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by eimai134 11y ago
I'll bet a lot of people have money elsewhere. However, I have a lot of friends who are poor (by that I mean that they qualify for food stamps), and it's amazing to see the way they spend money. When I was poor I bought the very c
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by eimai134 11y ago
It's quite hard to just move to another country - most have very strict immigration policies.
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by eimai134 11y ago
We have free speech and people can use whatever hashtags they want to. Outside of organizing a terrorist plot or conspiring to kill someone, people have the right to speak and write what they choose.
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by eimai134 11y ago
Very true. There is also the big difference of private companies versus the government taking on the debt that is walked away from.
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The Islamic State Is Raping 8-Year-Olds. And the World Is Doing Nothing(politico.com)
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by eimai134 11y ago
You should reread my comment, where I outlined several ways in which this is different.
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by eimai134 11y ago
Your opinion. There are plenty of people who don't think #BlackCatsMatter is idiotic.
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by eimai134 11y ago
I've heard a lot of comments about men that would be defined as "harassment" if they came from a woman. No one really listens to men. I told my husband that I thought his last boss was sexually harassing him because when she
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by eimai134 11y ago
This was never what being a "cool girl" meant to me and my friends. Where I am from, the term is used to describe someone who doesn't flip out and act psychotic or text her boyfriend constantly if he's having a guys nigh
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by eimai134 11y ago
There is no law that we can't be concerned about animals lives until all people's lives are better.
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by eimai134 11y ago
Save the animals - #AllLivesMatter
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by eimai134 11y ago
If people don't have any other food, they will eat people who die as well.
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by eimai134 11y ago
The difference is that with bankruptcy, the majority of your assets are seized. The equivalent would be if the degree and related experience was seized as well. Also, in bankruptcy the creditors are the ones who assume the losses. When defa
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by eimai134 11y ago
I used to not have a bachelor's and thought I was doing fine in my career. Then the Internet came along and every job required filling out an online profile, where people were screened out if they didn't have a degree. So I felt I
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by eimai134 11y ago
You lose your house if you walk away from it, including all the money you've paid into it. The equivalent of this for student loans would be if you gave back your degree and related experience when you defaulted on student loans.
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by eimai134 11y ago
The the more people that go to college, the less rigorous the material is.
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by eimai134 11y ago
Very true - especially when some of the people graduating with bachelor's degrees are practically illiterate (I know, they have worked for me). Soon it will require a master's degree to demand a middle-class salary - it's abo
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by eimai134 11y ago
Sorry, but I have trouble feeling sorry for these people. I know a person who has more than $100K in student loan debt, for degrees she has decided she doesn't want to use, who just quit her job to follow a dream of being an artist. I
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by eimai134 11y ago
The article presents some good information about how out of control "trigger warnings" have become. And it's interesting that there is discrimination in the things that people are supposed to give "trigger warnings"
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by eimai134 11y ago
There is a story of a Buddhist student (probably Zen) who asked his master what he should do since he had finished eating. The master replied "Wash your bowl." It is the simple things that make up life and have provided meaning fo
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by eimai134 11y ago
Yes, I think it makes for a surveillance state. People need the ability to use cash and coin in order to retain their freedom. A cashless economy implies that everything is done on cards and computers where accounts can be frozen or a power
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by eimai134 11y ago
It would be nice if there was a revenue-neutral or even for-profit system that helped former prisoners, the homeless, and people on welfare transition to self-sufficiency. The U.S. has a great need for healthy, organic food, as well as manu
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by eimai134 11y ago
The concept is nice - students certainly need more exposure to Western literature, history, and philosophy. Perhaps seeing these Tweets will inspire them to look up the books or topics and read on their own since schools don't teach mu
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by eimai134 11y ago
That was my first thought. Same thing newspapers used to do when people could send in comments (letters) to the editor, and carefully selected for publication (I used to work at a paper so I saw the process and discussions numerous times).
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by eimai134 11y ago
I agree - so many people have the following reaction to being asked questions: either clam up, or insult you and call you a name for "not getting" the point they are making. It's always suspect to me when someone cares enough
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by eimai134 11y ago
I agree with the OP. Vice is pretty much a trash site.
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by eimai134 11y ago
That's very true. I find that many of the commenters do better research into the topic than the writer.
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by eimai134 11y ago
I see a number of websites that don't have comments. I also notice that when an article is controversial, sometimes a site that usually has comments has them turned off for that article. I think this is a kind of censorship. Newspapers
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by eimai134 11y ago
There is a big problem in America with people not knowing how to cook anymore, especially from scratch. I wasn't taught very well as a child and had to learn myself in my 20s. Now I spend a small amount of time cooking and trying out r
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by eimai134 11y ago
blah blah blah - more from the "let's take every comment and twist it into something sexist" crowd.

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