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Really, this wouldn't be a problem if the cost of college was at all reasonable and going to college did not practically require taking out a giant pile of loans at relatively high rates for interest.
The fact that this "decision" is routinely made by teenagers makes it even worse. I can say with certainty that 17 year old me was a dumb ass with only a vague concept of how much college cost, and everyone around me encouraged me not to think too hard about it LOL OWNED

Like, the expense of higher education(whether that be a community college, a university, a trade school, etc.) should be heavily regulated and heavily subsidised to make sure anyone who wants an education can get one, and that deciding this isn't for you isn't more financially ruinous.
Again: especially because this is a decision routinely made by teenagers, who are notoriously poor decision-makers.

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Derwood posted...

And see no value in being broadly educated

Yeah, that used to be the purpose of college: to educate the children of the ruling class into cultured, well-rounded individuals. As capitalism rose and became hegemonic, it demanded more and more specialized workers, and one way to ensure those workers possessed the basic knowledge to do a given skilled job was by requiring them to have a degree. How successful this is is open to debate.

However, even as advanced and all-encompassing as capitalism has become, it has largely failed to replace the idea that a universitys primary purpose is to educate, not just to prepare students for future employment. And, IMO, thats great, and it will be a sad day if universities convert en-masse into glorified job training programs.

Oh, and student loans are fantastic for capital, and not just because its a source of easy interest: being heavily indebted makes people desperate for any income. The larger and more desperate the labor pool for a given job is, the less expensive your labor costs.
And that is all we are in Capitals ledger: labor cost.

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Jabodie posted...

It's an investment. Like any kind of investment, there are wise and unwise ways to invest your time and capital. And what that means depends on your personal values.

This *is* the con: that college and education are investments that should be aimed towards landing as lucrative employment as possible.
It's the intentional erasure of anything aside from the economic.

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I got Pfizer.
Shot 1 - Arm hurt for a day afterward. Mild fatigue.
Shot 2 - My arm hurt worse and I experienced some muscle soreness. Mild fatigue.

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A college education is definitely not a scam, but the administration structure of colleges and the finance industry upon which most are reliant to be able to afford going are most definitely cons.

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Fire Emblem : Three Houses has time-limited supports. And you have to go into a menu to view supports to level them up!
This isnt normally the case with Byleths supports, except for their support with Rhea. Hope youve been grinding that and checking the menu diligently before you lock yourself out of the support levels forever!

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marthsheretoo posted...

Christian dominionists believe Israel needs to exist to bring about the end times.

Not just exist, but exist in its "Biblical borders" and rebuild the Temple of Solomon on the original location thought to have been where the Dome of the Rock, one of the holiest mosques in Islam, is located now.

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SMT Digital Devil Saga 1 & 2 have absolutely insanely great OSTs.

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This one was a lot of fun. Loved the one-liner before the break: Goddamnit Beth, you never follow hell demons to a secondary location. Its always Hell!
I wasnt sure about the car plot at first, but man did it ever catch fire and Galactus lol.
The lawyer bit was perfect.
And then they went and topped it all of with a hilarious credits stinger.

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Yeah, we totally had/have it together, what with the slavery and the Jim Crow and unelected officials having broad power(arguably greater than that of elected officials!) over politics and the ongoing efforts to restrict franchise and nullify election outcomes.

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My Whole Foods has some, and they're always breaking down and freezing even though they're less than a year old.
Also, each one is really small, but customers often try to bring carts with dozens of items to them, and get pissy when the attendant tells them to go to a register.
Sometimes, they even try to get the attendant to bag for them, which is funny, because there's really only enough space at the things for one person to stand.

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Its my go-to snack for long flights or train rides.

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Connecticut has crappy liquor laws. Many times have customers asked me some variation of, "Do you sell wine here?" because their Whole Foods probably has an expansive twee wine selection, but in CT, grocery stores are allowed to carry only beer, cooking wine, and hard seltzer: no wine or anything else like that. This is an arrangement that suits the state's innumerable liquor stores just fine, and is backed up by massive amounts of lobbying.
Alcohol cannot be sold after 6PM on Sundays. This doesn't apply to bars.

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Well, you already explained part of it, unfortunately.
But it's also worth noting that nothing the German Empire did in Africa was exceptional(they all did that), and certainly not worse than the Belgian Congo.

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dolomedes posted...

what we do in the shadows

Yes TC! Season 3 starts up in September, so you have plenty of time to get caught up.

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Funkydog posted...

Old Testament God was the original "Just a prank" guy, so that says all you need to know about him.

Satan must have been pissed, after how hard God wigged out on him for the Fruit of Knowledge bit.

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It was a victim of Segas dysfunction and the general botching of the Saturn.
Like, a Sonic game for their new console should have been a much higher priority. It should have been a launch title!

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lucariopikmin posted...

Insurgence is pretty good and has a bunch of new regional variant pokemon and reborn is harder than that.

Reborn makes Uranium seem well made and written though.

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My plans foundering a bit right now: undergrad social work programs require work hours. These would normally be provided by a class conveniently not offered at community colleges. Goddamnit CT, arent you expensive enough?

So I couldnt get started on that as planned, and am now trying to get some sort of entry-level human service job, but thats not entirely easy either.

Oh, and I have this whole trans deal happening, of course. Time-and-energy-consuming; transition, but thats going well so far, at least.

Sorry I dont have much advice. Are you going to go through a driving school? Because the right driving instructor will help you out a lot.

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mustachedmystic posted...

Crappy list notwithstanding, the majority of the world's population is better off then they would be under Chinese, or Russian hegemony. Not that it's an excuse, only the truth.

Is it? What would China do thats so much worse? Not that China isnt awful, mind, but its not like we actually promote democracy.

I recently read Debt: A 5,000 Year History by David Graeber, and he cast U.S. treasury bonds in an interesting light: its basically cash transfers to the U.S. Treasury, and thus something like tribute payments, though of course these bonds theoretically give their holders some power over the U.S. , particularly in large quantities.

The next global hegemon will rule in a climatical dark age, Im afraid.

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They find this countrys history upsetting and contrary to their beliefs, so they seek to rewrite it.

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It costs way more to have swarms of officers watch the turnstiles than is ever lost due to jumpers.
The pettiest of crimes is met with the full force of the law while the greatest crimes go uninvestigated and unprosecuted.

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At this point, we would have to make the new one completely extraconstitutionally, just like the current one was made.
But nothing short of war and/or dissolution could accomplish that. Its basically the Gordian knot, except the knot is in the noose around our necks.

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Oh, youre quite wrong: it works out wonderfully for shareholders and executives. They will not fix the problem, because it is not a problem for them, and fixing it may cause them to make slightly less money, and then how will they afford their space yachts?

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It can fall into the trap that being responsible for and mindful of your own actions and words is the end-all, be-all of fighting discrimination and oppression of minority groups in society.

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If I were rich, I would 100% just shell out, out of curiosity if nothing else.
The fries do actually sound great though.

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Child poverty is bad. And we should end 100% of it.

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Good.

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Pitbuller_26 posted...

Will have to watch later. If it is indeed more law focused that will be a pleasant surprise.

Law endings are typically lackluster in SMT. The law ending in SMTIV made me angry.

I played the hell out of IV and IV:A , but they botched law and even chaos to an extent. IMO, the point is that theyre supposed to be appealing and solve a real issue at a high price, but IVs are just different flavors of genocide. And IV:A makes it so much worse!

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I misgender myself too lol.

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My I did not s*** my pants at a McDonalds in 1997 shirt is getting a lot of questions that are already answered by the shirt.

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Yeah, it was great in its day, but Mario Kart 64 blew it out of the water in every way. No reason to go back except nostalgia, IMO.

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Sonic 30th Anniversary Symphony
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGTlBHNvjsU
I listened to this in its entirety. It's fantastic! A full classical orchestra, Jun Senoue, and Crush 40!

Courtney Barnett - Rae Street
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUXvlpS0TvE
The world's first taste of her next album: Things Take Time, Take Time. I'm hype!

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Yeah. It's a really great game, even though it's more linear than normal for a Metroid. And I liked how it characterized Samus her calmly yet passionately convincing Adam to let her out of the saferoom so she could do the needful was a great character moment.
Great boss fights, and the SA-X segments are legit frightening and stressful. Really looking forward to them building off that in Dread.

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Yeah, therapy is expensive, and, of course, every therapist is different. They have different strengths and weaknesses and favored techniques, and yeah: some of them are bad at their jobs.
But the right therapist can be invaluable in getting yourself together. I can say so from experience.

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One of my best friends in non-binary. Also have a non-binary coworker whose pretty cool.

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Yep, Whole Foods has a pretty strict dress code. Some of the "best" provisions

-No branding other than Whole Foods or Amazon
-No messages that could be interpreted as political
-Women cannot wear leggings unless their shirt covers their butt
-All shorts and skirts must be at least knee length
-No more than four colors may be worn at a time No rainbows, in other words.
-No floral prints
-No jean shorts
-No tank tops
-Socks required You won't find this one in the manual, but it exists.

I'll give you one guess who bears the brunt of dress code enforcement.

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He believes in climate change, he just believes in Big Oil more.

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Nah TC, they just need another decade of training, and maybe then some of them will die at their posts instead of fleeing the Taliban.

But seriously, we might actually have convinced the parts of Afghanistan that used to hate the Taliban that the Taliban isn't so bad. If they can manage to keep their urge to persecute the Hazaras in check, they might even get along with Iran!

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You definitely need doctorates in human and molecular biology to fully appreciate the latest episode.
Oh God it was bad. Like the reheated corpse of Raising Gazorpazorp, an episode that was already dated and unfunny back in Season 1. It's usually really good though.

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CADE FOSTER posted...

Sinema and manchin need to be confronted and pressured hard

Theyre just the most visible opponents. Coons, Warner, Feinstein, etc. are also always waxing poetic about the sanctity of the Senate.
Plus, I suspect a non-zero part of the opposition to filibuster reform is that then they might have to actually debate and vote on bills, and it kind of seems to me like theres a bipartisan consensus amongst Senators that they would rather do anything else.

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Its nice Joe is finally speaking out like this, but it falls a little flat, given Democrats are part of the problem here.

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Doe posted...

People right here on CE like to say the CIA doesn't disrupt democracy in Central & South America "anymore"

Open your eyes

Moise was over term, ruling by decree without an assembly (to the extent that he governed at all), and was delaying elections.
So democracy isn't exactly being disrupted here: it already was. It's pretty clear we have no regard for Haitian democracy though: we were backing him! without getting into the coups and the dictators and the military occupation It's certainly possible he outlived his usefulness; however.

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Wow, these arent the twists I was expecting.
Hopefully we dont send troops, thats the one thing that may make things even worse.

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It's also much riskier and more dangerous. And still not socially acceptable for women to sleep around.

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Compsognathus posted...

Rebecca is 100% worth sacrificing for a good level up. Or just because you don't want to spend half an hour redoing the level.

Because GBA archers are terrible.

Assassins are pretty bad. Sword-locked. Low-damage. Low-durability. Expensive promotion item. Just use Matthew until you get Legault then Legault for all your stealing/pick needs for the rest of the game on relevant chapters. It isn't worth having a dedicated slot for a thief or bothering to male them an Assassin.

I really think they thought archers were OP or something. Even the prepromotes are mediocre! Somehow they missed the fact that mages exist, have all of an archers' upside, except literally none of the downsides.

Jaffar at least comes with beefy bases. He's no Pent or Harken, but he can do some work. Louise is just a glorified stat stick for Pent, and she's still the best archer.

Umbreon posted...

The only use Bartre has is unlocking Karla

And LMFAO caring about Karla who is probably the absolute worst character in the game.

That's not true: he has some funny supports! And he will one day have a banging mustache.

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I thought that was really bad. Worst ep in a while. Hopefully they shake it off next week. Just tired jokes and a plot that went everywhere and nowhere.

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Bartres not really good anyway. But Matthew isnt a great combat unit anyway.

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