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.zero

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It's 2035. And we probably shouldn't be burning cow dung as cooking fuel anymore either.



I hate parents. No, seriously. It's the reason I never had kids. It was never the kids. It was always the other parents. Parents have become freaks from the days I used to walk to school by myself, play in school yards without supervision, didn't have arranged playdates, didn't have mommy and daddy trying to be my best friend. Parents have seriously f'ed a lot of things up in the past few decades.



Well, to be fair, the real question here is whether you believe in elite overproduction or not -- basically Turchin's cliodynamics. Because the whole student debt bubble started with that... largely under governor Reagan in Cali in the late 60s when Reagan reacted to anti-Vietnam war protests by defunding higher education. Tuitions went from $300 a year to $15k for a public institution like UC Berkeley.

It took off in other states looking to buy something for nothing: shortchanging higher educational funding in exchange for bloated loans. The student debt bubble was completely obvious by 2010 after the 2008 financial crisis defunded higher education further. And like any bubble, the taxpayers either end up paying for it up-front or the aftermath when the false economics blow up in their faces.

Students were left holding the loan bag because governments preferred defunding higher education and leaving the plebs with the choice of either being a) uneducated or b) postponed indentured servants to a newly created student loan industrial complex.



Label me a lib if you want, but I've heard this cry wolf business far too often to take it seriously. I'm still waiting for that Sharia Law threat from 2013 that made all these states flip out about how the Moooselims were coming to take our freedoms away.

The line between QAnon threats of cannibal pedophiles in the basement of Comet Ping Pong and the scare tactics of schools endorsing gender mutilations and drag queen book club conversion therapy is mighty thin. Antifa coming to get us, BLM burning every town down, the knockout game... it's like paranoia has a great marketing team. Just invent something crazy like teachers are endorsing cannibalism, claim you're against it, and if anybody says you're nuts you take the crazy high ground asking what are they hiding and if they support the alleged cannibals.

This playbook is tiresome.
R.I.P.’d them
 

Hust

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Hustini
May 29, 2005
93,703
now that’s taking it back lol
Wasn’t that more in catholic schools?

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It's 2035. And we probably shouldn't be burning cow dung as cooking fuel anymore either.



I hate parents. No, seriously. It's the reason I never had kids. It was never the kids. It was always the other parents. Parents have become freaks from the days I used to walk to school by myself, play in school yards without supervision, didn't have arranged playdates, didn't have mommy and daddy trying to be my best friend. Parents have seriously f'ed a lot of things up in the past few decades.



Well, to be fair, the real question here is whether you believe in elite overproduction or not -- basically Turchin's cliodynamics. Because the whole student debt bubble started with that... largely under governor Reagan in Cali in the late 60s when Reagan reacted to anti-Vietnam war protests by defunding higher education. Tuitions went from $300 a year to $15k for a public institution like UC Berkeley.

It took off in other states looking to buy something for nothing: shortchanging higher educational funding in exchange for bloated loans. The student debt bubble was completely obvious by 2010 after the 2008 financial crisis defunded higher education further. And like any bubble, the taxpayers either end up paying for it up-front or the aftermath when the false economics blow up in their faces.

Students were left holding the loan bag because governments preferred defunding higher education and leaving the plebs with the choice of either being a) uneducated or b) postponed indentured servants to a newly created student loan industrial complex.



Label me a lib if you want, but I've heard this cry wolf business far too often to take it seriously. I'm still waiting for that Sharia Law threat from 2013 that made all these states flip out about how the Moooselims were coming to take our freedoms away.

The line between QAnon threats of cannibal pedophiles in the basement of Comet Ping Pong and the scare tactics of schools endorsing gender mutilations and drag queen book club conversion therapy is mighty thin. Antifa coming to get us, BLM burning every town down, the knockout game... it's like paranoia has a great marketing team. Just invent something crazy like teachers are endorsing cannibalism, claim you're against it, and if anybody says you're nuts you take the crazy high ground asking what are they hiding and if they support the alleged cannibals.

This playbook is tiresome.
I saw ping pong and immediately thought of Thailand
 

swag

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Sep 23, 2003
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swag

L'autista
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The man looks more unreal as he ages.
Are we seeing Zuck's early transformation a la Michael Jackson circa Bad? :shifty:

I remember my mom telling me about the ruler treatment growing up catholic lol
Dat sheet was real though. Not fake news. Like ruler on yer palms because they measured your skirt to be more than an inch above your knees. And so girls would roll up their skirts as soon as they left the school, because that was the cool thing to do. Or so I've heard.

Now they could just attach wireless devices to jolt your genitals from the teacher's mobile phone.
 

Hust

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Hustini
May 29, 2005
93,703
Are we seeing Zuck's early transformation a la Michael Jackson circa Bad? :shifty:



Dat sheet was real though. Not fake news. Like ruler on yer palms because they measured your skirt to be more than an inch above your knees. And so girls would roll up their skirts as soon as they left the school, because that was the cool thing to do. Or so I've heard.

Now they could just attach wireless devices to jolt your genitals from the teacher's mobile phone.
I can't remember if she said palms or wrists with there rulers but palms makes more sense
 

Ronn

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May 3, 2012
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You gotta be so hated to lose an election as a Republican in Alaska even with Trump’s endorsement. Palin is now in Roy Moore territory without the scandals. Quite an achievement.
 

swag

L'autista
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Sep 23, 2003
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So after about 15 months from the time I put money down on a finished apartment (thank you Portuguese bureaucracy and city utility approvals with a Covid backlog), I finally have a deed and keys to a pretty nice new condo in Lisbon.

And because the money is next to free, I took out a mortgage for a portion of it. Just learned that because my new apartment unit has an "A" energy rating, the EIB (European Investment Bank) is knocking an additional 0.1% off on my interest rate. Not much, but I'll take it.

Because if the condo were in Texas, I'd probably be charged an extra 0.1% of interest just for discriminatory harm to the state's fossil fuels business. :pado:
 

AFL_ITALIA

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Jun 17, 2011
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So after about 15 months from the time I put money down on a finished apartment (thank you Portuguese bureaucracy and city utility approvals with a Covid backlog), I finally have a deed and keys to a pretty nice new condo in Lisbon.

And because the money is next to free, I took out a mortgage for a portion of it. Just learned that because my new apartment unit has an "A" energy rating, the EIB (European Investment Bank) is knocking an additional 0.1% off on my interest rate. Not much, but I'll take it.

Because if the condo were in Texas, I'd probably be charged an extra 0.1% of interest just for discriminatory harm to the state's fossil fuels business. :pado:
Congratulations!
 

Hust

Senior Member
Hustini
May 29, 2005
93,703
So after about 15 months from the time I put money down on a finished apartment (thank you Portuguese bureaucracy and city utility approvals with a Covid backlog), I finally have a deed and keys to a pretty nice new condo in Lisbon.

And because the money is next to free, I took out a mortgage for a portion of it. Just learned that because my new apartment unit has an "A" energy rating, the EIB (European Investment Bank) is knocking an additional 0.1% off on my interest rate. Not much, but I'll take it.

Because if the condo were in Texas, I'd probably be charged an extra 0.1% of interest just for discriminatory harm to the state's fossil fuels business. :pado:
Congrats from across the pond. Despite our disagreements I still hope you fly an Old Glory there on our nations behalf. If nothing else, for me, the most annoying Murican you know
 

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