Let's say in the next 100 years the Pacific Ocean rises 1 inch. At the same time Shanghai, which is on the coast, sinks 1 foot. That is 13 inches of change. If the city is only a few feet above sea level, that one foot makes a huge difference when it comes to drain water runoff, sewage dispersion, tunnels, etc.

For reference, Shanghai has sunk 3 meters in the past 100 years.

Read that part again. It's not that the school costs that much, it's that the finance charges on these "loans" could pile up over time. Just like any loan which isn't paid off and interest continues to accrue.

Why do you think so many people owe more on their student/medical loan than the original value of the loan? They didn't pay enough of it off fast enough so the interest kept adding to their total loan cost.

An Eisenberg would be involved in illegal monetary dealings. Wonder if he is good friends with this guy.

Stereotypes exist for a reason.

Clearly this is a great step forward for humanity.

It sure is. Eventually we won't have to put pilot's lives at risk. Just send a machine.

the border crisis,

You mean this border "crisis"?

crumbling infrastructure,

Republicans, almost to a one, voted against a wide-ranging infrastructure bill, then bragged about all the money their districts were getting for infrastructure.

and general loss of civil rights

Yes, Republicans have been working hard to take away people's civil rights. From taking away one's right to control their own body to bannning books so you can't read them, to trying to prevent entire groups from voting, they are working as hard as they can to impose an iron grip on people's lives and destroy our freedoms.

Plus, even Twitter was used to censor opponents of Biden, it's in Twittergate.

No, they didn't. They did not censor "opponents" of President Biden in any way, shape, or form. The ONLY thing that was done was the government suggested, not demaded, Twitter/Facbook/et al take a look at all the harmful and outright falsehoods being pedaled which could potentially lead to people's deaths.

If you want to talk about real censorship, look at how many times "free speech" Musty has banned journalists accounts after they posted mean things about him, or the multitude of problems with his vehicles, or the guy who said Musk should pay more in taxes and his account banned for days, or the current broo ha ha over any account which mentions Hans Kristian Graebener being StoneToss being banned. That's real censorship, but because it's done by the failing company, that's fine, right?

It's always funny how people jump to, "LAWSUIT!" whenever something like this comes up, and immediately mentions some law or rule why a lawsuit should happen, while at the same time bragging how much software, movies, and music they steal and saying the company and/or artist can suck it.

Consistency would be nice, but I know that's too much to expect from people who think they're being edgy and whatnot.

Which is why I said for large definitions of office. I also mentioned IT because myself, my team, and members of other teams, are in the office every day doing our work because it can't be done from home.

Since we're told English is a fluid language and changes over time, here's another one. Office is no longer only for white collar workers. It's wherever you do your job regardless of what you do.

For the vast, overwhelming majority of the workforce that does their job in meatspace, and for their bosses, what this guys says holds no water.

Thank you. As some on here are wont to say, not everyone learns at the same pace. In a similar fashion, not everyone can sit on their ass and do their job from home. If people would take more than three seconds and not have a knee jerk reaction every time this subject comes up, they'd understand the vast amount of people who need to be in the office (for large definitions of office) every day.

Let me know when the gal slinging your pizza for delivery can do that at home. Or the guy who's delivering that pizza to you via whatever overpriced delivery service you're using. The pharmacist getting your drugs prepped for pick up, the delivery driver who delivers the drugs to the pharmacy, the fast food worker grilling your slab of meat, that Starbucks worker making your overpriced mug of coffee-flavored sugar, truck drivers, warehouse workers, farmers, ranchers, landscapers, construction, road workers, chemists, virologists, judges (maybe in between cases), attorneys (again, maybe in between cases), the list goes on. I've only touched on the multitude of people who cannot, under any circumstance, work from home. And that includes some IT folks as well.

As you said, if you're a code warrior or account manager, or a general paper pusher, sure, sit on your ass and get fat at home. For the 75% of the workforce who don't fit into those categories, the office it is. Every day.

Yes. And if it did kill the kid they can always fall back on, "God has a plan."

With Republican's infatuation with what people do in their personal lives, this shouldn't surprise anyone. It's essentially next level McCarthyism.

That is not what I said. I said people should not buy tickets. The groups can still use TM, but no one buys a ticket. Sure, the scalpers will still buy tickets, but once they realize there is no market for the tickets they stop buying them.

The only way to truly hurt a company is to hurt their bottom line. Stop buying their product/service and they either go out of business or change their ways.

The easiest thing to do is not to buy tickets, either firsthand or from scalpers. Kill the market. TicketMaster goes out of business and multiple companies will step in producing competition.

But like people who complain about Amazon then go out and buy from them rather than not buying from them, this is too simple an idea so it can't be done.

For instance, look at Hallmark movies. They could all be original, but they're so formulaic they may as well not be.

I'm pretty certain I read at some point Danielle Steel admitting her stories were all the same, only the names and locations were changed.

Basic story elements don't change, and the details mostly exist to get you to miss the fact you've already seen the plot or character a million times before.

Which would fit in with what Steel said.

For the record, Steel has written at least 185 books.

Right, as if anyone still owns a pen.

I have a collection of pens I use. I used one of those pens multiple times this past week, and two other pens for limited use as well.

As for taxes, my local taxes were done via pen.

I know it's difficult to imagine using something which doesn't rely on a computer, but try.