Exactly. There are many people who just know they messed up, and in reality, have no intention of doing more crime. Then there are people who perhaps have little to no impulse control, or for one reason or another just think criminally. There are some people who just can't be rehabilitated.

Occasionally , it is a chemical thing, like lead in gasoline https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.... His research was pretty shocking, as lead damaged people tended to be involved in violent crime.

But there are some cases that remain mysterious. Just broken people, I suppose.

Was this written by AI? What tripe. Heart surgeons? Structural engineers? You sound like a cliche machine. Please, find me an example of this fantasy. Spend the tokens, bitch. Academic honesty is a largely an individual decision. If you catch students, fail them. Strip their degrees in more extreme cases. But sending this guy to jail as a scammer? Laughable. He gave people what they paid for. And you totally misunderstand the post. This guy is nothing compared to what happens daily on ChatGPT and the like. I support locking up Altman. Do you?

TikTok indeed is a shithole with a lot of AI slop, way more than I ever run into on YouTube. A whole lot of uncanny valley shit, and a lot of shit past that into more believable quality, but still AI.

I'll say the obvious: because we all know that ChatGPT is used constantly for cheating. I'm no fan of this paid cheater, but 3 years of prison for that is stupid. Tax evasion? Sure. Scam? Fuck no. Sounds like the university be bad at Englishing.

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.

Not sure if you're joking or seriously doing whataboutism. Comparing a greater evil to a lesser evil to lessen the badness of the greater evil is a great evil.

You may still have a toxic piece of shit to hide from.

If you can't trust the gambling industry, who can you trust?? Sheesh!

Are you telling me that Polymarket is a scam? Shocked. Shocked, I say!

Probably the guy who makes minimum wage plugging in the chargers.

PR

... MLB can tell players to wear "pride" gear. Hmm.

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'.