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What are the odds he shits himself on the call? Do we know who is running the books on this, I want to put some money down.
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Depending on the type of psych, generally no.
Some very specific, but still very rigorous fields like neuroscience still fall into STEM, especially now that you have ways to quantitatively measure things like brain activity and hormone levels; but general subjective theory and feelings-based psych stuff is considered more of a social "science" than a true hard science.
Also I find the term "armchair psychologist" funny, because technically most psychologists are just sitting in a fucking armchair interpreting why your fee-fees are impacting your life.
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With any luck, all these freshly baked educated students will figure out how to pay off masses of debt with bitcoin or some shit for future generations. If not, why the fuck did they even go to school then?
Neither is fair for some stupid kid to waste other people's money, then get a free ticket. To write off the debt there has to be some kind of collateral. Off the top of my primitive brain, maybe what the government could be convinced to do is to, lets say, you want your debt gone, then be regularly employed wherever and don't get into law trouble for a few years. Fuck up once, then pay up. This is just wishful thinking, but if I was in deep shit like this, knowing that many others are also there, I'd organize as fuck like I was Saul Alinsky and start figuring some kind of alternate proposal than, "please daddy write off debt"
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And I thought I was wishful thinking.
If you start writing off debt, it'll be even worse, since you'll then encourage these retards a little bit more.
You can also be in debt and be a world class billionaire like Elon Musk or Jeff Bezos who built their companies on decades of debt, until they started pulling in some real profit. That's just how the world works these days and if you don't like it, like I said, curb your expectations and live in a cave.
And that's actually fucked up. But it's the lesbian theory degree people who cause this shit the most with their overpriced degrees worth negative amounts of use. You still can't just write off that debt, but if you're a doc, enginner, lawyer worth a shit, you at least have a better chance to pay it off.
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that's psychiatry. psychology is more concerned with statistical analysis.
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Should be interesting
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Then psychology probably falls in the slim grey area between hard science and social science.
But I'm going to cut the threadjack here. If anyone wants to TG me about it, feel free.
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For those not in the know, Zelensky is a populist figure in Ukraine who, while seeming like an outsider (he was a comedian/actor), he's become a pretty authoritarian asshole. But he's in silly movie posters, so it's also funny.
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no, it puts you in the postion of scraggly mountain tribesmen who are the people who got away when an empire enslaved their city. you can eke out a marginal existence but the only path to participation in full society open to you requires paying that debt.
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translation: "I don't know any doctors or lawyers"
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Instead of offering debt forgiveness why not just make it so that student loan debt is dischargeable through bankruptcy like it was before?
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I mean really this is what would make sense anyways. I still don’t understand why student loans are excessively difficult to discharge through bankruptcy anyways when every other kind of dept can be. What makes them so damn special?
Blanket dept forgiveness is obviously batshit retarded.
Funnily enough, I'm pretty sure that even making the loans easily dischargeable through bankruptcy would immediately kill the college industrial complex, which is why I'm in full support of it.
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Ask our current president. He's the reason you can't discharge it anymore.
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Too late for that now - Too much of it would be discharged too fast, and would have the same crippling effects. You'd also have a legal nightmare of taking all these lenders who agreed to massive loans on low interest in return for that impossibility of discharge, and telling them to get bent, but also loan to the next generation of students plz.
You could try and apply it going forward, but thats a non-started politically, because then you don't get the twitter asspats for fixing their problem.
And as has been mentioned before, as soon as you introduce risk to the lender, the lender will suddenly care about the quality and efficacy of the education, or more accurately, how likely you are to be able to pay it back. Tuition for crap degrees, crap schools, or inflated tuition for otherwise good degrees would all be no-go's, and would put a lot of people back in the "I can't afford to go to school because nobody will loan to me" problem space.
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That's what they were taught to do. They don't know any better because all their lives they're told they need to excel in school and get an expensive degree to survive in life. No alternatives.
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If introduce risk to the lender, the following things will happen:
- No collateral? No loan.
- Bad credit? High interest.
- Payments begin the day you take out the loan, not the day you graduate.
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Astroturf is out in force with the "Biden Boom" being the gay talking point for the day.
Your dollar is worth 10% less than it was a year ago, materials and goods are through the roof, can't find good people to hire or work, gas is more, your kids are now functionally retarded due to schools and masks, totally a boom.
Your dollar is worth 10% less than it was a year ago, materials and goods are through the roof, can't find good people to hire or work, gas is more, your kids are now functionally retarded due to schools and masks, totally a boom.
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Then they were told to pay off their debt because they chose to go to college like proper adults, but lo and behold they only now better after shit is said and done.
Fuck it. If their parents forced them to go to school, let their parents pay for it instead of somebody else who pays taxes.
There's something poetic about being a cuddled moron.
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This, pretty much.
School hammered nothing but "go to college" into my head while my family hammered "it's a fucking waste, don't go into debt, it's a scam" my whole life.
I still ended up going, but I stuck around local and didn't take out any debt so even though it was a complete fucking waste, I didn't go on to regret it like every asshole I know who ended up going into debt and getting jobs that paid only a few bucks more than I was making.
Unfortunately, most people don't have the luxury of having fucked up family that distrusts/hates everything like I did, so the public education indoctrination takes hold 100%.
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Russia Standoff Prompts Europe to Enlist U.S. Help Securing Gas - WSJ
archived 27 Jan 2022 16:41:40 UTC
BRUSSELS—European officials are scrambling to lock down energy supplies they would need to keep their economies churning if hostilities around Ukraine imperil natural gas piped from Russia, and have turned to the U.S. for help finding backup sources beyond Moscow’s control.
In recent weeks, as Russia has positioned more than 100,000 troops near Ukraine, European Union energy officials have huddled with U.S. counterparts and are jetting to gas producers including Azerbaijan and Qatar to hunt for fallback sources.
European search efforts began in the fall, when the global economic rebound from the Covid-19 pandemic sent gas and electricity prices skyrocketing. The efforts intensified in recent weeks, as Moscow’s escalation with Kyiv left European governments contemplating a once-unthinkable scenario of a conflict interrupting the flows from Russia, which provides about 40% of the 27-country bloc’s natural gas. Few officials expect that to happen and acknowledge that huge volumes of gas from Russia couldn’t be replaced in the foreseeable future. But the prospect is motivating a quest for fallback supplies to cover an economy that can’t otherwise function.
Now, U.S. and European officials are racing to find short-term alternatives to refill depleted reserves. More than two-dozen tankers are en route from the U.S. to Europe, lured by high gas prices in the EU. Another 33 tankers that haven’t yet confirmed their destinations are likely to mainly head there as well, according to oil analytics firm Vortexa Inc. “They would only cover a fraction” of Russian supplies if all were lost, said Clay Seigle, managing director at Vortexa.
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Biden administration officials in recent days have held marathon video calls with officials around the world, trying to convince buyers in South Korea, Japan and other countries that have already paid for their imports to let the U.S. reroute those shipments to Europe, people involved in those talks said. European officials have traveled or planned trips to Doha and the Azeri capital, Baku, to try to line up supply.
The efforts, described by officials in the U.S., Europe and the Middle East, are an attempt to weaken what has long been Moscow’s strongest leverage over Europe: The continent’s biggest and easiest source of gas flows from Russia through a network of pipelines that cross Belarus and Ukraine. That gas heats homes, generates electricity and keeps factories running. Countries including Germany and Austria have long resisted diversifying to alternative, more expensive sources of gas outside of Russia.
Moscow has consistently dismissed suggestions that it would cut gas exports: “This is yet another brilliant example of fake hysteria,” President Vladimir Putin’s spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, said on Jan. 24.
EU and allied officials are trying to find stopgaps at a time of tight supply and steep prices. Russia has, for the most part, declined to sell any gas beyond what its long-term contracts require, frustrating buyers who expected Moscow to be more understanding. Beyond Russia, producers like Qatar say they are maxed out, with most of that country’s exports of liquefied natural gas going to buyers in Asia. Qatar also has its relationship with Moscow to consider, a senior Qatari adviser said.
“Politically, we are very keen to help both the United States and Europe, but in reality we cannot just walk away from our long-term commitments to Asia even if it is just for a short period,” said the adviser. “The U.S. and other players in Europe will have to do a lot of convincing here.”
While the U.S. and other nations are technically capable of producing more natural gas, they face bottlenecks in how much they can ship overseas. There are a limited number of U.S. LNG export terminals that can turn the gas into a liquid so it can be transported over long distances. U.S. LNG export facilities have been running near capacity for months amid tightening supplies of the fuel around the world, as economies gradually recover from the pandemic and demand roars back.
Not all European governments are as alarmed as Washington and Brussels. German officials said they aren’t working on market interventions with the U.S. to secure alternative gas supplies and say the country’s supplies are secure.
Many officials in the U.S. and Europe said they doubt Russia would massively cut Europe’s supply because that would harm Moscow financially and cement European political will to find other gas sources. Barring a cataclysmic rupture in economic ties, Russia is almost certain to remain Europe’s most important gas supplier. Even if gas stopped flowing tomorrow, analysts in Germany think the country could scrape through this winter, by using reserves and rationing gas if necessary.
EU officials, however, say there is no room for complacency. A reduction in Russian gas supplies at a time of high energy prices and inflation would provide another shock to the economy and to consumers who are only now recovering from the pandemic. Europeans are highly sensitive to fuel prices, which are steep compared with the U.S. because of taxes and limited local supplies. France’s yellow-vest movement started in 2018 after President Emmanuel Macron announced new fuel taxes that would hit drivers. France, Austria and Hungary are all headed into elections.
The EU’s gas reserves are already low, averaging around 42% of capacity, according to Gas Infrastructure Europe, an association of companies in the field. Germany’s reserves are even lower. When full, they cover roughly 20% of Europe’s annual gas consumption.
“Every few years, when Russia and Ukraine square off, everybody in Europe is uncomfortably reminded just how reliant they are on the overland route of Russian gas,” said A. Wess Mitchell, former assistant secretary of state for European and Eurasian Affairs, who spent years trying to convince his European counterparts to diversify their gas supply. “In retrospect, it’s pretty remarkable.”
After Russia cut gas supplies to Ukraine in 2009, the EU started making its continentwide pipeline network more flexible, allowing gas to flow in multiple directions. But the network still has gaps and relies primarily on supplies from Russia.
Europe has turned to Washington for help orchestrating the complex global diplomacy needed to divert toward Europe huge shipments of LNG already purchased by U.S. allies.
European officials are racing to find short-term supplies of natural gas.
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European officials believe they could perhaps double the gas volumes pumped from Azerbaijan through a pipeline crossing through Turkey to southern Europe. That would require installing stronger pumps along the route, work that could be completed quickly if European demand can be locked in. The bloc’s energy commissioner, Kadri Simson, will be in Baku at a gas conference on Feb. 4.
Some analysts wonder how long the current fervor for non-Russian gas will last.
“I’m not sure what’s real and what’s part of the mood that everyone has at the moment,” said Aleksandra Gawlikowska-Fyk, director of the power sector program at Warsaw think tank Forum Energii. “How much of this will simply disappear when the prices go down in spring?”
For now, Biden administration officials hope to secure more than 10 billion cubic meters of LNG for Europe, said one person briefed on the plans. Several analysts said that amount of gas, which represents roughly 6% of the gross annual LNG spot market, would be hard to come by.
American exporters, while eager to help, have told U.S. officials during talks that they are already sending as many cargoes as they can to Europe without breaking long-term supply contracts with other customers. Europe is already receiving 70% of America’s LNG cargoes, according S&P Global Platts. Further discussions on European supply will take place during an EU-U.S. energy meeting on Feb. 7, European officials say.
Closer to Europe, Algeria recently started pumping more gas to Spain and Norway agreed in September to allow state-controlled company Equinor AS A to supply an additional 2 billion cubic meters for the next 12 months through increased production in two big gas fields, said a senior EU official. European partners’ responses sometimes resulted in different forms of support: exploring additional supply, or delaying planned maintenance work to ensure the increased supply reaches Europe quickly, a senior EU official said.
Even if Europe is able to ship in backup LNG supplies, it faces logistical challenges getting the gas around the continent. Spain has many port terminals needed to receive LNG, but few pipeline connections to the rest of Europe. Germany, the continent’s largest economy, lacks the port facilities to import LNG and would need to depend on France, Poland or other countries that have built terminals in part to reduce its reliance on Russia.
Ultimately, a senior EU official said, a significant reduction in Russian gas supply would have to be met with extraordinary measures on the European side. That could include countries extending the life of nuclear plants and even turning to significantly increase the use of coal, an energy source that emits high levels of carbon dioxide and whose use the EU was hoping to gradually end.
“We can only say, ‘we told you so,’” said Witold Waszczykowski, a former foreign minister of Poland, where the government expects to become entirely independent of Russian gas imports within the year. “It should have happened earlier.”
—Summer Said, Benoit Faucon, Christopher M. Matthews and Collin Eaton contributed to this article.
Write to Drew Hinshaw at drew.hinshaw@wsj.com, Laurence Norman at laurence.norman@wsj.com and Bojan Pancevski at bojan.pancevski@wsj.com
Germany buys a shit ton of gas from russia and they don't have a problem.so why are we making it ours?
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