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mchookem

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  1. necrobump, but i can't find a more suitable thread...

    anybody know financial aid rules...specifically, can grants/scholarships be applied to off-campus housing, food, living, books, etc.? 

    niece is sophomore UNT and is killing it, they are basically throwing money at her next year (~10K/semester).

    the 'issue' (if you can call it that lol) is that she has a TTF so all tuition and fees are already covered.

    she got some aid her freshman year (2020-2021) but we did have to kick in a few thousand/semester to cover housing/books/etc...but she is moving off campus in the fall. if she gets everything they're offering next year and can use it, she'll basically have a free ride (and we won't have to spend any extra ding ding!) 

    she has asked the FA office but they just replied with some generic 'it will be applied during the academic year'...

    i received a few grants at UT and i never lived on campus, i seem to recall them just sending me a check that i could use for whatever...but that was a long time ago ☺️

    she's following up with the office to try and get a better answer but thought i'd ask smart guys here who have kids in college...

     

  2. one of the reasons i initially supported Pete was his supreme court plan. i'm too lazy to recount exact details now, but it included increasing the number of justices, term limits and a really logical way of rotating justices off the court so that every presidential term had the opportunity to appoint i think two new justices... something like that. it was very clever and seemed simple to implement and i liked it.

    so, i'm down with it.

  3. good commentary here. i too was feeling a bit like 'wellll...yeah it's kind of a good question that i wish Fauci would/could answer more clearly/quantitatively...but my god Jordan is such a flaming prick, fuck him and his grandstanding histrionics!" 

     

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  4. 1 hour ago, RomaVicta said:

    Over dinner once, my brother who is gay and so much more, gave an off-the-cuff monologue about the "sick queen." Described the same as you do with the prime example of J. Edgar Hoover. 

    It sort of explains the ultra-conservative and malign GOPs that get caught in trysts with males or sexually harrassing young male interns while they fervently support policies that crush the rights, freedom, and even safety of those who have the fortitude not to hide their sexual orientation.

    Hmmm. Perhaps it's virtue-envy that, in turn, creates and condemns the notion of virtue-signalling or being a warrior for the evils of social justice. Sick, indeed.

    this made me think of Roy Cohn...

    who i proceeded to look up, and learned that he represented Trump early in his career. b/c of course he did. 

    and then i saw this gem from none other than Roger Stone: "Roy was not gay. He was a man who liked having sex with men. Gays were weak, effeminate. He always seemed to have these young blond boys around. It just wasn't discussed. He was interested in power and access." 

    i have no point other than...gotdamn it really is a comic book villain universe.

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  5. i mean, if i have to be in Indiana, Indiana Dunes NP is probably the best place to be.

    National Parks are the best thing about America. 

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