The US Green Party is just a useful puppet for Russia. Unfortunately that’s the reality of a FPTP voting system. If people don’t like it then they can try to organize grass roots changes in order to bring about longterm systemic change. But sadly too many voters just wake up once every four years, see that there isn’t a single candidate that perfectly aligns with their world view, and then just spite vote or spite abstain.
It’s like the ultimate form of taking democracy for granted; democracy isn’t just voting in one election every four years. There’s loads of local elections, primaries, and campaigning in between that have equal or even more impact on people’s daily lives, and which influence the candidates that appear on the presidential ballot.
NYT did a meta category for their own game. Unfort I’ve never played it so I would literally have never gotten that category except as the last one by default.
I’ve never heard of a switchback or dogleg turn, and even hairpin was not one I’d ever come up with even if I’m at least familiar with it.
Also never heard of fishbowl or werewolf as games.
And for purple I guess clocks have springs if they’re analog, but when I picture the inside of a watch I think of something like this which is a bunch of gears. Likewise when I think of a mousetrap I’m as likely to think of the sticky ones or the more humane bucket traps instead of just the single old style one.
Anyways that’s enough of my saltiness but I’ll just finish by saying I was glad I just int-ed in a couple minutes instead of spending a lot of time because I was never getting those three categories.
This is definitely not real. There’s no way an international student got $140k in credit with no collateral. A tenth of that MAYBE but at that point there’s plenty of Americans doing the same thing anyways.
Credit rating doesn’t translate across countries. Even the US and Canada don’t share credit rating info (source: I’m a US citizen living in Canada and my credit history in Canada started from nothing), so the US and China definitely won’t. And banks are absolutely not giving favorable rates to students yet alone international students.
In fact if anything because international students get the worst tuition rates and few to no scholarships, then if OP’s story was real they would have spent minimum $20k a year just in tuition over four years, not even counting room and board. So if they did try to abscond with a more realistic credit card debt of like $10k they’d still be way underwater.
The only way this would maybe work is if they had a full ride scholarship, but only top schools like Stanford/Harvard give substantial scholarships to international students and at that point the student would be throwing away 4 years of a top top education for a relatively trivial amount of money, keeping in mind that again they’re never getting six figures in credit.
Connections #355 Friday 31 May 2024
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Seeing a lot of this lately... (lemmy.world)
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Riots rule (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
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I don’t know if it is real, but it is funny (lemmy.ml)
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