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All for the crime of doing what everyone always told you was the smart and responsible decision. In retrospect I wish I ignored that one skip class more. Smoking weed behind the bleachers was better than trying to get into a college or I'd leave with no degree and unpayable debt

Yeah, for the most part. NYC metro is in need of renovation bit it's very big

If you didn't have a car you would very quickly not have a home either. Having your car break down and not being able to have a replacement is a common cause of homelessness by way of job loss.

France generally has good enough public transit in most areas that you can live without a car if you're poor. In America you're lucky if you have anything more than the most thread there public transit system where the bus is only come every 45 minutes and get stuck in traffic. Except in New York and Chicago even the poorest person must own a at least a $1,000 very old used car to get to work. Americans are so dependent on cars as a consequence of bad urban planning that for many the idea of Transportation by a means other than car is literally inconceivable, it's like trying to explain quantum physics to a dog

It's america. If you didn't have a car you couldn't go anywhere. In many places this is literally true in all but a very select and completely unaffordable zip codes

That's a great idea, I would almost suggest that as the default if only for one glaring problem, namely that employers will demand a bachelor's degree to hire you. The reason why education is a focus has nothing to do with the actual education everything you do with the certification which is demanded for employment in good paying jobs. Everything else is Downstream of that. If it wasn't for that 90% of students wouldn't even go to the university anymore since you can just pirate textbooks.

Holy shit that's bad. It makes me feel better about not finishing it it was already kind of bad when I went and got significantly worse since then. I'm not sure I'm missing out on lunch other than whatever healing my brused ego could get from a framed degree.

I definitely think the entire education system, K through 12 and University alike need to be fundamentally rebuilt but employers accepting it as qualification for a job is a necessary precondition. If the federal government were competent they could simply certify Alternatives as equivalent to high school diplomas and bachelor's degrees enforced by heavy fines for violators with sting operations to catch them. Unfortunately that's not going to happen so going to have to figure out the education to employment Dynamic some other way

I'd argue school has always been prisonlike but it's gotten more overt. It's a complete mess. The Game is rigged so hard that it's not worth playing. I cannot in good faith tell a young person to focus on school work and getting into a good college because it didn't work for me. If I was 14 again I'd coast through high school getting mostly Cs and learn stuff on own time. (Remember kids you gotta do Both, not just The former)

I lost that gamble. Life's miserable

I think they're losing the plot. Elon poisoning X means they're living In an alternate reality

Everything in America just doesn't work right. It's either falling apart from lack of Maintenance or it's corrupt

that tracks with election results and presidential approval ratings

it's an easy message when they already turned college into a scam. I went 10 years ago and I felt like I was getting ripped off. I ended up flunking out and now my student loans I'll never pay off are in default. we need to make employment less dependent on credentials

we should just charge a carbon tax and directly invest it in green infrastructure, like subway lines, high speed rail, and transmission infrastrcture as well as loan programs for small scale things like apartment EVSEs and microgrids

a whole bunch of housing should be built in places like Tacoma, WA and Salem OR

And I thought I was a loser, but I managed to lose mine 3 years before him more if it takes him any longer. You have to be really terrible to be an attractive twink and still have no one want you

Pay attention boys: being a right winger will keep you from ever getting laid

America's fucking evil

What about shipping an adaptor? DP to HDMI for the transition?

Garnishing wages with sharply increase unemployment as many people would just quit their jobs as it's not worth it anymore

I don't have anything to lose in bankruptcy except my debt so there's literally no reason for me not to, in fact since I'm not going to be buying a house or anything for the next 7 years I have nothing but upsides