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https://www.sanders.senate.gov/download/college-for-all-2019-bill-text?id=EA9FB5FB-F84D-4505-8737-BE0C0B5830B8&download=1&inline=file
That's the text of the bill, as written by Senator Sanders and Reps. Jayapal and Omar. Apparently. Rep. Ilhan Omar was the driving force behind it.

EndOfDiscOne posted...

@DarkRoast might as well stop paying off your balance

I probably wouldn't be quite that optimistic.

Antifar posted...

Doom_Art posted...

Considering the basics of his policies (M4A, tuition, minimum wage) are fairly standard among the new class of candidates

Uhhh, other candidates have been wishy-washy, at best, on Medicare-for-all and free public tuition.

Yeah, most of them support modest buy-ins, some of which stealthily overhaul Medicare to be more like the ACA. Not even Warren goes all in, which is part of why some in the establishment have warmed to her.
And it's not like any of those would make it through Congress either, barring a massive wave in the Senate and/or Mitch McConnell suddenly developing concern for his fellow man. Might as well lay out an actual cohesive vision for a better tomorrow rather than fumbling about trying to triangulate which modest band-aid will piss off powerful interests the least every 10-15 years(because that's roughly how long it takes for the modern Democratic party to get control of all three branches simultaneously for two years).

https://www.cnn.com/2019/06/23/politics/bernie-sanders-student-loan-debt-cancellation/index.
The proposal is part of a larger reform of college costs being formulated in tandem with Progressive Caucus Chair Rep. Pramila Jayapal and Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar.
Yes, Bernie plans to wipe out all $1.6 trillion of student loan debt. No restrictions, no means-testing, no limits. It's doubtful he would be able to even if he's elected, but, as always, I like the cut of his gib.

Nidhoggr posted...

OverlordBaal posted...

Are there other vets in your area? Maybe call around and see if any of them accept payment plans.

There's 2 others, I'm calling them tomorrow to see. I'll try the gofundme if they give me bad news though.

For something this expensive, it might be a good idea to expand your search even farther, assuming you get bad news.

Biological warfare would be a pretty big provocation.

It's likely, yes, though he may not be virulently so.

Ghost on the Throne: The Death of Alexander the Great and the Bloody Fight For His Empire

I know Whole Foods tracks how quickly cashiers ring through items(and they urge cashiers to "lock" their registers when they don't have customers), but they don't seem to do much with the data. Probably they bring it up in "job dialogues"(Whole Foods is big on Orwellian euphemisms-basically it's a yearly performance review wherein you get a raise of 0-6%) and probably use low speed as an excuse to cut into pay raises.
If that sounds like a paltry amount for a raise, do keep in mind that Whole Foods is owned by Amazon and subject to Bezos' $15/hr. mandate. And that they place a lot of emphasis on advancement(LOL supervisors only get, like +$1/hr. for a veritable mountain of responsibilities).

Oh, and grocery stores typically have tight labor budgets. In defense of corporate, groceries are a low-margin business, but, as you might imagine, corporate hands down the dumbest mandates for how to use this labor. For example, my region is the Northeast, which encompasses New Jersey, New York, and most of Connecticut. They require that, after 11PM or so, there be a minimum of TWO express lanes open. This propably makes sense in most of the stores in the region, but the stores in CT simply don't see that volume of business for much of the week, so we're basically forced to have two cashiers not doing very much for most of their shifts. Oh, and my department manager openly brags about how much overtime he works. Somehow this has never been a problem.

The Democrats who believe most strongly in that are inevitably in favor of cutting Social Security, Medicare, etc. and realize that they need the Republicans to go along with it to pass it(both because they need Republican votes and the political cover they think "bipartisan" compromise gives them).
See, for example, the disastrous Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act which successfully gutted welfare to applause and the eager signature of a Democratic president. It has done nothing to reduce poverty: in fact, it has done quite the opposite, but what does that matter compared to the need to finance foreign wars and massive tax-cuts for the wealthy?

Because they couldn't beat Thanos with an entire army and twice as many Avengers. Plus, there's nothing stopping him from snapping them out of existence the moment they arrive?
The time-travel bit doesn't hold up to scrutiny, but that isn't one of its problems.

Oh yeah, one more thing: Whole Foods routinely moves products around and creates themed end-caps. This is an intentional tactic meant to disorient customers and encourage them to buy items in "sets"(like hot dog buns, hamburger buns, mustard, ketchup all set up together, all store brand, with a little sign referencing cooking out or summer or some such pithyness).

Whole Foods pointers...

1)Yes, the stuff is more expensive. The Cheerios we sell can be found in virtually any other store 50+ cents cheaper. Don't be an idiot.

2)Cashiers are supposed to stand in front of their registers when they don't have a customer and flag down customers. This confuses the hell out of the customers, who expect cashiers to be behind their registers.

3)Don't even step foot in Whole Body unless you make six figures. Even then you shouldn't.

4)Our produce is (sometimes) better.

5)Meat and seafood are probably the things you should be buying at Whole Foods, at least relative to other chain grocery stores(go to some specialty butcher or a seafood store at the docks if you can). They actually take care of and turn over that stuff properly.

6)We have a lot of sales, but we don't have a flier anymore. Sometimes you might actually save money.

7)At least in CT, state law lays out a byzantine mandate that registers within X distance of food service areas must assess sales tax on prepared foods. This leads to the absolutely bizarre situation that exists at my store: the coffee bar and express lanes must assess sales tax on such items, but none of the regular registers have to. This is dumb.

8) Cashiers aren't supposed to have anything expect for water(in plastic bottles or thermos containers with lids), because they are not trusted not to spill everything everywhere. Also, we're not supposed to drink in front of customers, because god forbid they realize we're human beings.

9)If you're unsure of a product, ask to sample it. We must allow you to sample the product*, and any team member can get you a sample.
*Unless sampling it is in violation of state law. CT doesn't allow grocery stores to give away alcohol for any reason, for example.

KillerKhan420 posted...

They ain't going to invade, it sounded like limited airstrikes to the people who shot down the drone. That's it. Would it escalate? Probably, but I don't think Trump is dumb enough to commit land forces to it.

I am, not so confident in Trump's intelligence.
If anything saves us, it will be his short attention span, capriciousness, and general laziness.

Also, a bombing campaign against Iran would be an act of war. There's no de-escalation from there.

What would the goal be? The destruction of the Revolutionary Guard, the overthrow of the Council of Experts, the ayatollah, the elected government? To what end, at what cost?

ledbowman posted...

Endgame is nowhere close to as good as the others.

Yeah, I'm honestly disappointed to see it has more votes than Logan.

That's disappointing, but power is well-known to rot the moral clarity even of heroes.
All the usual people will pretend this makes Biden's history of working with segregationists(for segregationist causes) okay.

Zikten posted...

some of the Founding Fathers, it's suspected were more Humanist than religious. it's hard to tell because in those days, people often would pretend to be religious to keep up social appearances.

Jefferson barely bothered with the pretense, and was smeared viciously for it.
Dude edited the Bible to remove anything he deemed to be "miraculous" and bought a Koran to serve as an art piece.

Garioshi posted...

You'd better haul ass over to the nearest recruitment center if you support it.

And not the navy or airforce either. Sign up for the army, put your damned boots on the ground and experience the hell you so desperately desire.

The last damned thing we need is another war.

Arcvalons posted...

Why so many Buddhism votes? Aren't they like genociding Muslims in South East Asia?

Because people stereotype Buddhism as chill(that the most prominent Buddhist is the current Dalai Lama helps), which really isn't the case.

LOL $282 million isn't even a slap on the wrist. They made $129 billion last year!

Her favorite comfort "food" is whiskey.
https://twitter.com/Behind2020/status/1141722491108417536/photo/1
Apparently. Makes me like her more, but not enough to give her money or vote for her. Aside from women's issues, she's pretty bad.

Ivynn posted...

AvantgardeAClue posted...

What if theres no children in this game...because theyre saving it for the Genealogy remake

I see Binding Blade getting remade before Genealogy tbh

Or they could remake Blazing Sword and work in a kid mechanic for an attached Binding Blade one.
Like, that would even make sense(though certain parents and kids would remain fixed e.g. Pent/Louise and Karla/Bartre).
I would like to see 4&5 in (official) English though.

creativerealms posted...

He will probably win this time.

If he wins the primary, yeah. I doubt Doug Jones can steal another one, now that enough good ole' boys and girls have had time to get over the shock and remember Moore has an -R after his name.

I certainly would have never thought of that, but I guess the game doesn't flag those stat increases as temporary.
That's cool though. As if dragons needed to be better...

I would be pretty bummed out, yes.

SideshowBob311 posted...

- Take a bit of time to come up with a rough plan for your base before building things....grouping components together (power, uplinks, labs, etc) usually gives you a significant bonus.

- Research Weapon Fragments ASAP. If you don't have laser weapons by your first Terror Mission you're going to have a real bad time on harder difficulties

- Get as many sat uplinks going as possible, as quickly as possible. Happy countries = more money. More money = cool toys

- Save explosives as a last resort. Blowing the hell out of aliens is really effective, but not getting any salvage is really going to hurt in the long run.

Yeah, definitely want to do that. Armor helps too, but mostly you want to be able reliably kill things dead fast because chrysalids are the goddamned worst and one chrysalid kill snowballs into a squad-wipe in the blink of an eye.

King_Hellebuyck posted...

Id fucking love ranked choice primaries but Im not upset by what Sanders is saying here.

Same. And, in any case, it's important for him to draw distinctions between himself and Warren.
And this "attack" is more about the establishment than Warren anyway.

They leaned hard into the kind of doofiness that made parts of the first one funny, and Taika Waititti is genuinely hilarious, as a writer and a person, so it actually worked. They also assembled a great cast(Jeff Goldblum is particularly great), even though you're left wishing Cate Blanchett had more to work with.

Touching to see that Princess Peach and King Bowser are so personally concerned with the well-being of their subjects that they would subject themselves to years of medical school though.

Antifar posted...

Surprised to see another candidate, even someone so low down on the totem pole, call him out so forcefully

https://twitter.com/BilldeBlasio/status/1141372386207502337

BREAKING: New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio arrested for murder.

Edit: Also, it doesn't surprise me. Everyone from Buttigieg and Harris on down to de Blasio and the other also-rans needs Biden to go down, because they need his voters to win. And Biden just shot himself.

I honestly thought it would take another few months for Biden to self-immolate, but I guess I underestimated him.

hockeybub89 posted...

I like how The Atlantic said "He was deeply flawed, but at least he was elected democratically".

ok bro

Eh, it is a virtue, but the way they did the election, he barely got over 30% of the vote in the first round, IIRC. Liberal candidates actually got over 50%, but there were like five of them to one Muslim Brotherhood and one military candidate, so, you know where that went. Can't blame Egyptians for giving the Brotherhood a try under the circumstances(especially since the Tunisian branch integrated into democracy respectably well).

Shame about ending up back at square one though.

Biden really can't help himself, can he?

Well, he'll definitely have a lot to say about Warren and Harris.

Why not?

marc55 posted...

ElatedVenusaur posted...

Aww, the poor thing, suffering consequences for being human garbage. What could be more manifestly unjust?

wait how old is he ?

17?

What bearing does that have? His reaction makes it clear that he thinks it's okay to use slurs as long as it's in "private" i.e. if none of "those people" hear you.
It's clear he doesn't think he's done anything wrong.

0AbsoluteZero0 posted...

Jackal4 posted...

Is it really suspicious that a 67 year old diabetic man under a lot of stress died of a heart attack?

Right in the middle of a trial where he was about to air a lot of dirty laundry? Uh yeah, thats very suspicious timing regardless of his health status

Not to mention the obviously biased nature of the trial itself: he was going to be found guilty and put to death anyway. Having him die like this is much cleaner and quiter.
Not that I feel particularly badly for Morsi, but even he deserved better than this.

Aww, the poor thing, suffering consequences for being human garbage. What could be more manifestly unjust?

http://fourjobfiesta.com/index.php
It's time to play FF5 and make pledges to charity. To register, simply tweet Gilgabot(@FF5ForFutures) #reg to receive your Wind crystal job.
Yes, that's right: you're assigned jobs by the whim of Gilgabot. When you register, you should receive a reply informing you of what your Wind crystal job is. Tweet #Water, #Fire, and #Earth when you're ready to receive your job for subsequent crystals. The rules are simple: as long as you have a job available, at least one of your characters must be in that job at all times, though you are free to shuffle them around. When you've defeated Neo ExDeath(the final boss), simply take a screenshot of its death and tweet it to Gilgabot to confirm your victory. If you manage to defeat the super-bosses Shinryu or Omega, screenshot those and send them in too!

So, where does the charity come in? People pledge money based on successfully-completed runs, kills of Shinryu/Omega, and sometimes more obscure things. You can pledge too, or simply donate some money.

FAQ
What are all those options?
#reg is a "standard" run, meaning you will receive one job from each crystal, with no restriction as to who can utilize a given job when.

#regrand assigns a random job from all jobs available to you at that time. For example, your first job will be a wind crystal job, your second could be a wind OR water job, etc. etc.

#regchaos assigns jobs randomly, without regard to what is actually available to you at the time. If your "wind" job cannot be used, you can choose to either roll the rest of your jobs or run your party as Freelancers until you get a job that you can use.

#regpurechaos is the above, except you can potentially receive Freelancer and Mime.

#regpopular assigns jobs weighted towards the most popular jobs from the Spring vote.

#regadvance is a chaos-run that includes GBA-version only jobs.

What about add-ons?
#fifthjob - When Krile joins your party, you get a new job that replaces one of your old ones, though you can still utilize abilities from the job you "lost", you simply can't have anyone be that job anymore.

#750/#no750
750 refers to the cost of magic rods, which can be used as items("broken") to unleash level 3/-aga spells. #750 gives you only jobs which can use rods, whereas #no750 excludes them.

#forbidden
When the void is unleashed, you must tweet Gilgabot #void, and lose a random job to the abyss.

#natural
Characters can only use the job corresponding to their crystal. Don't do this. It sucks.

Good. Healthcare is a human right.

Gotta love I-95. At least it's not 15?

Pidgeot was actually kind of relevant, and Mega-Mawile was a monster. Now they're back to being useless.
That's the problem with Z-Moves: for the most part, they don't empower already weak Pokemon, they just make the stronger Pokemon even stronger. Probably going to be the case with Dynamax too.

Aeriis posted...

Modelling does look pretty hard... I'm sure she was constantly dieting and maybe exercising. Not to mention you have to know how to make yourself look good on camera, which poses to do and so on

Plus, doing shoots is extremely time-consuming, or so I hear. You've got to get everything just right. For every shot.

Do I like Colonel Gentleman or Shoreleave better?
Chloe is great too.

I was on I-5 a week ago. Can't believe I missed such a legend...

thronedfire2 posted...

spudger posted...

ive always thought this imminent domain bullshit is anti democratic

fuck you; pay me

Yeah if the state wants to buy the land they should do it up front. How were they planning on paying for this railroad if they cant even pay for the land its built on?

Well, the federal government was supposed to help with that, and, would you believe that Trump pulled $929 million in funding?
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/trump-administration-pulls-929-million-195939499.html
A shame, because California could really have benefited from it.
But, aside from that, eminent domain is total BS and should be made unconstitutional.
Edit: The eastern seaboard direly needs it too. It takes almost 3 hours to travel from New Haven or Albany to New York City.