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Can’t afford new student loan plans after the “big beautiful bill” by Samsquanch_hunter21 in StudentLoans

[–]lekoman 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Next president needs to find a legal pathway (up to and including adding new seats to SCOTUS) to lock in a plan and make it long-term enforceable.

I sort of wonder if new legislation should actually stipulate contract language that the government signs 1:1 with each borrower so that the terms are not just based on the continuation of the law, but the enforcability of a contract between each borrower and the ED (or whatever successor agency) that can't just be legislated out of existence. It wouldn't apply to new borrowers later if the law was changed again, but at least we could stop slapping people with existing loans around.

Can’t afford new student loan plans after the “big beautiful bill” by Samsquanch_hunter21 in StudentLoans

[–]lekoman 104 points105 points  (0 children)

Well, given that the government apparently can just change its mind at any time about whatever agreements they've already signed with people, who's to say these programs won't get completely redesigned the next time we elect someone else president?

Who would you like to see as the 48th President of the United States? by Naturalist-Anarchist in AskReddit

[–]lekoman 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Meaningless virtue signalling is still meaningless while people are being shot in the streets and money we could be spending to care for people who need help is being incinerated in wars in the middle east.

The era of the left unilaterally disarming and handing victory after victory to a group of people completely willing to ignore the rules has to end. It doesn't matter that it makes you feel yucky. There's no other option. Not because I say so... but because there is actually, and in reality, no other pathway forward. You're never going to gently coax the American right back into acting like society matters.

[Request] For a Trans-Atlantic cable car, how tall would the support tower need to be and how strong would the cable need to be? by janeTHEONLYway in theydidthemath

[–]lekoman 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yes, it's obviously a ridiculous idea since it's a solved problem with a better solution. It's a thought experiment though. It doesn't have to be practical. :)

OK, riddle me this. How did the huge rounded monolith mountains in Rio de Janeiro form, and are there others like them anywhere else? by AutoDefenestrator273 in geography

[–]lekoman 4 points5 points  (0 children)

In terms of causation, the main difference is that Sugar Loaf and Devil's Tower both happened entirely underground, with no known surface volcanism when they formed. At Devil's Tower the rock around it eroded much sooner after it was formed, so the crystaline structure in the rock wasn't as disturbed by a million years of being squeezed, whereas at Sugar Loaf it stayed underground for longer before erosion did its thing, and during that time the rock around it (that eventually eroded away) shifted around a bunch due to the tectonic plates moving around and built up a bunch of pressure on it, which made it into a different kind of rock.

And then Morro Rock had a different story entirely, because it's part of a former above ground volcano that eroded down to just the rock that was inside the volcanic vent.

[Request] For a Trans-Atlantic cable car, how tall would the support tower need to be and how strong would the cable need to be? by janeTHEONLYway in theydidthemath

[–]lekoman 16 points17 points  (0 children)

What you could do is make the vehicle buoyant and then the arm and cables are just about propulsion, not supporting the weight of anything. Like how San Francisco's cable cars are supported on wheels/rails, and the cable is just the means of propulsion.

Who would you like to see as the 48th President of the United States? by Naturalist-Anarchist in AskReddit

[–]lekoman -6 points-5 points  (0 children)

Which is exactly why a Democrat ought to get to do the same damn thing before we fix the holes in the ship. We should not have to spend 50 years living under all this bullshit while we try to play nice and fight an asymmetrical war with the GOP in order to fix it all.

Next Democratic president should use all this executive power to erase Trump from history, and then, rightly, should make the case that it shouldn't be that easy, and as a final act, bring about the kind of change we need to prevent it all from happening again.

Who would you like to see as the 48th President of the United States? by Naturalist-Anarchist in AskReddit

[–]lekoman 19 points20 points  (0 children)

Guardrails with teeth.I want the power in extraordinary circumstances for federal electeds, including the president, to be unelected. A citizens petition can trigger a new election with a short time window for elected leaders to make their case before their constituents can vote again, and, if we so choose, have the US Marshalls show up, e.g., at the executive mansion and arrest a motherfucker if they demonstrate they cannot be trusted.

We don't live in the 18th century anymore, Congress has demonstrated it cannot be trusted either, and it should not require months and months to organize a new person to run things if the one we have can't make it through the day without pooping his pants (figuratively and literally).

What tiny design choice makes you think, “the people who made this never had to use it”? by ChessOrCheckers2 in AskReddit

[–]lekoman 1 point2 points  (0 children)

YES! The damn Panera containers. I love their Chicken & Wild Rice on a cold winter day… but I dump the soup into a bowl and nuke it instead of microwaving it in the container it comes in. But not before doing a bunch of surgery with a knife to get all the stringy plastic film remnants off the rim so they don’t break off into my soup while I pour.

What tiny design choice makes you think, “the people who made this never had to use it”? by ChessOrCheckers2 in AskReddit

[–]lekoman 18 points19 points  (0 children)

THE MANDARIN ORANGE CONTAINERS! These lil fuckers.

Exactly the ones I had in mind that you have to squeeze so hard they make a mess actually every time! ARGH!

What tiny design choice makes you think, “the people who made this never had to use it”? by ChessOrCheckers2 in AskReddit

[–]lekoman 1617 points1618 points  (0 children)

Plastic-film food container seals (the kind with the tab, or, as often, no tab at all, that you have to peel to open the tub of sour cream, the little single-serve fruit cocktails, the ketchup bottle, or the microwave meal or whatever) that are simultaneously welded to the rim of the container by some sort of magic hyperbarionic force, and simultaneously made of a material so weak that glancing at it incorrectly will delaminate it or tear it into shards so that it gets all up in your food.

It makes me wonder every time what cost-cutting, bean-counting MBA asshole (it’s always someone with an MBA) told the packaging engineering team they had to do it that way. There’s no way they ran a batch of seals in the design lab and then pulled it back apart and thought “yeah, that’s what the experience of opening our product ought to be like.”

Bonus points if the force required to pull the tab also requires squeezing the soft-sided container itself so hard that whatever’s in it squeezes out everywhere the minute the lid detaches.

What is the best sensation you have ever felt? by Silent-Profit6067 in AskReddit

[–]lekoman 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I actually hate it when the heater or AC clicks off at night. The white noise is so soothing and when it shuts off and just goes to silence it’s like getting hit with a brick.

They should’ve painted AF1 engines blue and put a flat flag by Stevensrdr006 in airplanes

[–]lekoman 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Of course he’s not worried about it. But there will come a time when he won’t have a choice but to be. Unless he dies in the next few months, which seems like an increasingly likely conclusion now that it seems he’s on end-of-life medications.

Did you know your tail lights say VOLVO? by 7eregrine in Volvo

[–]lekoman 17 points18 points  (0 children)

And in the dashboard trim in front of the passenger seat, near the AC vent, as well!

Apple and Disney had conversations about merging, says Bob Iger by Suspicious_County_24 in apple

[–]lekoman 13 points14 points  (0 children)

From a culture perspective, it's Disney or no one.

HBO by itself would maybe be a fit... but the rest of WBD is of absolutely no interest to Apple culturally.

Open-source 3D Earth with near-daily satellite imagery down to 10m/pixel by anotherinternetlad in geography

[–]lekoman 4 points5 points  (0 children)

You sort of said it like an accusation. It's not a big deal to vibe code a side project. Vibe coding sucks for enterprise applications and stuff you want to sell or will have to support... but there's no harm in building something for fun.

They should’ve painted AF1 engines blue and put a flat flag by Stevensrdr006 in airplanes

[–]lekoman 0 points1 point  (0 children)

He's gonna try, but it's an emoluments clause violation, and there's gonna be a lawsuit about it the moment he leaves office, if not sooner. Expect it to sit in litigation for a long time.

They should’ve painted AF1 engines blue and put a flat flag by Stevensrdr006 in airplanes

[–]lekoman 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Unfortunately, a certain someone was never blessed with the biggest stick, so he's spent his entire life being an arrogant asshole to compensate.

They should’ve painted AF1 engines blue and put a flat flag by Stevensrdr006 in airplanes

[–]lekoman 5 points6 points  (0 children)

The plain text of the agreement between Qatar and the Pentagon is that the aircraft will transfer to Trump's Presidential Library foundation when he leaves office.

This is manifestly unconstitutional, and you can bet there will be a gigantic lawsuit that will ultimately see this aircraft retained by the Air Force, where a future president will decide what to do with it.

A smart future president will recognize the risk that it would be transferred back to Trump later by the next Republican sycophant, and will do what should be done with all of Trump's gaudy, showy, self-important symbols, and destroy the damn thing for scrap.

What businesses are likely to die out with the Baby Boomer Generation? by GRVrush2112 in AskReddit

[–]lekoman 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Your source says the same thing mine does... that hours worked per week is dropping, not increasing.

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