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by mc32 6mo ago
We can help them by allowing students to default on their loans. It still costs us taxpayers but at least it keeps universities honest.
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by mc32 6mo ago
Compare the costs associated with keeping US troops in NKorea to contain that threat.
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by mc32 6mo ago
I’d be okay with them forgiving student loans so long as they also pay me back for what I paid back. I think the best course is to allow students to default on their loans. With backed loans Unis know they’ll get their money one way or the
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by mc32 6mo ago
There are many instances of that flying under the radar. If you visit an “ethnic” grocer likely there is an over representation of one ethnicity even when accounting for economic strata. But also in places like airport services.
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by mc32 6mo ago
That’s wild. But companies are greedy and will do all they can that doesn’t land them in jail to cut costs.
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by mc32 6mo ago
Well, in the US we had organizations that aren’t supposed to spy on citizens actually spy on Congress members! Nixon was impeached for much less… but I guess once we passed into the new millennium all bets were off starting with Carnivore
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by mc32 6mo ago
TV and social media have been the modern bread and circuses for a while now. Gambling continues to be a vice.
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by mc32 6mo ago
Ha! If the Congress did diddly squat about eavesdropping on them by organizations that aren’t supposed to spy on citizens back in the Obama days (we also spied on allies’s governments but that’s kinda what all of them do) there is no hope
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by mc32 6mo ago
Their mistake was not reading the tea-leaves. Just as Youxia Zhang, Weidong He, etc. Although to be fair the party elders and generals were in a no-win situation. They could not just "leave." They were likely baited to come in w
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by mc32 6mo ago
Yes I think they mean they hadn’t seen it used before outside of sanctioned organizations. Though one could argue some bad actors inside the org likely used it outside of official capacity though not likely with knowledge or approval by sup
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by mc32 6mo ago
You know how the United Arab Emirates are known as the Emirates, how the United Mexican Sates are known as Mexico and how the United States of America is known as America? Are you unfamiliar with what synecdoche is?
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by mc32 6mo ago
Yeah, it's weird, NJ is pretty well-known for having iconic Diners. People from many different states will know about NJ diners. https://www.tastingtable.com/1203923/best-diners-in-new-jers...
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by mc32 6mo ago
That’s like telling the Japanese that “cutlet” is not pronounced “katsu.” It ain’t gonna change. Or even having southerners pronounce squirrel with two sellable [autocorrect : syllables] Good luck with that!
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by mc32 6mo ago
It’s been a part of sci-fi for a long time.
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by mc32 6mo ago
And Jellied eel, why not?
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by mc32 6mo ago
Do you know who needs to start banning "books"? Amazon. They truly need to start finding a way to ban bullshit books and lousy books printed on demand --it's a racket and they just don't seem to care. Can they not hire
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by mc32 6mo ago
Yes, but that ship sailed. Bernie Sanders used to be for the American worker. He used to block re-settling refugees in his state. Nowadays even he doesn't care to curb immigration or off-shoring. Some people in the Trump admin make
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by mc32 6mo ago
If people affected banded together and all defied the company, the company would find itself in a difficult situation. If the then became standard procedure for workers affected by offshoring, companies would hesitate to do this. It would
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by mc32 6mo ago
Exactly. It’s the same defeatist attitude people who get an extra three months of pay to train their Eastern European or Indian replacements. They will gladly take the three months pay to train a replacement. I’d quit on the spot. Let the
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by mc32 6mo ago
It’s been going on since the Obama admin. Could be longer. Purportedly a unit was smuggled out of some former Soviet republic and we now have a copy of the actual device. When tested on animals, the device produced injuries in alignment w
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by mc32 6mo ago
I like mustard AND catsup on mine. I guess that's a big false step to them.
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by mc32 6mo ago
Like many NGOs/NPOs they suffer from perverse incentives: reduce or solve the problem and their reason to be disappears and the directors and higher staff no longer have well paying cushy jobs. You see this in NGOs "helping"
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by mc32 6mo ago
Did Schliemann pass through Berlin, maybe?
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by mc32 6mo ago
Bureaucracy and momentum can lead to rot. It’s not a bad idea to tear things down and rebuild in order to extirpate that rot and misdirection. Companies tend to have restructurings and stack ranking. Obviously these have their downsides t
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by mc32 6mo ago
If the government mandates them then yes. If it’s not mandated they have the right to refuse service.
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by mc32 6mo ago
To me that’s how it should be. They shouldn’t have to run ads against themselves yet they should be liable or accountable for harm they are found guilty of.
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by mc32 6mo ago
It had to do with the economy. The city was going broke and the city was levying more taxes while the city failed to make the environment attractive to companies and individuals. Koch was corrupt, Dinkins inept and it took tough DAs and m
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by mc32 6mo ago
I think with some it’s the lifetime of the product line. If it’s sunset, no longer sold; lifetime ends when support ends.
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by mc32 6mo ago
It’s like most lifetime warranties. They’re not what they seem to mean colloquially. They have a contractual meaning.
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by mc32 6mo ago
It’s what happens when you let people get what they want. Like children, adults need guidance. Kids would eat candy and drink OJ till their baby teeth rot off and they are riddled with onset of many diseases if left to their own devices.

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