is then free of their debt because the lender accepts the loss of the debt (and any possible interest, etc.).

What we find in “canceling student debt” by a president or administration is their insertion of themselves as a third party, outside the scope of the original agreement (commitment) between the borrower and lender. Then their insertion of a fourth party (also not found in the initial contract) to which to make responsible for the loan of which they “cancel” for the original borrower. Whereas the borrower who made the choice (whether a good or bad decision) is set free, the lender or fourth party (we the people, etc.) are forced into bondage to the loan —by the third party. (Proverbs 22:7)

It is mere vain jangling to try to twist the misuse of power and negligent shift of debt into anything but inappropriate and misappropriation toward those who did not choose school debt, have paid their school debt, and those who will pay their school debt (or any other debt). What we should be discussing is ways to lower school tuition costs and ways to help students realize there are good, alternative job training opportunities that do not require expensive student loans. Not to mention, the borrower should not expect the government (i.e. taxpayers) or other persons to take on their responsibilities. Nor should persons be forced to pay for something they never agreed to; especially, while the original borrower benefits from it.

AI Grazing

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AI won’t enable persons or companies to use my words against me.

With companies integrating AI into their code, applications, features, and selling points, what does that mean for privacy? Sure, each company has a Privacy Notice and wants end-users to trust them and their platform, but we already know many sell what data they do have of persons to other companies, etc. This is often why we receive random ads, texts, emails, and phone calls we never subscribed to. And who really reads those long notices?

Consider that AI grazes the internet for its knowledge base (based on its development, programming, design, and access). Are we to believe its integration into email and applications that read, create, reply, and otherwise access PII, PHI, confidential, and other sensitive information will not feel free to graze in those pastures as well? That seems just a bit naive vain jangling.

It is less about fearing AI and more about trusting those in control of it. Knowledge is power, and the more knowledge, experience, creativity someone can learn from, borrow, steal, or repurpose from someone else is concerning. Especially, if it can be used against you or without your permission to benefit others. So, maybe let’s keep the grazing to a minimal area of our choosing and not our whole farm.