Needs to be bottified: "And your father is powered by rotting elderberries!"

Why. Is. It. that web browsers seem to be built with the express and sole purpose of being as annoying as possible?

Nothing is truly "free". It ends up being a tool to sell you shit, track you to sell you shit later, and display as many ads as possible.

I get where you are coming from regarding screwy and ever-shifting browser UI's. I'd like to see a browser library that allows one to use the common programming languages to implement the general UI environment. The dev can program all the browser buttons, menus and panel layouts, but let library calls do the actual web-page rendering for the sub-panels. There'd be several demonstration configurations (layouts) to select and customize.

I'd like to see a kind of modernized version of Visual Basic classic. One could whip out a general layout in no-time with barely any code. However, it's probably not for the persnickety. Finding a happy medium is tricky, as being both newbie friendly and guru-friendly is tough as nails.

Mozilla tried to do something like this with XUL, but it sucked.

"Slop" is the in way to say it.

that happens to attach OS's, browsers, and biz-ware to it. Reminds me of the old joke: "Emacs is a decent OS, but lacks a good editor."

Donald Trump is happy to screw any industry over xenophobia except real-estate, oil, and makers of gold doilies.

But perhaps people take out loan sizes based on what they expect to earn in their field. For example, an engineering masters degree is expected to result in a relatively high salary, so one may request a big loan.

We need to STOP loans, scholarships and grants for any field that has no realistic promise of having the student make enough...

There are already common work-sheets to compute recommended loan level based on wage and employment statistics in various fields. If somebody is foolish enough to ignore such warnings, then the problem is on them. I don't believe low-wage degree earners are necessarily more egotistical or greedy than high ones, barring solid evidence.

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> If you have a capitalist society the money focused criminals are going to go into private business.

Why? Those private businesses are regulated by Congress and so forth on down the line to local city councils. They are the gatekeepers, and punishers.

People who go into congress suddenly have their wealth explode. Why is that? Certainly nothing corrupt! Lol. Right. Sorry but politics is *very* corrupt. And that was even BEFORE Trump! Now, there are so many illegal acts at so many levels of government in so many different departments it is mindboggling.

So yeah, maybe politics attracts the corrupt and corruptible (the "corrupt adjacent").

We shouldn't just presume careers that pay less are the biggest source of loan problems.

Why not?

If you take on debt to learn skills we KNOW will not allow you to earn enough money to pay off once in practice...that by definition leads to loan payment problems.

We need to STOP loans, scholarships and grants for any field that has no realistic promise of having the student make enough money to pay back plus extra.....let's only target fields we need that make money.

If you want to take the other crap...then feel free to pay for it yourself.

with majors that are money losers in the job markets.

Well, how about we STOP giving grants, scholarships and loans (especially loans) to students for degrees that are worthless. If you want to study the effects on underwater basket weaving on indigenous gender fluid mollusks....then you pay for it on your own time.

I think that might cut a LOT of waste out.....let's try to only train for things that will benefit society and make the student some money after school

Cut the students and that will cut the loans and colleges will have to drop prices back to more normal levels.

and even many fuckable men want to pay...because they want someone more attractive than they can get on their own or think it's simpler to pay a prostitute than look for a hookup on an app.

Remember, when you've buying SEX with a woman, you're not paying her to come there....you're paying her to LEAVE after you're done with the deed.

With regular women dates....it can quickly become much more expensive....as that they want more, don't always go away and if they stick around long enough they can really cost you.

In many cases, it's better to just set the parameters at the beginning....because either way as a man, you WILL pay for it.

That's news to all the grads drowning in debt they'll never pay off.

It's talking about an average. Some loan takers fall through the cracks, usually because either they cannot find a job that takes advantage of their degree, and/or because they took on an unrealistic amount of debt. Often one's ego writes checks the Bank of Reality can't cover.

the issue of enrollment now being overwhelmingly female, with majors that are money losers in the job markets.

Ignoring that this comes across misogynistic, many women choose fields that they feel directly help people or society even if the paychecks are skimpy. But this doesn't mean they are necessarily taking on lots of debt. An analysis of the biggest defaulters and pay-off times would be necessary before laying the blame on such degrees. We shouldn't just presume careers that pay less are the biggest source of loan problems.

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S.O. was full of pretentious jerks, so part of me is glad they are suffering. On the other hand, I don't wish to see the site outright die, just humbled.