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November 19, 2019 at 7:02 PM in reply to: Black friday: Review of Google Wifi routers and Samsung frontload washer/dryer #814007November 19, 2019 at 12:10 PM in reply to: Black friday: Review of Google Wifi routers and Samsung frontload washer/dryer #814004
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ParticipantThe castoffs that early adopters who need everything latest and new sell off on Craigslist to pay their credit card bills…
ParticipantIt’s a good first step … rules have a way of tightening incrementally.
ParticipantNo … it’s to discourage short-term investment (i.e. flipping). Long-term investors that want an income for life while providing a home for someone are fine. Hope it passes.
Participant^^^ “Punchbowls” only have limited effect … if they were great for ecahhhhhhnamies, Europe and Japan would be growing at 20% per year.
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Said the authoritarian apologist. Take that shit to Singapore, if they’ll have you. I’d rather have fewer tourists and more freedom. I really don’t give a shit that Russian oligarchs feel a bit triggered by the streets of NY. If they don’t like it, they’re free to stay where they came from.
ParticipantBloomberg is human filth. When he was dictator of NYC, he enabled the NY Pig Division (NYPD) far too much. Marijuana arrests increased about 500% under his dictatorship. Stop and frisk was a thing. Also, the guy bought himself a third term. DeBlasio is actually a major improvement over Bloomturd.
ParticipantBloomberg is authoritarian human rubbish — under that fucking pig, marijuana arrests in NYC rose about 500%. Fuck him and his legacy.
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Nationalize the SATs … have something similar to the Baccalaureat exam in France or the Regents Board exams in NY state instead. Make it free as part of HS graduation.
Public schools in NY don’t require SAT or ACT scores — Regents and/or their own admission tests are considered good enough:
ParticipantHere’s the thing … we’ve spent $7 trillion (that’s with a T) sending our military bullies all over the world for the past 18 years. $400 billion per year. You should be complaining about tax money being bled from CA to support things like military thuggery abroad, the “War on Some Drugs”, etc, not about the money actually being invested in the futures of Americans.
Say Harvard costs $70,000 per year. So a million bucks could send about 15 people to Harvard for a year. Multiply that by 400000 and that $400 billion could give 6 million students a year a full ride to Harvard. Isn’t that better than buying corpses, cripples, and mental illnesses with that money? (Public universities tend to be cheaper, so the real number is higher than 6 million. Much higher.)
Fuck militarism, fuck endless war. Oh yeah. We killed some al Qaeda bigwig last month. So what? We’ve been killing people like him for almost two decades … it doesn’t seem to stop the next PoS from emerging. It’s like a sick game of Whack-a-Mole, except that we never want to win. Endless war is too profitable for the defence contractors and their pet whores in Congress.
Imagine a country where promising students from lower-income backgrounds could go to college and get a career without selling their souls to the military…
ParticipantThe-Shoveler —
As far as degree deflation CUNY and SUNY have been free (given income < $120k/yr) for a few years, but nearly free for decades. This doesn't make their STEM degree programs any less competitive -- the difference is that the "weeders" of the system are very difficult classes at the beginning, not whose parents have how much money. As far as going back to school, generally only the first bachelor's degree is free for states that have "free college." Master's won't be free. But, Ph. D. programs have been free for decades -- they often actually pay you for teaching and doing research. It's not GOOD pay (like $30k/yr + $10k/yr housing stipend), but it's better than having to pay THEM.
Participant1999 was a fun year. Dot.bomb crash in 2000-1 was even more fun. Low rates aren’t the savior that everyone makes them out to be — if they were, Europe would be growing at 10% per year.
ParticipantThe German right-wing is a bunch of xenophobic asshats, but on economic issues, they tend to be to the left of US liberals. Proposing a US-style lightly-regulated health insurance system would likely be political suicide in most of Europe…
Participant(1) Suicide, drug use, and alcoholism (liver disease) are symptoms of a sick society overwhelmed with busywork.
(2) No one should be expected by “sociiiiety” to work 60 hours a fucking week. The ideal would be more couples that work 30 hours a week each, so both have time for family. Sweden, Denmark, and Netherlands basically have it right.
(3) Basic needs:
Public education is either terrible or has been co-opted by religious nutters in much of the US. Some people view creationism as a real alternative and birth control as evil.Food: sugar-loaded crap in most of the US, poor controls on pesticides, GMOs, and other toxic shit in food.
Water: it’s not only Flint. It’s Newark, NJ now, probably 50 other cities with heavy metal contamination problems yet to be discovered.
ParticipantIf your taxes go up by $1000 per month but you and/or your employer save $1500/mo on insurance costs (family insurance is expensive in the US), who wins? The trick would be to mandate that employer scum pass what they save on insurance through to employees in the form of higher pay.
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