Only reason I have Facebook is Facebook marketplace. Would love for some to create a alternative. Craigslist and OfferUp are nice, but the Facebook algorithm is more like local ebay. It might not tell me the most recent stuff or make it easy to sort by category, but it’s awesome at giving me recommendations.

Honestly I mostly use it as a jumping off point for my code or to help me sound more coherent when writing emails.

100%. They don’t want truth, they want blood

Id be interested to hear which are which. My guess are: Family Guy - Oversimplified Hit-Wonder - Grey Titans - Sam and Kurzgesagt

Don’t forget their not giving raises either or that great of benefits either. Real stellar time

Feel free to not answer because this is identifiable info. However, how did you emigrate? Where to? Did you have a family with you or just yourself?

Admittedly, while I think America is a shit hole as well, It’s got to get pretty bad before I’ll be able to convince my wife. However, I’m trying to plan out our escape plan.

How did you get into going your “job”? Sounds super interesting and cool

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Not the original person you replied too, but I don’t mind having hard conversations and trying to expand my world view. Now personally, I’m pro-“Student Debt Fixing”. From what I can tell, I think setting the interest rate to 0% would be the best fix. I’m not opposed to paying back what I owe, I just don’t think the government should be profiting from its citizens. However, I admit I’m not an economist and understand I’m probably misunderstanding something.

Not you make a fair amount points and honestly, I don’t want to address them all (I’m tired :( )

• I know you mentioned where you’re from, interest rates are capped, but I don’t believe we have those in an effective form for the U.S. for student loans. Loans provided by the Government have their interest rate set each year by Congress and usually it’s around 4-5%, but Congress can set it whatever they’d like. I can’t speak for private loans because I don’t have private student loans because it’s was always a bad offer for my situation.

• I don’t completely buy your argument that if the government forgives a $180,000 loan that it’s money from the Federal Reserve that covers it and thus inflates the economy by $180k. Like if you wanted $100 for food and I gave it to you and I decided to forgive it. I don’t consider it paying myself $100 to account for it. I view it more “I gave up the opportunity to make $100”. Remind me of that joke about two economist in the forest.

• How is the government nefarious for forgiving loans? You claim it’s about gaining greater control over the populous. However your own argument is forgiving loans would basically cause inflation to go up. Causing people to buy and save less. Hurting businesses in the process. Possibly causing a recession or even worse a depression. Meaning that the government would be at its weakest because that’s usually when taxes are also at their weakest. Historically, governments have their most control when populations are fat and happy. Most civil unrest are in uncertain times, such as recessions and depressions. If anything it’s more nefarious for the government to keep the loans and jack up the interest rates where people have no ability to pay it off and can’t bankrupt out of it.

• While some of school tuition can be attributed to supply and demand. It can mostly be attributed to a change in how much grant money was awarded to student for college by some president in the 70s or 80s. Normally, I find out who it was, but again I’m tired. I think it was Nixon or Reagan, but Adam Ruins Everything has a decent video on it. Basically, since students couldn’t bankrupt out of loans and the US govt was the backer for these loans, colleges realized it was basically a free money glitch. So instead of competing on education per dollar, some started going for amenities per dollar. So Gyms, Pools, Various sport fields, other random as shit. Some of things had stupid price tags for maintenance alone and that greatly assisted in helping prices go up. Now why didn’t students be smart and choose their college more wisely? I think it’s best to remind ourselves of the demographic we’re dealing with. Often vain and short term thinkers. Some of them aren’t even done developing their brains. Plus I think it’s rich to give upset at people for making dumb choices before going to the place that makes them smart enough to realize how dumb they there. It’s like getting mad at your car for being broken before you take it to shop to get repaired.

My hands hurt and my eyes yearn for sleep. Good night!

I’m not as well read as you, so I’m not entirely sure how these stack up against your list, but I enjoyed:

• Steelheart by Brandon Sanderson. It’s a YA-Sci-Fi book mostly about what if superheroes were real. Similar vein to The Boys, but not as graphic imo. It’s pretty good and you might enjoy that. It also apart of a series called the reckoners

• To Sleep in a Sea of Stars by Christopher Paolini. Paolini wrote the fantasy series “Inheritance” which I though was great and gave this a shot. It’s was pretty good, a little slow, but I think that was more to show how slow would be in space even at >C travel.

• Probably missed it, but have you tried any of Andy Weir’s books? I really enjoyed Artemis and Project Hail Mary has been in my queue.

I’m curious about where you find your music. When I looked into an indexer for music ~3 years ago, it was slim pickings. I recently found that there a method to download from Spotify, but haven’t had a chance to try it out

Huh, had no idea about the EV1. I’m bitter that the Volt was cancelled.

Talk out my ass here, but I thought it was due to the economics. Companies only want to buy the 737s because it’s a fairly known factor. Pilots don’t need to be retrained and, at this point, can be produced cheaper and/or faster.

Didn’t Facebook build infrastructure and give out free phones in India and other developing nations to get them online? I’m sure it was more to harvest their data, but I’m sure that counts pretty solidly for them

Google seems to be caught in an awful feedback loop. I feel like at this point, most tech savy people are weary to try new Google services for fear of liking them, but eventually getting shutdown. In turn causing those tech savy users to not recommend it to their friends/family that actually might cause it to grow.

Honestly don’t know how they get out it without either losing tons of money on maybe side projects or happening across the one things that’s so good it’s impossible to not use. The latter seems more unlikely by the day