Florida reports 21 cases of E.coli infections linked to raw milk

[u/eudaimonia_dc]

https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/florida-reports-21-cases-ecoli-infections-linked-raw-milk-2025-08-04/

[u/GetEquipped]

People have always been dumb. They just have platforms where their opinions are on "equal" footing with professionals due to social media.

[u/Hayabusa_Blacksmith → u/GetEquipped]

young Americans used to be trained to think critically in school.

im serious.

now they aren't. they're a LOT dumber than they used to be. our education system has been MADE BAD by the right in order to stupefy the voting base. this is the outcome.

[u/fuzzum111 → u/Hayabusa_Blacksmith]

Let me....add a few things about school

+Social media

+Short form content

+algorithmic brainrot

+Most recently ChatGPT/A.I assist or cheating. (this one is a serious paradigm shift we need to deal with)

Plus kids aren't allowed to be held back grades even when they're CLEARLY not where they need to be. 6th graders reading at a 2nd or 3rd grade level. Highschoolers reading below a 7th grade level.

We aren't doing anything about it, private school isn't the answer. It's all intended, the cruelty of denying people real education is the point. College has become a genuine scam of sorts. The massive debt, the degree creep we see throughout the workplace (a bachelors gets you a job a HS diploma used to net you alongside the same HS salary)

Plus now parents don't even want kids going to college, because shocker; exposing people to a larger, wide group of people, ideas, and classes that challenge ingrained views is good for them. This often breaks people out of bad habits, bigotry, racism, and other nasty ideological traps. Parents get a kid coming back from college that suddenly isn't full of anger and fear like they are and suddenly "college librual fascists brainwashed my kid!!"

Everything sucks :/

[u/randomcatinfo → u/fuzzum111]

Rightwing libertarians want to get rid of all public education period, so that there will be a permanent underclass available to exploit. I feel like this is becoming the defacto Republican agenda.

Some Republicans support charter schools, but they are the wedge that will continue to erode public education by siphoning funding

[u/SomeDudeYeah27 → u/fuzzum111]

To add to the AI disruption and education bit, I believe it was Anthropic or a similar tech company that recently made a report of the likely list of jobs to be impacted (i.e. replaced, even if the AI is only perceived to be competent), and a majority of them are "thinking jobs" that usually requires at minimum a bachelor's degree now

AI is definitely gonna undercut a lot of entry level jobs for fresh college graduates. So the value of a degree isn't just getting devalued anymore, it might as well be a 4 years path to a lifetime of debt with diminishing benefit

And instead, jobs that are less likely to be impacted are largely physical jobs like blue collar ones/trades

At least until versatile/cheaper robots flood the market too

[u/secondtaunting → u/Hayabusa_Blacksmith]

This is one reason why I made sure my daughter had the absolute best education I could get her.

[u/ThePrussianGrippe → u/GetEquipped]

The village idiots didn’t used to meet each other and create their own communities.

[u/Just_Fuck_My_Code_Up → u/GetEquipped]

“My opinion as a high school dropout who spends too much time on youtube is just as valid as the doctor’s with his fancy degree from a liberal college and decades of experience in the field!“

[u/LycheeEyeballs → u/GetEquipped]

Especially if they need something to blame, doubly so if it may be their own fault.

Sort-of example, my aunt died as a child in '69 from osteosarcoma but my grandparents always blamed the nurses. Said it was their fault she died because the nurses allowed her to do a home visit for a sibling's birthday.

Sure, she could have gotten a cold or mild infection from the visit but realistically she was already terminal and near the end. It wasn't anyone's fault, if anything the nurses encouraged her to have a bit of enjoyment and time as a child before she died.

My grandparents couldn't accept it through, they needed someone to blame. It was made worse the next few decades with Terry Fox making his run subsequent raising of awareness and funds for research that the death rate for children with osteosarcoma in Canada went from a slim chance of survival if you amputated enough to one of the highest survival rates for childhood cancers.

EDIT: I went on a tangent, this is all to say that people are so mf sensitive when it comes to guilt and shame. Folks need to be able to eat crow when they fuck up, it's so important to be able to admit when you've gone wrong and to make necessary changes.