Then it’s a shit hobby, or the wrong time in your life for that particular hobby. Hobbies aren’t meant to be financially sound investments, and the best hobbies aren’t cheap.

Best idea I’ve seen so far is to comply - and let the nsfw posts just keep on coming. Show the advertisers how their ads are being shown next to nsfw, and see how that goes.

Honestly, this would be a non-issue if we could block instances at the user level. Since they’re not federated yet, and User-level instance blocking should be coming, I say we wait and see.

They’re expecting lawsuits to fly, and don’t want to touch it with a 10-foot pole lest they get dragged in.

A big problem with this is that since 2016 the bots and hired commenters have thoroughly poisoned the intellectual well. What used to be considered extreme in 2016 was so artificially boosted that now real people have completely bought into the bullshit.

I wonder if you could guesstimate based on ad-buys - cost, interactions, etc.

Yes and no - if the university can no longer fill its ranks because their costs are too high, they will have to reduce costs. The reason it’s so expensive right now is because they have a captive audience that can’t walk away.

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I think part of the mindset that has to change is this idea that college is worth it no matter the cost.

Say it louder for the people in the back!

Imagine thinking that the only way your party can win is to make cheating trivial, and that common sense voting requirements (prior registration, day-of in-person only, ID required, indelible ink on finger) are racist.

Personally, I’d like voting to be at least as secure as obtaining a library card, but that’s me. 🤷‍♂️

Rather than interfering further with a private market, they could simply cap the amount of federal loans a student can receive.

Absolutely. The problem started when they made student loans unable to be discharged through bankruptcy. This allowed colleges to charge whatever they wanted, because loans would rise to match, and the borrowers were locked in with no way to walk away. And look where we are now.

You used to be able to pay for college with a summer job cutting lawns - not anymore!

The only way to win in this environment is to be frugal AF - don’t jump straight into a four-year university, get your two-year out of the way at a community college, then transfer over for your major. Live at home until you graduate. Get your degree in business, which is applicable anywhere. Don’t take any loans, but do well in high school and apply for grants instead.

The wrong answer is to take out hundreds of thousands in loans with no intention of repayment, vote-blue-no-matter-who because they’ve promised you the moon and the stars, and dismiss anybody telling you “uh, that’s not the best idea” as an alt-right nazi bigot.

if the government hadn’t handed out billions to cronies and private businesses

Totally separate issue that’s its own pile of bullshit. I think we can both agree that the government is corrupt AF.

Or maybe we just don’t agree that taxpayers should bail out the poor financial decisions.

You’re right, but I don’t think congress would permit it simply because it would also tank their investments. The smarter play would be to grandfather-in existing student loans, and make all future loans susceptible to bankruptcy - but that would also have its own knock-on effects. Either way it’s a shit sandwhich that should have never existed in the first place.

Amen! And that’s always been the case - that’s why the traditional good advice has been that you get a business degree, with a minor in whatever the fuck actually interested you. A business degree is always applicable in every field, and like you said it’s rare that you actually get a career that follows your major. 90% of the time the college degree itself just proved that you could show up on time and follow instructions - but that’s gone out the window too in the past 20 years. Nowadays if you want a worthwhile secondary education trade school is where it’s at - you can’t outsource the trades.

I’m old enough to remember when “don’t take loans you can’t afford to repay, and pay your fucking bills” was universal common sense and not left vs right - but look at this dumpster fire of triggered communists expecting to be absolved of the consequences of their poor choices by daddy government. Personally, I think they’re just salty that they got lied to again, and everybody who told them this would happen was dismissed / blocked / deplatformed as a being an alt-right nazi bigot. Shucks!

Hahaha, I admit I was trolling a little bit there 😘

But “pay your fucking bills” is not a controversial statement, and the fact that that was being downvoted is fucking hilariously stupid. Now eat your food, cut your hair, and get a goddamned job!

The system needs an overhaul

Nah, just make it legal again for bankruptcy to erase student debt. Exploding tuition costs only became a thing when that law was changed. “You mean we can charge whatever we want, loan it out to unqualified borrowers and they’re on the hook for life with no way to discharge it? Awesome!”

If bankruptcy could discharge tuition debt again, you’d see a wave of defaults, then tuition costs would crash back to affordable levels that were actually reasonably able to be paid off - at least, it would be less painful than what declaring bankruptcy would do, which is exactly the point. 🤷‍♂️

Hot take: how about you pay back the loans you take out? You know, like you agreed to do?

Edit: lmfao at all the little communists downvoting me for suggesting they actually pay the debts they agreed to take on. “Those are our debts, comrade!” Who would’ve thought that maybe taking out hundreds of thousands of dollars in loans at 17% interest for a gender studies degree was a bad idea? 🤣🤣🤣

Unless you want to be a part of a curated safe-space you’re not missing anything. If you do want to be part of something like that, we’ll then you’ll need to reapply and sell yourself harder.

Another vote for UniFi gear. I administer four homes for myself and my family, three of them all use UniFi equipment (and the fourth will next time I get over there, it’s in another country).

Yup.