20 years ago you could go to an in-state public school (without housing and food) for $5k/year in Indiana. Nowadays the same school has a tuition of $16k/year without housing. There are cheaper in-state universities going for around $10k/year, but that’s still a minimum of $40k for 4 years without housing or food or car or health insurance or internet or utilities.
I swear you can take this exact story and repeat it in year 3 of every single Democratic president. “Debt debt debt” is all you hear (ignoring the deficit that is shrinking) until the R’s are in office, then it is “we need to help the job creators by cutting taxes.”
Hell, you don’t even have to wait until year 3. I remember mercilessly mocking a friend of mine who shared a story about how Obama had increased the debt X amount… before he was even inaugurated.
As a middle manager with a hybrid staff… it could be both. I’m basically trusting my team to get their shit done without me checking over their virtual shoulders, but is that the best way? No idea. I’m just flying by the seat of my pants. My team has very high engagement levels, so I think my approach is working; but I also have a very experienced team and don’t think my approach would be successful for managing fresh-outs virtually.
I wouldn’t be surprised if they had tried.
I would actually prefer they bomb cemeteries instead of hospitals and schools, but I understand why people would be upset about it.
Wait, you think a religious advisor lying is more likely than people who were incompetent three times last year on a well established procedure being incompetent on a brand new procedure?
No, the simplest explanation is that Alabama is filed with fucktards who didn’t research the correct way to perform this task. They used a mask instead of a hood. Also, this same guy (and another guy last year) SURVIVED lethal injection in Alabama because they fucked it up. It took Alabama 5 hours to try killing him with lethal injection last year, and they STILL failed. What makes you think Alabama started a first of its kind process in the US and used it successfully?
I’m sure you can find code violations in every house or building you check.
including potentially on future security arrangements for Ukraine
Ukraine already signed a security, non-aggression arrangement with Russia back when they annexed Crimea. Russia violated that one, so why would Ukraine expect Russia to not violate this one?
I couldn’t find a source for how much total Biden has forgiven, but I’d be shocked if the percentage doesn’t start with a decimal point.
Prepare to be shocked. It’s close to 8%.
Also, if you couldn’t find a source then you either didn’t actually try to find a source, or you aren’t smart enough to google “how much student loan debt Biden has forgiven.” The answer was in the first result.
During those 2 years Manchin and Sinema weren’t actually Dems and voted against most major progressive legislation, only voting for minor stuff if progressive.
Based on my walks through Europe this year, it hasn’t lowered at all. Sooo many people smoke over there.
EDIT: Not saying it hasn’t lowered, just that I wasn’t able to notice much difference in my vacations to Europe compared to 15 years ago. I don’t live there, so maybe it’s only noticeable to people who see it everyday compared to me almost never seeing smokers in the US.
DE&I is about creating a space where all people have the opportunity to have similar end states. It is NOT about having everyone on equal footing at the start. It is recognizing that people have different starting points and that some of those starting points are heavily disadvantaged.
In engineering, for instance, Asian males make up the majority of grad students at many universities, and if not a majority then by far the highest minority. So their starting point when entering the workforce is much stronger than the majority of black people, or Hispanic people, or Native American people.
In college admissions, which is what this story is about, it is about looking at how difficult it is for a student to get to the point where they start college (financially and educationally). Asian Americans more frequently have strong families encouraging them and supporting them going to college. They more frequently have family support to get good grades in High School. They more frequently have the financial ability to augment loans to pay for college. So the thought is to give more help to communities that don’t have the same level of support.
If Asians make up 5% of the population but 15% of college students, while black people make up 10% of the population but only 3% of college students (all made up numbers), the point of DE&I initiatives are to help out those who are having harder times even getting to the starting line let alone finishing the marathon.
“selectively enforces its policies to avoid protecting Jewish students from harassment, hires professors who support anti-Jewish violence and spread antisemitic propaganda, and ignores Jewish students’ pleas for protection”
The problem with this statement is it is completely subjective and not at all objective. The first one is reasonable if Jewish students are being verbally harassed walking through campus with complaints being ignored. That might very well be happening. However, the other ones sound a whole lot like, “you hired professors who don’t 100% support Israel no matter what the country does.” One person’s “spread antisemitic propaganda” is another person’s “shared a story from a reputable news source that didn’t show 100% support for Israel.”
More likely that they relied on thousands of small donors at the state level, but those small donors are all giving directly to Trump instead of to the GOP as a whole.
The thing I hated about the Munich system was having to validate your ticket. My girlfriend and her friends got harassed and threatened by a cop because they didn’t know they had to validate the tickets they bought.
Victim-less crime.
Let he who has not wanted to swim naked in a Bass Pro Shop aquarium cast the first stone.
Nothing like performative legislation that does (almost) nothing other than turn on a spotlight on the latest group to be hated and dehumanized.
If you don’t understand the core nature of the business you yourself are starting, then you shouldn’t be starting that business. That business license was probably granted by the state, not the federal government. And just because the state didn’t say, “hey, you might want to think this through” doesn’t mean she shouldn’t think things through.
I guarantee you she knew what the federal laws were in a rough sense and likely knew EXACTLY what the federal laws were. One of the most common questions customers are going to ask employees of a legal weed place is whether this is legal.
There’s just such a huge difference between getting a job in an industry and starting a business in an industry. She probably had to build a business plan to get a loan to start the company, and that is when she should have been researching the legalities of what she was doing. She probably had to consult a tax attorney to get her company’s books in order, and that is another time when she should have been asking about federal legality.
This can’t be repeated enough. You paid heavily for 20 years into a predatory loan, and they think you should continue paying heavily with no end date in sight.