Are you really not aware that college is far more expensive now that it has ever been? Really? In 2024?
But let's look at the economics...
Firstly:
You can see that fees are up substantially over where they should be if inflation is taken into account- https://www.usnews.com/education/best-colleges/paying-for-college/articles/see-20-years-of-tuition-growth-at-national-universities
Secondly:
Between 1980 and 2023, the average price of college tuition, fees and room and board skyrocketed 155%, according to the National Center for Education Statistics. The average tuition for private colleges is now $39,723, U.S. News and World Report found.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/college-tuition-cost-rise-loans-administrative-bloat/
Thirdly:
This is actually being studied academically- https://www.forbes.com/sites/prestoncooper2/2020/08/31/a-new-study-investigates-why-college-tuition-is-so-expensive/
Fourthly:
It's gone up almost 5% in the last five years alone- https://www.bls.gov/opub/ted/2023/college-tuition-and-fees-up-4-7-percent-since-february-2020.htm
I know I supposedly failed simple economics, but I am able to keep abreast of things like this.
That sounds like a fairness issue to me. That it's unfair to call anyone who doesn't announce to the world that they are a Nazi a Nazi.
This is the level of this person's argument as far as I can tell. It's not a Nazi if it's off-brand.
Six coastal towns and cities on Florida’s Gulf Coast — which is especially vulnerable to storm-driven flooding — broke storm surge records during Hurricane Helene, according to data analyzed by The Post.
This is the new normal. It's not natural because it's our fault, but it's the new normal.
"Awesome prank, bro... but do you think we could anally probe a few next time?"
"What's with you and probes, Gary?"
We all know how teenagers always listen to their parents and never find ways to use technology without their parents knowing.
I sure wasn't dialing up to BBSes at 3am after my parents grounded me from using my modem. Nosir.
How much was one year of college for you?
Because it's this much now.
https://educationdata.org/average-cost-of-college-by-state
Also, which generation is mine? Just curious.
I see, so you have to literally call yourself a Nazi or someone else calling you a Nazi is being unfair to you.
If only it were that interesting. It's literally all the things we already knew about Vance that made him a liability even though Trump picked him anyway.
It has nothing to do with money management. It's virtually impossible to pay off student loans anymore. People pay them off until they die now. That you're a boomer is why you were able to do it. College was affordable when you went.
While we're on this subject... What exactly are the pawpaw and the prickly pear doing in the middle of the Indian jungle? For that matter, what's Cousin Louie doing there? How did he end up thousands of miles from Sumatra?
If Baloo was having his fruit imported from the Midwestern U.S., that's hardly the bare necessities, now is it?
I see, so you have to literally be a member of the German National Socialist Worker's Party in order for someone to legitimately call you a Nazi.
Correlation is not causation.
Can you show that one actually is the cause of the other?
Edit: Actually, never mind. I didn't notice the insult. I never insulted you. I have no interest in a Reddit name-calling festival. Find someone else to do it with.
I don't know that a Quipu is a good example because we don't actually know how they worked or how well they documented things. The burning of Mayan and other Mesoamerican books would be better examples.
I don't tend to go to parties where children are using inhalants, and you're right, I probably wouldn't be popular there.
It appears to be a modern version of one done with modern tools. This is an actual one:
I assume she means Iranian Rials since there are 371,992 to the dollar and that looks like it's worth about 500 of them.
Researchers have analyzed dozens of videos amassing millions of views on TikTok that feature the trend.
"The portable 'Calvin Discjockey' could be plugged into any amp or pa system. It was primarily marketed to radio DJs as a convenient console in a suitcase for personal appearances and dances. It played both old-standard 78s and new microgroove 33/45s, using a two-sided cartridge with a knob on the head that flipped it over. Separate volume controls for each turntable and a microphone. No cue channel. The metal platters were covered in soft fiber and driven by a pinch-roller between the inside rim and motor capstans. The white knobs adjusted the speed by moving the roller across the capstan's three diameters. The mic jack was whimsically labeled "Mike". c-1962"
(No link, sorry. Got this from a friend who emailed it to me.)
> But the marker is now one of at least 15 that say, without hesitation, that aliens have come to visit Earth. > >They join more than 180,000 other historical markers dotting the country’s landscape, and NPR found they wouldn’t be the first to claim something that may, or may not, be true. > >There’s a marker in Massachusetts that claims the town was once home to a real, live wizard. New York has a marker about a ghost that plays the fiddle on a bridge in the moonlight.
Edit: I can only think that the downvoters either believe the aliens are among us or that they don't understand the very obvious tongue-in-cheek nature of the article despite the whole "real, live wizard" part I pasted above.
It doesn't include "First World Problems," which was very much a sort of song The Pixies would have written in terms of the music style.
Speculation from a friend is that IU's president was not happy with WFIU/WTIU's take on the student protests. So much for independent journalism.
