I think the poster was making the point of doing a survey. Perhaps not set on the actual method of that survey.
Yep, I meant #2 from https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/on_the_street
Idioms are hard! Want to apologize on behalf of the English language.
Readit Newsyeeyeeyee commented on At $249 per day, prison stays leave ex-inmates deep in debt apnews.com/article/crime-... · Posted by u/ajdude
yeeyeeyee commented on At $249 per day, prison stays leave ex-inmates deep in debt apnews.com/article/crime-... · Posted by u/ajdude
Depends on how you ask the question.
"Is it fair to incarcerate individuals for their preference of intoxicant in a free and liberal democracy?"
"Should drug users and other junkies be taken off the streets to keep them safe for the rest of us?"
That's not my question. There's exactly one way to ask my question.
"Do you think prisoners should be charged $250/night for their incarceration?"
yeeyeeyee commented on At $249 per day, prison stays leave ex-inmates deep in debt apnews.com/article/crime-... · Posted by u/ajdude
Most of the time, supporters of these laws aren't brainwashed or stupid. They just prefer the status quo that these laws uphold, which tends to overlay nearly perfectly with class lines.
>Supporters say the collections are a legitimate way for states to recoup millions of taxpayer dollars spent on prisons and jails.
Wait there are supporters of this? You're telling me if I asked 100 people on the street, there'd be someone that said "oh yeah this is a pretty fair and reasonable law to charge the inmates 5-star hotel prices"??
yeeyeeyee commented on Creativity requires solitude dkb.show/post/creativity-... · Posted by u/dbrereton
The vast majority of human beings throughout time lived in extremely communal situations without separate bedrooms, without sheet music, without books, and without records. Solitude in the home was rarely available. Virtually all folk music around the world was developed in these contexts. We barely know their names or their work, and that's simply because sheet music and historic record were limited to the interests of the rich.
The availability of prolonged solitude to practice an instrument is an aberration in human existence. Modern humans, and the historic rich, do not represent the wider experience of human existence. Unless you think compelling musicians are also an aberration in human existence, I personally believe a wider perspective is needed.
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As an aside, here's an article with Dave Grohl and Ringo Starr talking about how they never practice alone: https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/dave-grohl...
GROHL: Well, I remember we talked about this. I think we were talking about practicing. . . .
STARR: I never practice [laughs].
GROHL: Nor do I! Because I don’t like playing alone. I only like playing when there’s music.
STARR: I’ll play with you all night, but on my own, after two and a quarter seconds, I’m like, “Ugh. That’s not what it’s about.” When I’m doing shows, and people hold up their little seven-year-old: “This is Tommy. He loves you, and he’s taking drum lessons.” And I always say, “I hope he’s not taking too many!”
Good point, yeah I guess the social and political aspects of music are equally if not more important.
Probably should stop listening to so much jazz. So glad I did not attempt to be a professional musician.
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yeeyeeyee commented on Cancelling student debt is essentially printing money mleverything.substack.com... · Posted by u/bko
Very tongue in cheek answer, but then Jesus dying for our sins is unfair to the newborn baby that was yet to sin (stolen from a bad meme).
I honestly don’t get why we have so little empathy. Just because it sucked for me, I want to suck it for other people as well? Crabs in a buckets mentality is utterly harmful to everybody except those outside that bucket wanting to eat us.
>no empathy
Look, my comment was about
(1) a possible explanation for the administration to choose a 10k flat vs. the proposed percentage based structure by the parent comment and
(2) identifying that having college cost a lot of money is an incentive that forces people to use it in order to get a job that makes a lot of money and (theoretically) contribute to the national productivity, which is good for the government
Nobody wants it to suck for other people. There are X costs involved in paying staff, you pay Y for tuition and the state government subsidies Z, maybe like half. Getting into college is competitive; it's a scarce resource that you outcompeted someone else for.
Snce you had to compete to get into that crab bucket, what about empathy for the people you excluded by doing this and, say, left out for the sharks. Easy to have empathy for the maybe 30% who actually go to a 4y university.
yeeyeeyee commented on Cancelling student debt is essentially printing money mleverything.substack.com... · Posted by u/bko
An investment?
Don't go to college and you'll be drowned in the flood of third world labor that has been allowed to invade the country. This is not the 1950's. You aren't going to graduate high school and support a family as a travelling shoe salesman. You're going to end up working next to Jorge in some dead end minimum wage job and spending most of your money on rent.
Saying that it's a choice is a form of gaslighting. For most people, not going means a life of brutal wage slavery and exploitation. I guess you would say it's a choice to live as well?
Sounds like a pretty good investment. What else would you call it?
Also, there are plenty of alternatives: trade schools, bootcamps, etc.
Finally, why introduce stereotypes? This is not the 1950s, you can't and shouldn't say stupid shit like that anymore.
yeeyeeyee commented on Cancelling student debt is essentially printing money mleverything.substack.com... · Posted by u/bko
It is insane how much more expensive college is now than when I went to college back in the 90s. I was able to pay off my student loans within 10 years of graduating because they were so much less than what current students are graduating with. And salaries certainly haven't increased enough in that same time span to make the pay off equivalent.
But, I think $10k or $20k is not enough. I think they should have looked at how much the cost of college has increased over the past 2+ decades and forgiven that percentage from every student loan.
Then they should fix the cause of tuition inflation by getting rid of the federal student loan program.
> forgive that percentage from every student loan
This would be unfair to students who were frugal and chose a 20k-25k/yr COA state school with the assumption that their debt must be repaid.
Going to college is an investment that you ideally should plan for and weigh the benefits of the education vs the cost. If you don't think it's worth the 20-25k/yr COA at state schools (or whatever ridiculous amount at private schools) than just don't go. It absolutely is, but okay. This is an incentive to make good choices about college and be educated and productive post-college. But cancelling more debt would remove this positive externality.
I certainly agree that the US planned too much around cars and not enough around walking/transit/cycling.
I am however often skeptical of the comparisons to university life. While walkability absolutely does help foster connection, I don't think you can attribute all of the differences just to that. There are other major differences between life in university and life outside that also make a big difference in fostering connection:
- Only 5,000-50,000 people in universities, compared to millions in cities. You're more likely to live near friends and more likely to run into them.
- The vast majority of people in university are in the same narrow age group
- Most people in university have more free time than those who work full time
The biggest apple/orange problem with OPs comparison is that in a university, there is a competitive admission process. Universities are planned, elite communities. You can't do that in a city. "Oh sorry NYC is now for people with 1400+ SAT only, sorry buddy, you're gonna have to go to Detroit."
I guess you can price people out, but that does not really have the same effect as the psychometric screening that universities do.
Sorry but wtf?! Read Manufacturing Consent. Don't demonize us. We're not down with this shit.