This comes up all the time for student loans. The answer is pretty straightforward: if people could discharge student loans, nobody would ever lend money for student loans.
If you had some money and a 17 year old with no income and no credit history wanted to borrow 300k from you⊠Would you let them? Of course nobody would. The inability to discharge the debt was basically a way for the government to help improve the risk equation for banks lending that much money in such a risky way.
The real answer for this stuff is to instead focus on fixing the college funding model - probably through some voucher system or by making state schools free for undergrad. Once thatâs done, you can worry about lessening existing debt burdens for people who need the help.
When officers, who were already en route from the initial 911 call, arrived at the scene, they found Russellâs vehicle and some of her belongings, including her phone, but no sign of her or the child. Police have not received any reports or calls for a missing child, according to the Facebook post.
Well this is seriously messed up and terrifying. Did someone with access to a toddler put the toddler on the interstate to lure out a victim??? I certainly hope the child and the woman are ok but that conjures up such messed up scenarios and itâs very sad.
I had multiple training seminars by my (former) large mental health organization on human trafficking due to how pervasive it is in this region/Route 66⊠(Iâve heard it referred as the human-trafficing highway.)
These human-trafficing pieces of shit will absolutely use children as bait. They wonât just traffic children, but women who can be opportunistically abducted as well. I personally believe thatâs what has happened to this poor young womanâŠ
I had a client who escaped from human traffickers⊠She was abducted in the Midwest and trafficked to Texas. They kept her drugged up and that caused her to have substance use disorder when she escaped. She tried to escape and they caught her, and pistol-whipped really bad on the back of the head. She woke up from being unconscious with her head covered in blood, and climbed out a window and finally escaped. She called her parents states away instead of 911. Canât imagine that call for her parentsâŠ
She really shouldâve had medical intervention⊠She had some degree of traumatic brain injury and her parents told me it made her schizophrenia symptoms and dysfunctional behavior much worse. I only worked with her shortly after this all happened.
Her family hadnât even reported her missing and thought she was not speaking to them/doing her own thing again. Human traffickers are largely opportunistic, but they will prey on the disadvantaged if they can. Some are more organized, and I knew of someone who was warned that their mixed-race child was being actively watched by human traffickers on their own street, because the childâs unique features make them more valuable/sought afterâŠ
And people donât realize that human-trafficing isnât all sexual. There is a horrifying number of human-trafficing victims in the US that are modern-day indentured servants/slaves for physical labor. Their handlers employee nefarious means to keep them under control, like holding passports, ensuring there is a language barrier, threats of violence, etcâŠ
Human trafficking is a much more widespread issue in the US than people realizeâŠ
I think this is the saddest part, at least for him. Before Twitter, a lot of people thought he was relatively intelligent to be a part of a groundbreaking electric car company, a crazy tunnel digging company, and wild space vehicle company doing innovative things. Now since Twitter, we see an insanely rich narcissistic meglomaniac that was kept out of most Tesla big decisions as he just wanted the publicity for himself, the tunnel digging company was nothing more than a way to interfere with green projects, SpaceX did the same thing as Tesla and succeeded despite Musk's involvement, and a once respected medium of open communication worth a reported $44 billion dollars devolve into a cess pool of bigotry and arbitrary restrictions. Whatever good will he built for himself over the years that saw him even get a cameo in a Marvel movie next to Tony Stark, he's burned through most of it in the eyes of a lot of people.
SpaceX and Tesla both grew with his continuous involvement. The managers were trained (out of necessity) to keep his âgeniusâ in check without destroying the company or getting themselves fired. In a sense, Muskâs continuous presence gave the companies a form of immunity.
When he infested the bird, the managers didnât know how to protect it. It was like bringing smallpox to the new world.
I donât understand the thought process here. Even if it wasnât fentanyl, she thought âI need the baby to sleep. Oh yeah, coke should do the trick.â
Teen mom forced to give birth and then becomes exhausted and mentally unstable from postpartum depression and does something unthinkable but they are unstable and lack maturity.
Yes, this is sticking it to the airlines. It is also sticking it to other passengers. Airlines generally try to get people on their flights (if only to avoid rebooking) AND accommodate crazy people flying on standby. When someone is âin the airportâ because their plane landed it is assumed they are going to get on the plane. When they get done group 20 and that person hasnât shown up, it triggers a mess of figuring out what to do, who can board in their place, etc. All of which leads to delays for everyone involved
Airlines are REALLY stupid and pretty much function entirely on the backs of the gate agents. So if a gate agent cared enough to report âsomething is hinkyâ then that means they either dealt with a REALLY shitty day or they recognized the name of a no show.
So yeah. Like in almost all cases: Those heroes who âstick it to the corporationsâ are mostly just inconveniencing other customers and the poor bastards who have customer facing roles.
Seems like the solution to this is to go to the gate for your next flight and tell them youâre not going. Family emergency, youâre feeling sick, suddenly afraid to fly, or no need to even give a reason.
It is shitty to just ghost them for the reasons mentioned here. Just like ghosting is always shitty.
I just sometimes browse it, that and I use it when things like Uber Eats and other services seem to not work as companies seem to get back to so much quicker on there than any âhelp serviceâ. Iâve posted way more on Mastodon than ever on Twitter. So not really much keeping me about tbh just want to be able to see things such as Minecraft info or sometimes put out a thought. Also some of my contacts only speak through Twitter as of the moment.
I feel like this is similar to asking your insurance to cover NyQuil and Tylenol. Not exactly unreasonable for them to stick to what theyâve been covering so far, and not expanding into otc just because it is birth control. Itâs equivalent also to asking them to buy your condoms.
The thing is your doctor can absolutely prescribe you Tylenol (or at least acetaminophen), and your insurance will cover it. Iâve been prescribed ibuprofen before. Just because itâs over the counter doesnât mean your doctor canât prescribe it, and the OTC things insurance will cover already is pretty broad: diabetes supplies and COVID tests, for example.
I wouldâve assumed the insurance companies would weigh the cost of birth control vs. the costs associated with pregnancy and childbirth and that theyâd prefer the cheaper option, but Iâm not sure how exactly medical insurance works in the U.S so maybe I just have an idealistic view!
I was surprised there were no incentives from my pet insurance for me getting my dogs spayed, but they were quite clear that they didnât cover any costs relating to having puppies and I would hope medical insurance would cover pregnancy and childbirthâŠ
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