@jlippincott It's not like nothing is being done - unlimited Grad PLUS loans are gone, SAVE is gone, PSLF is being threatened for activist orgs, Title IX consent decrees are revoked
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DeLatonero
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The federal government gives out $120 billion in student aid every year to subsidize American universities.
$120 billion. Cash. That's more money than the entire GDP of Cuba every year flowing straight to the epicenter of left wing power.
That doesn't even count the additional $65 billion in research grants.
"Havana institutes" are nothing compared to the literal taxpayer-funded leftist educational institutions in America.
Our biggest problems are right here at home.
Dandalf@DanTalks1
Its not well known how big of a problem Cuba is. Communist training and infiltration for decades have come through the Havana institutes. Our ideological enemies use it as an ideological farming system for their soldiers. Removing them is going to be a massive blow to the left.
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@bumbadum14 An all-inclusive resort in Mexico costs the same per night as a Comfort Inn on the side of the freeway in the exurbs of Omaha, maybe less
And much of the country is closer via plane to Cancun than Omaha
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Boomer travel in the 80s was driving with your friends to Breckenridge Colorado and paying 4 bucks and a shoelace for a 4 day ski trip.
Now Breckenridge charges 300 dollars a day for a ski pass and the run down motel 6 is 250 a night.
Zoomers are "more traveled" because it's literally cheaper to go out of the country than it is to do what boomers did back then.
LBS@NY_LBSS
@MostlyMonkey The other big one is cars and travel. Zoomers all have 500-700 a month car payments because they won’t get crappy cars. And they’ve already all travelled more than their grandparents.
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There is only one city in the United States that doesn't grow north - Minneapolis-St. Paul, restricted by geography.
Every other city in the country grows north. That's the framework Rex Glendenning has been using for 40 years to position himself in front of growth. People in Celina laughed at him 30 years ago for buying dirt in the boondocks. He plowed every dollar after taxes and overhead back into 40 and 50-acre tracts anyway.
In this clip from this week's episode - the rule of thumb Rex says should be on the first page of every real estate book.
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Minstrel shows have been completely erased from the cultural memory, to the point where virtually nobody can recognize references to them. But we still have taboos around things related to minstrel shows. But most people can't discern why those things are taboo.
Sensurround@ShamashAran
@eigenrobot So, you know why you don't see it? Because the characters the crows are copying are culturally extinct. They are basically copying old minstrel show characters. Very few people alive today recognize the reference, so it doesn't seem racist anymore. This is a good thing.
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@eigenrobot It got to the point you couldn't even do an impression of a Southern *white* person without offending someone
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ok so i just watched the When I See an Elephant Fly scene for the first time in decades with my daughter today and i struggle to understand where the racism allegation is coming from
is it just racist to depict southern black people. bc that seems metaracist
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@0x49fa98 Mediating all your direct perception of the world with scientific facts and logic is reddit at any age
Trying to tell a kid about acoustics with a log rather than something like a guitar string isn't teaching scientific thinking, it's just teaching them to ignore their senses
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@AndyMasley Arizona has way more water stored than California, whether you look at it as months of total usage or per capita
Obviously the giant city in the desert looks pretty foolish from the air but do we really expect cities to be autarkic?
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Arizona is a special case. Like yes, the city we built in the middle of a desert and where we pump water from hundreds of miles away is experiencing water stress. Is it so bad to add one additional industry that uses 1/1000th of the state's water? Is that the tipping point?
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I think it totally makes sense to want to visualize where data centers are being built in water-stressed regions, but also maps like this hide the key scale of how much of the water stress data centers are actually contributing to. Like that cluster in Arizona is ~0.1% of the state's water, and half the state's water goes to irrigated alfalfa farms. I don't know a good visual solution to this.
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Trying to figure out what in the fuck is going on in the bookkeeping of this company that pays salaried workers as if they were hourly workers and does extremely gay daily fractional accrual of vacation time
GIF
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@samswoora @Jqianggu As far as I know if you want to be anything besides a cook in the Air Force you're going to have to get a security clearance
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@samswoora @Jqianggu There's always the Air Force. Just tell your cousins to stay away from drugs and doctors (especially psychiatrists) to keep the option open
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I worry about teenage boys. I have cousins and there’s not really jobs for them, technical schools didnt accept one of my cousins, he’s 17 and like mcdonalds won’t hire him. I don’t know what kind of positive future to guide him too. I also have my direct family to care about
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@IronWolve @MostlyMonkey The federal government can override this, a great cutoff would be to make up some metric that only overrides it for counties that voted 40% or more for Trump
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@MostlyMonkey California can just revoke their requirement for special snowflake carb gas, and start allowing gas from Texas and other states. Poof instant drop in gas prices by 2-3 dollars. Instant golden age for California. BTW, this is a republican agenda, so it wont happen.
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California is run by an unholy alliance of people who are either too rich or too poor to care what gas costs
Mike Solana@micsolana
controversial but california should consider pausing the policies that raise the price of gas, just see how that goes for the average person for a little while
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@micsolana Their air quality is perfectly fine now, it is basically no better or worse than states without CARB rules or special gas blends. You'd think they'd stop at some point, but then billions of corruption $ from cap-and-trade + other taxes and thousands of state jobs would also stop
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controversial but california should consider pausing the policies that raise the price of gas, just see how that goes for the average person for a little while
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@SCHIZO_FREQ When you see ads for quick ways to get into a job on billboards, it's going to be over within 3-5 years. Used to be coding bootcamps, now it's nursing
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When all the megacorps are like PLEEEEASE BECOME A SOFTWARE ENGINEER!! WE NEED MORE SOFTWARE ENGINEERS!!
They are 100% actively engaged in the process of trying to get a bunch of cheap foreign labor to do that too
In the specific case of software, they were also building supercomputers to replace everyone in the entire industry
So you can take their advice, and provide them the labor they need. But they’re trying to rugpull your entire career - so unless you’re pretty good you should be careful
cliff@cliffster
Lukas explains how you should never fall into the "meme profession" trap where you get enticed by 5 years of false security before the entire economy pivots towards performing technological miracles to replace you. "if all of society thinks that we need more of a certain type of job, all of society is trying to figure out how to rug pull that profession with cheap labor"
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I never liked databases as an idea.
You literally send a string query over TCP to postgres and it returns you data over tcp as strings.
There is so much potential to make this whole thing better …. but everyone seems to be just fine with it.
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@blightersort not to mention, paying her on the books through an agency risks reducing her eligibility for benefits
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@blightersort If you pay your housekeeper cash, she doesn't have to pay payroll taxes at all!
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we have a housekeeper here in NYC. she is an immigrant. (i expect. we haven't chatted about it.) but -- unlike all of my leftist friends in the area -- we hire through a service, not off the books, to make sure she's getting her payroll taxes, insurance, etc. paid. which costs more, which is why my leftist friends who are all Very Good People bc they Believe the Right Things don't do it.
Johannes M. Koenraadt@johannesmkx
Ooooh do I have a story. When I was working in Amsterdam a bit over a decade ago, we had an internal email chain going around. Colleagues (all white) were looking for a house cleaner. Everyone chimed in to brag about theirs. One had a Guatemalan, another a Peruvian, and another a Cuban. All working below the legal minimum wage. All my colleagues were liberals and I -- the so-called fascist -- was the only one cleaning the house myself because it felt wrong for me to even consider exploiting an immigrant...
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@xwanyex The biggest disconnect is that the majority of all property taxes everywhere go to schools, and somehow the poor quality of many schools never gets mentioned in property tax debates
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@samswoora There's multi-generational upper-class wealthy, and then there's the index-funds-and-real-estate gentry. Not the same. Latter much more vulnerable
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There’s like four scenarios:
1) capital lock in permanent underclass
2) rules are rewritten and all accumulated capital is worthless
3) human labor adapts to fill niches (think mothers paid for being moms) so mobility can still happen
4) UBI 4 everyone yipee, maybe mixed with #1
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@caballerobrah Also true. My thought was that AI is currently not capable of diplomatically requiring (often high-ranking) people to, for example, put a login on their sensitive dashboard, or upgrade some 10 year old dependency full of known vulnerabilities
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@DeLatonero Lol, my thought was along these lines:
“You’re right. You can make an AI do all these things, but I can do the ONE thing you can never, ever make an AI do: care. You can never make the AI actually care about your problems the way I do.”
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@MariaVerdeGA @InezFeltscher You and the lawyer promise to pay the doctors out of your settlement and you pay nothing up front - look up "letter of protection"
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@DeLatonero @InezFeltscher If everything is covered, you won't get the money for 2 or 3 years. How do you pay the bills? Creditors won't wait
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Catastrophic insurance is actually what “insurance” is supposed to mean. Routine costs (doc visits, occasional urgent care, prescriptions, the sort of stuff that people predictably use) were paid in cash - and were cheaper because of it. INSURANCE was supposed to be for unpredictable costs, like getting cancer or hit by a bus. And catastrophic insurance was fantastic for that purpose without breaking the bank. “Insurance” for predictable, routine costs that most people incur is just called “paying overhead on top of expenses,” which is why most people carry accident insurance but not maintenance insurance on their cars.
It wasn’t consumers who were stupid.
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