What are you getting for your new student loan debt?

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What happened to all the academic talk about "equity"?

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This looks like a perfect issue for Kamala Harris to tackle.

Or maybe not.

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The student loans you will be paying off financed "education" like this:

One of the challenges of critical dogmas and pedagogies is that the reality of what they believe is so insane that accurately describing it can make the person describing it sound insane
Wesley Yang
Selected Responses from the thread:

I tried describing spirit murder to a normie Dem friend once and they looked at me like I was Alex Jones.

Prager on Maher being laughed down after mentioning menstruating men is an example of this.

There's a bit of genius in this, credit where credit is due.

The effect is even worse when arguing against it.

And regular interfacing with the belief system puts you in danger of going from merely sounding insane to actually becoming slightly insane yourself

The Nazis actually relied on this. Do something so unreasonably awful that no one will believe it when told. And, interestingly, Stalin alluded to this same phenomenon in his quote "Ten deaths is a tragedy, ten million deaths are a statistic."

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From WSJ, a piece (behind a paywall, but you can listen to an annoying version of it) entitled Education Schools Have Long Been Mediocre. Now They're Woke Too. Plus a Wonderland video on how liberal elites folded when confronted with leftist radicals, "Smiley Face Liberalism".

From the article:

I studied for a master's degree in education at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2015. My program was batty. We made Black Lives Matter friendship bracelets. We passed around a popsicle stick to designate whose turn it was to talk while professors compelled us to discuss our life's traumas. We read poems through the "lenses" of Marxism and critical race theory in preparation for our students doing the same. Our final projects were acrostic poems or ironic rap videos.
At the time, I figured my experience was unique . . .

The "Wonderland" video at the WSJ link is not behind the paywall. I didn't know that Seattle had a "Summer of Love" way back in 1967. I thought 1969 was the big year. The disorder of those early years led to disaster in our schools and other institutions today. Brings some perspective to the current trashing Seattle during its more recent "Summer of Love".

You are paying for these programs with your new student loan debt.

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The experience of the author in the WSJ article above is not unique. Larry Correia describes son's honors English class in small town Morgan, Utah, complete with a "Critical Approaches to Note Taking" handout, by which they were forced to analyze "The Great Gatsby" for a full trimester. Instead of, you know, learning English literature or writing. How many of those kids do you think would ever want to read a novel after that experience? In one nearby school district, the word "critical" is now forbidden to teachers, and they don't understand why. Seems arbitrary, but there may be a reason . . .

This is what you are paying for with your new student loan debt.

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Just in case you wanted to see what a full-on, lower-level academic paper in "Whiteness Studies" looks like, here's 'White Innocence and Mexican Americans as Perpetrators in the School-to-Prison Pipeline'.

There is some helpful background on how "whiteness studies" evolved from other grievance studies. The thesis of the paper seems to be that there has not been enough research into the efforts of teachers to protect "white innocence" in the disproportionate disciple of Mexican-American students. I hope I am getting this right: The goal of "Whiteness studies" is to get white people and others who "enact whiteness" to become "race traitors" and "eliminate the concept of race". Maybe that's not exactly it. But I am trying to understand. Maybe I am not trying hard enough. I have not "done the work".

We certainly cannot discuss things like this in "Whiteness Studies":

Whenever you see the work "equity" just think of this graph and then realize what a junk word it is. pic.twitter.com/qnDm7fDlLJ
— Brent A. Williams, MD (@BrentAWilliams2) August 24, 2022

Do Asians need to stop "enacting whiteness" to lower their incomes to match those of other minority groups? I am waiting for Whiteness Studies scholars to do a study of how the CCP is "enacting whiteness" in their schools.

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NEWS

Gender dysphoria is covered by disability law, federal court rules

RICHMOND, Va. -- A federal ruling that gender dysphoria is covered by the Americans with Disabilities Act could help block conservative political efforts to restrict access to gender-affirming care, advocates and experts say.
A panel of the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals last week became the first federal appellate court in the country to find that the 1990 landmark federal law protects transgender people who experience anguish and other symptoms as a result of the disparity between their assigned sex and their gender identity.

Great.

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UK: The police removing lesbians from a pride parade.

The pride movement no longer supports gay people.

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This may be my most important information I've ever shared.

[Redacted]

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Memes

California High School Ethnic Studies Lesson

General Critical Pedagogy

Is this where all this is leading?

Music and Dance

Random Dance Partners

Don't try this at home.

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Hope you have something nice planned for this weekend.

This is the Thread before the Gardening Thread.

Serving your mid-day open thread needs

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Last week's Thread, August 20, Politics channels dopes

Comments are closed so you won't ban yourself by trying to comment on a week-old thread. But don't try it anyway.

Posted by: K.T. at 11:19 AM

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1 I'll fetch em

Posted by: Skip's phone at August 27, 2022 11:21 AM (k8B25)

2 Sadly Uncle Sam grabbed me first, then after that it was too late.

Posted by: Skip's phone at August 27, 2022 11:23 AM (k8B25)

3 Hey

Posted by: blaster at August 27, 2022 11:24 AM (X85k5)

4 How appropriate... grey.

Posted by: olddog in mo, No Cheetos allowed on the 'toon at August 27, 2022 11:24 AM (koOAT)

5 I've been for a walk ...

Posted by: REDACTED at August 27, 2022 11:28 AM (us2H3)

6 I just can't get worked up over this. There's plenty of other shit the junta's doing that will screw with me.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 27, 2022 11:29 AM (BFigT)

7 Controversial NYC principal Namita Dwarka, who is accused of grade-fraud, gets promoted

More left wing failing up!

And many of the people going to college should not even be there in the first place

Posted by: Nevergiveup at August 27, 2022 11:29 AM (Irn0L)

8

Fixed. Be back later.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 27, 2022 11:30 AM (x0n13)

9 Whoa

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at August 27, 2022 11:30 AM (Do5/p)

10 I am really struggling with this. My student loan is just under $5K, and I have the money sitting in the bank to pay it. I was waiting for the moratorium on payments to end before I paid it off.

Posted by: Jordan61 at August 27, 2022 11:33 AM (DgWEj)

11 hiya

Posted by: JT at August 27, 2022 11:33 AM (T4tVD)

12 Hi, J.J.!

Posted by: KT at August 27, 2022 11:34 AM (rrtZS)

13 Hiya K.T. !

Posted by: JT at August 27, 2022 11:34 AM (T4tVD)

14 Is Congress going to allow Biden go through with the unconstitutional loan forgiveness? Has anyone filed a brief with the court to stop it?

Posted by: polynikes at August 27, 2022 11:35 AM (WSCzi)

15 Controversial NYC principal Namita Dwarka, who is accused of grade-fraud, gets promoted

What a great name for a villain !

Posted by: JT at August 27, 2022 11:36 AM (T4tVD)

16 Hiya, JT! Hi, everybody!

Posted by: KT at August 27, 2022 11:36 AM (rrtZS)

17 Where is the obscure federal judge to slap an injunction on the trillion dollar theft that Joey the Pedo just dictated?

Are there any lawsuits to this theft?

No imagine Trump had done something for the blue collar workers and responsible people like this. Both of those would have happened within the hour.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at August 27, 2022 11:36 AM (u4CEu)

18 Namita Dwarka.. Amish I'm guessing.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at August 27, 2022 11:37 AM (u4CEu)

19 I am really struggling with this. My student loan is just under $5K, and I have the money sitting in the bank to pay it. I was waiting for the moratorium on payments to end before I paid it off.
Posted by: Jordan61
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I was that way re: PPP loans. But then I figured when in Rome. Or something like that. Why let all those rich demoncrats make bank?

Posted by: olddog in mo, No Cheetos allowed on the 'toon at August 27, 2022 11:37 AM (koOAT)

20 Seattle 1967 -Summer of Love
Seattle 2022 -Fall of civilization

Posted by: 29Victor at August 27, 2022 11:37 AM (BJKQV)

21 Nevergiveup at August 27, 2022 11:29 AM

They want everybody to go to college so they can learn not to think.

Posted by: KT at August 27, 2022 11:38 AM (rrtZS)

22 I am really struggling with this. My student loan is just under $5K, and I have the money sitting in the bank to pay it. I was waiting for the moratorium on payments to end before I paid it off.
Posted by: Jordan61 at August 27, 2022 11:33 AM (DgWEj)
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split the difference. Figuring you're on the hook, as a taxpayer, for somewhere around $2,500 worth of student debt, pay off that much of what's left, and let Uncle Sugar cover the rest.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing(5pTK/) at August 27, 2022 11:38 AM (5pTK/)

23 They want everybody to go to college so they can learn not to think.
Posted by: KT at August 27, 2022 11:38 AM (rrtZS)

That is one of the worst things the fascist communist left is doing to the younger generation and America

Posted by: Nevergiveup at August 27, 2022 11:39 AM (Irn0L)

24 Until now student borrowers have enjoyed a moratorium on principal payments and accruing interest has been getting permanently forgiven. Worth $5000 to the average borrower so far (many have large balances).

So the new Biden deal will require them to start paying in 2023, and $10K/$20K in forgiveness will leave many with still large balances. And they should pay taxes on the forgiveness.

When do they wake up and see that their alma maters fucked them big time.

Posted by: Ignoramus at August 27, 2022 11:39 AM (i0slg)

25 I am really struggling with this. My student loan is just under $5K, and I have the money sitting in the bank to pay it. I was waiting for the moratorium on payments to end before I paid it off.
Posted by: Jordan61 at August 27, 2022 11:33 AM (DgWEj)

No struggle, if the gov is gonna pay it off let them.

Posted by: Nevergiveup at August 27, 2022 11:40 AM (Irn0L)

26 Equity? Imma sit on my ass and enjoy the fruits of your labor? That equity?

Posted by: BignJames at August 27, 2022 11:40 AM (AwYPR)

27 So the new Biden deal will require them to start paying in 2023, and $10K/$20K in forgiveness will leave many with still large balances. And they should pay taxes on the forgiveness.

When do they wake up and see that their alma maters fucked them big time.
Posted by: Ignoramus at August 27, 2022 11:39 AM (i0slg)

No tax on the forgiveness. That is already cooked into it

Posted by: Nevergiveup at August 27, 2022 11:40 AM (Irn0L)

28 Jack Handy > Kamala Blowie

Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at August 27, 2022 11:41 AM (eqIhv)

29 "recognize that everyone has the same capacity"

WTF. Then why wasn't I in the NBA?

Posted by: Ignoramus at August 27, 2022 11:41 AM (i0slg)

30 Then why wasn't I in the NBA?
Posted by: Ignoramus at August 27, 2022 11:41 AM (i0slg)

And why was I not the Center Fielder for the Yankees?

Posted by: Nevergiveup at August 27, 2022 11:42 AM (Irn0L)

31 Radio announcer voice:

"Return with us now to those thrilling days of yesteryear. The Loan Arranger rides again!"

Posted by: Muldoon at August 27, 2022 11:43 AM (kXYt5)

32 We're not gonna woodchip our way out of this mess

Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at August 27, 2022 11:43 AM (eqIhv)

33 whenever I read the "Wisdom of Kamala" it still shocks me that woman was the AG of CA.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing(5pTK/) at August 27, 2022 11:43 AM (5pTK/)

34
Voltaire - "Those Who Can Make You Believe Absurdities, Can Make You Commit Atrocities"

I don't believe any of the current bumper crop of absurdities, but I think enough do that we're mere moments away from the atrocities.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at August 27, 2022 11:44 AM (jE276)

35 And why was I not the Center Fielder for the Yankees?

Posted by: Nevergiveup at August 27, 2022 11:42 AM (Irn0L)

Who's gonna cover third base?

Posted by: grammie winger at August 27, 2022 11:44 AM (45fpk)

36 Re: Kumala's vapid rambling

You know, I think she's right. There is amazing capacity in me and the only reason I don't play professional men's basketball is because the cis-hetero-patriarchy is holding me back. And all these years I thought I was just a short, non-athletic woman. The Lakers better make space for this hobbit!

Posted by: She Hobbit at August 27, 2022 11:45 AM (ftFVW)

37 "With the passage of the American Recovery Act in March 2021, President Biden made all student loan forgiveness and discharge tax-free on the Federal level, regardless of loan type or program."

I'm learning.

Posted by: Ignoramus at August 27, 2022 11:45 AM (i0slg)

38 6 I just can't get worked up over this. There's plenty of other shit the junta's doing that will screw with me.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 27, 2022 11:29 AM (BFigT

It's all connected. ALL of it.

Posted by: Pork Chops & Bacons at August 27, 2022 11:45 AM (BdMk6)

39 Muldoon is a gem around here

Posted by: Skip's phone at August 27, 2022 11:46 AM (k8B25)

40 Who's gonna cover third base?
Posted by: grammie winger at August 27, 2022 11:44 AM (45fpk)

Who's on first

Posted by: Nevergiveup at August 27, 2022 11:46 AM (Irn0L)

41 I just can't get worked up over this. There's plenty of other shit the junta's doing that will screw with me.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 27, 2022 11:29 AM (BFigT)

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Well, the difference is, it's no longer on the "down low." The Junta is rubbing their malfeasance in our faces on a daily basis.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing(5pTK/) at August 27, 2022 11:47 AM (5pTK/)

42 "With the passage of the American Recovery Act in March 2021, President Biden made all student loan forgiveness and discharge tax-free on the Federal level, regardless of loan type or program."

I'm learning.
Posted by: Ignoramus at August 27, 2022 11:45 AM (i0slg)

Just like the PPP grants, no tax

Posted by: Nevergiveup at August 27, 2022 11:47 AM (Irn0L)

43 Why is one guy pulling a big, red, Delicious apple out of another person's chest in that drawing above?

Posted by: N.L. Urker, my trench is full of chickens at August 27, 2022 11:47 AM (eGTCV)

44 No. No. No. everyone does NOT have the same capacity.

There is a reason that I do not play in the NBA and it isn't because I lacked the opportunity to have a high quality basketball coach and trainers.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at August 27, 2022 11:47 AM (Xmgzr)

45 Kim Khardashian is laying the groundwork to get into politics.

Kim >> Kamala

And there's video to prove it

Posted by: Ignoramus at August 27, 2022 11:47 AM (i0slg)

46 When the irresponsible are able to get up to 80k in welfare type benefits and services and continue to work under the table if they do choose was the beginning of the end. Funny that was noted over 200 years ago.

A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury... --- Fraser Tytler

Posted by: polynikes at August 27, 2022 11:47 AM (WSCzi)

47 Who's gonna cover third base?

Posted by: grammie winger at August 27, 2022 11:44 AM (45fpk)

What?

Posted by: BignJames at August 27, 2022 11:48 AM (AwYPR)

48 Well, the difference is, it's no longer on the "down low." The Junta is rubbing their malfeasance in our faces on a daily basis.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing

Ew.

Posted by: She Hobbit at August 27, 2022 11:48 AM (ftFVW)

49 split the difference. Figuring you're on the hook, as a taxpayer, for somewhere around $2,500 worth of student debt, pay off that much of what's left, and let Uncle Sugar cover the rest.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing(5pTK/) at August 27, 2022 11:38 AM (5pTK/)

That's not a bad idea. It would make me feel like less of a lowlife.

Posted by: Jordan61 at August 27, 2022 11:48 AM (DgWEj)

50 She Hobbit at August 27, 2022

You beat me to it.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at August 27, 2022 11:48 AM (Xmgzr)

51 It is such a stupid concept that all humans are exactly equal and the inly thing which creates differences is our experience.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at August 27, 2022 11:49 AM (Xmgzr)

52 Based on that single parent family chart there is some good that will come out of Biden's college loan "forgiveness" plan. People making less than 125K are eligible but family's are allowed to make 250K. Maybe these young grads will be looking to get married, preferably to someone who doesn't earn that much. I guess Biden really is a genius.

Posted by: ADK46er at August 27, 2022 11:50 AM (OiEzq)

53 You beat me to it.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy

That's okay, Ignoramus beat me to it.

Posted by: She Hobbit at August 27, 2022 11:50 AM (ftFVW)

54 My desktop computer died suddenly in the night. Bummer.

Posted by: N.L. Urker, my trench is full of chickens at August 27, 2022 11:50 AM (eGTCV)

55 The goal of "Whiteness studies" is to get white people and others who "enact whiteness" to become "race traitors" and "eliminate the concept of race".

I think the "race baitors" have already accomplished that mission. Being a Mexican citizen or being a Muslim is enough distinction to be considered a "race".

I'm guessing that people who have been raised in a Day Zero culture, where there is no objective history do not have the mental structure, vocabulary and discipline to contemplate genetics and ancestry outside of categorical depictions such as "European Colonizers".

In the Thousand Genome Project (1KP) Dr Nathanial Jeanson has performed a lot of work that largely demonstrates that we are far more closely related than what the race hustlers and evolutionists want us to believe. To believe in "race" in a Critical Theory context is absolutely absurd, particularly since their CT Matrix is based on demonstrably arbitrary criteria. (why not consider left-handedness or attached/detached earlobes as race indicators? Why melanin content and presumed deep ancestry as if our heritage is less branched than royal blue bloods)

Posted by: Reuben Hick at August 27, 2022 11:50 AM (3hSHB)

56 It is such a stupid concept that all humans are exactly equal and the inly thing which creates differences is our ~~experience~~ money.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at August 27, 2022 11:49 AM (Xmgzr)

mo' better?

Posted by: BignJames at August 27, 2022 11:51 AM (AwYPR)

57 My desktop computer died suddenly in the night. Bummer.

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Let me guess. You gave it the Pfizer anti-virus update?

Posted by: Muldoon at August 27, 2022 11:52 AM (kXYt5)

58 My desktop computer died suddenly in the night. Bummer.
*

You might be in luck if you physically go to your local walmart and look for yellow clearance stickers. I saw a nice $600 gaming desktop for $200 at ours. Didn't need it but was very tempted. They had some decent laptop clearance deals, too.

Good luck.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - China is making you buy EVs, read to bottom at August 27, 2022 11:52 AM (oxVgP)

59 There is a snark going around that it's good the we're helping out America's most needy: Harvard Law grads.

My daughter graduated from Stanford Law with a substantial amount of debt. Despite making lots of money in big law, she lived like a grad student for a year so that she could pay the loan off quickly.

She's not happy.

Posted by: Archimedes at August 27, 2022 11:54 AM (/NCI4)

60 Posted by: Archimedes at August 27, 2022 11:54 AM (/NCI

She can make a name for herself and file a lawsuit request some of her payments back.

Posted by: polynikes at August 27, 2022 11:55 AM (WSCzi)

61 Is Congress going to allow Biden go through with the unconstitutional loan forgiveness? Has anyone filed a brief with the court to stop it?
Posted by: polynikes at August 27, 2022 11:35 AM (WSCzi)

How I read your comment: Is the state going to allow the state to go through with whatever the state wants? Has anyone prostrated themselves before the state to stop it?

Posted by: BurtTC at August 27, 2022 11:56 AM (i3yPZ)

62 It is such a stupid concept that all humans are exactly equal and the inly thing which creates differences is our experience.

You need to define "equal".

Clearly we are not equal in terms of social status, physical and mental attributes. In orthodox Protestant religious terms, most people are vessels of Wrath and will see eternal destruction while some will see Glory.

Our brains are wired differently so some will seek success, others will seek a drug habit. Men are generally stronger than women. Some people are left brained others more right brained. There are congenital defects and advantages that augment whatever experiences or disciplines are built upon it.

I submit that "created equal" is a simple expression for a well defined context. The idea that slaves were "created equal" to freemen begs challenging what the contemporary understanding of "equal" actually embraced.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at August 27, 2022 11:57 AM (3hSHB)

63 My daughter graduated from Stanford Law with a substantial amount of debt. Despite making lots of money in big law, she lived like a grad student for a year so that she could pay the loan off quickly.

She's not happy.
Posted by: Archimedes at August 27, 2022 11:54 AM (/NCI4)
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There are a lot of people who pay off loans in a timely manner who should be PO'd. A lot of people see this "college debt forgiveness" thing as a narrow issue, which it really isn't.

I mean, seriously, if we're going down this road, let's go Old Testament and declare a Jubilee Year and be done with it.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing(5pTK/) at August 27, 2022 11:57 AM (5pTK/)

64 54 My desktop computer died suddenly in the night. Bummer.
Posted by: N.L. Urker, my trench is full of chickens at August 27, 2022 11:50 AM (eGTCV)

What do you mean by "died?" Won't turn on at all?

Posted by: 29Victor at August 27, 2022 11:57 AM (BJKQV)

65 Kamala is schmart. Just like Hilz. The only difference is Hilz carries a bottle of hot sauce in her purse, while Kamala carries a bottle of Lavoris .

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at August 27, 2022 11:58 AM (lz5hY)

66 My desktop computer died suddenly in the night. Bummer.

********

Let me guess. You gave it the Pfizer anti-virus update?
Posted by: Muldoon at August 27, 2022 11:52 AM (kXYt5)

This is why I bought your book.

Posted by: BurtTC at August 27, 2022 11:58 AM (i3yPZ)

67 In the stillness of the night the arc of the computer chip was not noticed. The brief wisp of smoke vanished into the room. The morning would bring surprise, and annoyance as it became clear that files.were gone, possibly forever.

Posted by: Diogenes at August 27, 2022 11:58 AM (anj39)

68 My desktop computer died suddenly in the night. Bummer.

Posted by: N.L. Urker, my trench is full of chickens at August 27, 2022 11:50 AM (eGTCV)

Don't rule out a simple fix, like a fan not spinning, or card/memory needing to be reseated.

Posted by: Sticky Wicket at August 27, 2022 11:59 AM (CCf67)

69 What do you mean by "died?" Won't turn on at all?
Posted by: 29Victor at August 27, 2022 11:57 AM (BJKQV

Yes

Posted by: N.L. Urker, my trench is full of chickens at August 27, 2022 11:59 AM (eGTCV)

70 Public service loan forgiveness without the public service. Yay!

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at August 27, 2022 11:59 AM (Xmgzr)

71 Posted by: Reuben Hick at August 27, 2022 11:57 AM (3hSHB)

I always believed created equal meant created equal under the law. Not equal in abilities.

Posted by: polynikes at August 27, 2022 11:59 AM (WSCzi)

72 What do you mean by "died?" Won't turn on at all?
Posted by: 29Victor at August 27, 2022 11:57 AM (BJKQV

Yes
Posted by: N.L. Urker, my trench is full of chickens at August 27, 2022 11:59 AM (eGTCV)

Did you try turning it off and then back on again?

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at August 27, 2022 12:00 PM (Xmgzr)

73 Posted by: Archimedes at August 27, 2022 11:54 AM (/NCI4)
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There are a lot of people who pay off loans in a timely manner who should be PO'd. A lot of people see this "college debt forgiveness" thing as a narrow issue, which it really isn't.

I mean, seriously, if we're going down this road, let's go Old Testament and declare a Jubilee Year and be done with it.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing(5pTK/) at August 27, 2022 11:57 AM (5pTK/)

The Hospital Industrial Complex must be furious too. All those drug overdoses, all those people without insurance having heart attacks, due to the eating habits... so much debt... where's their bailout?

Posted by: BurtTC at August 27, 2022 12:00 PM (i3yPZ)

74 Did you pay your electric bill? Check the breaker? Wiggle the power cord?

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at August 27, 2022 12:01 PM (Xmgzr)

75 What do you mean by "died?" Won't turn on at all?
Posted by: 29Victor

If that's the case, it's probably the power supply. Relatively easy (and cheap) fix.

Posted by: quantum mechanic at August 27, 2022 12:01 PM (g1EEm)

76 Speaking of, I was at the grocery store earlier and a produced announcement came over the speakers about not forgetting to get the little ones vaccinated while you were picking up the apple sauce and glue sticks, brought to you by Pfizer and Biotech.

It was very Robocop-ish.

I did not like it at all.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Norway only has EVs because the government has guns at August 27, 2022 12:01 PM (pQmZr)

77 Wait, is that a real photo of K Schwab? Like, he really wore something like that?

Posted by: Emmie at August 27, 2022 12:02 PM (6RgRK)

78 Don't rule out a simple fix, like a fan not spinning, or card/memory needing to be reseated.
Posted by: Sticky Wicket at August 27, 2022 11:59 AM (CCf67)

Yup. Open it up and look for dirt blocking the fan vents.

Posted by: BurtTC at August 27, 2022 12:02 PM (i3yPZ)

79 What do you mean by "died?" Won't turn on at all?
Posted by: 29Victor at August 27, 2022 11:57 AM (BJKQV

Yes
Posted by: N.L. Urker, my trench is full of chickens at August 27, 2022 11:59 AM (eGTCV)

More than likely, a bad power supply. Readily available and reasonably priced. A plug and play item. How old is the machine?

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at August 27, 2022 12:02 PM (Zvtjl)

80 Glad to see someone mocking the "equity" poster. We had those posted at our community college.

Posted by: Emmie at August 27, 2022 12:02 PM (6RgRK)

81 Student loan debt payoff...

Types

Deletes.

I can't even.

Posted by: Diogenes at August 27, 2022 12:03 PM (anj39)

82 I suppose it's possible the power cord is damaged.

Posted by: N.L. Urker, my trench is full of chickens at August 27, 2022 12:03 PM (eGTCV)

83 Who's gonna cover third base?

Posted by: grammie winger at August 27, 2022 11:44 AM (45fpk)
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I Don't Know.

Posted by: Eeyore at August 27, 2022 12:04 PM (TgBWG)

84 Living the high life. They didn't have any generic/store brand muscle rub cream, so I bought genuine BenGay. Place smells like grandma's, now that the cigarette smoke has mixed in.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at August 27, 2022 12:04 PM (lz5hY)

85 It was very Robocop-ish.

I did not like it at all.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Norway only has EVs because the government has guns at August 27, 2022 12:01 PM (pQmZr)

Wait until we get to full Minority Report mode, where the store's voiceover says "Robbie, we see that you haven't given the children in your care their 45th booster. Do that now... before you may leave the store."

Posted by: BurtTC at August 27, 2022 12:04 PM (i3yPZ)

86 More than likely, a bad power supply. Readily available and reasonably priced. A plug and play item. How old is the machine?
Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at August 27, 2022 12:02 PM (Zvtjl)

It's an iMac. More than 10 years old, which might mean it has just died of old age.

Posted by: N.L. Urker, my trench is full of chickens at August 27, 2022 12:04 PM (eGTCV)

87 suppose it's possible the power cord is damaged

*

Have you recently gotten a beagle puppy?

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Norway only has EVs because the government has guns at August 27, 2022 12:04 PM (pQmZr)

88 @72 Did you try turning it off and then back on again?

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You laugh, but...

As part of my company's IT Support team, a lot of the people I help genuinely seem to think that I mean "log out of Windows, and then log back in" when I tell them to restart their computer.

Posted by: junior at August 27, 2022 12:05 PM (FqqOz)

89 So the new Biden deal will require them to start paying in 2023, and $10K/$20K in forgiveness will leave many with still large balances. And they should pay taxes on the forgiveness.

Have we all just accepted this completely and totally unconstitutional act as "ok" we are just whining about the inflation effects and moral/ethical hazards?

If the Executive can just decree a massive multi hundred billion wealth transfer based purely on the nexus of a college education and perseverating debt ignoring pretty much everything else - then why is there a Congress and why is there a Judiciary?

Posted by: Reuben Hick at August 27, 2022 12:06 PM (3hSHB)

90 Have you recently gotten a beagle puppy?
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Norway only has EVs because the government has guns at August 27, 2022 12:04 PM (pQmZr

Lol. The only things my dog damages are her own toys.

Posted by: N.L. Urker, my trench is full of chickens at August 27, 2022 12:06 PM (eGTCV)

91 yeah sorry NL - iMacs do that

could be the monitor but it's all one thing so

Posted by: BlackOrchid at August 27, 2022 12:06 PM (w0NJk)

92 Yes
Posted by: N.L. Urker, my trench is full of chickens at August 27, 2022 11:59 AM (eGTCV)
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Check the power strip first. Make sure the cord is plugged in properly in the back of the computer, and, then check the other end where it plugs into the power strip. Believe it or not, single outlets in a power strip have been known to go bad.

If that doesn't do anything, then, check the power supply where the cord plugs into the system. Some power supplies have on/off switches on them, or, a switch to convert between 110/220 and make sure that's not been moved. (this is very rare, but, is known to happen) After that, still nothing, no lights, probably power supply.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing(5pTK/) at August 27, 2022 12:06 PM (5pTK/)

93 suppose it's possible the power cord is damaged

*

Have you recently gotten a beagle puppy?
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Norway only has EVs because the government has guns at August 27, 2022 12:04 PM (pQmZr)
***

I'm going with a slip of the electric knife.

Posted by: Diogenes at August 27, 2022 12:07 PM (anj39)

94 Yes
Posted by: N.L. Urker, my trench is full of chickens at August 27, 2022 11:59 AM (eGTCV)

Like quantum mechanic said above, if there is zero beep beep and whir whir then it is probably the power supply which is a cheap fix (maybe $30-$40 for parts) and fairly simple to do (really simple if you know what you're doing, more like regapping your spark plugs simple of it's your first time with no one to show you).

If you want to try a DIY fix, I can help.

Posted by: 29Victor at August 27, 2022 12:08 PM (BJKQV)

95 Have we all just accepted this completely and totally unconstitutional act as "ok" we are just whining about the inflation effects and moral/ethical hazards?

*

As a country? Yeah, mostly.

Unless it's Trump, of course.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Norway only has EVs because the government has guns at August 27, 2022 12:08 PM (pQmZr)

96 It's an iMac. More than 10 years old, which might mean it has just died of old age.
Posted by: N.L. Urker, my trench is full of chickens at August 27, 2022 12:04 PM (eGTCV)
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forget everything I just typed. I didn't realize you were using an iMac. Well, checking the power strips is still a good idea. But, the rest? Yeah, no.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing(5pTK/) at August 27, 2022 12:08 PM (5pTK/)

97 Greetings!
Enjoying some quietude, but that all ends now!

Posted by: gourmand du jour, somewhere among the gravensteins at August 27, 2022 12:08 PM (+0/82)

98 Lol. The only things my dog damages are her own toys.
Posted by: N.L. Urker, my trench is full of chickens at August 27, 2022 12:06 PM (eGTCV)

I have a small kitten here who thinks everything, including human limbs, are his own toys.

Posted by: BurtTC at August 27, 2022 12:08 PM (i3yPZ)

99 Don't forget that a lot of colleges and universities increasingly resemble vacation resorts.

The idea that you get a small, spartan dorm room, with fairly limited recreation opportunities, because you should be focusing on studying, has gone by the wayside.

After all, someone else is paying for it.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at August 27, 2022 12:09 PM (I2/tG)

100 I suppose it's possible the power cord is damaged.
Posted by: N.L. Urker, my trench is full of chickens at August 27, 2022 12:03 PM (eGTCV)

Unless the cord has been abused, not likely. The power supply is actually always "on", and could have been damaged by a voltage spike over night. Unplug the main cord. Wait a few minutes, then, plug the cord back into the outlet. See if it fires up. If not, time to replace the supply. Usually the electrolytic capacitors fail after a number of years. Easier to replace the supply.

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at August 27, 2022 12:09 PM (Zvtjl)

101 I always believed created equal meant created equal under the law. Not equal in abilities.

I'm pretty sure that definition has never been observed in any culture or society since the dawn of history, and by all appearances will never happen.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at August 27, 2022 12:09 PM (3hSHB)

102 67 In the stillness of the night the arc of the computer chip was not noticed. The brief wisp of smoke vanished into the room. The morning would bring surprise, and annoyance as it became clear that files.were gone, possibly forever.

Posted by: Diogene

And then the murders began.

Posted by: davidt at August 27, 2022 12:09 PM (oTZbj)

103 Is it an iMac? In that case you're probably SOL.

Posted by: 29Victor at August 27, 2022 12:09 PM (BJKQV)

104 It's an iMac.

*

(backs out of thread, goes to main page and clicks F5 repeatedly)

Posted by: Moron Robbie - China is making you buy EVs, read to bottom at August 27, 2022 12:09 PM (oxVgP)

105 It's an iMac.

*

(backs out of thread, goes to main page and clicks F5 repeatedly)
Posted by: Moron Robbie - China is making you buy EVs, read to bottom at August 27, 2022 12:09 PM (oxVgP)

Need company? I'm buyin'.

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at August 27, 2022 12:11 PM (Zvtjl)

106 As part of my company's IT Support team, a lot of the people I help genuinely seem to think that I mean "log out of Windows, and then log back in" when I tell them to restart their computer.
Posted by: junior at August 27, 2022 12:05 PM (FqqOz)
---------------

Frantic telephone call: "My password isn't working!"

Me; "Does your password contain any numbers?"

Frantic caller: "Yes"

Me: "Did you check the numlock key?" (caps lock is also a good one, though, that doesn't happen much anymore, what with newer OS's letting people know the caps lock is on)

Caller: "Do'h!"

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing(5pTK/) at August 27, 2022 12:11 PM (5pTK/)

107 I learned how to repair power cords when I was.a kid, right after mom bought an electric lawn mower.

Posted by: 29Victor at August 27, 2022 12:11 PM (BJKQV)

108 The 4th Circuit was a reliably constitutional circuit once upon a time, but in rewriting existing law so it now encompasses mentally ill people as a protected class, as mentioned in KT's post above, the opinion was written by two Democrat women. One was appointed by Bill Clinton and the other, a younger Yale-educated lawyer whose husband works as a lawyer for Google, was appointed by TFG.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 27, 2022 12:12 PM (nfH2c)

109 The Great Gatsby is such a shit book. I fucking hate that thing.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at August 27, 2022 12:12 PM (rtV6H)

110 Believe it or not, single outlets in a power strip have been known to go bad.

Found that out last month when my laptop "died."

Posted by: olddog in mo, No Cheetos allowed on the 'toon at August 27, 2022 12:12 PM (koOAT)

111 I'm pretty sure that definition has never been observed in any culture or society since the dawn of history, and by all appearances will never happen.
Posted by: Reuben Hick at August 27, 2022 12:09 PM (3hSHB)

Which is one of the few ways BLM is not wrong. It HAS always been true in this country that black people are often treated worse than white people.

Problem is, their solution isn't a solution at all, and would most likely result in ungodly death and destruction for black people.

Posted by: BurtTC at August 27, 2022 12:13 PM (i3yPZ)

112 I'm pretty sure that definition has never been observed in any culture or society since the dawn of history, and by all appearances will never happen.
Posted by: Reuben Hick at August 27, 2022 12:09 PM (3hSHB)

Well I believe it was the intent when they wrote the Declaration of Independence.

Posted by: polynikes at August 27, 2022 12:14 PM (WSCzi)

113 It's an iMac.

--

Oh. Well then now it's an iAnchor. Maybe you could grow a plant in it.

Posted by: 29Victor at August 27, 2022 12:14 PM (BJKQV)

114 my guess is the DOJ will wait and see if the GOP takes the House

and then try to trade a Trump non-indictment for no DOJ/FBI investigations

And Kevin will "How about indicting Trump and no investigations ?"

the wheeler dealers

Posted by: REDACTED at August 27, 2022 12:14 PM (us2H3)

115 "81 Student loan debt payoff...

Types

Deletes.

I can't even.
Posted by: Diogenes at August 27, 2022 12:03 PM (anj39)"

It's simultaneously a huge waste of money while also not accomplishing anything meaningful for borrowers. 10k, 20k if you had pell grants - means fuckall vs. the loan totals students have these days. The primary group benefiting from this are dropouts who only went to school for a year or so.

Meanwhile, I've pointed out before - I had ~45k - that's 45 thousand fucking dollars - tacked onto my student loan debt via paperwork fuckups after Obama's loan nationalization, wherein my privately serviced loan note was seized by the feds and farmed out to some shit fly-by-night operation. I know 2 other people who also had 20-40k tacked on. Years later none of us have been able to resolve the matter because the original loan notes on the servicer end got tossed; it's nothing more than an entry in a database somewhere now. We all make well over the cutoff for this nonsense - not that we want handouts anyways - but the whole situation is pretty infuriating. There is no accountability anywhere.

Posted by: somedood at August 27, 2022 12:15 PM (EEVQU)

116 Posted by: BurtTC at August 27, 2022 12:13 PM (i3yPM

I disrespectfully disagree with you, Where have you been the past 50 years.

Posted by: polynikes at August 27, 2022 12:16 PM (WSCzi)

117 I took a single class at [state university] and in addition to paying the credit hours for the class, I had a $100 student center fee, $50 multicultural student center fee (which i was barred from for being the wrong culture), a library fee, and an administration center fee...

Every building on campus seemed to be under 5 years old and there were construction cranes everywhere.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at August 27, 2022 12:16 PM (Xmgzr)

118 It's an iMac.

*

(backs out of thread, goes to main page and clicks F5 repeatedly)
Posted by: Moron Robbie - China is making you buy EVs, read to bottom at August 27, 2022 12:09 PM (oxVgP)

Ah yes, I'm an expert on iMacs. What you do is... you take the iMac, throw it in the garbage. Then go to the store and buy a Windoze based system.

Posted by: BurtTC at August 27, 2022 12:16 PM (i3yPZ)

119 Oh, and a $100 parking permit.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at August 27, 2022 12:17 PM (Xmgzr)

120 Liz Warren Tweeted out something interesting yesterday - she said that over two-thirds of student debt is held by women - so this is a "women's issue".

You have to admire the audacity - colleges and universities are increasingly hostile to men, so men are avoiding going to college (and the men who do go to college are concentrated in the lucrative majors, like engineering).

So, the student loans are now primarily going to pay for Buffy's gender studies degree, Buffy's theater degree, or any other degree that Buffy chooses to take that is very unlikely to pay for itself.

And the men who chose not to go to college get to pay for it.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at August 27, 2022 12:18 PM (I2/tG)

121 Ah yes, I'm an expert on iMacs. What you do is... you take the iMac, throw it in the garbage. Then go to the store and buy a Windoze based system.
Posted by: BurtTC at August 27, 2022 12:16 PM (i3yPZ)
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And then wipe the Windoze off the system and go to a Linux distro.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing(5pTK/) at August 27, 2022 12:18 PM (5pTK/)

122 I read that as "Deep Throat Thoughts With Kamala Harris"; ymmv

Excellent job as usual, KT.

Posted by: GnuBreed at August 27, 2022 12:18 PM (JOtiF)

123 I pretty sure I saw Donald Pleasence in that same getup a half a dozen times.

Posted by: LA Homeless at August 27, 2022 12:18 PM (sn5EN)

124 Bah off filthy sock

Posted by: fd at August 27, 2022 12:19 PM (sn5EN)

125 Where have you been the past 50 years.
Posted by: polynikes at August 27, 2022 12:16 PM (WSCzi)

Right here on planet Earth, with my eyes open.

Posted by: BurtTC at August 27, 2022 12:19 PM (i3yPZ)

126 114 my guess is the DOJ will wait and see if the GOP takes the House

and then try to trade a Trump non-indictment for no DOJ/FBI investigations

And Kevin will "How about indicting Trump and no investigations ?"

the wheeler dealers
Posted by: REDACTED at August 27, 2022 12:14 PM (us2H3)

My guess is that the FBI didn't really fail to secure the contents of Epstien's safe and have his client list in a drawer somewhere and that lawmakers on both sides will do whatever the Hell the FBI tells them to if they want to stay in office and out of prison.

Posted by: 29Victor at August 27, 2022 12:19 PM (BJKQV)

127 I'll say this about the student loan forgiveness... it'll energize an already smug segment of society into believing they're even more special than they previously thought.

Reality is going to hurt those snowflakes really, really bad.

They'll be fine for a couple more years, but when the crash comes down hard they'll suffer bigly. Useless maggots.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 27, 2022 12:19 PM (BFigT)

128 Everyone should be given a student loan whether they go to college or not! Equity! And then the government should pay it off! Can't fail!

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at August 27, 2022 12:20 PM (Xmgzr)

129 Give everyone $100,000 when they turn 18!

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at August 27, 2022 12:20 PM (Xmgzr)

130 "61 Is Congress going to allow Biden go through with the unconstitutional loan forgiveness? Has anyone filed a brief with the court to stop it?
Posted by: polynikes at August 27, 2022 11:35 AM (WSCzi)

How I read your comment: Is the state going to allow the state to go through with whatever the state wants? Has anyone prostrated themselves before the state to stop it?
Posted by: BurtTC at August 27, 2022 11:56 AM (i3yPZ)"

Y'all missed that part in 2009 where these debts - the ownership of the loan notes - were all nationalized, and all of the loan contracts torn up and replaced with new (and shittier) terms.

We are several steps down the unconstitutional rabbit hole, but at this point - if the feds own the debt (setting aside the illegality of getting there), the feds can write off the debt. That part is the least of the fuckery.

Posted by: somedood at August 27, 2022 12:20 PM (EEVQU)

131 Which is one of the few ways BLM is not wrong. It HAS always been true in this country that black people are often treated worse than white people.

Problem is, their solution isn't a solution at all, and would most likely result in ungodly death and destruction for black people.
Posted by: BurtTC at August 27, 2022 12:13 PM (i3yPZ)

All the misery blacks have endured the last 50 years has been self-inflicted.

Posted by: Pork Chops & Bacons at August 27, 2022 12:20 PM (BdMk6)

132 Posted by: The ARC of History! at August 27, 2022 12:18 PM (I2/tG)

I don't know how many of my friends paid off their future wife's credit card debt after they got married. At least three. One did it before they got married.

Posted by: polynikes at August 27, 2022 12:20 PM (WSCzi)

133 Half the country doesn't pay income tax and/or is on 'assistance'.

They couldn't care less about student loan forgiveness.

Posted by: davidt at August 27, 2022 12:20 PM (oTZbj)

134 And then wipe the Windoze off the system and go to a Linux distro.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing(5pTK/) at August 27, 2022 12:18 PM (5pTK/)

Yes yes yes, not saying they're wrong, but I always equate the "I use a Linux based system" with people who say "I don't even own a teevee."

Posted by: BurtTC at August 27, 2022 12:21 PM (i3yPZ)

135 These kids who are 40 and still living off mom and dad are in for a harsh reality in a few years.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at August 27, 2022 12:21 PM (Xmgzr)

136 These kids who are 40 and still living off mom and dad are in for a harsh reality in a few years.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at August 27, 2022 12:21 PM (Xmgzr)

Fetterman?

Posted by: polynikes at August 27, 2022 12:23 PM (WSCzi)

137 Everyone should be given a student loan whether they go to college or not!
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hmmm...good idea!

Posted by: Karine Jean Pierre's Brain at August 27, 2022 12:23 PM (HD60s)

138 Posted by: gourmand du jour, somewhere among the gravensteins at August 27, 2022 12:08 PM (+0/82)

Oh damn!
We had two gravenstein trees when I was a kid. Best apple pie EVAH!!!

Posted by: Diogenes at August 27, 2022 12:24 PM (anj39)

139 for a country that is so deep in college debt, we have to have a bailout and an argument over it

we don't seem any smarter for it

in fact, we seem a lot more stoopider and it's gettin worser all the time

Posted by: REDACTED at August 27, 2022 12:24 PM (us2H3)

140 Sick of hearing people say we are a rich country and that it is our duty to help others (loan defaulters) pay back debt. When does this insanity wear itself out?

Posted by: Ziba at August 27, 2022 12:24 PM (4h9M3)

141 I used to think that the snowflakes in college would get hit hard with reality once they graduated and entered the work force. They all went into HR and took over.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at August 27, 2022 12:24 PM (u73oe)

142 Posted by: BurtTC at August 27, 2022 12:13 PM (i3yPZ)

All the misery blacks have endured the last 50 years has been self-inflicted.
Posted by: Pork Chops & Bacons at August 27, 2022 12:20 PM (BdMk6)

I know it's easy to believe that, but the truth is much much MUCH more complex.

Posted by: BurtTC at August 27, 2022 12:25 PM (i3yPZ)

143 My son starts college next year. I expect the school to lower the tuition by $10,000 because EQUITY.

Posted by: Ziba at August 27, 2022 12:26 PM (4h9M3)

144 I used to think that the snowflakes in college would get hit hard with reality once they graduated and entered the work force. They all went into HR and took over.
Posted by: Duke Lowell at August 27, 2022 12:24 PM (u73oe)

And if you work in HR, you get really good at knowing how to access your company's student loan forgiveness program.

For everyone who isn't in HR, it's harder than bringing back the broomstick of the Wicked Witch of the West.

Posted by: BurtTC at August 27, 2022 12:27 PM (i3yPZ)

145 Half the country doesn't pay income tax and/or is on 'assistance'.
They couldn't care less about student loan forgiveness.
Posted by: davidt at August 27, 2022 12:20 PM (oTZbj)
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inflation hits everyone, even the non-taxpayer half.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 27, 2022 12:28 PM (HD60s)

146 >>>You are paying for these programs with your new student loan debt.

I LOVE this as a tagline to add in at every opportunity!

Posted by: m at August 27, 2022 12:29 PM (0ixKl)

147

I know it's easy to believe that, but the truth is much much MUCH more complex.
Posted by: BurtTC at August 27, 2022 12:25 PM (i3yPZ

I doubt it.

Posted by: Pork Chops & Bacons at August 27, 2022 12:29 PM (BdMk6)

148 My son starts college next year. I expect the school to lower the tuition by $10,000 because EQUITY.
Posted by: Ziba at August 27, 2022 12:26 PM (4h9M3)

Hahaha! Don't be silly. Here's your new tax form:

1. How much money did you make last year?

2. Turn it in.

Posted by: BurtTC at August 27, 2022 12:29 PM (i3yPZ)

149 This should do wonders for military recruitment.

Join the military and the government will pay for your college.

How about I don’t and they’ll pay for it anyway?

Posted by: Duke Lowell at August 27, 2022 12:29 PM (u73oe)

150 All the misery blacks have endured the last 50 years has been self-inflicted.
Posted by: Pork Chops & Bacons at August 27, 2022 12:20 PM (BdMk6)
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If by "self-inflicted" you are talking about Democrats, then sure!

Posted by: Lyndon Baines Johnson at August 27, 2022 12:29 PM (HD60s)

151 Well, time to go be constructive.

Later!

Great thread, again, KT!

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing(5pTK/) at August 27, 2022 12:30 PM (5pTK/)

152 Gender dysphoria is covered by disability law, federal court rules

Great. Now they're going to start demanding handicapped parking spaces.

Posted by: NR Pax at August 27, 2022 12:30 PM (Z7Jj3)

153 Half the country doesn't pay income tax and/or is on 'assistance'.
They couldn't care less about student loan forgiveness.
Posted by: davidt at August 27, 2022 12:20 PM (oTZbj)
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inflation hits everyone, even the non-taxpayer half.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 27, 2022 12:28 PM (HD60s)

Yes, they tell me cigarettes and beer have gone up too.

Posted by: BurtTC at August 27, 2022 12:30 PM (i3yPZ)

154 Having paid for college and grad school for my kids, I am a little bewildered at where I went so wrong.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 27, 2022 12:30 PM (HD60s)

155 Guess I'm a rube for paying off my student debt last year.

Posted by: Infidel at August 27, 2022 12:30 PM (QgnTJ)

156 Many articles I read on Sundowner's give away expect like any operation getting free money to raise prices since it's a free for all.

Posted by: Skip at August 27, 2022 12:30 PM (k8B25)

157 If by "self-inflicted" you are talking about Democrats, then sure!
Posted by: Lyndon Baines Johnson at August 27, 2022 12:29 PM (HD60s)

Yep. The lives of American blacks were consistently improving until the government decided that they needed help.

Posted by: 29Victor at August 27, 2022 12:31 PM (BJKQV)

158 I worked and paid for college myself. Of course, it was $125/semester and books were rented. Minimum wage was $2.30.

Posted by: olddog in mo, No Cheetos allowed on the 'toon at August 27, 2022 12:31 PM (koOAT)

159 Gender dysphoria is covered by disability law, federal court rules
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Great. Now they're going to start demanding handicapped parking spaces.

Posted by: NR Pax at August 27, 2022 12:30 PM (Z7Jj3)

Fabulous handicapped parking spaces.

Wait'll we see what happens to Worker's Compensation claims! "My boss turned me into a girl!"

Posted by: BurtTC at August 27, 2022 12:32 PM (i3yPZ)

160 Yes, Gravensteins are terrific. I'm staying with a friend and she has 3 trees worth of them on 4 acres. The ground is littered with them and they feed the pigs (4).
Big party today for a friend turning 70. I may even bust out some tunes for him.

Posted by: gourmand du jour, somewhere among the gravensteins at August 27, 2022 12:32 PM (+0/82)

161 159 Wait'll we see what happens to Worker's Compensation claims! "My boss turned me into a girl!"

"You were born a girl in the first place."
"H8R!"

Posted by: NR Pax at August 27, 2022 12:33 PM (Z7Jj3)

162 It is brilliant politics - transfer hundreds of millions of dollars from white males, who generally don't vote for Democrats, to female college graduates, who overwhelmingly vote for Democrats.

You'll be seeing a lot of reminders that female college graduates need to vote, to reward the Democratic party for its largess.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at August 27, 2022 12:33 PM (I2/tG)

163 If by "self-inflicted" you are talking about Democrats, then sure!
Posted by: Lyndon Baines Johnson at August 27, 2022 12:29 PM (HD60s)

Yep. The lives of American blacks were consistently improving until the government decided that they needed help.
Posted by: 29Victor at August 27, 2022 12:31 PM (BJKQV)

I believe there's some old saying somewhere, if you really want to destroy a person, give them everything they want.

Posted by: BurtTC at August 27, 2022 12:34 PM (i3yPZ)

164 Wait'll we see what happens to Worker's Compensation claims! "My boss turned me into a girl!"
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"You were born a girl in the first place."
"H8R!"
Posted by: NR Pax at August 27, 2022 12:33 PM (Z7Jj3)

Shoot! Have they discovered the gene that shows, even though I have a peener and whiskers, I'm really a girl?

Posted by: BurtTC at August 27, 2022 12:36 PM (i3yPZ)

165 I'm starting to think that George Washington made a mistake by not becoming a king.

Posted by: Pork Chops & Bacons at August 27, 2022 12:36 PM (BdMk6)

166 Average Lifetime Earnings Of A Gender Studies Grad Rise To $10,000
-- Babylon Bee

Posted by: Ignoramus at August 27, 2022 12:37 PM (i0slg)

167 >>You'll be seeing a lot of reminders that female college graduates need to vote, to reward the Democratic party for its largess.

I'm not so sure how brilliant it is. College educated women are the last group that is bolstering Brandon, they were always going to vote for Democrats. But they are a relatively small group compared to the entire electorate.

The rest of us are not too happy with this idiocy, even some Democrats who played by the rules. And there are way more of us. If I were a Republican running for office I would be banging this gong all day everyday until election day.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 27, 2022 12:37 PM (ZLI7S)

168 You'll be seeing a lot of reminders that female college graduates need to vote, to reward the Democratic party for its largess.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at August 27, 2022 12:33 PM (I2/tG)

I truly believe that's the illusion they're operating under. That the data showing they're about to get killed at the polls is because all those Karens, who love abortions and have student loan debt, had been thinking of staying home this year.

Posted by: BurtTC at August 27, 2022 12:38 PM (i3yPZ)

169 Nanzi reneged on saying Biden didn't have the authority to cancel student loan debt. How big was her cut of the $200 billion for universities, or did she get a chunk of the $76 million for (bwahahaha) covid relief funds.

Posted by: Ziba at August 27, 2022 12:38 PM (4h9M3)

170 58 My desktop computer died suddenly in the night. Bummer.

You might be in luck if you physically go to Walmart. Look for yellow clearance stickers.

Check Target also. They read the recession tea leaves also and started slashing prices to clear out stuff.

Posted by: Gordon Scott at August 27, 2022 12:39 PM (3y/Mo)

171 I am impressed that nobody on the Left that I've seen has expressed the slightest hesitation about student loan "forgiveness", just because it is completely illegal and Unconstitutional.

They Do Not Care.

All They Care About Is Power.

The Harvard and Yale law professors who wrote the editorial in the New York Times saying that we should junk the Constitution because it gets in the way of their quest for power is the accepted position on the Left now.

Listen to them and learn.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at August 27, 2022 12:39 PM (I2/tG)

172 Average Lifetime Earnings Of A Gender Studies Grad Rise To $10,000
-- Babylon Bee
Posted by: Ignoramus at August 27, 2022 12:37 PM (i0slg)

*Snort*

Posted by: BurtTC at August 27, 2022 12:39 PM (i3yPZ)

173 Most college graduates I know don't touch books for years after, even if they used to love reading. Its like some form of torture, especially the crappy books that are forced on students.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 27, 2022 12:40 PM (Ivdso)

174 Nanzi reneged on saying Biden didn't have the authority to cancel student loan debt. How big was her cut of the $200 billion for universities, or did she get a chunk of the $76 million for (bwahahaha) covid relief funds.
Posted by: Ziba at August 27, 2022 12:38 PM (4h9M3)

Much cheaper. They're going to make her drunkard husband's crash and DUI go away, wipe it with a cloth, as if it never happened.

Posted by: BurtTC at August 27, 2022 12:41 PM (i3yPZ)

175 3 Most college graduates I know don't touch books for years after, even if they used to love reading. Its like some form of torture, especially the crappy books that are forced on students.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 27, 2022 12:40 PM (Ivdso)

College bookstores need to be RICO'd.

Posted by: Pork Chops & Bacons at August 27, 2022 12:43 PM (BdMk6)

176 173

I bet students still have to read Toni Morrison and Maya Angelou before they get started on the queer and lgbqt+ "literature" crap.

Posted by: Ziba at August 27, 2022 12:44 PM (4h9M3)

177
I pretty sure I saw Donald Pleasence in that same getup a half a dozen times.
Posted by: LA Homeless

Warrior of the Lost World and The Pumaman

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 27, 2022 12:45 PM (63Dwl)

178 College bookstores need to be RICO'd.

Hey, at least they let people turn in books and sell the used ones for cheaper. Publishers are the problem here. I know exactly how much it costs to publish a hardbound book with color and its not $250 or more. Its more like $30.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 27, 2022 12:45 PM (Ivdso)

179 I'm not so sure how brilliant it is. College educated women are the last group that is bolstering Brandon, they were always going to vote for Democrats. But they are a relatively small group compared to the entire electorate.

One of the weaknesses of the Democratic Party is that they operate in their own bubble, where everyone decent agrees with them, and anyone who disagrees with them is an uneducated fascist, so this may well backfire.

OTOH, Obama's great political insight was that you don't bother trying to convince people - you mobilize your base, and use negative advertising and anything else you can come up with to discourage the other side from voting.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at August 27, 2022 12:46 PM (I2/tG)

180 We've been pissing away billions of dollars every year for over 20 years in the Stans of the middle east. Now that we pulled out, we have a "surplus" of funding to throw around so why not buy some votes?

Posted by: Dr. Bone at August 27, 2022 12:47 PM (KD5bY)

181 That girl can dance.

Posted by: m at August 27, 2022 12:47 PM (0ixKl)

182 Any republican congress critter done anything other than tweet?

Posted by: Duke Lowell at August 27, 2022 12:47 PM (u73oe)

183 Average Lifetime Earnings Of A Gender Studies Grad Rise To $10,000
-- Babylon Bee
Posted by: Ignoramus at August 27, 2022 12:37 PM (i0slg)

There are a number of "elite" liberal arts colleges (including Oberlin) where Department of Education numbers show that their graduates ten years out make less on average than high school graduates do.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at August 27, 2022 12:48 PM (I2/tG)

184 158 I worked and paid for college myself. Of course, it was $125/semester and books were rented. Minimum wage was $2.30.
Posted by: olddog in mo, No Cheetos allowed on the 'toon at August 27, 2022 12:31 PM (koOAT)

If Our Betters were really in it for the kids they'd have a billion watt megaphone asking how and why it went from $125 per semester to $5,000 per semester. Of course, their allies in the secular priesthood would never allow such heresy.

Where's Martin Luther when you need him?

Posted by: CppThis at August 27, 2022 12:49 PM (UewuT)

185 Crunchy figs
Commies everywhere

Posted by: Maya Jackieblue at August 27, 2022 12:49 PM (Xrfse)

186 182 Any republican congress critter done anything other than tweet?
Posted by: Duke Lowell at August 27, 2022 12:47 PM (u73oe)

Crenshaw got an N-95 eyepatch

that's sumptin

Posted by: REDACTED at August 27, 2022 12:49 PM (us2H3)

187 We've been pissing away billions of dollars every year for over 20 years in the Stans of the middle east. Now that we pulled out, we have a "surplus" of funding to throw around so why not buy some votes?
Posted by: Dr. Bone at August 27, 2022 12:47 PM (KD5bY)

We spent more money in 6 months on COVID relief giveaways in six months than we did for military expenditures in the entire Middle East and Afghanistan in 20 years.

Posted by: polynikes at August 27, 2022 12:50 PM (WSCzi)

188
OTOH, Obama's great political insight was that you don't bother trying to convince people - you mobilize your base, and use negative advertising and anything else you can come up with to discourage the other side from voting.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at August 27, 2022 12:46 PM (I2/tG)

Example: The "red wave" is appearing to be less and less likely.

Posted by: Pork Chops & Bacons at August 27, 2022 12:50 PM (BdMk6)

189 I'm sure the IRS will allow these people grace to pay the taxes owed on the loan forgiveness, for the chirrun.

Posted by: Indignacio Vindacatorem at August 27, 2022 12:51 PM (AaLDK)

190 If Our Betters were really in it for the kids they'd have a billion watt megaphone asking how and why it went from $125 per semester to $5,000 per semester.

A lot of the gender studies types are now embedded in the luxuriant university bureaucracies.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at August 27, 2022 12:51 PM (I2/tG)

191 > Any republican congress critter done anything other than tweet?
_________

Nope. They're pinning their hopes on winning mid-term elections so they can tut-tut the junta on live TV. And get a better seat at the grift table.

They'll probably be royally disappointed in all that.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 27, 2022 12:51 PM (BFigT)

192 I paid $1200 a year for tuition plus books.

Posted by: polynikes at August 27, 2022 12:52 PM (WSCzi)

193 Ok, time to hit the lake. Only got couple weeks left before I have to pull the 'toon out. Water's at 2.4' in my slip.

Posted by: olddog in mo, No Cheetos allowed on the 'toon at August 27, 2022 12:52 PM (Dtk8d)

194 The rest of us are not too happy with this idiocy, even some Democrats who played by the rules. And there are way more of us. If I were a Republican running for office I would be banging this gong all day everyday until election day.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 27, 2022 12:37 PM (ZLI7S)

The problem is that any banging that republicans do these days is spent spanking their onion.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 27, 2022 12:53 PM (VwHCD)

195 I keep,seeing people saying this isn't taxable. Not a power given to the executive anywhere. Biden can't forgive the taxes even by fiat as that gives every taxpayer standing to sue and this won't make it out of the gate. Come January these takers are going to get a reality check when payments resume and the IRS says hello.

Posted by: Indignacio Vindacatorem at August 27, 2022 12:54 PM (AaLDK)

196 >>OTOH, Obama's great political insight was that you don't bother trying to convince people - you mobilize your base, and use negative advertising and anything else you can come up with to discourage the other side from voting.

Yea, I get that. But I think this idiotic move on top of everything else that is going on like inflation, crime, a wide open border, etc., is doing one hell of a job motivating the rest of us.

Obama at least had a mediocre economy and he pretended to be a uniter. Biden has destroyed the economy and been the most divisive and incompetent president maybe ever. He is single handedly rehabilitating Carter. And much of the country is just starting to wake to the fact that we weren't crazy, the government really is corrupt and in league with the left.

The spin doesn't work so well when people are hurting and in charge of everything.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 27, 2022 12:54 PM (ZLI7S)

197 If Our Betters were really in it for the kids they'd have a billion watt megaphone asking how and why it went from $125 per semester to $5,000 per semester.

You should tie it to the car companies raising their prices by $5,000 after the $5,000 tax credit was passed.

Student loans have done nothing to make college more affordable, but a lot more college administrators get to drive Porsches.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at August 27, 2022 12:55 PM (I2/tG)

198 There are a number of "elite" liberal arts colleges (including Oberlin) where Department of Education numbers show that their graduates ten years out make less on average than high school graduates do.

Yeah but I'm not certain that really is significant. Yes it shows that a lot of the degrees they are graduating students with are not of any real world value.

The thing is, a classical education, a proper university degree is not supposed to be a trade school. You should not be going to college to get a great job, you should be going to learn to be a better, wiser, more educated person who knows better how to reason, analyze, and lead. The purpose of higher education is not to get a job, its to become a better citizen and ready to lead the future.

Measuring how many people get what great jobs from college is like measuring how many popcorn bags a movie sold. A movie's purpose is entertainment, the popcorn is a side effect.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 27, 2022 12:55 PM (Ivdso)

199 Dancing leads to impure thoughts and, eventually, sexual relations

Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at August 27, 2022 12:55 PM (flINI)

200 It's not taxable due to something passed in in one of the covid relief packages from what I've read.

Posted by: olddog in mo, No Cheetos allowed on the 'toon at August 27, 2022 12:56 PM (Dtk8d)

201 178 College bookstores need to be RICO'd.

Hey, at least they let people turn in books and sell the used ones for cheaper. Publishers are the problem here. I know exactly how much it costs to publish a hardbound book with color and its not $250 or more. Its more like $30.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 27, 2022 12:45 PM (Ivdso)

Heck, tabletop gaming companies regularly put out big thick hardback rule books that they sell retail for 40-50 bucks. These are super niche customer bases so it's not like they get much economy of scale. Later today or whichever future Saturday I remember to make it into the hobby thread I'm going to have some more commentary on hobby costs, but the tl,dr version is that I recently realized that I'm not as sensitive to a famously price-gougy company's price gouging because I never knew a time before $150 textbooks that you're required to buy but use maybe once, an endless stream of video game DLCs and online game subscriptions, and $500+ iGadgets. It's a generational thing!

Posted by: CppThis at August 27, 2022 12:56 PM (UewuT)

202 Spank The Onion would be a good name for a punk rock band.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at August 27, 2022 12:56 PM (u73oe)

203 and the left is in charge of everything

Posted by: JackStraw at August 27, 2022 12:57 PM (ZLI7S)

204 Mrs B's job paid for her full degree including her MBA. She had to buy her books, which was ok , but I couldn't believe how frigging stooopid pricey those were. The whole damn thing is a racket.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 27, 2022 12:57 PM (VwHCD)

205 Make me President! I'm going to give everyone that doesn't have a 4 year degree $100,000.00 tax free and call it monetary equity! /s

Posted by: Gmac - WTF did you think was going to happen? at August 27, 2022 12:59 PM (qZdIZ)

206 McConnell is pulling money out of AZ: $8 Million in television, radio and digital through September.
(posKelly has vastly outraised Masters)

McConnell is pulling money out of AL: $1.7 Million from the first two weeks of September.

Steven Law (Senate Leadership Fund) said the fund was "all in" for Senator Murkowski.

Posted by: Braenyard, _ want nuremberg trials? badger your congressman at August 27, 2022 12:59 PM (Yra+J)

207 Dancing leads to impure thoughts and, eventually, sexual relations

People mock this line (see Footloose etc) but... I mean, is it wrong?

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 27, 2022 12:59 PM (Ivdso)

208 The purpose of higher education is not to get a job, its to become a better citizen and ready to lead the future.

That was an easier argument to make when these colleges weren't charging $50,000 a year in tuition.

I have friends who sent their daughter to one of these schools. She spent five years as a theater major, paying full tuition, and now has a poorly-paying job in the theater department.

Oh - and she now uses they/them pronouns, so at least there's that.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at August 27, 2022 01:00 PM (I2/tG)

209 Why aren't parents out picketing the schools?

Kavanaugh protestors got away with their protests. Let's see parents get away with it.

Posted by: Ziba at August 27, 2022 01:01 PM (4h9M3)

210 I mean, seriously, if we're going down this road, let's go Old Testament and declare a Jubilee Year and be done with it.

According to my wife, this is what some of the libs on Facebook are trying to pull. "See, you dumb Bible-thumpers. You have to support it because your sky god says you should."

Posted by: Oddbob at August 27, 2022 01:01 PM (nfrXX)

211 That was an easier argument to make when these colleges weren't charging $50,000 a year in tuition.

Its not an argument, its absolute fact. And even if it were an argument, the reverse is true: anyone who spends 50k a year to learn a trade is cosmically idiotic.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 27, 2022 01:01 PM (Ivdso)

212 Posted by: Braenyard, _ want nuremberg trials? badger your congressman at August 27, 2022 12:59 PM (Yra+J)

I guess McConnell really does want to lose... And Murkowski ? Might as well vote for the dem

Posted by: It's me donna at August 27, 2022 01:01 PM (bs+z0)

213 And many of the people going to college should not even be there in the first place
Posted by: Nevergiveup at August 27, 2022 11:29 AM (Irn0L)
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This.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara - Impeach Joe Biden at August 27, 2022 01:03 PM (BPrjO)

214 McConnell and Murkowski are thick as thieves.

Posted by: davidt at August 27, 2022 01:06 PM (oTZbj)

215 Dancing leads to impure thoughts and, eventually, sexual relations

People mock this line (see Footloose etc) but... I mean, is it wrong?
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 27, 2022 12:59 PM (Ivdso)

***

In my experience? No.

Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at August 27, 2022 01:06 PM (flINI)

216 174 Much cheaper. They're going to make her drunkard husband's crash and DUI go away, wipe it with a cloth, as if it never happened.
Posted by: BurtTC

Yeah, they've already been silent that hubby crashed a car in 1957 and it killed his older brother.

No matter what & how much that man owns, Nan is his forever punishment.

Posted by: Lola at August 27, 2022 01:07 PM (NIYa7)

217 I guess McConnell really does want to lose... And Murkowski ? Might as well vote for the dem

Posted by: It's me donna a
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Congress critters running against McConnell's money need a Go Fund Me page.

Posted by: Braenyard, _ want nuremberg trials? badger your congressman at August 27, 2022 01:08 PM (Yra+J)

218 No. No. No. everyone does NOT have the same capacity.

There is a reason that I do not play in the NBA and it isn't because I lacked the opportunity to have a high quality basketball coach and trainers.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at August 27, 2022 11:47 AM (Xmgzr)
___________
If I'd taken batting practice 8 hours a day, for every day of my life, I couldn't have hit like Hank Aaron.

I'm oppressed!

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara - Impeach Joe Biden at August 27, 2022 01:08 PM (BPrjO)

219 My pronoun is Master and my lovely companion is Slut Queen.

Posted by: humphreyrobot at August 27, 2022 01:08 PM (gdGLi)

220 Tune in to my podcast this week, as I go into a deep dive into the world of Muscle Rub Cremes. Get the lowdown on the down-low world of lubes and analgesic jellies. Subscribe to get access 24/7 to my probing analysis and exposes!

Posted by: Jeff Toobin at August 27, 2022 01:08 PM (PIlQh)

221 McConnell is pulling money out of AZ: $8 Million in television, radio and digital through September.
(posKelly has vastly outraised Masters)

McConnell is pulling money out of AL: $1.7 Million from the first two weeks of September.

Steven Law (Senate Leadership Fund) said the fund was "all in" for Senator Murkowski.
Posted by: Braenyard, _ want nuremberg trials? badger your congressman at August 27, 2022 12:59 PM (Yra+J)

Which just goes to show, how stupid do you have to be, to donate to the Gope Senate Election Fund, rather than your own candidate, directly.

Very stupid, apparently.

Posted by: BurtTC at August 27, 2022 01:09 PM (NWBBy)

222 I once had a low level accounting course. I found an "obsolete" edition of the textbook. The only difference between it and the new edition was that in the exercises, the numbers in the problems were either halved or doubled. I borrowed a friend's new one, and made either a dot or a plus sign by each problem. Since it was the first semester of the new edition, I saved $90.

Posted by: Gordon Scott at August 27, 2022 01:11 PM (3y/Mo)

223 211 Its not an argument, its absolute fact. And even if it were an argument, the reverse is true: anyone who spends 50k a year to learn a trade is cosmically idiotic.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 27, 2022 01:01 PM (Ivdso)

And yet that is exactly what the world expects. Companies often won't even fill low level positions like tech support unless they get to see that paper. What was supposed to be an enclave of philosopher and historian types has morphed into a very expensive letter of marque.

Posted by: CppThis at August 27, 2022 01:13 PM (UewuT)

224 My desktop computer died suddenly in the night. Bummer.

Posted by: N.L. Urker, my trench is full of chickens at August 27, 2022 11:50 AM (eGTCV)

Don't rule out a simple fix, like a fan not spinning, or card/memory needing to be reseated.
Posted by: Sticky Wicket at August 27, 2022 11:59 AM (CCf67)
_______________

Good advice. If that doesn't work, remove every card you can (i.e., simplify), and then try removing one memory stick at a time; fried RAM will prevent a computer from booting.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara - Impeach Joe Biden at August 27, 2022 01:13 PM (BPrjO)

225 I am glad Joe forgave the kollege layabout's debt.

Lays bare how worthless he and they are.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at August 27, 2022 01:15 PM (R/m4+)

226 It is inarguable that the average education major is the least smart, or at best, the least prepared for college. The government has been tracking Entering SAT by Major for decades. Education is always at the bottom. Even below journalism or poli-sci.

This fact is just flat out depressing.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at August 27, 2022 01:15 PM (yQpMk)

227 But what about single people who pay taxes for schools? It’s not fair but we do it because it benefits society. That’s a big leftist talking point on this.

To which I say 100% agree!! Single people should not have to pay education taxes.

Posted by: Joe XiDen at August 27, 2022 01:16 PM (3vQN0)

228 >>> 77 Wait, is that a real photo of K Schwab? Like, he really wore something like that?
Posted by: Emmie at August 27, 2022 12:02 PM (6RgRK)

Yes, that really is him.

istr a link (which I did *not* click; there was a warning label) to a picture of KS on the beach wearing some freaky fetish wear.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at August 27, 2022 01:16 PM (llON8)

229 McConnell is pulling money out of AZ: $8 Million in television, radio and digital through September.
(posKelly has vastly outraised Masters)

McConnell is pulling money out of AL: $1.7 Million from the first two weeks of September.

Steven Law (Senate Leadership Fund) said the fund was "all in" for Senator Murkowski.

Maybe it's good news. Maybe it means McConnell knows she'll lose without lots of money. Probably not.

Posted by: Archimedes at August 27, 2022 01:16 PM (/NCI4)

230 SO-
I'm sitting outside the muffler shop before it opens. There's a bar next door with a curbside patio. The local bums all search the trash can for cigarette butts. One after another, they scour the place. One guy, he dug a few empty beer bottles out of the trash can and got a few sips. This was around 7 this morning.

And I have a new exhaust pipe!

Posted by: DB at August 27, 2022 01:16 PM (geLO8)

231 I have friends who sent their daughter to one of these schools. She spent five years as a theater major, paying full tuition, and now has a poorly-paying job in the theater department.
_______________

An updated version of the pons asinorum. She was stupid enough to be a theater major? Does she realize that half of Hollywood actors and actresses (I presume that was her goal) dropped out of high school?

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara - Impeach Joe Biden at August 27, 2022 01:16 PM (BPrjO)

232 Steven Law (Senate Leadership Fund) said the fund was "all in" for Senator Murkowski.

Maybe it's good news. Maybe it means McConnell knows she'll lose without lots of money. Probably not.
Posted by: Archimedes at August 27, 2022 01:16 PM (/NCI4)

I read that he felt she was safe

Posted by: It's me donna at August 27, 2022 01:17 PM (bs+z0)

233 225 I am glad Joe forgave the kollege layabout's debt.

Lays bare how worthless he and they are.
Posted by: Hairyback Guy
----------------------------

There's so much money flying out the window the general public doesn't realize what a budget dent it is.

Posted by: Braenyard, _ want nuremberg trials? badger your congressman at August 27, 2022 01:18 PM (Yra+J)

234 Biden is like Jesus.

https://bit.ly/3cu2Yfl

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at August 27, 2022 01:18 PM (FVME7)

235 McConnell is pulling money out of AL: $1.7 Million from the first two weeks of September.

In fairness, Alabama is no contest. Any reasonably acceptable Republican candidate will win state-wide office just by being on the ticket.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at August 27, 2022 01:18 PM (yQpMk)

236 I'm sitting outside the muffler shop before it opens. There's a bar next door with a curbside patio. The local bums all search the trash can for cigarette butts. One after another, they scour the place. One guy, he dug a few empty beer bottles out of the trash can and got a few sips. This was around 7 this morning.

Posted by: DB at August 27, 2022 01:16 PM (geLO

____________

I was in the ER when a skell approached the hand sanitizer dispenser and started guzzling from it.

I'm not making this up.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara - Impeach Joe Biden at August 27, 2022 01:18 PM (BPrjO)

237 If Alabama needs Money, then officially the red wave is dead and 6 feet under.

Posted by: Joe XiDen at August 27, 2022 01:20 PM (3vQN0)

238 I remember the story of some guy who had 180k in debt from his masters in puppetry. This was back in Obama and Occupy days. He wanted to be free of that debt.

These people have been at it a long time.

Posted by: blaster at August 27, 2022 01:20 PM (6TxNR)

239 It is inarguable that the average education major is the least smart, or at best, the least prepared for college. The government has been tracking Entering SAT by Major for decades. Education is always at the bottom. Even below journalism or poli-sci.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at August 27, 2022 01:15 PM (yQpMk)
_____________

I find it always gratifying to have my prejudices validated.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara - Impeach Joe Biden at August 27, 2022 01:20 PM (BPrjO)

240 > I am really struggling with this.

My advice? Take the money and run. If you have moral qualms, ask yourself this: has the federal government spent more or less than $5,000 of your money on stupid and/or evil shit you would not willingly have spent it on? If the answer is more, (and I'm betting it's a helluva lot more) you're basically just getting some of your stolen money back.

Or so I see it.

As far as textbooks go, Amazon has done a lot to bring the costs down. Students are no longer a captive audience for the college book store. Not that they're cheap, mind you... but now it's more like getting roofied rather than violent forcible rape.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 27, 2022 01:20 PM (bW8dp)

241 54 My desktop computer died suddenly in the night. Bummer.
Posted by: N.L. Urker, my trench is full of chickens at August 27, 2022 11:50 AM (eGTCV)

-------------------------------

Out of curiosity, have you ever opened it up and blown the dust out? That stuff cakes up pretty quickly. I've "fixed" a couple of computers just by cleaning the dust out.

Posted by: No One of Consequence at August 27, 2022 01:21 PM (RFKzk)

242 Has to be something that colleges have hopeless degrees that get you nowhere.

Posted by: Skip at August 27, 2022 01:22 PM (k8B25)

243 To which I say 100% agree!! Single people should not have to pay education taxes.
Posted by: Joe XiDen at August 27, 2022 01:16 PM (3vQN0)

Government skools should be paid for by the students attending the grooming center and their parents by attaching the cost each month to their phone bills.

They will pay it as they cannot live without their precious phones.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at August 27, 2022 01:22 PM (R/m4+)

244
In fairness, Alabama is no contest. Any reasonably acceptable Republican candidate will win state-wide office just by being on the ticket.
Posted by: G'rump928(c)
---------------------------------

Knew the Red Tide would get me as soon as I pressed the button.

Posted by: Braenyard, _ want nuremberg trials? badger your congressman at August 27, 2022 01:22 PM (Yra+J)

245 It is overall a benefit to everyone in society for young people to be educated, but the way we're going about it is terribly wrong.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 27, 2022 01:22 PM (Ivdso)

246 I’d almost - almost - be ok with the loan cancelation if there conditions on it like it has to be put in a 401k or pay off medical debts or used to fund a 529 or whatever. But all this will do is give everyone $10k to go on a cool vacation or get that new sound system for their car or whatever.

Posted by: Joe XiDen at August 27, 2022 01:22 PM (3vQN0)

247 IIRC, the Republicans have lost one state-wide office this century in Alabama, that being Roy Moore's run for the Senate in 2018 when the entire GOPe set out to prevent his win.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at August 27, 2022 01:23 PM (yQpMk)

248 As far as textbooks go, Amazon has done a lot to bring the costs down. Students are no longer a captive audience for the college book store. Not that they're cheap, mind you... but now it's more like getting roofied rather than violent forcible rape.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 27, 2022 01:20 PM (bW8dp)
___________

I've had fantasies of teaching an undergrad math course and adopting a textbook from 1900 or so that is available free from Project Gutenberg. I've found some great textbooks there.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara - Impeach Joe Biden at August 27, 2022 01:24 PM (BPrjO)

249 10 I am really struggling with this. My student loan is just under $5K, and I have the money sitting in the bank to pay it. I was waiting for the moratorium on payments to end before I paid it off.
Posted by: Jordan61 at August 27, 2022 11:33 AM (DgWEj)

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Take the money. My loans are paid off, so I can't benefit. If my taxes are going to pay off the loans of others, I'd like to think it went to a 'ron or 'ette. Put the money set aside towards bacon!

Posted by: No One of Consequence at August 27, 2022 01:24 PM (RFKzk)

250 Sra blaster has some student debt left and it is possible that she will be eligible to get the relief. If so we will be taking it. We have no qualms about it.

If they are going to give us $10k or even $20k (she received Pell grants) we are going to take it.

Posted by: blaster at August 27, 2022 01:24 PM (6TxNR)

251 > anyone who spends 50k a year to learn a trade is cosmically idiotic.

Well, maybe not doctors... $50k is chump change even for a family doc, much less a specialist.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 27, 2022 01:24 PM (bW8dp)

252 err 2017 run.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at August 27, 2022 01:24 PM (yQpMk)

253 It is overall a benefit to everyone in society for young people to be educated, but the way we're going about it is terribly wrong.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 27, 2022 01:22 PM (Ivdso)
____________

Educated >> indoctrinated.

Also we need to blitz all of the bullshit majors.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara - Impeach Joe Biden at August 27, 2022 01:25 PM (BPrjO)

254 Well, maybe not doctors... $50k is chump change even for a family doc, much less a specialist.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 27, 2022 01:24 PM (bW8dp)

The average pay of a GP is like $200k a year. It’s a good income but $50k is not chump change at that income level.

Posted by: Joe XiDen at August 27, 2022 01:26 PM (3vQN0)

255 238 These people have been at it a long time.
Posted by: blaster at August 27

And now he's a school administrator, right?

Posted by: Lola at August 27, 2022 01:26 PM (NIYa7)

256 > I've had fantasies of teaching an undergrad math course and adopting a textbook from 1900 or so that is available free from Project Gutenberg. I've found some great textbooks there.

There's some pretty good stuff (and some not so good) on https://www.wikibooks.org/

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 27, 2022 01:29 PM (l6zMc)

257 In fairness, Alabama is no contest. Any reasonably acceptable Republican candidate will win state-wide office just by being on the ticket.
Posted by: G'rump928(c)
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Knew the Red Tide would get me as soon as I pressed the button.

Posted by: Braenyard, _ want nuremberg trials? badger your congressman at August 27, 2022 01:22 PM (Yra+J)

Which of course is not the point. The point is, McConnell is going to screw as best he can, anyone who is not Gope Nevertrumper. So while it may not affect the Alabama race, it very well could the Arizona race.

Posted by: BurtTC at August 27, 2022 01:29 PM (NWBBy)

258 This is what I'd get with my student loans paid off and some extra cash...

https://tinyurl.com/yvcj25hb

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 27, 2022 01:30 PM (BFigT)

259 Jordan61, and anyone else with student debt, you might as well take the money. If you don't take it it just goes to Trigglypuff et al

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at August 27, 2022 01:30 PM (EGSGm)

260 You know, I have to take it back, Alabama has had two Dem Lt. Govs in this century. Lucy Baxter in 2002 and Little Jim Folsom in 2006.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at August 27, 2022 01:30 PM (yQpMk)

261 Today's most ironic headline, at DM:

"Three Dutch commandos who were training in urban combat in Indiana are wounded in shooting in Indianapolis' entertainment district: Two are in critical condition"

Urban commandos no match for USA Rust Belt urban thugs.

Posted by: gp Attempts To Gain Function, And Fails at August 27, 2022 01:31 PM (qpX6U)

262 > $50k is not chump change at that income level.

10 year repayment is $5k per year (and yeah, there's interest... but we're just hand waving here). With a $200k income, that's chump change. Especially when you're going to keep making that $200k for the next 30 years, long after the loan has been paid off.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 27, 2022 01:33 PM (l6zMc)

263 It is overall a benefit to everyone in society for young people to be educated, but the way we're going about it is terribly wrong.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 27, 2022 01:22 PM (Ivdso)

Education is fine. Indoctrination is not.

Calling what many kids are getting "education" is like calling the Holocaust a "solution to the housing shortage."

Posted by: BurtTC at August 27, 2022 01:33 PM (NWBBy)

264 and Nancy Worley was our Dem SOS from 2003 to 2007.

Damn. I'm going to have to stop bragging about our solid red state.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at August 27, 2022 01:33 PM (yQpMk)

265 Greenthumbs are invited upstairs
Or if you just live to look at the flowers come up and join us

NOOD

Posted by: Skip advising you of your Nood threads at August 27, 2022 01:33 PM (k8B25)

266 139 for a country that is so deep in college debt, we have to have a bailout and an argument over it

we don't seem any smarter for it

in fact, we seem a lot more stoopider and it's gettin worser all the time

Posted by: REDACTED at August 27, 2022 12:24 PM (us2H3)
----
So you don't think this is the worstest it's been?

Posted by: Ciampino - is the goodest of all at August 27, 2022 01:33 PM (qfLjt)

267 But I did preface my statement with IIRC.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at August 27, 2022 01:33 PM (yQpMk)

268 Doctors don't have $50k debt, it's more like $300k. And they're about 35 years old when they get out of residency and are able to make the big bucks to start paying it off. Just sayin'

Posted by: CppThis at August 27, 2022 01:35 PM (UewuT)

269 > But all this will do is give everyone $10k to go on a cool vacation or get that new sound system for their car or whatever.

It's not like they're getting a $10k check.

A lot of these people don't have a pot to piss in, much less take a vacation.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 27, 2022 01:35 PM (l6zMc)

270 I bet the ibf will kill the big guy and paint the operation on you know who. Vp will get 100 % on election day.

All is calm or dead.

This is the end of my book report.

Posted by: humphreyrobot at August 27, 2022 01:36 PM (gdGLi)

271 But I did preface my statement with IIRC.
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at August 27, 2022 01:33 PM (yQpMk)

All you are showing is what many people had thought, up until the past decade or so: Not all Democrats were leftists. There was once a choice to be made, based on the character of the candidate, not necessarily their party affiliation.

That doesn't exist anymore, but it did, not so long ago.

Posted by: BurtTC at August 27, 2022 01:36 PM (NWBBy)

272 > And they're about 35 years old when they get out of residency and are able to make the big bucks to start paying it off. Just sayin'

And then they make $200,000-1 million per year for the next 30 years.

They aren't hurting.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 27, 2022 01:37 PM (l6zMc)

273 Yep exactly. Doctors spend their entire career paying back the loans. It’s like a second mortgage essentially.

Posted by: Joe XiDen at August 27, 2022 01:37 PM (3vQN0)

274 Can't conceive how it's morally wrong to take the loan forgiveness.

Posted by: Braenyard, _ want nuremberg trials? badger your congressman at August 27, 2022 01:37 PM (Yra+J)

275 Saw this:
Daily Mail:
Biden was told NOT to cancel student loan debt by Janet Yellen and Jill - but Kamala pushed him to do it https://trib.al/3UhwRWt

Kamala? LOLOLOL

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at August 27, 2022 01:38 PM (EGSGm)

276 $1M lol. I wrote above the median income for a GP is $200k.

Surgeons
And specialist are more. But the majority of MDs are GP. It’s funny how people think doctors earn Wall St money. They do not.

Posted by: Joe XiDen at August 27, 2022 01:39 PM (3vQN0)

277 2001: Airlines get $20B bailout. 2008: Everybody gets a bailout. 2020: Everybody gets 'free' cash e-deposited in their accounts. 2022: Student loan debt bailout.

Every month of every year, some disaster occurs somewhere in the USA that gets an emergency declaration, and a bailout.

Next bailout: home heating bills, right around the corner.

Posted by: gp Attempts To Gain Function, And Fails at August 27, 2022 01:39 PM (qpX6U)

278 > Doctors spend their entire career paying back the loans.

Nope.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 27, 2022 01:39 PM (l6zMc)

279 268 Doctors don't have $50k debt, it's more like $300k. And they're about 35 years old when they get out of residency and are able to make the big bucks to start paying it off. Just sayin'
Posted by: CppThis
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Along with office, staff, equipment and insurance.

Posted by: Braenyard, _ want nuremberg trials? badger your congressman at August 27, 2022 01:40 PM (Yra+J)

280 Meanwhile in other news, the Ukraine politicians have voted themselves a 70% increase using our money. I think I read that right.

Posted by: Ciampino - free dollars is the goodest of all at August 27, 2022 01:40 PM (qfLjt)

281 My neighbor at my marina is an ER doctor. Dude drives a Subaru Outback and lives in a fairly non descript subdivision. He’s not rocking a 10k sq mansion on 30 acres or rolling up in a Bentley.

Posted by: Joe XiDen at August 27, 2022 01:40 PM (3vQN0)

282 Doctors don't have $50k debt, it's more like $300k. And they're about 35 years old when they get out of residency and are able to make the big bucks to start paying it off. Just sayin'
Posted by: CppThis at August 27, 2022 01:35 PM (UewuT)

My assumption, not based on complete knowledge, is that lots of docs are chained to hospital systems, mostly due to student loan debt. They're making decent money, but are not exactly swimming in cash.

Posted by: BurtTC at August 27, 2022 01:40 PM (NWBBy)

283 280 Meanwhile in other news, the Ukraine politicians have voted themselves a 70% increase using our money. I think I read that right.
Posted by: Ciampino - free dollars is the goodest of all at August 27, 2022 01:40 PM (qfLjt)

Cynical Troll C++ imagines Putin and Zelensky chillin' on a boat somewhere in the South Pacific, sipping the finest bubbly and high fiving each other over all the money they're grafting from USA and China.

Posted by: CppThis at August 27, 2022 01:43 PM (UewuT)

284 The vast majority of doctors are salaried employees of health care conglomerates. The days of a doctor owning a practice are pretty much history. And you can see those salaries for publicly companies. It’s not nearly as high as many think.

Posted by: Joe XiDen at August 27, 2022 01:43 PM (3vQN0)

285 *grifting

But grafting also works, because politics.

Posted by: CppThis at August 27, 2022 01:44 PM (UewuT)

286 > $1M lol. I wrote above the median income for a GP is $200k.

The median income (meaning half of them make more) for an orthopedic surgeon is $511,000 per year.

Most doctors don't become GPs any more. There's been a shortage of them for decades.

Even at the low end, paying off $300k in loans on a $200k salary is not that big a deal.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 27, 2022 01:44 PM (l6zMc)

287 Lucky those commandos didn't go to Chicago or Baltimore

Posted by: Skip at August 27, 2022 01:44 PM (k8B25)

288 My assumption, not based on complete knowledge, is that lots of docs are chained to hospital systems, mostly due to student loan debt. They're making decent money, but are not exactly swimming in cash.
Posted by: BurtTC at August 27, 2022 01:40 PM (NWBBy)

Your assumptions are accurate.

Posted by: Joe XiDen at August 27, 2022 01:44 PM (3vQN0)

289 All you are showing is what many people had thought, up until the past decade or so: Not all Democrats were leftists. There was once a choice to be made, based on the character of the candidate, not necessarily their party affiliation.

That doesn't exist anymore, but it did, not so long ago.
Posted by: BurtTC at August 27, 2022 01:36 PM (NWBBy)

Totally true. Little Jim could have easily been a moderate CoC Republican. The depressing thing here is that, even as a Republican state, the Alabama Education Association still calls a lot of shots here.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at August 27, 2022 01:44 PM (yQpMk)

290 Orthopedic surgeons as as percent of all MDs is extremely small. It’s like saying garagos makes a ton of money so all layers do too.

Posted by: Joe XiDen at August 27, 2022 01:45 PM (3vQN0)

291 Meanwhile in other news, the Ukraine politicians have voted themselves a 70% increase using our money. I think I read that right.
Posted by: Ciampino - free dollars is the goodest of all at August 27, 2022 01:40 PM (qfLjt)

I could almost forgive Ukrainian pols, if they were taking our military hardware, in the forlorn hope of defeating the Russians. But I suspect they know, just as everyone else does, this war is not going to be won by them, so they're pocketing cash. As fast as they can, while securing luxury homes for themselves in Paris or Beverly Hills. Right next to the Russian oligarchs.

Posted by: BurtTC at August 27, 2022 01:45 PM (NWBBy)

292 >Biden was told NOT to cancel student loan debt by Janet Yellen and Jill - but Kamala pushed him to do it

Lies

Posted by: DB at August 27, 2022 01:46 PM (geLO8)

293 284 The vast majority of doctors are salaried employees of health care conglomerates. The days of a doctor owning a practice are pretty much history. And you can see those salaries for publicly companies. It’s not nearly as high as many think.
Posted by: Joe XiDen at August 27, 2022 01:43 PM (3vQN0)

Yeah, pretty much everyone got bought out by the corpos in the 00s and early 10s. Thanks Obama(tm). On the plus side, I had to go to such a corporate establishment last year and the nurse was rather easy on the eyes. Former ICU nurse so she really, *really* knew how to be gentle with the blood test needle.

Posted by: CppThis at August 27, 2022 01:46 PM (UewuT)

294 > Next bailout: home heating bills, right around the corner

About this time next year it's gonna be massively underwater FHA/VA mortgages.

It will be interesting to see how many of the people currently going off on the student loan deal will remain pure when their own ox gets gored.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 27, 2022 01:46 PM (l6zMc)

295 Even at the low end, paying off $300k in loans on a $200k salary is not that big a deal.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 27, 2022 01:44 PM (l6zMc)

Lol. Dude what the fuck? Take out a calculator and run those numbers. $200k in any HCOL city is barely middle class.

Posted by: Joe XiDen at August 27, 2022 01:46 PM (3vQN0)

296 > $200k in any HCOL city is barely middle class.

So don't live in a HCOL city?

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 27, 2022 01:48 PM (l6zMc)

297 "Lucky those commandos didn't go to Chicago or Baltimore"

I've been to downtown Indianapolis, and it's scary. Like too many cities, they sited the courthouses and jails right downtown, with the accompanying bailbond joints. So naturally, it is always peopled by the "justice-involved." Anybody who is hitting bars at 3AM downtown in any big US city is taking a big risk for no reward.

Posted by: gp Attempts To Gain Function, And Fails at August 27, 2022 01:48 PM (qpX6U)

298

Cat is asshoe...

Posted by: Hans Brix at August 27, 2022 01:49 PM (PkBJj)

299 284 The vast majority of doctors are salaried employees of health care conglomerates. The days of a doctor owning a practice are pretty much history. And you can see those salaries for publicly companies. It’s not nearly as high as many think.
Posted by: Joe XiDen
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If you have one of those people for a doctor you don't have a doctor you have a corporate advocate.
They are the one's advocating the shot and
asking personal questions having no bearing on your treatment.

Posted by: Braenyard, _ want nuremberg trials? badger your congressman at August 27, 2022 01:49 PM (Yra+J)

300 In brighter news

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit unanimously upheld a lower court’s ruling in Franciscan Alliance v. Becerra which protected around 19,000 health care professionals in Franciscan Alliance, a Catholic health care network, from performing medical procedures against their conscience.

The lower court’s ruling had permanently prohibited the U.S. Department of Health and Human Service (HHS) “from requiring Franciscan Alliance to perform gender-transition surgeries or abortions in violation of its sincerely held religious beliefs.”

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at August 27, 2022 01:49 PM (yQpMk)

301 The median salary in the U.S. is about $50,000 per year. If docs somehow can't scrape by with a median salary 4x as large... well, my sympathy is limited.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 27, 2022 01:51 PM (l6zMc)

302 #297 - Oddly, SF is not one of those cities. We don't have a true downtown. With so many hills, there are clusters of entertainment venues and the jail isn't really near them.

Posted by: SFGoth at August 27, 2022 01:53 PM (KAi1n)

303 Median doc salary: $200k
Med school debt: $300k
Median salary for the country as a whole: $50k
Number of years to pay debt if you just live like a normal person: 2.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 27, 2022 01:54 PM (l6zMc)

304 Next bailout: home heating bills, right around the corner

-
If you consider Germany around the corner.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at August 27, 2022 01:55 PM (FVME7)

305 Some macs have a small battery for CMOS. It look like a hearing aid battery. Go to lowendmac.com and look at the specs for your machine.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at August 27, 2022 02:00 PM (9WSy4)

306 Imagine a "conversation" between joe and kamala. Acid trips have nothing on that surrealism.

Posted by: SFGoth at August 27, 2022 02:01 PM (KAi1n)

307 Median doc salary: $200k
Med school debt: $300k
Median salary for the country as a whole: $50k
Number of years to pay debt if you just live like a normal person: 2.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 27, 2022 01:54 PM (l6zMc)

That's not how the real world works. I assume you know that, but I'm really not interested in having an argument about it. You have your reasons for saying what you do. You have my permission to continue doing so.

Posted by: BurtTC at August 27, 2022 02:01 PM (NWBBy)

308 "With so many hills, there are clusters of entertainment venues and the jail isn't really near them."

Despite Indiana's rugged mountain terrain, the capital city is remarkably flat

I'd like to move the courthouses, jails, and parole officers out of our downtown to some place way out in the sticks at the end of a dirt road. If all our many paroled felons had to drive 50 miles to see their P.O.s every month, they'd move out of our city. But our city govt loves them some violent felons, and works hard to keep them here.

Posted by: gp Attempts To Gain Function, And Fails at August 27, 2022 02:02 PM (qpX6U)

309 "If you consider Germany around the corner."

Here's the one year price chart for USA natgas:
https://tinyurl.com/2ja88z6y

It's gonna be a huge problem right here.

Posted by: gp Attempts To Gain Function, And Fails at August 27, 2022 02:04 PM (qpX6U)

310 One advantage to living in SF is mild winters. We have the rare upper 30's at night (though not every year) but days are always in the mid-50's to 60's with nights in the 40's. If you bundle up, you don't need to spend that much on heating. Comfortable? No. Miserable? No.

Posted by: SFGoth at August 27, 2022 02:18 PM (KAi1n)

311 $200k in any HCOL city is barely middle class.

So don't live in a HCOL city?

Depends on your housing situation. I bought mine decades ago and refi'd during the low % years. I don't make anywhere near $200k but i consider myself middle class.

Posted by: SFGoth at August 27, 2022 02:21 PM (KAi1n)

312

I'm a " corporate physician. "

I tell patients not to get the shot or booster, tell them how to use ivermectin, and talk guns all the time including my nurse and I pulling out our carry pieces and comparing with the patient's carry pieces.

Fuck off.

Posted by: Dr Nick Riviera at August 27, 2022 02:22 PM (r5Mqg)

313 I am making $85 an hour working from home. i was greatly surprised at the same time as my neighbour advised me she changed into averaging $95 however I see the way it works now. I experience mass freedom now that I'm my non-public boss.
Copy and open this website for more detail... http://www.Profit97.com

Posted by: Sarah at August 27, 2022 02:28 PM (MWjMd)

314 Pictures of the Week are now up.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at August 27, 2022 02:28 PM (FVME7)

315 Sarah aspires to be a physician.

Posted by: Maya Jackieblue at August 27, 2022 02:29 PM (Xrfse)

316 pulling out our carry pieces and comparing with the patient's carry pieces.
Posted by: Dr Nick Riviera at August 27, 2022 02:22 PM (r5Mqg)

That's what my doc does...last check up he showed me how to rack a Makarov using his thigh while he was wearing jeans.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at August 27, 2022 02:30 PM (R/m4+)

317 BurtTC-

If you're still here I have a question for you about local resources in your vicinity...

Not particularly sensitive, so I can ask in open forum.

Posted by: Muldoon at August 27, 2022 02:30 PM (kXYt5)

318 What is missing in that stupid equality/equity picture is a pile of wood and tools lying free for everyone to use off picture. You start off equal. You build up as much as you have ability and will to build.

Also missing is the off screen part where in the equity part the government has taken away the money and ability build of everyone to make things for themselves.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 27, 2022 02:32 PM (Ivdso)

319 My corpo doc (see above) asked the obligatory paperwork question about the shot, but that was it. Totally perfunctory, no further discussion about it or anything C19 related. No gun talk, but the guy looked like a hunter so he probably could if the conversation went that way.

The one frustration is that I asked twice to get an antibody test as part of the blood-test suite, and they didn't do it so I had to return later. I want to chalk this down to an honest mistake, and it probably was, but the corrosive long term effect of industry-wide Branch Covidianism is I now have to question such things.

Posted by: CppThis at August 27, 2022 02:33 PM (UewuT)

320 Wow... Looky there... suddenly the MSM is ALL IN on supporting the FBI, with Epic Tales of their crime fighting!

Latest? FBI seized a Canopic Jar used for mummy guts... because it violated some antiquities treaty...

Clearly stopped the Mummy apocalypse, which is good, as Brandon Fraiser is like way old and overweight.

Posted by: Bad 80's Comic at August 27, 2022 02:43 PM (oHd/0)

321 Damn. There went my next money making idea, Fake Mummy parts

Posted by: Skip at August 27, 2022 02:49 PM (k8B25)

322 It's not $10,000 bailout.
It's a $20,000 bailout.

Posted by: torabora at August 27, 2022 02:50 PM (Y274z)

323

The next only fans craze? MILF

Mummies I'd Like to F***

Posted by: Dirty Frank at August 27, 2022 02:51 PM (r5Mqg)

324 They say Rick Scott is - burning through the money - however, the article also says Republicans are being out spent by the Democrats. So lies and distortion but the numbers come from the report.

"The NRSC’s retreat came after months of touting record fundraising, topping $173 million so far this election cycle, according to FEC disclosures. But the committee has burned through nearly all of it, with the NRSC’s cash on hand dwindling to $28.4 million by the end of June," https://bit.ly/3wBDNyi
1 of 2

Posted by: Braenyard, _ want nuremberg trials? badger your congressman at August 27, 2022 02:58 PM (Yra+J)

325 2 of 2
... the committee disclosed spending
$23 million on ads,
> $21 million going into text messages
> $12 million to American Express
$13 million on consultants
$9 million on debt payments and
$7.9 million renting mailing lists

Pat Dennis, of American Bridge, a Democratic research organization, said they also spent $1.1 million in opposition research, which as a researcher isn't nearly enough. https://bit.ly/3dYHMi3

Question; What candidates were recipients of the money? BBL

Posted by: Braenyard, _ want nuremberg trials? badger your congressman at August 27, 2022 02:58 PM (Yra+J)

326 This has to be seen, especially if fairly well read about WWII bombing in Dresden and Tokyo
https://dailytimewaster.blogspot.com/2022/08/
dramatic-fire-tornado-video-from-socal.html

Posted by: Skip at August 27, 2022 03:00 PM (k8B25)

327 How do they go through most of their money almost six months before the general election? You do the big ad blitz in September and October, everyone knows this.

Posted by: CppThis at August 27, 2022 03:02 PM (UewuT)

328 $21 million going into text messages

..

Holy shit. Worthless grifting fuggers.

Posted by: You won't believe this at August 27, 2022 03:03 PM (9FBGz)

329 I just saw that on Thursday, the anniversary of John McCain's death, the Libertarian Party of New Hampshire posted a photo of Megaton crying with the caption "HAPPY HOLIDAYS". LOLOLOL.

Posted by: Ian S. at August 27, 2022 03:04 PM (zm+d5)

330 Paid off my student loans 10ish years ago. One of the best feelings ever to look at that shitty webpage and see the balance for Two loans:

Loan 1: 0.00

Loan 2: 0.01

Dear Lord, that was a great feeling. Freeing, but also that I had done something important. Responsible and adult.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 27, 2022 03:07 PM (dNqv+)

331 Dear Lord, that was a great feeling. Freeing, but also that I had done something important. Responsible and adult.
Posted by: Aetius451AD

This, I had the same feeling.

Posted by: Infidel at August 27, 2022 03:09 PM (QgnTJ)

332 PET NOOD

And so ends this thread, thank you all for coming

Posted by: Skip at August 27, 2022 03:41 PM (k8B25)

333 On the NRSC money spending the articles indirectly mention the conflict between McConnell and Scott. McConnell always saying either "grim choices" or "poor choices" of candidates, obviously alluding to Trump candidates.

All the articles revolve around this quote, "but the problem goes back to Trump. If Donald Trump pulls out of the GOP Senate primaries, Republicans (Mercowski & Co) are in a better position to take back the US Senate."- a variant of this and McConnell's is virtually if not actually repeated in every article so far.

If Trump's people win they know their PLAY is doomed. They are desperate.
...

Still looking for any candidate he spent the money on but have discovered that they are going ape shit over his Eleven Point Plan for the senate.
They being McConnell and the Democrats.

Posted by: Braenyard, _ want nuremberg trials? badger your congressman at August 27, 2022 03:44 PM (Yra+J)

334 Per the Daily Caller, Here Are Scott’s Points Of Focus (on the Eleven Point Plan):

_ Every child in every school to say the pledge of allegiance, stand for the national anthem, and learn that America is the greatest country in this world.
_ A complete end to racial politics.
_ Treating Socialism as a foreign adversary and we will use all force to stop it from destroying our country.
_ The end to our economic relationship with communist China.
_ Term limits not only for politicians but also for government bureaucrats.
_ -Common sense…such as…men are men, women are women, there are 2 genders…and science confirms that unborn babies are human beings.
_ A complete end to voter fraud and for protecting the integrity of our elections.
_ An end to the foolish soft-on-crime policies that are destroying our cities and killing innocent Americans.
_ Securing our border, building the wall, and naming it after President Donald J. Trump.

Posted by: Braenyard, _ want nuremberg trials? badger your congressman at August 27, 2022 03:50 PM (Yra+J)

335 just saw that on Thursday, the anniversary of John McCain's death, the Libertarian Party of New Hampshire posted a photo of Megaton crying with the caption "HAPPY HOLIDAYS". LOLOLOL.
Posted by: Ian S.

That's a terrible thing to say!

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 27, 2022 04:02 PM (7FozI)

336 Another bright spot today

The Tax Foundation estimates that there are 13 states which could impose a tax on discharged student debt, though they may take steps to make it exempt.

“Preliminarily, it appears that 13 states have the potential to tax discharged student loan debt, though the final count could be significantly smaller if states make legislative changes or administratively determine that the debt forgiveness can be excluded, or if conformity dates are updated retroactively,” Walczak said.

The following states have the potential to impose state-level taxes on discharged student loan debt: Arkansas, Hawaii, Idaho, Kentucky, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Mississippi, New York, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Virginia, West Virginia, and Wisconsin.

The highest such tax liability, assuming $10,000 in forgiven student debt, falls in Hawaii ($1,100) while the lowest is in Pennsylvania ($307), according to the Tax Foundation analysis.

The others fall somewhere in between, with $700 levied in South Carolina and $500 in Kentucky, Massachusetts, and Mississippi, for instance.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at August 27, 2022 04:08 PM (yQpMk)

337 I give up. The MSM is completely flooding the zone with BS. It's truly amazing that the general population can break through the BS Ceiling.

I guess that's why, "It's the Economy, Stupid"

Posted by: Braenyard, _ want nuremberg trials? badger your congressman at August 27, 2022 04:21 PM (Yra+J)

338 335 just saw that on Thursday, the anniversary of John McCain's death, the Libertarian Party of New Hampshire posted a photo of Megaton crying with the caption "HAPPY HOLIDAYS". LOLOLOL.
Posted by: Ian S.

That's a terrible thing to say!
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 27, 2022 04:02 PM (7FozI)

Especially as his funeral is still going on....

Posted by: Bad 80's Comic at August 27, 2022 07:20 PM (oHd/0)

339 337 I give up. The MSM is completely flooding the zone with BS. It's truly amazing that the general population can break through the BS Ceiling.

I guess that's why, "It's the Economy, Stupid"

Posted by: Braenyard, _ want nuremberg trials? badger your congressman at August 27, 2022 04:21 PM (Yra+J)

Yup.... after the Judge allows the FBI TWO FUCKING WEEKS with unfettered access to everything they stole from Trump.... NOW he says he MAY appoint a special Master.

Uh, would not that have needed to be done prior to the FBI reading all his shit? /facepalm

Posted by: Bad 80's Comic at August 27, 2022 07:21 PM (oHd/0)

340 ctrl-f "deflation"

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ok then

Posted by: rold at August 27, 2022 10:52 PM (IyWG6)

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