They captured state houses and gutted state budgets for direct funding to universities. Simultaneously, democrats tried to make up the difference at the national level by pushing for and getting pell grants, which are dedicated grant funds. This means there's a dedicated amount of federal funds on the table every year, which mitigates against the market forces that would otherwise push tuition prices back down.
Students are then encouraged to take personal loans to cover the manufactured shortfall. Students can't discharge this in bankruptcy, which encourages bad lending practices.
Almost all of this is very normal cause and effect with plenty of analogous historical examples, so even if we the idiot people don't get it, you can be pretty sure that our highly educated and wealthy elected officials knew exactly what would happen.
If this were all too confusing or complex to know the outcome, then at least some of the time we'd see benefit randomly go to the individual. But it doesn't, ever.
The problem isn't people paying attention, it's the mass number of people who know literally nothing about current political events who then try to figure it out while standing in line at the polls.
It's a small subset of a subset of a subset, but it can be enough to top the balance when all the other electoral shenanigans are factored in as well.
I'd understand complaining about musk posts bombarding a more general community, but this one did you the favor of putting a bunch in one place for you to ignore.
Yeah, and look what happened when bigots were emboldened.
There's a difference between not allowing the government to stop private speech, and a private platform hosting stochastic terrorism and attacking anyone who tries to tell them it's wrong.
You can sue the government for infringing your rights. You can't sue (and win against) researchers who are literally just stating your actions and pointing to the immediate and obvious consequences.
First of all, this doesn't just happen in Australia, and there are plenty of examples of the same thing happening literally everywhere.
Second, child rapists generally get caught when a child finally tells an adult who believes them and reports it. After that, the flood gates usually open and more come forward. If you institute the death penalty for rape at all, but especially rape of a child, then the rapist has no reason (beyond continued access) to keep the kid alive after they've abused them.
Fewer queer children, and also people they can point to and tell their own children, "See? They're miserable. You'll be miserable too if you don't stay in the church and marry the opposite gender and start pumping out babies."
I've felt this way most of my life, especially the aspect of injustice.
I started with a new therapist recently, and he's having me read Codependent No More. Turns out, chapter 1, every single thing they said rings true. So I'm 90% sure I am very Codependent.
One of the biggest ones that stood out to me was the term "righteous indignation" which is something I consider a core part of my identity...if you think about it though, the indignation is from knowing I'm right, and expecting other people to come along, and being furious when they don't.
At the end of the day, anger is fine. Normal. Necessary. But the reason behind the anger is where you need to be careful.
If it isn't actually directly impacting you, practice letting go. Abstracted anger is really hard to get rid of once you start figuring out justifications. Gotta find a way to short circuit the process, take a break to breathe, and revisit the situation without the anger and see what happens.
There are good people who are democrats, for sure.
But the Democratic party is managed opposition. They love that republicans do stuff that benefits them personally, and they love that they can fundraise on the culture war stuff, and they love that no matter how bad they fail, they can blame republicans.
The party as an organization is one of the worst enemies of progress, because it sucks up resources as if it will do something, but then turns around and spends all the money on their safe seats.
My husband has a zfold. Same feedback after a few months, but recently the screen has finally started having issues at the crease. He's extremely careful with it, so this is definitely a phone thing and not just a use thing.
It's not harmless, but neither are the vast majority of the products you can buy off the shelf.
Microwaving plastic is terrible. Half the stuff you can buy from home Depot has to have a California reproductive health/cancer warning on it. We actively pump chemicals into the air, water, our bodies, etc. with very little thought to the downstream consequences.
What makes pot special? Alcohol, by nearly every measure, is worse, but we all recognize that banning it doesn't actually help anything, and criminalizing things based on a maybe health impact is insane.
Also, rat studies indicate that environment plays a large role in the symptoms we see as addiction - the inability to stop, constantly seeking more of the drug, etc. These symptoms tend to stop when the rats had adequate engagement, weren't overcrowded, etc. Even when they continued to have access to the drug, they tended to stop.
We saw something similar in humans after Vietnam. The soldiers over there were doing any and everything to avoid the horrors of war. Even when they came back with PTSD, we didn't see a huge uptick in drug addiction. This requires a lot more study, but there are some pretty good indications that people get addicted when their lives suck and they don't see any workable options available to change their situation. Addiction may be a disease based in despair more than an innate status in the brain.
Good to know. My previous option was called epubor, I think. It stopped working recently when they switched the DRM..might be fixed in an upgrade by now, but I like to do these things in batches anyway.
I'm primarily on audible. Would love to find a good ripping solution, and then self hosting and using a third party app.
I also keep calibre updated with all of my ebooks for storage. I use a Kindle for my ebooks, which I like because I can email files to myself instead of having to physically transfer them to the Kindle.
I'm primarily on audible. Would love to find a good ripping solution, and then self hosting and using a third party app.
I also keep calibre updated with all of my ebooks for storage. I use a Kindle for my ebooks, which I like because I can email files to myself instead of having to physically transfer them to the Kindle.
I say that because they clearly don't give a shit, or they'd avoid even the appearance of impropriety.
If they can't even be bothered to not do obvious stuff with conflict of interest/money/cases before them, why would they be putting in any actual work? Especially the ones who are there for prestige alone, their clerks are doing their reading and writing for them.
Alito and Thomas in particular have said things recently and historically that indicate they're just phoning it in.
Sure was. Was using swipe typing in bright sunlight. Fixed a few of the glaring typos. Thanks!