âoeCollege students need more connection. Therefore, use AI.â

Really?

Billionaires and autocrats have sabotaged both systems. We are going to have to figure out a third way or we are going to descend into techno feudalism and that is going to suck for everybody but about 5000 people on the entire planet .

if you are reading this you are not one of those 5,000

Is socialism? Almost the entire world is against them except Russia that uses them occasionally as a thorn in the side of the United States.

America's gearing up for war with them. Prior to that we had cut them out of the rest of the world and all of the global markets.

So I don't think Venezuela which is under active attack by every capitalist nation in the world is a fair representative of alternatives to capitalism.

I do think we live in the real world though and we can't pretend that socialism works even if the only reason it doesn't work is that billionaires, who are themselves vehemently opposed to capitalism, will sabotage it making it impossible to properly implement.

The important thing to remember is billionaires do not support capitalism either. So capitalism is going to get sabotaged by billionaires too and therefore capitalism is not an alternative to billionaires.

We are going to have to figure out a third way. Because both capitalism and socialism have failed us.

There is no fix besides austerity and suffering.

That's because rich people don't want to have to spend the money to solve problems that are mostly your problem and not theirs.

You need to get out of the habit, a habit let's remember you were conditioned into by the wealthy, of assuming that nothing can ever get better and that good things aren't possible anymore.

That habit is an extreme and toxic form of conservativism.

Technically they can't ban them but they can't throw you in prison for using one. And they can throw people in prison for running them of course.

This is the ultra wealthy and the ruling elite moving the take over the last form of media where regular people can access information without their consent.

But hey, the girl who hands you your coffee says Merry Christmas now so that's a fair trade right?

And if you don't understand what that means that's the problem.

Education - college education in particular, but education quite generally, actually - was never about a person's ability to earn money.

I find it funny that you ended that last sentence with the one word that lets everyone know not to pay attention. Those pundits know they're talking crap, but they want clicks. It is incumbent upon the audience to recognize that and respond accordingly.

Biden tried and failed, because it wasn't legal. He didn't have the authority to cancel debts to the Treasury, so he couldn't do it. Trump had the authority to reallocate certain defense construction funds for defense construction matters, so he could do it. He couldn't use HHS or Education funds for it, but funds allocated for military construction can be allocated for other military construction. But he definitely cannot create a new revenue stream and direct it however he chooses.

Automating the changes costs money. Apparently, more than it costs to have someone walk around with a stack of tags. These stores survive by keeping costs as low as possible.

In the end, I think the whole issue is being overblown to benefit whoever needed a byline. It's clearly not something that bothers customers enough to change their habits, so the stores won't bother to change theirs. It's not something fraudulent, like the headline suggests, it's just a banal shelf-tag issue.

It would have been better to just publish this as a consumer advisory note, reminding people to pay attention at the register. Like we're supposed to and our parents did.

Since when are you a political realist?

And there's a difference between peaceful relations and handing someone a tool to manipulate you with.

Why do you insist on telling me that you are unable to restrain your emotions? It's like you want me to know I shouldn't listen to you. The problem there is that I end up worrying about your mental health instead of just not listening.

You sound like you're really stressed out. Cities are bad for mental health. The pollution, noise, and the perverse estrangement of crowds isn't good for you. NYC is not worth living in. It's worth visiting on occasion, but it is not worth the cost or stress of being there all of the time. I lived in Orange County. You can be in the city in 40 minutes, which is fun if you're young, or not be in the city at all, which is ideal. Think about it. More affordable, less stressful, and there are train stations all over. Or just move to a free State where you won't be nickel and dimed to death to pay for things that don't work.

We were actively hiding the cost of college by giving colleges direct Cash subsidies from state and federal governments. They were passing those cash subsidies onto the students in the form of lower tuition. I do not know how much simpler I can explain this to you.

If you look at the actual operating expenses of colleges they have not increased substantially in the last 40 years. You will find some increases because there is more technology. Yes 70 years ago colleges did not need computers or advanced medical equipment to train doctors on. They also didn't need staff to keep all those computers and all that equipment running. So there is some increase due to do technology.

But that increase is relatively small. And can easily be accounted for by the new technology.

Meanwhile all of those subsidies are gone.

Suppose what we should have done is when you went to college we should have handed you a check and had you walk it to the finance office so that you would understand what the cost of college actually was instead of hiding that from you.

The reason we didn't do that is we were fighting a war with people who pretended to be socialists. So you needed to get socialism because that made America stronger country that could actually stand up to those enemies but we didn't want you to get comfortable with socialism so we hid socialism from you.

We did the same thing with the housing market where trillions of dollars were spent on infrastructure to subsidize baby boomer houses so that they could actually afford to buy houses. We also heavily subsidized the loans they got for those houses.

But if you really want to piss off somebody over 50 try explaining to them that they received a massive amount of benefit from socialism.

If you're aware that "everything Trump does changes daily", why don't you include that in your analysis? Why keep falling for his trolling and the other side's overreactions? Just wait another day for things to settle.

It may have been more useful to have already known that it would not be possible for Trump to do what you described. Congress would have to create that fund. The President can only direct funds at his discretion if the Congress has allocated those funds for him.

Trump is more open than other Presidents. He'll discuss things being considered with the press. If someone presented him with a list of ideas for the money, he'd probably mention a few of them. And then the press would run wild and report it like those were firm plans, instead of being vague notions that will be discarded the next day.

Everything is a grift. Capitalism is breaking down, or rather it's being broken down by monopolies and billionaires. So people have to try to find money any way they can and since you can't do it the traditional way of competing in a free market, because there is no free market anymore, you have to try to grift your way to a living.

Then why does he keep having to go to court?

I know you don't like him, but such hyperbole doesn't benefit debate or your mental health. It does make you look bad.

Oh, where did you find the data showing that Red States had more drug convictions than Blue States? And during what timeframe? I was 18 in the mid 90's, when Biden's crime bill was in effect (and Georgia was a Blue State). I also lived in New York, which had some of the most severe penalties for weed - the "Rockafeller drug laws". NY threw a whole lot of folks into prison for simple possession, I think mostly blacks and Puerto Ricans.