Clifton Dalgard

LAIC disqualification of an innocent young man Read: twitlonger.com/show/n_1ss6etq

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my experience as a young(ish) female professor at an R1 university is that grade complaints disproportionately impact those of us who are not old, white men. students unconsciously see us as unqualified to evaluate them & lash out accordingly. it is exhausting.

@rowan_stavenow You can be the hero Pokemon deserves, but not the one it needs right now

Recording a tournament ride along today. What should I play?

@travisakers Could never do ice hockey then.

Hot Take: Kids sports should never begin before 10am on a Saturday and never during church hours on a Sunday.

@shinyporygon2 I am pretty purist. Black milk tea. I think Tiger Sugar is way too sweet. I also like matcha so matcha latte boba is good. I don't like the fruit ones like passion or mango. Again too sweet.

@panomics Any specific flavor or tea blend you prefer?

What's everyone's favorite non-alcoholic fun drink? And don't say something you have every day but rather something you might want after a bad day or while running errands

@rossiadam Remember the Titans Braveheart Invincible Literally making brotherhoods with my college friends by watching these movies on repeat in the dorms.

The Odyssey turning into a woke pile of garbage is sad but predictable. We peaked culturally in 1999: • The Matrix • Fight Club • Eyes Wide Shut • The Sixth Sense • Gladiator Just save yourself the grief when The Odyssey comes out. Rewatch Gladiator.

@Reygo21 @ihtesham2005 @MaryKeithBare1 Not all qualified students are given offers to all universities they apply to. I am confident your son is at outstanding one. One of my interns was Intel Science Talent Fair Semifinalist, symphony chair, USTA ranked player, 21 APs. He did not get into Cal Tech but is at Yale.

@ihtesham2005 @MaryKeithBare1 I don't think people understand how hard it is to get into these universities. Last year my kid had a 4.7. He was a National Merit Scholar. Was 1 point from perfect on his ACT. 7 time state runner. President of 2 clubs. He didn't even waitlisted at U Chicago straight up denied.

A four-year degree at the University of Chicago costs $386,000. They just made it free for almost every family in America. Starting Fall 2027, any household earning under $250,000 a year pays zero tuition. Under $125,000, the school also covers the dorm, the meal plan, and every fee. The most expensive university in the Midwest just became one of the cheapest options in the country for almost anyone who can get in. To understand how absurd this is, look at what you used to have to pay. UChicago undergraduate tuition for 2025 to 2026 is $73,266. Full cost of attendance with room, board, fees, books, and living expenses is roughly $93,000 a year. Across four years, the full price tag runs close to $386,000. That is the cost of a house in most American states. For a single college degree. The school had a previous free tuition threshold sitting at $125,000 of household income. They just doubled it overnight. The first thing nobody is saying out loud is what the $250,000 number actually means. The median household income in the United States is roughly $80,000. Households earning $250,000 sit in the top 5% of the entire country. UChicago is now telling 95% of American families that the sticker price does not apply to them. The most selective private university in the Midwest, the school that produced more Nobel laureates per capita than almost any institution on Earth, just stopped charging tuition to almost everyone who could realistically get in. The second thing nobody is saying is what happens to the families just under $125,000. They are not getting a discount. They are getting a fully paid four-year residential education at one of the top ten universities in the world. Tuition, dorm, meal plan, fees, all of it. Zero. A family making $120,000 a year is sending their kid to a school whose advertised cost is $93,000 a year and writing checks for nothing. The third thing is the part that should be making every other elite university nervous. UChicago is not the first to do this. MIT moved to $200,000 last year. Harvard moved to $200,000. Stanford moved to $150,000 with free room and board under $100,000. Princeton has had a version of this for years. Penn just announced a similar policy. The number is climbing every cycle and the trigger for each new announcement is the previous announcement. Every school watching this is now under pressure to match or get embarrassed in the next admissions cycle. UChicago just set the new ceiling at $250,000. Somebody is going to push it to $300,000 within twelve months. The reason the ceiling keeps moving is not generosity. It is competition for the same 3,000 students. The top 20 universities in America are fighting for the same applicant pool every year. When MIT made tuition free under $200,000, every kid in that bracket who got into both MIT and a school still charging full price stopped weighing the decision. The free school wins. The sticker price has stopped being a price for the people the universities want most. It has become a posted number that only the rich actually pay, and the rich do not need a discount to attend. The endowments are what make this possible. UChicago is sitting on $10.4 billion. Harvard is at $53 billion. MIT is at $25 billion. Stanford is at $36 billion. These are not schools running on tuition revenue. They are hedge funds with classrooms attached, and the tuition line on their balance sheet is a rounding error compared to investment returns and donor giving. Free tuition under $250,000 costs them almost nothing relative to what they earn each year on the endowment alone. The cruel reality is that the schools that can afford to make this announcement are exactly the schools that did not need to. The state university charging $30,000 a year cannot copy this. The small private liberal arts college running on a $400 million endowment cannot copy this. The cost of college in America is not going down. It is bifurcating. The top of the pyramid is now functionally free for almost everyone who gets admitted. Everything below it is getting more expensive every year. The student loan debt in America just crossed $1.8 trillion. The average graduate owes around $37,000. Forty-three million Americans are carrying education debt right now. And the schools that produce the smallest percentage of that debt are the ones that just made themselves free. There is a generation of kids growing up right now whose parents earn $200,000 a year and quietly assumed UChicago, Harvard, MIT, and Stanford were out of reach. They were wrong. The schools they thought they could not afford are the only ones they actually can. The hardest part of attending the University of Chicago in 2027 is no longer paying for it. It is getting in.

@LyricOfWisdom We can tell you that the 10 has traded hands for $82,000 and $85,000

Lillie (Extra Battle Day) specifically in Japanese doesn't have any sales data from what I can tell in a while.........

@rossiadam Mine was a 30MB Mountain Computers in 1987. My first optical drive was a Sony 1X CDROM drive in 1991

My first hard drive: The Seagate ST506 5.25-inch 5MB. This was a BIG DEAL when I got one in the mid-80s. In inflation-adjusted terms this bad boy cost $6000 when it first came out in 1980. I obtained it for much less (dont ask). Storage today is 80 million times cheaper.

@KinoTheatre @PokeDuelsTikTok @LlcPickaxe

@panomics @PokeDuelsTikTok @LlcPickaxe Omg Clifton Dalgard in my mentions! Hi!!

i'll never understand why collectors don't just play the game just sold all the prize packs i've received from League the last 2 years and made bank play the game

@PokeDuelsTikTok @LlcPickaxe @KinoTheatre come on, you know with your intelligence you can make a much greater amount per hour than that.

@LlcPickaxe @KinoTheatre okay think of it like this. Locals is $5 entry and you get a pack per win... you leave with 3-4 prize packs. thats $21-30 for a couple hours of having fun with friends. why turn down free money ?

@realEstateTrent You could have offered him the basis so he wouldn't have to be concerned about the capital gains. 😂

This morning I asked someone if they'd be open to selling me their strip center. Here was their response:

They lying. That number is way higher than 30%.

@cordy_fox @Yonepatchi Automatic friend

Somebody at TPCi is too used to typing “Dalgard”.

@itzamander @laineydragonair I will send you her card

@panomics @laineydragonair Wait omg I would like to inquire

Girlies, I LOVE that we get our nails done according to our deck choices. So freaking cool and creative. I wanna see MORE nail art at these next Pokémon events :3

@CheesecakeCM_ Masterclass on Metafy next?

Time to show my prowess and reg for my friend again

@LocasaleLab Registered open science protocols. Data sharing upon generation no publish embargo. Decentralize data generation with immutable ledgers and analysis teams must credit generating labs/centers. And/or dockers and singularity tools come to data and perform outputs on data fabric.

This is true. But current AI technology can easily create databases from scratch by scraping and structuring published information. The issue is that scientists do not want to fully expose their work because they spent years generating the science and want credit for doing so. Not necessarily patents to sell, but some kind of attribution as we all do for anything we care deeply about. The challenge is finding ways to maximize data transparency while still affording scientists meaningful credit for the work they performed.

Hello hello, We're looking for 1 more person for our airbnb to split costs with for NAIC So if you are feel free to hit me up on discord :)) (shmon)

@BishopVGC @edalgard he is a Pokemon friend

Sooo I need a females help involving a mother's day/birthday gift combined it involves Pandora but I need some expertise with it