tallwookie

tallwookie, 8 months ago

it’s the white dot in the lower left

tallwookie, 8 months ago

eh, unless he’s not getting a cut it’s just drama nonsense.

tallwookie, 8 months ago

but that’s literally never going to happen - not at a Federal level, anyway.

tallwookie, 8 months ago

Roll Tide

tallwookie, 8 months ago

millions might qualify but with only $20 million in funding, millions wont be attending.

tallwookie, 8 months ago

it’s not like weight is a static thing…

tallwookie, 8 months ago

Thortona?

tallwookie, 8 months ago

ive been watching the aftermath of flooding in China. bunch of CCP failing

tallwookie, 8 months ago

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/ff4cb57d-ba0b-4d72-a013-306a2beab670.jpeg

tallwookie, 8 months ago

why would wearing money have anything to do with getting vaccinated?

tallwookie, 9 months ago

God forsakes people all the time. most of us can take it.

tallwookie, 9 months ago

why dont they just airdrop supplies in? drones arent that expensive - especially not when you’re destroying China’s face on the international stage.

tallwookie, 9 months ago

so leverage allies then - I’m sure the US would be happy to give a few pallets of medium range drones

tallwookie, 9 months ago

hell of a nice shank there. multipurpose.

tallwookie, 9 months ago

there’s a few different reasons that I can see

• there were fewer people total, so fewer bands - ie: less trash to sort through / increased popularity
• there’s arguably more things to protest about nowadays but because of that there’s fewer things that both resonate with a lot of people and sound good at the same time
• if everyone is protesting, no one is. there’s too many different slogans being called out, too many different groups to support (ie: buy the album or give them radio time), and many of those groups are at odds with each other.
• technological advancement - radio is seen as a dead medium to many these days, there are far more ways to consume media than to listen to the radio. it may be that protest songs just dont air on the radio for that reason alone - their target demographic doesnt listen to radio.

tallwookie, 9 months ago

nothing

tallwookie, 9 months ago

not fast enough, clearly

tallwookie, 9 months ago

PPP loans were provided to businesses so that their employees werent immediately fired wholesale - which is what would have happened to many businesses when the customer base dried up during lockdown/covid. businesses are a net gain to the economy - they provide economic stimulus. allowing businesses to fail would just start a collapse. PPP loans by the government worked to prevent that - rather well, in fact.

students eventually provide economic stimulus but are a net detriment until they are capable of adding back to the economy & that includes paying off their student loans.

tallwookie, 9 months ago

I suppose then it’s a lesson on whom you should trust when you’re planning on making life-altering financial decisions. presumably the lesson was learned?

tallwookie, 9 months ago

that’s nonsense. higher education has a LOT of administrative overhead. the overwhelming vast majority of teachers/professors/etc expect to make a decent wage. tenure has some impact on that as well, but they sure as hell arent philanthropists - the overall academic experience would be drastically different if educational professionals were not adequately compensated for their work. there are many other factors at play as well but paying the teachers is a big one.

bottom line - education is expensive & will always remain so. accreditation from cheaper schools is all well and good but for many professions, where you graduated from is just as important as the act of obtaining a degree at all.

in regards to “jobs paying more” - a basic job is going to pay whatever is the lowest it can get away with. if it’s too low, no one will accept that job offering & the position will either remain unfilled or the business will offer a higher remuneration. if you lack marketable skills, you are perfectly able to apply for anything you’d like but the chance of you actually gaining that job is laughably low; however, to gain skills one must accrue them - by either working up the ladder, gaining skill via experience, or investment into higher education (which, should be noted doesnt really provide skills, so much as a skillset or framework that the skills can later be integrated into).

PPO has to do with health insurance. not sure what you’re referring to

tallwookie, 9 months ago

there’s no real guarantee that higher education will lead to a net gain in the economy though - it might, but it’s not a 100% chance.

k-12 is already free, and a lot of people over the decades have been very productive with just that level of education - daresay they’ve contributed more to the economy - after all, anyone working is a net economic gain over no one working, regardless of their level of education.

tallwookie, 9 months ago

ah, you’re looking for an echo chamber then? lol nope. I’m here to rock the boat, pal.

tallwookie, 9 months ago

and again, students are an economic sink until they’re able to contribute to the economy. conversely, a business will always contribute to the economy - even a failing business pays their employees (or doesnt and the DoL sues them, then pays the employees).

PPP loans were a stopgap measure to ensure that the economy didnt collapse when old people were dying in droves. literally all it was. PPP loans were forgiven because the national economy requires that businesses move money around - the “spice must flow”, if you will - and rightly so, because a business is useful, whereas students really arent.

tallwookie, 9 months ago

so… success?

tallwookie, 9 months ago

dont use milk, use heavy cream

dont add sugar, add honey

granola is superior in every conceivable way though, so make this purchase a learning experience.