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| Topic | Do you approve of elizabeth warren's plan for student loan debt forgiveness? |
| streamofthesky 05/18/19 2:06:48 AM #71 | Kyuubi4269 posted... streamofthesky posted...Going forward, all future loans should be dis-chargeable in bankruptcy, like they used to be. That will mean the amounts a student can get will be much lower. That's hardly a bad thing. It's a cycle. Everyone can get loans, for absurd amounts. More people go to college, even the ones who really shouldn't or don't need to. More demand and a nigh limitless amount of debt credit from the prospective students lets colleges jack up prices. Students have to take out more and more to cover the costs of the ballooning price of college. And then...the amounts of debt are so fucking staggering that even if the student "does everything right" and gets a good paying job, s/he can be in debt for decades. It's odd you cloak yourself in the mantle of not wanting to increase wealth divides... |
| Topic | Do you approve of elizabeth warren's plan for student loan debt forgiveness? |
| streamofthesky 05/18/19 1:29:15 AM #64 | Zeus posted... CarrieChan posted...I don't mind them being dischargeable in bankruptcy. The current loans, which were given out under the assumption that they couldn't be escaped via bankruptcy, should remain that way. Going forward, all future loans should be dis-chargeable in bankruptcy, like they used to be. That will mean the amounts a student can get will be much lower. That's hardly a bad thing. Obscene loan amounts with no basis of a student being capable of paying it back is a root cause of the current problems. |
| Topic | Do you approve of elizabeth warren's plan for student loan debt forgiveness? |
| streamofthesky 05/17/19 11:54:37 PM #58 | No. I'd be ok with some moderate forms of relief. Like letting people refinance their loans to a lower interest rate. Maybe reducing the interest owed in return for some length of community service or something. But the principle definitely has to be repaid in full. Not giving literal handouts to those who made poor financial decisions. But I have faith in their ideas never passing Congress so long as Republicans have enough Senators to filibuster the bill, so I'm willing to overlook my disagreement on that issue and vote for them anyway. I'm fine w/ their opening position being the extreme left (free college) and Republicans' continuing to hold an extreme right view (doing nothing...actually...cutting Pell grants and such so worse than doing nothing), and that leading to some sort of compromise in the middle. |
| Topic | What is PotD's favorite Japanese role-playing game? |
| streamofthesky 05/17/19 12:58:47 PM #38 | Suikoden II Xenoblade Chronicles 1 Legend of Dragoon Radiant Historia (Perfect Chronology) Suikoden I Chrono Trigger Super Mario RPG FF Tactics Suikoden V Baten Kaitos Origins I think that's my top 10...tough to even narrow it down that far. Cotton_Eye_Joe posted... Is it basically Zelda for the Playstation? I think that's Alundra. |
| Topic | Ben & Jerry's Bob Marley ice cream |
| streamofthesky 05/17/19 12:58:07 AM #18 | I imagine Cap's would be like...vanilla w/ strawberry and blueberry swirls or such. Cause... 'murica. More importantly....what would the real star of the team's flavor be? Hawkeye! I imagine something involving rhyming/merging "arrow" with "marshmallow", not sure where else to go from there. |
| Topic | Rate my prom pics guise |
| streamofthesky 05/17/19 12:55:22 AM #12 | Honest assessment: In the first pic you look like a 40 year old trapped in the body of a 14 year old. It's just weird...like the head is slightly too large for the body, and the haircut makes you look older. 2nd pic w/ the hat on and ditching the cheesy smile, you actually look pretty good. Don't hate on pre-tied ties. Ties suck. I love my zipper ties, and no one's ever been able to tell it's a "fake." |
| Topic | Why are people freaking out over Alabama? |
| streamofthesky 05/17/19 12:46:46 AM #74 | Broken_Zeus posted... streamofthesky posted...Putting the doctors in prison for performing the operation is even worse than jailing the women seeking it out. They have an oath to help people who need their services. 1. Jailing doctors for trying to help people is worse. 2. Only if you think it's a person the second the egg is fertilized. 3. Doesn't the Alabama law forbid abortions in all cases? Broken_Zeus posted... streamofthesky posted...Seeing intelligent, successful professionals who contribute to society and care about helping people being threatened with jail probably gives him genuine schadenfreude. Wow, going with the argument that doctors are not intelligent and successful. That's a bold move, Skip, let's see how that works out for him. And they're not "lawbreakers." Not even in backward ass Alabama until January next year, and even then only if the new abortion law is not struck down by the courts first, which it definitely will be. |
| Topic | Why are people freaking out over Alabama? |
| streamofthesky 05/17/19 12:07:53 AM #71 | CacciatoPart3 posted... Broken_Zeus posted...Mead posted...A convicted rapist would go to prison for a lot less time than a woman trying to get an abortion in that state Seeing intelligent, successful professionals who contribute to society and care about helping people being threatened with jail probably gives him genuine schadenfreude. |
| Topic | The White House launches online "tech bias story sharing tool". |
| streamofthesky 05/17/19 12:05:42 AM #11 | "The party of small government" |
| Topic | Why are people freaking out over Alabama? |
| streamofthesky 05/16/19 11:44:55 PM #68 | Broken_Zeus posted... Mead posted...A convicted rapist would go to prison for a lot less time than a woman trying to get an abortion in that state Got your main account banned again? Putting the doctors in prison for performing the operation is even worse than jailing the women seeking it out. They have an oath to help people who need their services. |
| Topic | Ben & Jerry's Bob Marley ice cream |
| streamofthesky 05/16/19 11:37:22 PM #6 | Ah, there was a petition/poll to bring backa flavor, and it won this year: https://www.foodandwine.com/news/ben-and-jerrys-one-love-ice-cream So...it really could be a long time before it comes back again if all that brought it back was beating out other limited edition flavors in a poll... Was hoping it was a set seasonal thing, like the same time every year. Bugmeat posted... It sounds good, except for the banana ice cream. Artificial tasting banana is nasty. But when it tastes like real banana, it's fucking delicious. B&J banana ice cream is the latter. It's heavenly. |
| Topic | Ben & Jerry's Bob Marley ice cream |
| streamofthesky 05/16/19 11:29:53 PM #4 | It's called "One Love" It's fucking amazing! Chunky Monkey was always my absolute favorite ice cream, and this one is basically it...but better (just lacks the walnuts...) Every week B&J ice cream is on sale, I freaking horde 2-3 pints of the stuff and enjoy it almost every day while I can, because sadly I know it's going away eventually. I first noticed it like 2 years ago. Then it went away and didn't come back last year. It's been in my grocer's frozen aisle this year for the past like 3 months, but I think they're about to phase it out again. Who knows when it will be back? :( |
| Topic | Bedtime |
| streamofthesky 05/16/19 10:39:29 PM #17 | Sarcasthma posted... 2am because Im an idiot. DevilSummoner1 posted... Sarcasthma posted...3am because Im an idiot. https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/292961 He found that people with high intelligence are likelier to be night owls. This applied across a wide span of demographic variables, such as ethnicity, education and religion. As Kanazawa explains it, sleeping late at night was rare back in our ancestors day, making it evolutionarily novel. |
| Topic | Tulsi Gabbard on JRE |
| streamofthesky 05/16/19 10:30:56 PM #23 | Mead posted... I feel like Yang especially is just not getting a fair shake Well before i heard of Yang, I was talking to friends about how the tax code should be changed. Get rid of ALL the loopholes and breaks. Raise the corporate tax rate. Tax based on the point of sale, not the "country the company claims it resides in." But...provide tax breaks for companies based on how many employees they have that are legal residents of (and working in) the U.S. compared in a ratio to their annual profits. Doesn't matter if a company is earning tons of money w/ few U.S. employees because of outsourcing (whether to China, India, Mexico, whatever), abuse of illegal immigration, automation, whatever... If the company has huge profits off sales to the U.S. but isn't employing many people here...they get to eat a giant fucking tax bill! (I'd also be open to a tax break for companies w/ a small ratio between the highest paid employees and the lowest paid...which encourages using temp agencies to fill low wage jobs, but then the company has less employees to count towards the first tax break, so...balances out?) Then at least there's some aid for a company that wants to try and hire people even if it'd save more money to automate. We'll never be able to make it more lucrative to use people over AI, but we can at least staunch the transition a bit, and set up the concept of multi billion dollar companies w/ few employees paying huge taxes for going that route. Then as more companies opt for that route and the tax money rolls in, it can be used to fund a Universal Basic Income. That's my idea... |
| Topic | Tulsi Gabbard on JRE |
| streamofthesky 05/16/19 10:21:53 PM #21 | CaptainStrong posted... streamofthesky posted...Getting illegally obtained information directly from Russia and directed when to strategically release it to the public in order to damage the cause of the Democrats as much as possible in the election. That's a clear crossing of the line from journalist to Russian operative, and he should be fucking thrown in prison for it. I voted for Bernie in the primary and refused to vote for either Hillary or Trump in the general, you're barking up the wrong tree. I have no particular love for Hillary Clinton. But he is not a journalist. He acted as an operative of Russia, specifically to influence and decide our election, and conflating those actions with journalism is honestly a dangerous precedent to set. Also....yes, Hillary was corrupt as shit. Couldn't stomach voting for her. But you act like Trump isn't even more corrupt. But the public only got the humiliating private email exchanges of the former. Because a hostile foreign power wanted the latter to win. I'm not going to fucking just "let that go," and it doesn't even matter which party happened to be the victim, I'd be pissed off if it happened the other way, too. |
| Topic | Do you personally fear dying? |
| streamofthesky 05/16/19 10:17:16 PM #45 | Mead posted... I dont fear dying, but I do have an irrational fear of not existing I guess that's the best depiction of how I feel, too. Even as earlier as like 12 years old, I'd think about one day just ceasing to exist, and it'd terrify me, I'd just feel this cold, gaping emptiness inside. Even now, all I can do is distract myself from thinking about it. I need to take better care of myself, but I do exercise, and honestly staying youthful and healthy and living as long as possible is the main motivation. I'm agnostic, but I'm not against the idea of a heaven existing...I'd really love it to be true, in fact! But there just doesn't seem to be any rational way it could be true, and I don't have much in the way of blind faith (hence being agnostic). I really want to see some people braver/more desperate than me try out shit like human cloning and...I saw once about a guy trying to do a brain transfer into another body... Just see how that stuff turns out, have some better idea about what gives a person their sense of self, retention of memories, etc... Likewise with the even more out-there sci fi stuff w/ the human mind uploading to a computer or such, but that seems even more implausible, and no longer having a biological body would be eerie/depressing. I remember a story about nurses in hospices and the things the dying patients would tell them, and the most unanimous thing they all said was missing the full use and health of their bodies. Treasure your body...take good care of it. Keep it functioning as long as you possibly can. Sadly you only get the one. |
| Topic | Tulsi Gabbard on JRE |
| streamofthesky 05/16/19 9:57:38 PM #16 | Finished it, it was really good and re-affirmed that she's my favorite in the race. The last like 25 minutes are especially good because they finally stop going back to foreign policy discussions and talk about Universal Basic Income, corporate tax inversion, opioid epidemic, etc... domestic topics that I honestly just...care about more. Biggest issue I had w/ what she said was her view on Assange, and that she'd drop the U.S. efforts to try him here, even called him a "journalist." That was upsetting to hear, especially from a Democrat. At first, sure he could be considered a journalist. But he turned into a political operative by the end. Getting illegally obtained information directly from Russia and directed when to strategically release it to the public in order to damage the cause of the Democrats as much as possible in the election. That's a clear crossing of the line from journalist to Russian operative, and he should be fucking thrown in prison for it. Snowden, sure, he deserves a pardon. Assange? No. |
| Topic | Bedtime |
| streamofthesky 05/16/19 9:22:27 PM #12 | Seriously didn't expect my answer to be the most-picked option (3 am). Always been a night owl. Having to wake up for work at 7 am fucking sucks Used to have a job w/ 10 am - 6 pm for hours, that was much nicer... |
| Topic | Why are people freaking out over Alabama? |
| streamofthesky 05/16/19 5:25:45 PM #57 | Mead posted... Muscles posted...Why can't governments just stay out of people's personal lives? There's been so many great articles and opinion pieces since Trump's election pointing out the brazen and disgusting hypocrisy of the religious right. Not just for REEEEing for small government but pushing these abortion restrictions to take away womens' most basic rights over their own bodies, but also for all the personal moral controversies Trump's been involved in that they overlook to overwhelmingly support him anyway because he's willing to push their agenda. These charlatans need to be confronted loudly and persistently every time they try to open up their mouths to squawk about morals. |
| Topic | Richard Spencer says CHARLOTTESVILLE would NOT have happened without TRUMP!!! |
| streamofthesky 05/15/19 11:16:10 PM #4 | Full Throttle posted... The face of a dude who has never had sex, and is really angry about it. FrndNhbrHdCEman posted... Y'all remember when Zeus vehemently defended this? You say that like it's ancient history. Has he ever stopped defending it? |
| Topic | Do you think there's a good chance roe v. wade is overturned? |
| streamofthesky 05/15/19 9:20:46 PM #10 | man101 posted... I don't know about the chances but I kind of hope it does get overturned if only because it'll piss off a bunch of people who either don't vote or who voted against their own best interests and then maybe next election cycle we'll finally oust a bunch of these ancient hypocritical right wing 'christian' douchebags who occupy far too many elected offices. I honestly think fear of the backlash that will be unleashed may be the only thing that keeps Republicans from actually doing it. They'll try to chip away at it carefully and one new restriction at a time, and hope they can tip toe their way to making it practically impossible to get an abortion. But there will eventually be a line that's crossed, and then the floodgates of rage will be opened on their asses. And yes, it'll be glorious. |
| Topic | Who is going to win the tariff pissing contest? |
| streamofthesky 05/15/19 2:56:12 AM #9 | miki_sauvester posted... trump the buying country has the large advantage in any trade war Xi Jinping The country where the citizens have more avenues to vocalize their rage at being hurt by the pissing contest likely cracks first |
| Topic | Americans would Rather VOTE for an EVANGELICAL than a Muslim OR Socialist!!! |
| streamofthesky 05/15/19 2:48:18 AM #3 | Wanted to vote no, but there's too many religions out there that are just fucking nuts and I could never vote for someone who believed in that shit. And then there's the more mainstream religions that have ultra-religious people looking to impose theocratic law on the country, like Ted Cruz or Mike Pence. Don't mind voting for a socialist, atheist, muslim, etc.... And pretty sure every person I ever have voted for president in the general election has been a christian of some denomination. |
| Topic | Tulsi Gabbard on JRE |
| streamofthesky 05/14/19 11:25:46 PM #15 | Half an hour in so far, gonna have to watch this in parts. But good stuff so far. She's one of my top choices, easily. EDIT: Ok, Joe's saying Facebook should be a public utility. Which...seems odd to me. But it's just annoying that saying that is ignoring the elephant in the room....that somehow internet access itself still isn't treated as a public utility! Was hoping Tulsi would point that out, but they were just focused on the social media discussion. |
| Topic | Trump Supporter who raised 22 MILLION for the WALL bought a 1 MILLION YACHT!!! |
| streamofthesky 05/14/19 7:43:36 PM #17 | JTekashiro posted... But I thought the criminals were on the other side of the wall... Pretty sure the people illegally hiring the illegal immigrants are on our side of the wall. Oh wait, it's not comfortable to talk about those people, because Trump is one of them... |
| Topic | Trump Supporter who raised 22 MILLION for the WALL bought a 1 MILLION YACHT!!! |
| streamofthesky 05/14/19 7:21:39 PM #15 | SunWuKung420 posted... I love all the idiots that thought he was going to give that money to Trump to build a wall. He's just emulating his hero, considering Trump took donations given to his Trump Foundation and used it to buy shit for himself. Jen0125 posted... Anyone who didn't think it was a scam deserved to get scammed. Agreed. Felt the same way about the victims of Trump's "Trump University" scam. Like yeah...Trump scammed people and should go to jail for it. But at the same time...I distinctly remember commercials for Trump U on tv and immediately thinking, "what kind of moron would fall for this crap? Is it even going to be accredited?!" |
| Topic | Tulsi Gabbard on JRE |
| streamofthesky 05/14/19 3:12:05 AM #8 | Mead posted... Every time they bring up Gabbard or Yang on news outlets it seems to be just to put them down or mock them instead of actually discuss the issues theyre running on I don't even hear Yang brought up on news outlets. But yeah, Tulsi is almost always only mentioned in order to tear her down or criticize her, I've definitely noticed this. I like both of them a lot, probably my favorites running along w/ Warren (who's probably only escaped their treatment because she's too well known to simply be character assassinated and discarded), and sadly it's not surprising that the powerful news groups seem to see them as a threat to be eliminated. I've liked Gabbard since the 2016 election. She had a golden trail laid out for her to ascend the hierarchy of the Democratic party, being the DNC vice chair at such a young age and considered by many to be a "rising star." She was willing to throw away that easy ladder of success to vacate her position and be vocal about how the DNC was heavily biased against Bernie Sanders, angering the party leadership and almost certainly the reason she gets this treatment now. Sanders/Gabbard would've been an amazing ticket in 2016, they basically cover each others' weaknesses perfectly, and 4-8 years experience as VP would help the young Gabbard rapidly obtain the experience to silence any critiques about her being too young/new to politics to be president. |
| Topic | A HORRIFYING Creature has been found in FLORIDA!! Can you guess what it was??? |
| streamofthesky 05/13/19 9:55:18 PM #2 | Based on the title, I thought this topic would be about Rick Scott. |
| Topic | What is your favorite genre of music? |
| streamofthesky 05/12/19 6:47:19 PM #30 | Video game soundtracks (mainly from JRPGs and other Japanese games) J-Pop "World" Celtic New Age (Gothic) Chant Eurobeat K-Pop '80's music and New Wave |
| Topic | Fucking GPS screwed me over |
| streamofthesky 05/12/19 6:12:49 PM #23 | I'd ask how you didn't notice any of the signs directing you to the cash lane, but after the topic where you showed us video of you completely ignoring a traffic light, I guess this makes sense, too. There are times you have to ignore the GPS, though. Mine seems to like claiming there are "traffic delays" along the route I planned out specifically to avoid driving straight through city traffic, with its proposed alternative route...taking me right through the city and hitting horrendous traffic each time. I know it's bs b/c after a few hard lessons, ever since I've ignored it every time in that situation and never had worse than a few minutes of slowed down traffic, but every time I listened to it, I spent an hour or more in gridlock. |
| Topic | Does the disparity between CEO and average worker pay |
| streamofthesky 05/12/19 1:38:39 PM #11 | Unregulated capitalism will always lead to these situations. Money accumulates when allowed to. The more you have, the more you can buy out, and the more you buy out the more you control. The problem is we don't tax the high incomes nearly enough, and our regulatory system has been utterly destroyed. There used to be this thing called anti-trust laws....technically they still exist, but haven't been updated in a century to keep up w/ new schemes and are never really enforced. We used to restrict companies from forming virtual monopolies. Now we not only allow the mergers and acquisitions to happen, we reward them for it by bailing them out of their own fuck ups because now they're "too big too fail" and them going down would cause a catastrophe. Gee, sounds like they never should've been allowed to grow that big! Nah, that's crazy talk! Kyuubi4269 posted... Lokarin posted...Depends on if that CEO is reinvesting their income back into the company... which helps EVERYONE On a related note... We all just treat corporate stock buy backs like it's some normal thing that's been the case for as long as there's been a stock market. About that... https://www.cnn.com/2019/02/10/investing/stocks-week-ahead-buybacks-mark-yusko/index.html Veteran hedge fund manager Mark Yusko is deeply skeptical of the stock buyback boom set off by President Donald Trump's tax overhaul. Like the repeal of the Glass-Stteagall Act, yet another case where a fairly recent change to financial laws opened up the floodgates of abuse, and where the solution to fix it is easy and blatantly staring us in the face. |
| Topic | 33 y/o Blonde is ARRESTED after her 7 y/o came to school with HUNDREDS OF BUGS! |
| streamofthesky 05/11/19 4:15:11 AM #4 | Golden Road posted... I understand taking the kids away, since she couldn't properly care for them, but 25 years in prison seems excessive for not being able to take care of your kids. It is, but I think the real aim of 25 years in prison is to prevent her from popping out more kids just to have the state have to put them into foster care. At her age, 15 years is probably enough time, though people seldom get anywhere close to the max possible sentence. |
| Topic | Female GAMESPOT Employee reports a 37 y/o CONSERVATIVE TROLL to his MOM!!! |
| streamofthesky 05/11/19 3:46:50 AM #11 | First of all, yes she is (duckbear topic) Full Throttle posted... She showed her 30,400 twitter followers how the parent responded including follower Gordon Ramsay and said "This guy sent me hate on FB so i told his mom on him. She was really nice about it" Not...like...the famous one, right? Full Throttle posted... The mom said "I am so sorry. He is 37 years old and i am so going after him. He definitely has problems. I will straighten him out!!!" Let's be honest here. She's had 37 years to "straighten him out." Don't hold out high hopes of her accomplishing it now. Full Throttle posted... She wrote that Days Gone lack purpose and the characters whose actions and motivations don't make sense. She also criticized a white male character ogling a woman's behind in the game and said his actions go uncriticized. Ok, that's a pretty stupid criticism. "Why would a guy look at a woman's ass? It makes no sense!" And expecting that to be criticized... Yeah, she's probably an SJW. That dude's response still went a bit too far / was overly crude. Full Throttle posted... Do you think how Conservative Pest Ryan acted is normal for a 37 y/o? Do we have any indication he actually is conservative? He probably is...but there didn't seem to be any proof of that, so he could not be... |
| Topic | Do you like Red Bull? |
| streamofthesky 05/10/19 10:39:04 PM #22 | Got a can for free back when it was fairly new and tried it. It was disgusting, never had any desire to try it again let alone pay money for it. |
| Topic | Alabama Votes to BAN ABORTION including for INCEST and RAPE!!! |
| streamofthesky 05/10/19 4:02:42 PM #25 | Remember how close the election in 2016 was where one of the guys running was a child predator? Now look at how overwhelmingly they come together for this bill, and remark with the rest of us with sapience: VeeVees posted... lol, it's alabama. |
| Topic | The almighty immortal filth topic - Part **** if I know, these have run for ages |
| streamofthesky 03/30/19 10:49:58 AM #277 | DxD changed art style with the 4th season (Hero) that came out last year. I don't like it as much as the original style, but it's still fine. For some people I guess it's a much bigger deal. The season itself was really good, though. 3rd season was the only low point so far, and it still was pretty good, it just...completely shredded the plot from the novels. |
| Topic | The almighty immortal filth topic - Part **** if I know, these have run for ages |
| streamofthesky 03/06/19 10:47:50 PM #225 | Lokarin posted... best girl is Mistral from nights of azure Damn I enjoyed that game! Didn't go in expecting much, but it was Dynasty Warriors combat + pokemon allies + boobs, so I figured it would at least be fun. Great game, the story and characters were better than I thought they'd be and the music was behind only NieR Automata for me, this gen. Mistral gave me a hell of a time, though, till I cheesed the fight w/ the 5th transformation you can unlock at that point.... |
| Topic | The almighty immortal filth topic - Part **** if I know, these have run for ages |
| streamofthesky 01/01/19 2:31:10 PM #67 | DeltaBladeX posted... Is this wrestling? I don't know, but I was sports-entertained |
| Topic | The almighty immortal filth topic - Part **** if I know, these have run for ages |
| streamofthesky 11/27/18 6:33:09 PM #10 | darcandkharg31 posted... DeltaBladeX posted...And another dump of Asians for Allstar and his fellow perverts Agreed, but the latter half of them were pretty good, in general. |
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