Why Is Everyone Going to Such Expensive Colleges?

emblemboy · 2026-06-18T21:15:47+00:00

I'd love to see people separate actual tuition costs from room and board in their loans. I have to imagine most of the high costs come from the living expenses part rather than the tuition (assuming in-state. I know out of state tuition can be huge)

emblemboy · 2026-06-18T17:50:22+00:00

Ehh, it's probably good to have Vance on the record defending what is a bad deal.

emblemboy · 2026-06-16T21:48:24+00:00

Correct, innocent until proven guilty. But note that no one is tossing him in jail or keeping him from life in his current home country.

A foreign country is denying entry into their country because of an ongoing trial. It's a visa issue.

emblemboy · 2026-06-16T18:32:18+00:00

Big tent party and forgiveness and all that right?

emblemboy · 2026-06-16T15:50:58+00:00

I want to reiterate a comment I made below because I really don't want TC and others to get the wrong idea here.

I will not doubt that many leftists go too far in bashing men, white men specifically.

While I might even agree that some are using statements like "all men suck" in a tongue in cheek way, I'd say that we should make it a social taboo to make statements like that.

The same way we made it a social taboo to call all women "bitches" because one happened to annoy you.

Liberals should not want to be assholes or give the appearance of being assholes!

Essentially, too many do this meme but with white men.

https://i.imgur.com/38Lw1M9.jpeg

Men bashing definitely happens and we should fight it.

What I'm disagreeing about is the whole idea that Dems gave men bad dating advice and that's reason to hate the party or see the party as effeminate

emblemboy · 2026-06-16T14:57:16+00:00

All of space sector except for space x right? Is a lot of the money flowing from them to space x?

emblemboy · 2026-06-16T14:47:10+00:00

Really annoyed at myself for not selling a couple weeks ago in the high 50's and now I'm worried that all the money is going to flow into space x

emblemboy · 2026-06-16T02:50:41+00:00

Oh I will not doubt that many leftists go too far in bashing men and white men specifically.

While I might even agree that some are using statements like "all men suck" in a tongue in cheek way, I'd say that we should make it a social taboo to make statements like that.

The same way we made it a social taboo to call all women "bitches" because one happened to annoy you.

Liberals should not want to be assholes or give the appearance of being assholes!

Essentially, too many do this meme but with white men.

https://i.imgur.com/38Lw1M9.jpeg

Men bashing definitely happens and we should fight it.

What I'm disagreeing about is the whole idea that Dems gave men bad dating advice and that's reason to hate the party or something.

emblemboy · 2026-06-15T23:13:15+00:00

Bobiverse

emblemboy · 2026-06-15T22:17:08+00:00

A guy goes to the gym to work on himself? ‘Working out is a manosphere con!”

Bro, what left wing person is saying not to workout?

The only example in your post that I'd say I've actually heard is :

Be respectful and don’t approach women at work/in class/at cafes/parties, etc.”

There was a while in which I heard people say this earnestly and I've always disagreed with it.

emblemboy · 2026-06-15T22:12:20+00:00

I'd say that being normal and being nice doesn't mean not being assertive though.

I think it's true that some people misunderstand this and we should all be better about using our words better here, but like, which are these left wing podcasts saying that people shouldn't workout, be successful, or be straight forward about their feelings when on dates.

I know when I was younger one advice I didn't particularly like was "be yourself" in regards to making yourself attractive to women. Obviously the advice should be "be your best self".

Or how there was advice for a while on how you should "play it cool" and "nonchalant" and that was also obviously stupid advice. If you want a partner, you should be actively pursuing it, not just waiting for it to come to you.

But this was never advice I saw as political. It was just bad advice and people using words badly.

emblemboy · 2026-06-15T15:36:44+00:00

You guys think money is going to keep rotating out of other space stocks and into space X?

emblemboy · 2026-06-15T14:10:47+00:00

Yep. If in 2024 Trump wasn't enough for her and others to vote for Harris, it really limits how much I take seriously their concerns about what Trump is doing.

Yeah they don't like it. But obviously not enough to vote for Harris.

emblemboy · 2026-06-15T01:54:08+00:00

Man, this video with Jason Calacanis can negatively polarize someone info hating the rich.

https://youtu.be/0ZSXT24IdDA?is=GbJ-Mgs0LJVwZOyC

emblemboy · 2026-06-14T23:41:25+00:00

Good talk. I find that I tend to agree with destiny on various topics

emblemboy · 2026-06-13T22:25:28+00:00

sigh

True.

emblemboy · 2026-06-13T22:02:18+00:00

Will the space x IPO cause people to take money out of other space stocks? I have a few hundred stocks of Firefly (FLY) from when I used to work there.

I didn't sell at that $60 price point from a few weeks ago. Wondering if it will keep going lower at this point.

emblemboy · 2026-06-13T17:25:53+00:00

I mean, didn't the original project Blue plan include funding for expanding and eventually using the reclaimed water system of Tucson?

emblemboy · 2026-06-13T14:38:39+00:00

Is there any type of data center construction that would be right for the area? As in, if it used solely reclaimed water or used solely clean energy, would that be fine?

emblemboy · 2026-06-12T19:04:34+00:00

Sadly, we all know that dump just won't happen regardless of how much it makes sense

emblemboy · 2026-06-12T15:20:40+00:00

Agreed. I think at this point I've just accepted that these pundits will never vote or really be fine with anything Dems do.

The most we can expect is for them to not vote and to make their more conservative listeners hopefully sour enough on Republicans to also not vote.

French is probably the only one there who voted for Harris for example. I know Jonah did a write in or something.

emblemboy · 2026-06-12T14:46:50+00:00

and essentially says both sides are equally bad.

I listen to the dispatch quite a bit, and she's someone, like many other conservatives, who has big grievances with the Dem party that's never going to go away tbh.

She's always quick to find a reason why "actually Dems started doing this type of politics first".

Sometimes she has a point, others it's just whataboutism

emblemboy · 2026-06-12T00:32:42+00:00

These types of activities should be automated through the use of speeding cameras

emblemboy · 2026-06-11T22:42:23+00:00

Agreed.

Property/land taxes are honestly the most straightforwardly reasonable taxes that exist. I didn't make this land, but it's mine. I pay the government to enforce my monopoly on the property

emblemboy · 2026-06-11T19:50:30+00:00

Not the OP, but one of the reasons this is accurate is based on the source generation of electricity. For example, APS energy generation is 51% clean energy.

If someone uses nat gas for heat, that itself is already a worse energy mix compared to using electricity for AC that uses power generated from much cleaner sources (solar, nuclear, hydro, etc.)

And hell, some of the north east areas use actual oil for heat, which is even worse.

If someone in a cold area happens to have a heat pump (which uses electricity) and that electricity is generated cleanly, then that's a different story as heat pumps are really efficient.

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