We tried that, graduates would declare bankruptcy, get the student debt discharged, and just have to wait 7 years or whatever to take out a loan to buy a house.

How do you figure? Right now student loans are all but guaranteed for all that apply, and we have tremendous delinquency rates despite the debt not being discharge able. If you make student debt discharge able, what's the incentive to pay it back? Maybe you meant to add "and put student debt back in the hands of private lenders, who will bear the cost of that discharged debt, so they will be very selective about giving bad credit risk students tens of thousands of dollars for their degree"? Is that what you meant?

So let's start with your last item first - do you imagine the U.S. Government, and state governments, DON'T support education? How much money does each state pour into state and community colleges? Acvording to you, nothing.

You know what the difference is between all those "free colleges" in Europe and elsewhere and US Colleges? The vast majority of foreign "free" colleges are run by the gov't, enrollment is limited, and students get in based on merit. In America, the vast majority of colleges are privet, "non-profit" institutions, and they admit almost anyone willing to pay the tuition they charge, usually with money they hope to earn after they graduate.

If you want to compare apples to apples, let's compare "free" European colleges and state colleges, let's not compare them to private colleges.

In America, any student can buy their way into college with borrowed money, and somehow that's unfair. Fine, let's stop government secured student loans and make all state colleges 'free, but merit-based', let's stop offering remedial math and reading classes... let's be just like Europe, and anyone that can't earn a spot at a free state college is free to find the money privately to attend the local 'non-profit' schools. Is that really what you want?

Have you forgotten that countless borrowers (former students) either simply don't make payments or, as we've discussed here frequently, will chose to simply move out of the country, in order to avoid paying for the education they wanted?

PS - there are NO HARD ASSETS securing student loans, which can be described as giving loans of tens of thousands of dollar/year for years, to someone who's never held a job/drawn a paycheck or even made a loan payment before getting approved.

Are we calling $7,500 tax incentives for the buyer 'subsidies'?

I'm not saying that's wrong, but that's a different kind of subsidy than the ones a company like BYD gets from the Chinese gov't... (Tesla sold the cars at a higher price, the buyer got the subsidy, in BYD the cars are sold at a lower price and the gov't just gives them money.)

As a reminder, it was "climate conscious" politicians, largely in one party, that used the gov't checkbook to prop up certain companies in industries they liked, all with great big press conferences and running for re-election on those generous handouts to 'green industries'.

Dear lord, why? That is an insane number of engineers - GM scrapes by with about 25,000 - 30,000 engineers by most estimates.

Are you a child? EVERY online game will be shutdown at some point, the ONLY discussion/question is how long before it happens?

Off-line game will theoretically play for ever, but advances in computer hardware/operating systems may cause all but the most committed player to to eventually decide it's no longer worth the effort to keep their Apple ][ running to play Oregon Trail (for example).

Holy cow, you mean that just because 1.3 million (verified!) people signed an online petition to force companies to let them keep playing discontinued video games for free in perpetuity that the EU can just say 'Nyet!'?

But, but, they REALLY, REALLY want it!

This is so stupid, give game manufacturers a reason to do what you want, don't just try to force them into complying with your selfish desires... offer them money, tax-breaks, SOMETHING!

The U.S. Secretary of Defense, Justice, Education, etc - in fact, the entire cabinet - all have one thing in common, The Don't Create New Laws! That's the role of the Legislative branch, and the Executive branch - both of which are all elected by the people.

The administration that took charge 18 months ago didn't start working on this regulation 36 months ago? I wonder why that is?

I'm struggling to make sense of your statements and this quote from the summary:

It implies this is along-standing regulation and it takes tears to update...

Yes, but federal data centers, either directly run by the federal government or by contractors for the government represent a very, very small percentage of the standalone data centers in the US. This excludes every MS, AMZ, Meta, Google, etc data centers.

What?

This regulation is about tracking energy/environmental impact, not controlling it/reducing it - this is about data collection, not environmental regulation.

States already heavily regulate construction, be it data centers or anything else.

This regulation only concerns federal data centers, either those operated by the federal government or those operated by contractors for the federal government - private AI data centers, Microsoft, google, meta, etc data centers aren't part of this regulation.

Maybe toss COVID lockups, "remote learning"?

Oh wait, it turns out IQs have been dropping for decades (plural, not singular):

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/s...

Who is 'they'?

Carter was not 'forced to sell his peanut farm' he CHOOSE to put it in a blind trust, and it ran up $1M in debt, which forced Carter to sell the farm inn1981, which is AFTER he left office:

Source: https://www.usatoday.com/story...

Let's also remember "Billy Beer"...

No, "Conservatives" don't care about the Trump family side-hustle selling Trump-branded merchandise - it means nothing, and I firmly believe he just does these things not for money but to just watch his critics heads explode.

Based on the outsized reactions I see here, I think it's working.