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Perry is my rep and and PA-10 is a weird district. Definitely drawn to dilute the influence of Harrisburg as much as possible, but not really homogeneous in its suburban and rural makeup. In Cumberland county especially the vibe has always been more of the rich/educated northern republican stereotype than the toothless redneck stereotype it seems like he is trying to appeal to. On the other hand he's very popular around York in the areas where they're big fans of banning books. I would guess on average the Republicans around me are more interested in maintaining the status quo than ushering in Gilead.

I always kinda hoped/figured he'd get primaried by a more moderate candidate at some point, it's part of the reason I switched my registration, the other part being the sheer number of local government offices where Dems don't have a snowball's chance. As for the polling, that article is pay-walled but 270 to win has 2 polls with very small sample sizes. One has Perry up by 1% 6 months ago, the other has Stelson up by 9% a week ago with only around 300 responses. I want to believe, I really do, but I don't. Most of the area still went hard for Trump in 2020 (not as hard as 2016, but still pretty lopsided) and PA really, really loves incumbents. I fully expect those things to continue with it carrying Perry to victory.

Hard to say for sure yet, but there is no reason to include any absurd anti-cheat and as long as they don't lose their fucking minds and decide to use some kind of insane drm, I reckon the answer is yes.

Zoomer tech literacy is on average almost as poor as their actual literacy.

To answer the obvious question - I don't know whether this means it's not coming to Steam, Epic Games Store or other PC storefronts, but it sounds like it's a Microsoft-only joint for the minute.

Apparently the dude couldn't be bothered to check the steam store page:

Last time I checked, the World Health Organization estimates indicated that around 3 million children under the age of five, a population about 50% larger than everyone in Gaza, die to diseases and deficiencies that result directly from food insecurity in a world that produces something like a third to half more food than it needs to feed everyone.

If that doesn't move the shame needle enough to spur action, I don't see this doing it either. For reasons passing understanding, there seems to be no limit to the cruelty that will be tolerated from Israel.

And it was that all private student loans were stripped of their bankruptcy protections. Federal loans were given an out but its very difficult. But the amount of private loans exploded and those couldn’t be cleared at all. That’s it. The final truth.

https://www.consumerfinance.gov/about-us/blog/busting-myths-about-bankruptcy-and-private-student-loans/

For too long, a myth has persisted that student loans are not dischargeable in bankruptcy. The myth is not true because, in fact, student loans can be discharged bankruptcy. We have seen the Department of Education take important steps to ensure that bankruptcy relief is available to federal student loan borrowers. It is vital that private student loan borrowers also receive the relief the Bankruptcy Code provides —and that loan owners, lenders, servicers, and debt collectors honor that relief when a bankruptcy judge discharges a consumer’s debts.

Straight from the fucking CFPB. Stop repeating lies that harm people by making them believe they don't have options that they do.

Its not their predecessors if its the same person.

The Biden administration was not running the Department of Education from 2017-2020.

I don't know why you're having such a hard time with this. I'm not talking about everything the democrats and Joe Biden ever tried to do in relation to students loans. I'm not talking about every mess ever made. I'm talking about their handling of the PSLF program. You know, the thing the thread is about.

You thinking that it’s right is indication of exactly what side you already agree with.

Saying I said it was right, when I explicitly said it was wrong. Well done.

So they drew a line. It ended up being in the wrong place and it needs to be redrawn.

It helps if you understand that a huge portion of rural Pennsylvanians are overtly racist. It's like they collectively decided the worst southern stereotypes were aspirational.

//edit: I was born in Pa and live there. I'm not just slagging off my fellow Pensyltuckians. I see more confederate flags on the trip to my parent's house a third of the way across the state than I did on my roadtrip to Tennessee last year.

It add nuance to the conversation that Democrats have done nothing wrong and only been pushing to fix what other older people and Republicans have done.

I didn't say this. Democrats do things wrong, like all the time. Maybe the misunderstanding is my fault for omitting the article 'a' before 'mess' by mistake near the end of my original post. Mea Culpa.

But in regards to the subject of this thread, that absolutely is what is happening. The Biden administration is cleaning up a mess Republicans went out of their way to create with their deliberate mishandling of the PSLF program. Blaming Biden because he can't wave away the consequences of Republicans malfeasance is exactly what the person I was replying to did.

so that none of that debt could be forgiven even after bankruptcy?

The reality of the matter is that people have very little recourse for handling college debt unless they are literally starving to death

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I didn't say it was easy, I said it wasn't literally outlawed. Which it is not. There may even be good reasons to make it more difficult for young adults just out of school, without any assets and low financial stakes, to discharge the large amounts of unsecured debt we're helping them take on. They were right to be concerned about it. So they drew a line. It ended up being in the wrong place and it needs to be redrawn. Happens to the best of us.

You call someone else out on making incorrect statements while making them yourself and it becomes apparent it’s just ideology at the base not reality.

That's rich coming from a person who opened by lying about the impossibility of discharging student loan debt.

Yeah, you want to litigate the entire FSLP and talk about the whole picture on how it's affected education and the economy over the last three decades? I'm not sure I have time to write several doctoral theses and a nonfiction book today, however maybe we can start with the fact that student loans can be discharged in bankruptcy. Yes, the courts use a more stringent standard than Chapter 7 and it leaves a lot of discretion to individual judges, but it is not outlawed outright.

//edit: Poster attempted to 'correct' their misinformation with more misinformation.

Who set up the current college loan system and set it so that none of its nearly but not impossible that debt could be forgiven even after bankruptcy?

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-and-department-education-announce-continuing-success-student-loan

The vast majority of borrowers seeking discharge continue to benefit from the guidance. In cases decided by the courts from November 2022 through March, 98% have provided debt relief through full or partial discharge. And the overall number of court judgments providing full or partial discharge have continued to increase, with the number of such judgments over the last six months exceeding the number of judgments for the preceding 12 months.

If there is any type of authentication between the cartridge and console that gets bypassed, that would technically be a violation of the circumvention portion DMCA. They have used this exact tactic before and that kind of authentication has been used as long ago as the og NES.

To be fair, I'm sure many of them are already working as hard as they can to make sure these new rules never do.

and that account went off about how I’m blaming Biden.

Biden had us pay the illegally charged interest rather than fight it.

I guess someone else wrote his name in there.

Charging borrowers interest is not illegal. Denying participation in government programs over trivial errors is not illegal. Declining to earnestly help people who are eligible rectify their deficient applications is not illegal. Picking a fight you are going to lose on the merits is not smart. Especially when it detracts time and effort away from the much more immediate and necessary goal of helping the large number of people who are still paying.

Yeah, just because they haven't, doesn't mean they can't.

No, it's disingenuous to count the time a program was, by design, inoperable as functional because it existed on paper.

When does the dam exist? On the day the blueprints are drawn up or on the day it starts filling with water?

This is a program that existed for a very long time

7 years since the first person became eligible is a 'very long time?'

The problem with it is when it was set up, some idiot put the loan companies in charge. And thru intentional incompetence most people didn’t get forgiveness when they should and the interest kept climbing for years.

So we're just making shit up now?

The department of education made the determination of who fulfilled the criteria to have their loans forgiven. Forgiveness was never based around distributing a set amount of money, but on completeting a specific payment regiment for 10 years with a qualifying employment category.

The first year anyone was eligible for forgiveness was 2017. Do you remember who was president in 2017? Who he put in charge of the department of education? There was a deliberate effort by the Trump administration to sabatoge the program by denying approval for forgiveness on the basis of any minor technical or clerical deficiency they could come up with. Some months literally nobody got approved. Now also consider the kinds of people Davos hired for every role she could within the department. And now the kind of people they hired.

And here you sit, just another asshole blaming Biden and Democrats for mess their predecessors went out of their way to create, because they didn't clean it up instantly and perfectly.

Nowhere in the entire post does it say anything like this.

I don't think the paper is disputing the harm of abusively beating the shit out of your kids.

I'm not surprised at the study. It's basically impossible to control for between individual variation sufficiently without an RCT, but that will never happen with spanking. There will always be this problem of which end to label the cart and which end to label the horse.

I guess I'll also poke the hornet's nest while I'm here....

I don't really have a problem with corporal punishment. Not for children, or adults, when appropriately administrated. I say this a person who has firsthand experience with a public school that utilised corporal punishment and an angry parent just taking it out on you for being a kid.

At school a paddling was just another step in the process. You'd lose recess time, you'd have to clap erasers or write lines, you'd get sent to the principal's office and then and only then get a paddling on you return trip if you kept it up. There always had to be two witnesses and the teacher who sent you down wasn't allowed to do it. If that still didn't work they would call your parents to come get you and paddle you again. The last one basically never happened

It was so different from someone who was angry at you just trying to make themselves feel better that I could easily recognize it even as a small child. It always baffles me when people deny any daylight between the two, I assume it's born out of a very fortunate ignorance. I never felt unsafe at school. It never diminished my trust in anyone there. If I got paddled at school—I knew it was coming, I knew exactly why, and I knew I could have made a sensible choice to avoid it. That was not the case at home.

The other reason is the moral one. I never see people with well behaved children claim you can forego punishments entirely and I have yet to hear a reasonable explanation for why intentional emotional harm has more virtue in it than intentional physical harm. Because that is what the alternatives are: isolation and deprivation. A time out isn't harmless, losing recreation and exercise time isn't harmless, they just don't leave marks you can see.

The wide angle crowd shot actually showing 'tens of thousands' is notably absent.

Those are both Nintendo, not merely 'Japanese'. However you may feel about Nintendo's legal proclivities, they are a longtime major player in the industry and, despite the gimmicky nature of the last few consoles, produce a very consistent, high quality with a brand perception in the ballpark of Disney. Those two things make them the default choice for any content-conscious parents or grandparents buying for kids, which has historically been the bulk of the market.

//edit: I guess that is half the explanation- the other half is the now large population of gamers with very warm, nostalgic feelings for Nintendo IP after the massive impact it had on their youth.