I would have gone through college completely for free if Biden had been allowed to give out $20,000 of forgiveness to everyone, but no, Trumpy Bear is right, being a debt slave is better.
The entire administrations actions are based on the premise that people without money shouldn't have a voice. Ideally, that they shouldn't have rights, but since that's currently unachievable they go for everything else.
The goal is not a dictatorship with Trump at the top, the goal is an oligarchy. A symbiosis between the government, corporations, and the ultra-wealthy, all working in tandem to further enrich and empower themselves, and ignore the needs of everything and everyone else.
I believe that's the actual goal. I believe It has real, spelled-out plan, and they're working towards it. They might not call it that, some probably believe that they're doing it for the good of the country - or the future of humankind, in some nutjobs' case - but every step they're taking leads towards it.
Benefits, student loan forgiveness, humanitarian aid, all of that needs to go away, not because of the cost but because of the message of empathy they send, an emotion alien to them. It's what they mean when they talk of "waste".
I'm so glad that PLSF knocked out the remaining $9000 I owed last month. I paid more than that in interest over the 20+ years I repaid loans on and off, so I have zero guilt about it.
A recent study found that the freeze on Student Loan payments let borrowers afford to buy a home or a new car, which juices up the economy. Just forgiving student loans after 10 or 20 years does more good for the country, then the rents to loan companies. The Biblical Jubilee with debts are forgiven after 7 years was based on this idea. Most debt was held by the State, forgiving that debt cost them nothing and allowed citizens to encoure new debt.
This administration is still a piece of shit but I will enjoy my 1% rate reduction as I slowly pay them off for the rest of my life.
(something I find funny-not-funny is that all of the repayment programs they're getting rid of seem to take into account how long I've been paying and are like "look, you are paying these off in the next ten years, give us your money" while the standard repayment plan that's still hanging around appears to let me....just do a new 30 year term where I pay way LESS per month? Which I guess is great for them because I'd pay more interest but it's awfully tempting to gamble that within the next 5 years either there will be a new administration offering forgiveness or the entire country will crumble and none of this will matter anymore.)
Student loans are already a screwjob because they’re one of the very few types of debt that can’t be discharged by filing for bankruptcy. Think about what a huge giveaway to the financial sector it was when student loan debt was made non-dischargable. And you know who you have to thank for it?
So he’s solely responsible? We have “Biden to thank” for that? Again, no.
And who tried to rectify the error of that one vote by forgiving huge amounts of student debt? It was not a republican president or any of the majority republican votes that wrote and passed that bill.
But you know that. A rather spectacular way of correcting a past error in which he had 1/100th of a part.
Oh, come on. They didn’t call him “the Senator from MBNA” for nothing. He was a stooge for the financial industry his entire career, until right at the end when he started considering how his legacy was going to play out and ineffectively attempted to mitigate some of the damage he’d caused. Not because he gave a shit about those borrowers - because he was worried about how he would go down in history.
I think someone should make a tv show where you get to nominate your workplace to have a Brene Brown/ Adam Grant style intervention for the corporate leadership.
Someone needs to come in and just plainly state it… “90% of what you’re doing seems to be for the purpose of feeding your own ego, and is actually demoralizing and demotivating everyone else. You force people to go to meetings no one else needs, where you hardly ever say anything useful or even inspiring. You are a productivity suck on your company and they need to hear your voice less.”
Let's hope that the US is like the person with the drinking problem who hit rock bottom and lost everything but found their way back, rather than the person with the drinking problem who can't stop and eventually dies alone before their time with nothing.
I fell asleep with my hands on the keyboard while pondering the neighbors, and I had to backspace for a while. The answer wasn't dddddddddddddddddddddddddddddd...
Why is this important? Two things: it's the canary in the coal mine on AI, and fuck the Ellisons.
𝗢𝗿𝗮𝗰𝗹𝗲'𝘀 (𝗟𝗮𝗿𝗿𝘆 𝗘𝗹𝗹𝗶𝘀𝗼𝗻) 𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗰𝗸 𝗳𝗲𝗹𝗹 𝟭𝟵% 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝘄𝗲𝗲𝗸, 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗲𝗽𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝘄𝗲𝗲𝗸𝗹𝘆 𝗱𝗿𝗼𝗽 𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗮 𝟮𝟬% 𝗽𝗹𝘂𝗻𝗴𝗲 𝗶𝗻 𝗔𝘂𝗴𝘂𝘀𝘁 𝟮𝟬𝟬𝟭, 𝗮𝗺𝗶𝗱 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗰𝗲𝗿𝗻𝘀 𝗮𝗯𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝗶𝘁𝘀 𝗱𝗲𝗯𝘁 𝗹𝗼𝗮𝗱 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗔𝗜 𝗶𝗻𝘃𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀 — Oracle just wrapped up its worst week on Wall Street in 25 years as concerns continue to mount about the software company's debt load …
Apparently, quite a lot. But it *also* being used to leverage the media mergers as well. So when the stock goes down, the asset backing the loans used for the mergers is less valuable, and lenders don't really like that.
Other investors, syndicate, individual, whatever, decide that ol' Larry is baggage, engineer a situation where he needs to find the cash to recollateralize his loans, then provide that cash for a better position in the "partnership"
"If a monkey hoarded more bananas than it could eat, while most of the other monkeys starved, scientists would study that monkey to figure out what the heck was wrong with it. When humans do it, we put them on the cover of Forbes."
Maybe a few will start listening to us liberal elites ...
𝗡𝗮𝗻𝘀𝗲𝗻: 𝗮𝗯𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝘁𝘄𝗼-𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗿𝗱𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗧𝗿𝘂𝗺𝗽'𝘀 𝗺𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗰𝗼𝗶𝗻 𝗶𝗻𝘃𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘀 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗰𝘂𝗿𝗿𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗹𝘆 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗿𝗲𝗱, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝟴𝟱% 𝗼𝗳 𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗹𝗱 𝗟𝗶𝗯𝗲𝗿𝘁𝘆'𝘀 $𝗪𝗟𝗙𝗜 𝗯𝘂𝘆𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝗼𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘀𝗲𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗱𝗮𝗿𝘆 𝗺𝗮𝗿𝗸𝗲𝘁 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿𝘄𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗿 — Roughly two-thirds of investors in the president's memecoin are currently in the red — Morten Christensen made a big bet …
I would have gone through college completely for free if Biden had been allowed to give out $20,000 of forgiveness to everyone, but no, Trumpy Bear is right, being a debt slave is better.
The entire administrations actions are based on the premise that people without money shouldn't have a voice. Ideally, that they shouldn't have rights, but since that's currently unachievable they go for everything else.
The goal is not a dictatorship with Trump at the top, the goal is an oligarchy. A symbiosis between the government, corporations, and the ultra-wealthy, all working in tandem to further enrich and empower themselves, and ignore the needs of everything and everyone else.
I believe that's the actual goal. I believe It has real, spelled-out plan, and they're working towards it. They might not call it that, some probably believe that they're doing it for the good of the country - or the future of humankind, in some nutjobs' case - but every step they're taking leads towards it.
Benefits, student loan forgiveness, humanitarian aid, all of that needs to go away, not because of the cost but because of the message of empathy they send, an emotion alien to them. It's what they mean when they talk of "waste".
I'm so glad that PLSF knocked out the remaining $9000 I owed last month. I paid more than that in interest over the 20+ years I repaid loans on and off, so I have zero guilt about it.
A recent study found that the freeze on Student Loan payments let borrowers afford to buy a home or a new car, which juices up the economy. Just forgiving student loans after 10 or 20 years does more good for the country, then the rents to loan companies. The Biblical Jubilee with debts are forgiven after 7 years was based on this idea. Most debt was held by the State, forgiving that debt cost them nothing and allowed citizens to encoure new debt.
This administration is still a piece of shit but I will enjoy my 1% rate reduction as I slowly pay them off for the rest of my life.
(something I find funny-not-funny is that all of the repayment programs they're getting rid of seem to take into account how long I've been paying and are like "look, you are paying these off in the next ten years, give us your money" while the standard repayment plan that's still hanging around appears to let me....just do a new 30 year term where I pay way LESS per month? Which I guess is great for them because I'd pay more interest but it's awfully tempting to gamble that within the next 5 years either there will be a new administration offering forgiveness or the entire country will crumble and none of this will matter anymore.)
Student loans are already a screwjob because they’re one of the very few types of debt that can’t be discharged by filing for bankruptcy. Think about what a huge giveaway to the financial sector it was when student loan debt was made non-dischargable. And you know who you have to thank for it?
Your old pal Joe Biden.
No.
Biden sponsored the 1990 bill to create the 7 year waiting period before student debt could be discharged.
That limit was eliminated by the 1998 bill, sponsored by Rep. Howard "Buck" McKeon (R-CA), making student debt wholly non dischargeable.
Right. And you know who voted for it? Joe Biden.
So he’s solely responsible? We have “Biden to thank” for that? Again, no.
And who tried to rectify the error of that one vote by forgiving huge amounts of student debt? It was not a republican president or any of the majority republican votes that wrote and passed that bill.
But you know that. A rather spectacular way of correcting a past error in which he had 1/100th of a part.
Oh, come on. They didn’t call him “the Senator from MBNA” for nothing. He was a stooge for the financial industry his entire career, until right at the end when he started considering how his legacy was going to play out and ineffectively attempted to mitigate some of the damage he’d caused. Not because he gave a shit about those borrowers - because he was worried about how he would go down in history.
Wow. Have a nice day.
Hey, I made it here before Tabs! That hasn't happened in a while. Good morning Wonkers.
Howdy!
Morning Wanderer.
Morning Noma.
Morning Saviour.
No lies detected.
𝗕𝗼𝗳𝗳𝗶𝗻𝘀 𝗽𝗲𝗴 𝗻𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗶𝘀𝘀𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗰 𝗹𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗽 𝗮𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗹 𝗱𝗿𝗶𝘃𝗲𝗿 𝗯𝗲𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗱 '𝗿𝗲𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗻 𝘁𝗼 𝗼𝗳𝗳𝗶𝗰𝗲' 𝗱𝗲𝗺𝗮𝗻𝗱𝘀
It's not about productivity; it's about bosses missing their daily ego fix
https://www.theregister.com/columnists/2026/07/01/boffins-peg-narcissistic-leadership-as-the-real-driver-behind-return-to-office-demands/5264222
We know it is not about productivity, because alllll the studies showed that productivity increased like by a large amount, not even a small amount.
My office successfully negotiated a permanent work from home because our productivity increases were easily illustrated with a "line go up" graph.
Dang smart leadership that actually listens to fact!
Cling on to that office as hard as you can XD
I think someone should make a tv show where you get to nominate your workplace to have a Brene Brown/ Adam Grant style intervention for the corporate leadership.
Someone needs to come in and just plainly state it… “90% of what you’re doing seems to be for the purpose of feeding your own ego, and is actually demoralizing and demotivating everyone else. You force people to go to meetings no one else needs, where you hardly ever say anything useful or even inspiring. You are a productivity suck on your company and they need to hear your voice less.”
A good little EV you won’t be able to buy soon: The Volvo EX30 Cross Country
𝙏𝙖𝙧𝙞𝙛𝙛𝙨 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙖𝙣𝙩𝙞-𝘾𝙝𝙞𝙣𝙖 𝙥𝙤𝙡𝙞𝙘𝙞𝙚𝙨 𝙠𝙞𝙡𝙡𝙚𝙙 𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙨 𝙡𝙞𝙩𝙩𝙡𝙚 𝙑𝙤𝙡𝙫𝙤 𝙞𝙣 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙐𝙣𝙞𝙩𝙚𝙙 𝙎𝙩𝙖𝙩𝙚𝙨.
[Emphasis mine] https://arstechnica.com/cars/2026/07/the-volvo-ex30-cross-country-review-a-victim-of-geopolitics/
America elected a stupid, vindictive, greedy person our president. Maybe America needed this breakage to fix itself.
Let's hope that the US is like the person with the drinking problem who hit rock bottom and lost everything but found their way back, rather than the person with the drinking problem who can't stop and eventually dies alone before their time with nothing.
The first step is to admit you have a problem. Hopefully there is a majority of Americans who can.
Ah. Hope.
"Hi. My name is Dunning Kruger and I have cognitive dissonance."
"HI, DUNNING KRUGER!"
"This is my first time at a Dunning-Kruger meeting, and I don't belong here."
"Have a seat."
Good morning!
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I fell asleep with my hands on the keyboard while pondering the neighbors, and I had to backspace for a while. The answer wasn't dddddddddddddddddddddddddddddd...
Why is this important? Two things: it's the canary in the coal mine on AI, and fuck the Ellisons.
𝗢𝗿𝗮𝗰𝗹𝗲'𝘀 (𝗟𝗮𝗿𝗿𝘆 𝗘𝗹𝗹𝗶𝘀𝗼𝗻) 𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗰𝗸 𝗳𝗲𝗹𝗹 𝟭𝟵% 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝘄𝗲𝗲𝗸, 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗲𝗽𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝘄𝗲𝗲𝗸𝗹𝘆 𝗱𝗿𝗼𝗽 𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗮 𝟮𝟬% 𝗽𝗹𝘂𝗻𝗴𝗲 𝗶𝗻 𝗔𝘂𝗴𝘂𝘀𝘁 𝟮𝟬𝟬𝟭, 𝗮𝗺𝗶𝗱 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗰𝗲𝗿𝗻𝘀 𝗮𝗯𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝗶𝘁𝘀 𝗱𝗲𝗯𝘁 𝗹𝗼𝗮𝗱 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗔𝗜 𝗶𝗻𝘃𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀 — Oracle just wrapped up its worst week on Wall Street in 25 years as concerns continue to mount about the software company's debt load …
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/06/26/oracle-stock-ends-worst-week-since-2001-as-investors-dwell-on-finances.html
may they all fucking crash and burn, doa would suffice. thank you for your attention to this mad hatter.
see? told you the bubble was already burst
Nothing that another 20,000 redundancies won't fix.
Sadly, that is how Oracle thinks.
I wonder how much he's borrowed against that very stock...
isn't that MuskRat's business plan?
leverage his Tesla stock
Apparently, quite a lot. But it *also* being used to leverage the media mergers as well. So when the stock goes down, the asset backing the loans used for the mergers is less valuable, and lenders don't really like that.
It's mafia style, but can be done legally...
Other investors, syndicate, individual, whatever, decide that ol' Larry is baggage, engineer a situation where he needs to find the cash to recollateralize his loans, then provide that cash for a better position in the "partnership"
https://bsky.app/profile/omgisme.bsky.social/post/3mplxiacd4s2c
THE LONDON ECONOMIC
"If a monkey hoarded more bananas than it could eat, while most of the other monkeys starved, scientists would study that monkey to figure out what the heck was wrong with it. When humans do it, we put them on the cover of Forbes."
Maybe a few will start listening to us liberal elites ...
𝗡𝗮𝗻𝘀𝗲𝗻: 𝗮𝗯𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝘁𝘄𝗼-𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗿𝗱𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗧𝗿𝘂𝗺𝗽'𝘀 𝗺𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗰𝗼𝗶𝗻 𝗶𝗻𝘃𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘀 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗰𝘂𝗿𝗿𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗹𝘆 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗿𝗲𝗱, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝟴𝟱% 𝗼𝗳 𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗹𝗱 𝗟𝗶𝗯𝗲𝗿𝘁𝘆'𝘀 $𝗪𝗟𝗙𝗜 𝗯𝘂𝘆𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝗼𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘀𝗲𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗱𝗮𝗿𝘆 𝗺𝗮𝗿𝗸𝗲𝘁 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿𝘄𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗿 — Roughly two-thirds of investors in the president's memecoin are currently in the red — Morten Christensen made a big bet …
https://www.wsj.com/finance/currencies/trump-made-1-billion-on-crypto-deals-while-his-fans-lost-a-fortune-408754c9?st=EqVyz4&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
how many times can they keep driving off a cliff? may all their roads lead to active volcanoes...(with apologies to mother nature)
Nah, it was bought by billionaires legally giving the money to Trump.
Two thirds of the investors, not two thirds of the investments.
"E𝘯𝘰𝘶𝘨𝘩 about you!! Let's talk about 𝘮𝘦!!! 𝘐 made a $billion-two last year!"
That we know of...
Used to be when someone got scammed, they would stay away from the scammer. With Dementia Don, they go back for more. SMDH
Cults baffle me at times.
Racism is a hell of a drug.
The first assessment of the Russo-Ukrainian War for July 2026: https://understandingwar.org/research/russia/russian-offensive-campaign-assessment-july-1-2026/
And 115ºF (46ºC) temperatures ...
https://bsky.app/profile/helenkennedy.com/post/3mpmqzty3jk24
No parking. Lots of walking. No coolers or chairs. None of this sounds conducive to a large Maga crowd.
What's going to happen if he looks out on the equivalent of the squeaky tank?
(I'm a terrible person and I can't wait.)
LightMikey @lightmikey.bsky.social
Ahahahaha they're cutting off entry at 6pm
So you have to be there at 6PM to see the fireworks?!
AND its only going to be 105 F.
Which start at 10:30 or 11 PM.
They go to like 2AM. But first, a couple hours of tfg blathering.
I can see people feigning death in order to be allowed to leave.
"Of the 2-3 dozen in attendance, close to half left by stretcher..."
The Living will envy the dead.
Free water, free ride, air-conditioned ambulance!
Morning all. ☕️
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Good morning.
Morning, Diane!