So, I hate Apple as much as the next nerd, but even I have to admit the new m.whatever chips are pretty slick. My wife is in design and has always fussed over Apple, so I relented and got her an Air for her last upgrade. Considering the price it’s still an impressive, sturdy little machine with bonkers battery life.

I would guess Mozilla is making plans for what happens when Chrome is sold. Now that Firefox has proven to be an inadequate antitrust shield for Chrome, there is no longer any reason for Google to continue funding them.

They don’t have the right to deny due process either. Still happening.

implying they ever stopped

There is a very old sim game, Simcopter, that might scratch this itch. I have no idea how you would go about obtaining a copy though.

The short version is you fly around a simcity style city as a freelance chopper pilot basically. Spotlight criminals, dump water on fires, air taxi the wealthy, etc. You get cash rewards you use for fuel and upgrades to better missions. You can even load up a simcity 2k save and play in the city you built.

Can’t lose what you never had.

Jim Cramer observed

Title had me worried for a sec, as soon as I saw this I knew we’ll be alright.

I see them fine, firefox on android and arch.

I reckon, given the extent of voluntary submission to constant surveilance from corporations and the continued march deeper into oligarchy, that it’s only a matter of time until platforms that aren’t explicitly anti-privacy are going to be reframed as extremist and dangerous as a part of the global political conversation. Perhaps this will end up being the leading edge of that.

Who could have ever guessed that programming people for dehumanization of their enemies and mass murder wouldn’t mesh well with ideological extemism?

To answer the obvious question - I don’t know whether this means it’s not coming to Steam, Epic Games Store or other PC storefronts, but it sounds like it’s a Microsoft-only joint for the minute.

Apparently the dude couldn’t be bothered to check the steam store page:

And it was that all private student loans were stripped of their bankruptcy protections. Federal loans were given an out but its very difficult. But the amount of private loans exploded and those couldn’t be cleared at all. That’s it. The final truth.

https://www.consumerfinance.gov/about-us/blog/busting-myths-about-bankruptcy-and-private-student-loans/

For too long, a myth has persisted that student loans are not dischargeable in bankruptcy. The myth is not true because, in fact, student loans can be discharged bankruptcy. We have seen the Department of Education take important steps to ensure that bankruptcy relief is available to federal student loan borrowers. It is vital that private student loan borrowers also receive the relief the Bankruptcy Code provides —and that loan owners, lenders, servicers, and debt collectors honor that relief when a bankruptcy judge discharges a consumer’s debts.

Straight from the fucking CFPB. Stop repeating lies that harm people by making them believe they don’t have options that they do.

Its not their predecessors if its the same person.

The Biden administration was not running the Department of Education from 2017-2020.

I don’t know why you’re having such a hard time with this. I’m not talking about everything the democrats and Joe Biden ever tried to do in relation to students loans. I’m not talking about every mess ever made. I’m talking about their handling of the PSLF program. You know, the thing the thread is about.

You thinking that it’s right is indication of exactly what side you already agree with.

Saying I said it was right, when I explicitly said it was wrong. Well done.

So they drew a line. It ended up being in the wrong place and it needs to be redrawn.

It helps if you understand that a huge portion of rural Pennsylvanians are overtly racist. It’s like they collectively decided the worst southern stereotypes were aspirational.

It add nuance to the conversation that Democrats have done nothing wrong and only been pushing to fix what other older people and Republicans have done.

I didn’t say this. Democrats do things wrong, like all the time. Maybe the misunderstanding is my fault for omitting the article ‘a’ before ‘mess’ by mistake near the end of my original post. Mea Culpa.

But in regards to the subject of this thread, that absolutely is what is happening. The Biden administration is cleaning up a mess Republicans went out of their way to create with their deliberate mishandling of the PSLF program. Blaming Biden because he can’t wave away the consequences of Republicans malfeasance is exactly what the person I was replying to did.

so that none of that debt could be forgiven even after bankruptcy?

The reality of the matter is that people have very little recourse for handling college debt unless they are literally starving to death

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I didn’t say it was easy, I said it wasn’t literally outlawed. Which it is not. There may even be good reasons to make it more difficult for young adults just out of school, without any assets and low financial stakes, to discharge the large amounts of unsecured debt we’re helping them take on. They were right to be concerned about it. So they drew a line. It ended up being in the wrong place and it needs to be redrawn. Happens to the best of us.

You call someone else out on making incorrect statements while making them yourself and it becomes apparent it’s just ideology at the base not reality.

That’s rich coming from a person who opened by lying about the impossibility of discharging student loan debt.

Yeah, you want to litigate the entire FSLP and talk about the whole picture on how it’s affected education and the economy over the last three decades? I’m not sure I have time to write several doctoral theses and a nonfiction book today, however maybe we can start with the fact that student loans can be discharged in bankruptcy. Yes, the courts use a more stringent standard than Chapter 7 and it leaves a lot of discretion to individual judges, but it is not outlawed outright.

and that account went off about how I’m blaming Biden.

Biden had us pay the illegally charged interest rather than fight it.

I guess someone else wrote his name in there.

Charging borrowers interest is not illegal. Denying participation in government programs over trivial errors is not illegal. Declining to earnestly help people who are eligible rectify their deficient applications is not illegal. Picking a fight you are going to lose on the merits is not smart. Especially when it detracts time and effort away from the much more immediate and necessary goal of helping the large number of people who are still paying.

No, it’s disingenuous to count the time a program was, by design, inoperable as functional because it existed on paper.

When does the dam exist? On the day the blueprints are drawn up or on the day it starts filling with water?

This is a program that existed for a very long time

7 years since the first person became eligible is a ‘very long time?’

The problem with it is when it was set up, some idiot put the loan companies in charge. And thru intentional incompetence most people didn’t get forgiveness when they should and the interest kept climbing for years.

So we’re just making shit up now?

The department of education made the determination of who fulfilled the criteria to have their loans forgiven. Forgiveness was never based around distributing a set amount of money, but on completeting a specific payment regiment for 10 years with a qualifying employment category.

The first year anyone was eligible for forgiveness was 2017. Do you remember who was president in 2017? Who he put in charge of the department of education? There was a deliberate effort by the Trump administration to sabatoge the program by denying approval for forgiveness on the basis of any minor technical or clerical deficiency they could come up with. Some months literally nobody got approved. Now also consider the kinds of people Davos hired for every role she could within the department. And now the kind of people they hired.

And here you sit, just another asshole blaming Biden and Democrats for mess their predecessors went out of their way to create, because they didn’t clean it up instantly and perfectly.

The unfortunate, actual reason is that people will pay more markup on the vacuum with useless shit added than it costs to add it. Explaining why humans are like this is unfortunately a less tidy and much more disappointing endeavour.

Really glad the president of the USA finally decided to pull the lower inflation lever in the oval office.