@stevemur @kotosan_dayo Same. I remember the proud day when we got the extended memory card, so we upgraded from 32k to 48k of RAM.
And the green screen.
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@Tenn_MAGA2 Idaho resents being grouped with Washington, Oregon and California.
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@RealMCRobles @Khritenzama Those guys demonstrated that they were quite literally willing to die for their country. That deserves some respect.
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@Khritenzama And sending hundreds of young pilots to their death in cheap planes on pointless suicide kamikaze attacks and still losing a war is quintessentially Japanese…
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No way.
The "leave no man behind" doctrine is not only morally correct, it provides legitimate tactical advantage.
Anyone whos served in a military knows that "morale" is not just a word for "the guys are in a good mood". It's a psychological force as important to combat effectiveness as training, equipment and command.
The loss of a few planes is nothing compared to the force multiplier that morale boost provides, fighting a war a half world away from home, knowing that if the worst happens, your brothers are going to move heaven and Earth to bring you back, even if its just your body.
Its also psychologically crucial for the men who wernt captured, knowing they will never have the feeling of leaving a brother behind.
I guarantee you, not one of the men and women involved in that rescue had any problem whatsoever doing that mission
Daniel Foubert 🇵🇱🇫🇷@Arrogance_0024
The "leave no man behind" doctrine is actually a strategic weakness disguised as a virtue. Name one other military on earth that destroys 6 aircraft and fights a ground battle inside a sovereign nation to recover one pilot. You can't. Because no other military confuses tactical sentimentality with strategic logic. Soldiers serve the mission. The mission doesn't serve the soldier. The US has now established that Iran can shoot down an F-15, then watch America spend $300M and expose Delta Force trying to prove it didn't happen. That's not military doctrine. That's politics with weapons. A military that cannot accept the risk of loss cannot win wars. The US hasn't won one since 1945.
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@HistoryBoomer If this violates the establishment clause, so does celebrating an Islamic holiday in a government office.
I would say that they both do. But let's not be hypocrites. Both or neither.
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This violates the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment.
"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof"
Homeland Security@DHSgov
May Christ’s light continue to shine over our great nation.
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@ChrisHeddles @RockChartrand Why not use a poll tax above a certain income?
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@SnakeRiverBASE @RockChartrand Sure. By ignoring capacity to pay, poll tax inherently creates a category of taxpayers who simply can't pay the tax. Enforcing the tax then becomes increasingly brutal, unpopular and difficult/expensive to collect. All for a total revenue that is far less than other options.
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Unpopular opinion: there shouldn’t be tax rates, there should be tax amounts.
If you split only federal spending evenly, it’s about $27,000 per adult per year, with roughly $3,700 of that just paying interest on past spending.
That’s the actual price tag.
The reason it’s hidden behind rates and brackets is simple: amounts create accountability. If every adult saw a bill for $27K, the question wouldn’t be “who should pay more,” it would be “why does this cost this much, and what am I actually getting for it?”
Right now the system blurs that. Costs are diffused, benefits are emphasized, and the bill is partially pushed into the future.
Amounts would force a different conversation.
Not about redistribution, but about value.
And that’s the part the current framing avoids.
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@BriannaWu > I have nothing but righteous anger towards Joe Biden’s massive ego for running.
I strongly suspect that decision wasn't made by Biden himself.
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Trump is in office because Democrats ran a corpse. I know a lot of Democrats don’t want to hear that, but it’s true.
Americans do not like Donald Trump, but they will choose someone alive over someone who is dead. I have nothing but righteous anger towards Joe Biden’s massive ego for running.
Jason Presti@presti71
@BriannaWu I agree, but Trump is in office, because the majority of reasonable, not living on social media people recognized the absolute Trainwreck Harris/Walz would have been. Everything that's come out since Election night has only reinforced this!
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@AdamRackis Best solution is to make the university co-sign the loan for its students. Then it has a vested interest in making their education worth the price.
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I've been saying this for years: let markets fix the absurd cost of college.
Another option: let student loans be discharged in bankruptcy. Someone loans you $60K for a master's degree in historical preservation and you wind up not being able to pay? You declare bankruptcy and the loan goes away, like normal.
Then those loans stop existing.
Then universities can't charge absurd rates anymore.
Daniel Friedman@DanFriedman81
A lot of people are dunking on this, and it’s true, she should have paid the $60 per month for 20 years and let the forgiveness kick in. But what they’re missing is that she was loaned $65k for a terminal master’s in historic preservation. That should never have happened. Tuition has skyrocketed because the ability of students to pay it has completely decoupled from how much money they or their families can afford. Colleges charge infinity dollars because students have access to infinity student loans. In many cases students hoping a credential will lead to a better life get duped into indenturing themselves permanently to get worthless terminal master’s degrees. If the loans didn’t exist, then the master’s programs wouldn’t exist, and if the master’s programs didn’t exist then employers wouldn’t be looking for job applicants with master’s degrees which don’t even connote any real skills. Burn this whole rotten system down.
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@Arrogance_0024 Valuing human life is a central western value, and one of the things that differentiates western liberal values from literally everything else in history.
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The "leave no man behind" doctrine is actually a strategic weakness disguised as a virtue.
Name one other military on earth that destroys 6 aircraft and fights a ground battle inside a sovereign nation to recover one pilot.
You can't. Because no other military confuses tactical sentimentality with strategic logic.
Soldiers serve the mission. The mission doesn't serve the soldier.
The US has now established that Iran can shoot down an F-15, then watch America spend $300M and expose Delta Force trying to prove it didn't happen.
That's not military doctrine. That's politics with weapons.
A military that cannot accept the risk of loss cannot win wars. The US hasn't won one since 1945.
Daniel Foubert 🇵🇱🇫🇷@Arrogance_0024
Lose all this to rescue 1 pilot and call it your greatest military success of all time.
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America, please don’t listen to the new narrative that we wasted so much equipment to save one life.
There’s a reason recruiting is through the roof.
And it’s because we don’t leave your sons and daughters behind enemy lines because it’s financially convenient.
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@DenialLaw I would be interested in seeing it if you want to DM me the link. Thanks!
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@SnakeRiverBASE I actually have been working on an admissions calculator that shows this. Can share link
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Let’s say this is true.
It’s not.
But let’s say it is. You are talking about 6 schools. What if you’re from Nevada, or Idaho, or Alabama
Tom Aiello@SnakeRiverBASE
@marcportermagee Most flagship public universities have top scholarship cohorts with achievement and IQ levels _above_ the Ivies. Morehead-Cain, Foundation Fellowship, Jefferson Scholars, Regents' Scholarship--all of these provide a better group of peers than attending an overpriced Ivy.
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@DenialLaw Fortunately, my daughter completed her A.A. in her junior year of high school, so she has 2+ years of all As from that on her college transcript.
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Let me give you advice I wish I had 3 years ago as someone with a 177.
NO A+. By the time your daughter graduates every t14 law school will be out of reach through no fault of her own. UVA's median is 3.99 right now.
Theres an easy way around this. She signs up for community college courses, as many as she can stomach and loads up on easy A+s.
That on its own will be the difference maker between an A from Yale or a waitlist at USC law.
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@DenialLaw The benefit to the student is that they get a large amount of focused resources, because the flagship can divert a relatively large amount of resources to them because of its size.
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@SnakeRiverBASE Schwarzmann/Knight hennesey.
Not bad. Youve convinced me. Up a tier! So the honors college at UGA is like going to nyu or BC or USC.
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@DenialLaw Basically, the honors college at most major flagship publics attempts to create a hometown version of a lower tier ivy+ cohort. The top scholarship cohorts exceeds the average student at the top Ivy League schools (but again, that's 20-25 students per year).
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@DenialLaw No. The Foundation Fellowship (20-25 students per year) is _better_ than going to Yale or Harvard.
I am not making any argument about the Honors college in general relative to other schools. Although the SAT numbers do favor the Honors College in that scenario.
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@DenialLaw The cohorts get extra support, but can take any course they want at the university. Which means they are graded against the average student at the university. So no, I would say that (aside from Ivy grade inflation) it's much easier to stand out if you are one of these kids.
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@SnakeRiverBASE I will read into this. Is it harder to do well in these cohorts? If it is that is bad! You want an A+ factory.
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@DenialLaw But if you'd like I can send you my address via PM for delivery of that tactical nuclear weapon. ; )
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@SnakeRiverBASE im a college counselor. if someone did this, I WOULD EXECUTE THEM VIA TACTICAL NUKE
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@DenialLaw You are better off to be a UVA Jefferson Scholar (one example) than to be an average student at Columbia (one example).
Better undergraduate experiences.
Measurably better outcomes in postgraduate scholarships and graduate school admissions.
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@SnakeRiverBASE i refuse to believe that columbia is worse than the honors college of Ualabama.
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