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There’s some truth here but rocketing university costs are a little more complex than simply poor GOP policy/less state funding.

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I’m not sure I agree. It’s had a huge impact on community colleges and a lot of state schools, but the issues really are varied and impact different schools/states in different ways and to different degrees.

Make no mistake, the democrats are better for schools than republicans. But we can’t just blame every single thing on republicans or we sound like them calling everyone they disagree with a commie in the 2000’s/2010’s.

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I don't think it's particularly complex.

I'm trying to be polite here so I apologize if this seems overly blunt. I think calling it "not particularly complex" is pretty striking. We are talking about a network of around 7000 schools (a little over 1000 CC's and over 5000 4-year universities, not including trade schools) consisting of public, private, and religious institutions across 50 states with their own sets of laws. There is nothing simple about it.

We are both speaking in generalities so I'm going to link a few secondary sources as well as a primary source on this.

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2 - a Forbes piece discussing the above
3 - Solid piece by The Atlantic
4 - A nice short piece from NPR about a decade ago which gives us some context about the post-war period's massive influence on how colleges developed and expanded

I could keep just dumping links but I think those are a good start. Reduced state funding absolutely contributes to the problem in a large way. There's no attempt here to downplay that, and that reduced funding is largely done by Republicans, as they tend to do with any education funding. But to say that is far and away the biggest driver is to over-simplify the issue and to ignore decades of other trends, such as rising operating costs, ballooning investments to be more attractive without a sustainable plan for maintaining facilities/programs (HUGE issue at private universities in particular), the huge push by the federal government to get people into schools no matter what predatory loans they got 17 and 18 year old's to sign (everyone should have access and the federal government should help but we let wolves in with the sheep with the way we structured it), and so many other factors contribute to this issue.

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It's hard to disentangle this issue from the recent decision to end affirmative action as well. Both have the same undercurrent of "Why does someone else get something I didn't get?" with the framing that they lost something or that something unfair occurred to them as a result. Whether they were ever in a position to benefit from these things is immaterial, they just have an issue seeing someone else get it.

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SAVE BANDIT!

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So is that guy!

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It may not make a lot of sense to buy it again now for the nostalgia, especially with all the benefits of hindsight I have. Did it anyway.

Never, ever let this stop you from enjoying this hobby. Nothing about retrogaming collection makes sense. That's not the point! Enjoyment and utility or "making sense" are not directly linked.

Do I need to tear down a dreamcast and mod the ever living hell out of it to play it? No. Do I need to letterbomb my wii? Of course not. But I wanted to because learning the process and just doing it was fun in and of itself. Arguably more than playing the games.

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I'm always open to potentially taking unwanted game consoles haha. But you should just look locally, you'd be surprised who wants it. And believe it or not, Facebook marketplace is fantastic for sellers and buyers alike. It's like a better craigslist and literally the only thing good about FB these days.

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Idk man I was on Reddit basically since it 1 or 2 years in and felt like no one really knew about him who wasn’t there in the first 2-4 years or wasn’t around when he died. He was not a well known figure and as important as he was for reddit’s early trajectory, he wasn’t there for long. Less than a year if memory serves. Again he was important, but the windows of time for people to learn of him were small and the site was smaller.

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I beat Outer Wilds right after my first kid was born and it absolutely tore me to pieces.

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I don’t think I stopped thinking about that game for a solid three months after I beat it.

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Gmail works fine for me. No need to search for alternatives.

Ok but it doesn't work for them and they do have a need for an alternative lol

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A thread on HN really poopoo'd proton mail (but not the VPN which I love) and recommended Fastmail over it. I can't recall why so I'll try to dig it up, but just throwing that out there since it might be good to check in on any major cons with it. It wasn't scandals or "they aren't private" or something but it felt significant when I read it.

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You clearly understand this stuff better than I do, but some of that seems somewhat familiar

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I think most anti-piracy arguments are completely ridiculous but your logic is so absolutist that it shouldn’t be too hard to imagine why this could hurt artists/small devs/etc. Not everyone who sells a thing is Walmart.

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The problem with this logic is you’re assuming the payment at the theater the only consideration.

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I’m against ending password sharing but I don’t think it’s an unethical stance.

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if you owned a game but your license got pulled for no reason (assassin's creed)

I’m not quite sure what you mean. So you paid for it (not a physical copy I’m assuming) and when you woke up one day they took it away and you’d have had to pay again to get it? Just understanding what happened here.

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I have never heard this take and I really like the framing. Going to borrow this

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Physical media and digital media are different beasts. When he hands you that book, he no longer has it. I would also assume he didn’t steal that physical copy. Someone got paid initially for the physical media, which the person is now deprived of by giving it to you. It’s not quite “apples to oranges” but it’s definitely not a parallel situation.

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By pirating you support other pirates and oppose copyright, which should be abolished.

I agree with the concept but folks sitting around downloading stuff from TPB are not actually taking the fight to copyright laws in any sense of the word. Even if that were the case it sure isn't motivating people. The desire to enjoy the thing is the driver 99.99% of the time.

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My favorite refrain as a kid was "we'll buy a copy at the show" lol. In our defense we often did!

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Sure makes sense. I think once kids are involved you pretty much have primacy in 90% of scenarios out the gate.

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That’s actually a pretty compelling argument when you put it that way. I’m not sure I’m entirely sold, but I’ve got a lot of to chew on here. Appreciate your elaborating!

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I remember doing that a lot with music

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Another example of terrible policy no doubt and a great justification for cracks. But I know what AC games he’s talking about and I believe that doesn’t apply here. Correct me if I’m wrong though!

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As some else said, you really should just reach out to the authors. You would be surprised at how many will gladly send you it. Plus, you now have a direct line to the person to ask questions and are showing them that people want to read their work. Academics really appreciate that generally.

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You say you don’t want 100 different services, but do we really want all media content to be under one roof or just a few players? Consolidation is also terrible for media/art. That’s basically why so many people are against the Actibliz acquisition.

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Yeah, it’s never advised to listen to a podcast on its host site. 80% of them are terrible, just load the RSS up or find it on your preferred podcatcher. I say this just so you aren’t too hard on them about it. It’s very difficult to find a service that is good as both a website and as a podcast host and even “good ones” are not great UX.

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I'd love that but it's just not realistic because of how the media publishing landscape currently is. Happy to advocate for that but moving that needle will take decades. My response is it's usually somewhere in the middle. 5-10 major players, maybe some smaller ones as well. I don't need access to literally everything ever made. Libraries already have a wonderfully large free collection as it is (for anyone reading this Hoopla is amazing and countless libraries have massive catalogs on it)

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If you, a content IP owner, don’t make that content available for purchase, then you have only yourself to blame if people pirate it.

I don’t think we are entitled to someone creative work just because they made it. That opens way too many doors.

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So I understand what you are saying, but as somebody who has watched way too much Futurama then he would ever care to admit, I feel the need to make an important distinction about it that I think might help frame the objective of the article better.

Futurama is generally not a pop-culture/current events show. Any references they make to pop-culture are generally dated (intentionally)/or semi-timeless. Some episodes are the exception, like Proposition Infinity and Eye-Phone (whatever the ep is called), but these are not the norm and definitely don’t happen with as much frequency as you’d see in shows like The Simpsons or South Park. It’s part of what makes Futurama so damn good. What I find the show reflects over time is values changing. The way they stop making being gay a joke over time. The way they stop using masculinity as a joke (unless there’s a particular intent with it/commentary), things like that. The relationships between characters evolve and morph and show how society has changed. The things that bother them, even.

I’m on a plane about to take off so I need to stop there. But I think if you decouple the idea that Futurama is a current events/current pop culture show, which if you look at all of the episodes you will see is rarely the case, I think it will make the article seem less lazy and more thoughtful than it originally seemed. That being said I admit it emphasizes the current events episodes too much. But their observation about “The Gender Bender” for instance is more in line with what I’m saying.

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Meh I thought they found their sea legs pretty well after a few swings and misses in the first revived season (7?) and I liked where it landed. Some strong episodes I really enjoyed. But I get it’s not for everyone!

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Ha thanks! More time at the airport than on the plane but nothing to complain about. As good as you can hope for flying in the US lol

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Safe travels/hope it was a good flight!

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To add to this: I consider myself relatively tech savvy for somebody who is not “a coder“ or similar. That being said, whenever I am interested in a project or something for my computer and I am directed to a GitHub repo, I immediately start calculating how badly I want to do the thing against the steps that are being given to me. If somebody has a stable/relatively easy to run package (like Dolphin), I am far more likely to move forward.

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“This looks like work NOPE!” x out lol

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The numbers aren’t the issue. You can’t say “something happened that was very unlikely therefore the number saying it’s unlikely was wrong.”

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This is the exact same logic that leads to “stop the steal” and pizzagate nonsense

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Huh

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Ok so it is likely?

No but to be blunt it has little to no bearing on the discussion to decide if it is or isn’t likely. Whether it’s likely or not is immaterial unless you’re gambling or building policy/making decisions around it. It doesn’t impact the results.

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I am not sure the issue is clear here but I’ll put it another way.

If I roll a D100 and get a number - any number - there was a 1% chance I’d get that number. Whether that number has value to me, such as rolling a 100 for a good outcome or a 1 for a terrible one, is immaterial. Every single outcome is 1% likely to happen.

Should I discount the 1% chance outcome just because i got the exact outcome I did or didn’t want?

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It’s because people so badly want to believe the government spends every day threading its fingers going “yes…yes…how shall we dupe the public today?”

99% of what the government does is incredibly boring and does not revolve around you. It’s important. But boring.

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And for some reason it’s always in the US

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This comment feels pretty tongue in cheek to be honest. If your goal is for people to take the question of UFOs/aliens seriously, then I would suggest being a little more sincere/productive with your responses. Just my two cents.

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Thinking about this discussion some more, and I would like to share an example with you.

If I roll a D100 there is a 1% chance it’ll land on any given number. What I want it to land on, such as a 100, does not change the likelihood. Yet we have this natural inclination to see 100 as “impossible on the first try,” but not say, 34. Because 34 is not a number we generally care about when rolling a D100. We usually want a 100, we usually don’t want a 1. But they’re as likely as anything else and our feelings on the issue, as well as the result, will never change the fact that it’s 1% every single time for every single result, so each result is equally “special.” This goes for a coin flip, a D100, or a D1000000000. Every result is equally likely and special. We had an insanely unlikely chance of being here, but stats says “whelp it can happen so shrug.”

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That’s fine, I feel you. I’m not sure I’m onboard with your takeaway but ultimately we’re just approaching this and coming away with different takes. Have a good one!

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