aubertlone

You are correct

But also there was that recent supreme Court ruling that basically makes the US president a king

So anything Biden ( or any elected president ) does as president is completely and totally sanctioned by the US supreme Court

The Overton window in the US has shifted so far to the right we literally had the supreme Court say the president cannot commit a crime…

It won’t be done not because it’s fascist. But because the Democratic party doesn’t want to play with the modern political ruleset

Thank you for posting

Very important that ppl pay attention

Is this a meta joke regarding a similar confusing post on Lemmy. uk?

Could have sworn I saw something like that earlier

I mean, it doesn’t HAVE to be bad right?

But yeah, I get where you’re coming from

I absolutely LOVE that I recall seeing this on r/wholesomememes

I remember thinking, even back then, that the sentiment was just a little bit weird

Not wrong…

Just weird to expect that from someone you’ve never met before.

Well in that case…

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Trust me I fully understand.

I went to med school, finished back in 2018.

If I never step foot into a hospital again it’ll be too soon.

I work from home now as a cloud engineer for a large US-based mortgage company.

I’m very happy now. I’ve already made my piece that my $350,000 in loans can only be solved by making minimum payments for 20 years.

All that being said, a lot of people are in a different boat than myself.

Their loans are much more manageable and I’m really glad they’ll be able to pay them off because interest isn’t accruing.

Who knows? I make enough now that I’m actually going to have to sit down and calculate whether it’s worth it to pay the loans off myself or just make minimum payments for 20 years and have the rest forgiven.

The SAVE plan and interest no longer recruiting is the only reason these possibilities are there.

Otherwise I’d have to resign myself to making 20 years of minimum payments and hoping that forgiveness plan is still in place.

He’s been a better president than Obama was.

It’s not particularly close in my opinion.

I’m hella biased, but the SAVE plan and not accruing interest on student loans as long as you make payments is a huge win.

There’s no reason they couldn’t have done this under Obama…

Edit: just wanted to mention that this restructuring for student loans had absolutely nothing to do with Congress

They just released the patch on game pass.

Give it another shot.

To be fair though the article kind of sucks.

He’s not being held in a hospital for life, he’s being held indefinitely. Which is absolutely the correct decision considering his abilities and record of hacks

What an interesting read!

Thank you so much. Interesting to hear about Stoker’s widow, and her going to the courts to pursue a copyright claim.

Can’t deny swag when u see it

Hey this is a pretty interesting story, got a link?

A doctor is anybody with a doctorate.

Somehow, colloquially, we came to only refer to MD’s ( Doctor of Medicine ) as doctors.

A PhD is just a Doctor of Philosophy. A PhD doesn’t make anyone a doctor more so than an MD or a JD. Yes, even a lawyer is a doctor.

Anybody with a doctorate degree is a doctor. And just for fun, all a doctorate means is the highest degree awarded by a graduate school or other approved educational organization. Feel like I’m getting too technical with this so I’m just going to stop writing this comment.

Yes, 100%.

I really can’t tell if you’re being serious. Just in case…

The prophet Muhammad was a real piece of shit etc etc etc.

See? I’m allowed to do that. Thankfully I live somewhere I don’t have to be in fear of saying things like that.

Yes my wording was terrible. you’re right that it’s the millions of other things constantly polluting that’s the problem.

My point was just that her tour is one of the largest ever. Largest ever also means one of the most polluting ever.

As I replied to other people, yes the wording was poor.

But, it’s so silly to compare her fleet of semi trucks to all the semi trucks in the world. I mean wouldn’t it make a bit more sense to compare her to other touring acts? Was just reading an article yesterday about how hers is one of the largest and most expensive tours ever.

fwiw I used to live in India many years ago.

Was lucky enough to emigrate to the states when I was eight years old. We didn’t have a car back then. My dad had a moped that we used a lot.

But yeah, I didn’t use to be part of the problem. But now I am as well

I already mentioned I was wrong about the air travel. I looked up the numbers and edited my comment immediately.

Yeah the trucks are a drop in the sea as well.

But stop kidding yourself that the 90 semi trucks is nothing. It’s all pollution.

What other tour and/or concert is slipping around 90 semi trucks??

You bring up a good point that there are millions of semi trucks on the road. But that’s ridiculous to compare her 90 semi trucks to all the trucks on the road

Let’s compare her to other touring artists. To be honest I don’t have the numbers off top of my head I’ll have to look him up. But I was reading an article the other day about how her tour is one of the largest productions to date.

So no, her 90 trucks are not a huge part of the problem. That wording was wrong on my part. But among touring artist, she is easily one of the biggest polluters.

Quoting Taylor Swift is… an interesting choice when talking about climate changes.

Didn’t her recent tour require 90+ semi trucks just to go from city to city? Not even going to mention all the emissions that result from whenever they have to travel by plane.

Yes, popular music acts that tour are a HUGE part of the problem.

Also, my bad I’m not tryna harp on you just because I recognized a song lyric. I’m a Taylor Swift fan myself. Well, more of a chiefs fan. And by value of the transitive property…

Edit: also apparently all air travel only accounts for about 2% of emissions. So while my point isnt technically wrong it’s missing the forest for the trees