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  1. 17 minutes ago, fattyflattie said:

    I’m sure they’ll work on reducing it now that they know it’ll be forgiven/paid by the govt anytime the electorate feels like voting themselves some more free money. 

    Hey if big business interests get to do it, why shouldn't the people get to do it too?

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  2. 33 minutes ago, MonkeyDoughnut said:

    I mean undergrad at UT now at $130k estimated cost of attendance and it's considered a lower cost school 🙄

    Isn't more than half of that cost of living in Austin? It's been a minute since Ive had to look at the official student cost card. But yeah. Tuition alone is increasing at a rate far higher than inflation, not to mention the rest of Austin's affordability problems

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  3. To solve the issues with higher ed, the taxpayer is gonna need to spend more. Period. Or we need to fundamentally and systemically change how education works.

    But none of that matters for the multiple generations buried with debt that's stalling their start of adulthood. How can you afford to save a down payment when rent has nearly doubled in the last decade? Many can't even afford to live on their own, or choose to live with family just so they can actually scrape some savings together. 

    There's been too much profit taking and tax cutting and the variety of problems we see are all symptoms of that. 

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  4. it's completely unsurprising to see lil annie #bothsides cheering on the rise of desantis. Homeboy is already overturning the will of his voters in suspending an elected state prosecutor with zero legal backing to do so. You don't get to just remove elected officials just because you don't like what they said.

  5. 15 minutes ago, Js1 said:

    The average federal student loan debt is, I believe, something around $25k to $30k. 

    ftfy - lots of students have either state or private educational loans to supplement their fed loans. The financial aid package of your average UT student right now is mostly state of TX loans, including the remaining ~40% of my total principle. Because I paid off my fed loans in 2020 like a chump

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  6. 2 minutes ago, Longhorn_Fan68 said:

    since he's now reaching for low-hanging fruit now (and sorry trumplicans, this is a very popular and well-reasoned/backed loan forgiveness) now do marijuana. Just rip that fucking bandaid off, Joe. Undo a half-century+ of bad policy and give the people their medicine! Can I get an amen?!

    but then how would we fill up our slavery prisoner quota without marijuana charges to press against minorities??

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  7. Reading some of the allegations, if this dude was the head of security he would know all those details. And while the bigtech™ place I work at has verrrrry strict security controls that wouldn't allow what's described, I can 100000% see an organization running like that because they never stopped to fix their shit. Pretty much any business that isn't a hyperscaler is going to have some degree of those problems, it's just a matter of how big and broad the issues are, and how much defense in depth they have in place.

    I'm eager to see how much of this is borne out during the musk litigation, as this is all pretty discreet and provable. At least if twitter has been doing their ISO and SOX audits like they should have been...

  8. 10 hours ago, Pancho said:

    If you go thru this entire thread, I’m sure you’ll eventually see some people you may know:

     

     

    He's doing his Alex Jones impression. To these very fine people, that is the absolute pinnacle of argument and persuasion

  9. 9 hours ago, Humble Beast said:

    Who will buy? The Fed obviously. The timing should work out well for the next round of QE to get announced. Large scale debt monetization. yeehaw

    You're just describing a government version of what private equity firms have been doing for ages with their own stocks and shares and bonds lol. This is why the money supply is out of control. Every dollar of asset is being used to underwrite loans, and then the asset is still used or sold, or simply loses value. But the money from the loan remains. 

    Rinse and repeat. Zero percent interest is a hell of a drug if you've got a few million in things to get loans off of

  10. 9 hours ago, Humble Beast said:

    Who will buy? The Fed obviously. The timing should work out well for the next round of QE to get announced. Large scale debt monetization. yeehaw

    You're just describing a government version of what private equity firms have been doing for ages with their own stocks and shares and bonds lol. This is why the money supply is out of control. Every dollar of asset is being used to underwrite loans, and then the asset is still used or sold, or simply loses value. But the money from the loan remains. 

    Rinse and repeat. Zero percent interest is a hell of a drug if you've got a few million in things to get loans off of

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  11. 12 hours ago, Catpfish said:

    Not to keep beating a dead horse, but be careful if you move to starlink. My system is mounted at the top of my house, with no obstruction within a hundred yards, and loses connection in any type of rain. This is what my connection is doing right now and has been down all afternoon. They say they are aware of a degradation of service in my area (Pflugerville) and are working on it, but who knows what that means.

    That said when it works, which admittedly is most of the time, it's pretty good but my wife has had to work from a mobile hotspot at least twice in the last 2 weeks.f6e9e6e53d448d15e69ced0ce489bbda.jpg

    I'm curious, are you near any power lines or a transformer station or any potential sources of significant EM interference? Or it's possible that some of the satellites in the orbital track that cover your area are having issues, so you're getting poor coverage when the unhealthy nodes are serving you

  12. 6 hours ago, Fastbreak said:

    Why didn’t Mueller stand up and call bullshit. I thought he was some stand up guy and yet again it turns out he is just an enabler of traitors.

    Mueller is a bureaucrat's bureaucrat. Going over the head of the AG is a big no no in the rulebook, so therefore he won't do it. He did do the smallest possible thing in sending a letter and putting his objection on paper and on the record, but frankly its surprising he even did that publicly. 

    One of the major weaknesses our system is that the laws are written expecting people to be operating in good faith. Trumpists exploited this to take public processes with the veneer of authenticity and twist them to their benefit in the overall discussion. Barr's move was undoubtedly going to get overruled later, but it would be too late to matter as we can see. The message has been woven into the GQP dogma and is now beyond reproach. No need to waste further brain hurty thinky think time on it

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  13. Pigs are finally going to squeal and come clean

    Reuters: Former Louisville officer to plead guilty to Breonna Taylor cover-up

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    Aug 23 (Reuters) - A former Louisville detective is expected to plead guilty on Tuesday to helping to falsify a search warrant that led to the killing of Breonna Taylor, a Black woman whose death fueled a wave of protests over police violence against people of color.

    The former officer, Kelly Goodlett, is scheduled to appear at 1 p.m. (1700 GMT) before U.S. District Court Judge Rebecca Grady Jennings in a federal court in Louisville, Kentucky. She is expected to be arraigned and to enter her plea.

     

    Goodlett was one of four former Louisville Metropolitan Police Department detectives charged by the U.S. Justice Department on Aug. 4 for their involvement in the 2020 raid that killed Taylor in her home.

    The charges represented the Justice Department's latest attempt to crack down on abuses and racial disparities in policing, following a series of high-profile police killings of Black Americans across the country.

     

    The killing of Taylor, along with other 2020 killings of George Floyd in Minneapolis and Ahmaud Arbery in Georgia, among others, sparked outrage and galvanized protests that peaked in intensity during that summer.

    Taylor, a 26-year-old emergency medical technician, was asleep with her boyfriend on March 13, 2020 when police conducted a no-knock raid and burst into her apartment. Taylor's boyfriend fired once at what he said he believed were intruders. Three police officers responded with 32 shots, six of which struck Taylor, killing her.

     

    Goodlett and a fellow former officer, Joshua Jaynes, met days after the shooting in a garage where they agreed on a false story to cover for the false evidence they had submitted to justify the botched raid, prosecutors say.

    Goodlett was charged with conspiring with another detective to falsify the warrant that led to the raid and then cover up the falsification.

    Federal prosecutors also charged Jaynes and current Sergeant Kyle Meany with civil rights violations and obstruction of justice for using false information to obtain the search warrant. A fourth officer, former Detective Brett Hankison, was charged with civil rights violations for allegedly using excessive force.

     

    In March, a jury acquitted Hankison on a charge of wanton endangerment. A grand jury earlier cleared the other two white officers who shot Taylor but charged Hankison for endangering neighbors in the adjacent apartment.

    A grand juror on the case later said Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron only presented the wanton endangerment charges against Hankison to the grand jury. read more

    Glad the cops are being made to face justice. They've still got a lot of answering to do for their antics during the 2020 summer of love. 

    I hope the folks who were making excuses for the cops read this and know they were blindly accepting complete fabrications. Pages 7/8/9 of this thread are pretty cringe in hindsight, doing the cops work for them of spreading and repeating their racist lies. 

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  14. 3 hours ago, Neonmoon said:

    He post insane shit for interaction. More interaction equals more power. By engaging him, he’s winning. 

     

    1 hour ago, 'stache said:

    How is it a troll? Half our country currently wants fascism. How is it a surprise that one of them made it to surly cloak room?

    Fascism thrives on open conflict. Escalation of rhetoric leads to escalation of policy leads to escalation of violence in the streets. Cruz is stirring the pot, and when everyone turns up the heat it cooks just a little faster. 

    Best thing would be for everyone to stop engaging with cruz. He'd lose what gives him power

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