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Texas is freedom land
2m ago
What are you talking about?
I graduated from a state school in the 2010s. Our dorms had been standing since the mid century. They did demolish some even older ones to put up new dorms, and those fit your description, but nobody wanted to live in them because they were too expensive. I think they were either a donor earmark or part of the athletics rat race.
I paid $400/mo for my room in a bedsit, and it showed. Could have gone cheaper, too, in one of the complexes with a reputation for fire risk. I only wish my current town had anything close to those prices.
Most people I know either worked, or had parents rich enough to pay their way. Occasionally both. The best scholarships (outside of athletics) just wiped out the outrageous out-of-state tuition without covering housing or the ridiculous fees. Wait, unless you were Native American, in which case they gave a better stipend as a mea culpa.
Boomers like to complain about Chipotle or whatever. Sure, I guess the standard for fast casual raised a lot. Want to take a shot at how many burritos it takes to meet the average $11,000 tuition?
Nobody did delivery, either. If we really needed to get off campus, we walked to the shitty Asian restaurant across the street and came back with fried rice, as God intended. Same goes for the bars. They probably made most of their money on game day, anyway.
Tomato
18m ago
I've advocated leaning into student loan forgiveness, on the condition that most of the funds are seized from university endowments and heavy taxes on the parties who benefit directly from the loans over the decades.
I don't think that the universities with large endowments to raid have many highly indebted students.
Felagund
22m ago
Inez Stepman's recommended taxing university endowments, but I haven't seen it become a wider talking point.
One thing that confuses me as a non American is the details of how Biden ignored the Supreme Court here... did he find a loophole, or did just a drive a bus through the ruling and dared them to do something?
Surely it must be the first and its loopholery, but I'm not entirely sure how the rules work in these cases. For example it certainly seems like the court gets de facto ignored with New York gun laws, with high degrees of non cooperation from lower courts and law enforcement. To what degree can people just ignore the court and get away with it? That seems... odd.
faceh
25m ago
Yeah, and I suspect colleges can keep adding amenities indefinitely because even if various individual students never take advantage of a particular feature, those can be a major selling point when competing to get more students to attend. So yeah, go ahead and add a rock-climbing wall, a beer garden, a third swimming pool, not like that money is doing anything useful anyway.
There's literally nothing stopping a college from competing on price by offering a stripped down experience (or use the Spirit Airlines model of charging piecemeal for each amenity) so students can see what exactly they're paying for, but there's simply no incentive that I can see for doing so. Price-conscious students aren't the ones they want attending, anyway!
I think the biggest threat to their model right now is, ironically, AI, both because it enables rampant hard-to-detect cheating and because AI will probably be able to replace most instructors in the extremely near future.
hydroacetylene
29m ago
This might be the geographical variation you referred to, or it might be a difference in definition or emphasis on the tribal concept.
I think the main division in the red tribe is degree of religiosity(committed versus casual Christian) and then region(southern versus midwestern versus southwestern versus west) and geography(suburban/exurban versus actually rural). My description was pretty southern casual-religious suburban. Midwesterners are probably just a little different.
greyenlightenment
investments: META/FBL, TSLA, TQQQ, TECL, MSFT ...
31m ago
When I graduated in 2014 from a large state university (not my undergrad, mind) I was already wondering how much further it could go.
Tuition will keep rising, as will debt, as long as college grads continue to earn a significant wage premium, which they still are. The gap stopped widening since 2021 or so, so that is some progress finally . There is so much aid , scholarship, discounts and other programs. Parents are happy to dump their kids off at a university whilst taking advantage of these many generous discounts. If college tuition were like any other big-ticket consumer good, maybe things would change.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F2VANdobQAAVTvl.jpg:large
heavily subsidized items in which there is a the greatest disconnect between the price and what is actually paid, have seen the most inflation
Capital_Room
rather dementor-like
38m ago
It's tortuous to fire, or refuse to hire, people because of their race/religion/gender/sex.
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Anything as small as a single person being slightly rude isn't individually tortuous (uh, in theory).
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It's only in summary that these acts can be become tortuous.
"Tortuous" is a word meaning "full of twists and turns; excessively lengthy and complex." I believe the word you wanted in all these cases was tortious: "of the nature of or pertaining to a tort"
NewCharlesInCharge
39m ago
I think it's more like Jews that don't keep the sabbath or eat kosher, it's part of your ancestral identity rather than representing any belief in divine revelation.
Even Sunday mass itself is obligatory, along with a smattering of holy days of obligation. So if you're not giving any weight to that rule, you're unlikely to give any weight to the others. The non-weekly attenders that happen to align with the church are doing so on accident, the church isn't the source of their opinion.
They might go to church for Christmas and Easter. Very few priests would use those as a platform to catechize the cultural Catholics. The most I've seen is gentle nudging, like "Look how hard it was to find parking today, people had to park in the neighhborhood. A lot of you must not be coming every week, and you really should!"
hydroacetylene
39m ago
And, to note- students can opt out of cost disease. This isn’t a ‘no starter homes available’ situation. You can live with your parents, go to community college for 2-3 years, and then transfer to podunk state school of commuting for 1-2 years, and get a degree for like 1/8 the cost. This is the less popular option.
At some point, controlling the student loan problem requires either underwriting that will automatically get blown up into an algorithm based on throwing money after Shaniqua or reinstitution of sumptuary laws. Simply… cap the conditions available on campus. Require food halls to serve exactly the same food as the nearest prison, ban individual dorm rooms(and for an added bonus, require one-locker-room-per-floor level facilities), prevent the use of student loans for off campus expenses, etc. You want better than that, you pay with cash.
faceh
44m ago
When I graduated in 2014 from a large state university (not my undergrad, mind) I was already wondering how much further it could go.
The campus had its historical parts that predated the civil war which maintained their classic look, but massive modern facilities were popping up on the periphery, and new 'luxury' apartments and home rentals were being added with dizzying rapidity. And while I attended classes in a classic/historical part of campus, they renovated the interior with furniture that cost upwards of $1500 a piece.
And of course my membership to the huge gym/recreational facility and campus life buildings and events and bus transit was all included too. I intentionally sought out bottom-of-the barrel accommodations, but every other aspect of the experience seemed designed to get you to blow out your budget on frivolities, even if you weren't actively partying.
The downtown area was a mix of dive-bar-esque independent establishments but well known chains were encroaching. There was a single lone strip club that was holding out on a side street. A quick google search shows that it is still there, though.
It was readily clear that the college was an anchor for the whole area in terms of funneling student loan funds into the school's coffers and tons of local businesses who were aggressively optimizing for getting naive students to spend more than they needed. The only constraint keeping the school from capturing all that money is that they couldn't build new facilities fast enough.
I think this has had the additional effect of giving college kids hugely elevated expectations as to what real life is like and how they can expect to live unless they snagged one of those FAANG tech jobs right out of school. Also they probably get used to having a billion subscriptions for things that simply don't require them and outsourcing all kinds of labor they could economically perform themselves.
And this helps explain why kids getting out of school get the 1-2 punch of realizing how all that consumption during college was financed by debt they now have to pay, AND realizing their standard of living will be slashed by like 40-50% unless they're willing to KEEP financing it on debt for a while.
MathWizard
formerly hh26
46m ago
I don't think we should be selectively picking and choosing lawmakers and pedantically going through their actions to decide whether their actions do or do not technically count as "insider trading" or not and then prosecuting the ones that the prosecutor chooses to prosecute at their own discretion.
Instead I think we should make a new law that unambiguously singles out lawmakers, prevents them from buying/selling/owning anything other than specially licensed (and public) index funds, limit their transactions to certain times of year, and also prevent external sources of income. Then ruthlessly enforce that law on all of them, which should be tailor-made to be less ambiguous than existing insider trading laws which are not designed with politicians in mind.
Obviously this will never happen because the politicians are the ones who make laws and don't want to cripple their own sources of income. But if it magically happened then I would feel comfortable prosecuting it.
TowardsPanna
52m ago
Right. I'm gonna stay on the straight and narrow.
TowardsPanna
56m ago
My country doesn't really use cash anymore. I wouldn't be able to spend it all without raising suspicion.
hydroacetylene
57m ago
Technically, the figure responsible for excommunicating Joe Biden would be Wilton Cardinal Gregory, who was probably appointed archbishop of DC in part because he wouldn’t do something like that.
hydroacetylene
59m ago
ACB, Thomas, and Alito are devout practicing Catholics. Kavanaugh is probably a bit less so. Roberts I have no idea.
AvocadoPanic
59m ago
Could writing be classed as a hand gesture? I find that notes I've taken by hand are stickier than notes taken by typing.
VoxelVexillologist
Multidimensional Radical Centrist
1hr ago
Sure, the text says "peaceful," but "productive" is very much in the eye of the beholder. Are the listed tasks productive? Does the median 8th grader think so? I'm sure you could point to "internalized something" as a Western-centric view of why making anthropological artifacts is not terribly "productive." Or conversely, that cultural investment isn't inherently productive at all (what does this do for GDP?). "Productive" is a value judgement that isn't in the original text.
I could see some argument that constantly hunting and living on a diet of corn and squash (do kids like squash?) sounds rather dreary. And lots of difficult physical work (for kids that would prefer sitting in front of a flashing picture box).
jeroboam
1hr ago
If that were the only path from which people found the site, then it would be very bad due to selection effects.
If it was one of many paths, then I think it's no problem.
felis-parenthesis
1hr ago
It depends on the price and what the sellers do with the money.
Perhaps the local capitalists have inside knowledge that bad times are coming and manage to sell at a high price before that knowledge spreads abroad. This is a leading indicator of things going wrong.
Or perhaps local capitalists have inside knowledge of better opportunities in Mexico. How will they raise capital? They can sell mature companies that they have built up earlier and invest in new companies with better growth prospects. This is a leading indicator of things going right and directly beneficial to Mexico.
FiveHourMarathon
The Gun Would Go Off
1hr ago
Sorry, wasn't clear there, I'm the last Exit going West once you exit 95 not the last exit on I95 itself.
I mean, yes. But they're still generally recognized as "Catholic" by the broader American populace, which doesn't really pay attention to internal doctrinal niceties. Nancy Pelosi still counts as "catholic" for general U.S. purposes, despite having views on abortion and gender wildly out of step with official church doctrine (though I'm not so sure the German catholics would disagree with her...)
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