thatjsguy

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by thatjsguy 8y ago
Do you run out of toilet paper often?
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by thatjsguy 8y ago
So who was losing 20 years ago when you could pay for school with a summer job?
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by thatjsguy 8y ago
But who sets the price of tuition? The Boards of Regents/Governors/Trustees. Tuition used to be cheap _even at brand-name schools_.
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by thatjsguy 8y ago
Absolutely, but if we have to deal with the burden while ensuring future students don’t have to suffer (because let’s face it: short of Jesus Christ coming back and demanding it, I don’t see private loan forgiveness in our future), I’d rath
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by thatjsguy 8y ago
So I dated a 41-year-old. He went to school about 15 years before I did. Know how much student loan debt he has? Zero. Zilch. Nada. In the amount of time it takes to reach the age necessary to acquire a learner’s permit, we inflated the cos
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by thatjsguy 8y ago
Taxation has been around forever. Society gets to vote and decide how to divide up shared resources. I’m perfectly fine with tax dollars going to education (coupled with drastically-reduced tuition, like it used to be a short couple decades
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by thatjsguy 8y ago
What if we just like... paid for school with taxes like literally every other country? (Trust me, it shouldn’t cost as much as it does to get a degree. I promise it can be and, in fact, used to be affordable.)
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by thatjsguy 8y ago
The electorate will do what it wants. If people keep electing terrible reps, term limits don’t stop that, it just stops that one particular bad rep and replaces them with another. Similarly, we have some awesome Michigan House members who w
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by thatjsguy 8y ago
Somebody getting a break doesn’t bring you down, it just brings them up. I’m sorry you had to pay off your loans. I’m paying about $100,000 myself. But even if I didn’t get amnesty, I’d rather not have one more graduate who, like me, has si
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by thatjsguy 8y ago
We did this in Michigan. It doesn’t work. It’s an attractive platform item, but what ends up happening is lots of turnover means it’s easier for lobbyists to sway candidates. You also just lose institutional knowledge. And guess what? We ha
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by thatjsguy 8y ago
Missing the point? My point is that a little trash on a riverbank pales in comparison to the large-scale environment destruction being committed every day by giant companies. Provide the homeless with food and shelter instead of worrying ab
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by thatjsguy 8y ago
I mean, I’m angry at a lot of people, legislators included. There’s plenty of anger to around..
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by thatjsguy 8y ago
People are afraid of rightwing ideologues on the Supreme Court because it means that certain cases might be reasoned from a point of view that is based less on sound legal philosophy and more on personal beliefs from the 1800s.
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by thatjsguy 8y ago
I live in Michigan, where PFAS are being found in water supplies all over the state. Companies did and still do dump poisonous chemicals into the environment, and day by day certain alphabet soup agencies give them more and more license to
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by thatjsguy 8y ago
It’s not, but this argument comes up for absolutely everything Scandinavian countries do: universal healthcare? America’s too big. Prison reform? America’s too big. Not treating poor people like garbage? America’s too big. Oftentimes there
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by thatjsguy 8y ago
I’m totally fine eating meat, but readily admit that I could never actually butcher an animal (and I don’t think that’s inconsistent). Anyway, how long do hens live? Could you let them wander around as pets?
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by thatjsguy 8y ago
Plenty of people feel the pain, but do you really think this Congress gives two shits about regular people?
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by thatjsguy 8y ago
Internment camps are a very real and valid reason to be afraid of China...
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by thatjsguy 8y ago
Huge citation needed, if for no other reason than this is consistently used to justify cutting welfare programs for people who actually can’t afford things like health insurance or food. “The poor can’t manage money” has been a popular meth
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by thatjsguy 8y ago
Who said you can’t do that with pen and paper?
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by thatjsguy 8y ago
Prove it.
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by thatjsguy 8y ago
I truly hope people treat you better than you would like to treat other people.
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by thatjsguy 8y ago
> ...why would you give them 10% equity? Because they’re taking on a gigantic risk too?
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by thatjsguy 8y ago
We the People? This is why voting is important, but I’m afraid that even if everyone participated, most people still condone treating prisoners like crap. “Othering” really helps justify it in people’s minds: “oh, it’s fine to treat them po
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by thatjsguy 8y ago
No? It just means they can access it. Encryption turns plaintext into ciphertext; it says nothing about the security thereof. I can ROT13 encrypt a message. Just because you can easily use cryptanalysis and read my message doesn’t make it a
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by thatjsguy 8y ago
As someone who has administrated both, I’d rather manage 10 Postgres instances than one Jenkins box. No question. Edit: I should expound. Jenkins seems like it has a lot of clunky moving parts. It all works, and I’d rather use it than anyth
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by thatjsguy 8y ago
To be fair, I don’t think this is intentionally bad privacy-wise. I think that, uh, a lot of the JavaScript set doesn’t actually know how to write code that doesn’t involve uploading shit to websites. When all you have is a hammer...
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by thatjsguy 8y ago
I don’t know. I mean, the gesture is clear, but at the end of the day, all you’ve done is spent a lot of money to send them a delicious (if admittedly risqué) chocolate treat!
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by thatjsguy 8y ago
Good. Either all religions are fine in public space, or none of them are.
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by thatjsguy 8y ago
I visited a few years ago. Never again. Coming out of our BART station was like stepping into some third-world nation (no offense to third-world nations): garbage everywhere, homeless people struggling to live, cops carefully watching for g

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