Yeah apparently Baltimore country club types. People magazine has already done a thing on them.

Yeah, it’s pure schadenfreude. But I am seriously coming around to the idea that shit-posting is a serious political tool. So I am planning my meme strategy around the release of these numbers.

This subject has the right emotional content to keep this issue in the public consciousness. Ever hear of ‘social peace’? Not for these shit heads.

So let’s watch the denial rate at major insurance companies to see if it goes down.

Luigi’s trial will still be going on probably. I’m betting he’s going to drag it out as long as possible. His family is rich and influential so the trial is going to be a shit show, I hope.

And once we see a sudden (temporary) drop in denial rates, we can shit all over insurance executives again next quarter.

And the quarter after that when the denial rates sneak back up again.

Let’s just say I am really excited about shitting on that crew a lot.

Look, if they can convict a concentration camp administrator for the people they ordered killed, I can call any insurance executive with decision making power a murderer.

One murderer took care of a mass murderer.

Technically a super pac. They can do issue advocacy.

Plz explain the deep magic!

Also, sorry about your table.

They have time to google. Not magic, just time and mandate to use the resources at hand.

It is difficult to express the depths of my disappointment of any human assembly above about 2000 people.

Let us common shitheads figure out how to properly home/pod school kids or something. It only takes 2-3 hours average to educate a small passel to the point of independent learning.

I suspect it wasn’t actually the university contacting you, but instead it was the alumni association.

Alumni associations aren’t usually a direct unit of the university but sort of an auxiliary org. Alumni associations want the data to further their own interests but they are primarily interested in you as a source of donations. They are often at odds with central administration, a difficult relationship because the associations do gather funds but have an agenda that is often at odds with the administration.

As a post-doc, I was selected for a leadership academy that put me in close contact with upper administration at a public university. We would meet weekly and have a project to work on over the course of the two month experience.

During our discussions, I was always curious about how they used data in their decision making. So one day I asked how are our students doing in the long run? How do we assess the effectiveness of the education we are providing them?

They did not know, they do not collect such data. What was most shocking to me, though was the degree of resistance that they put up to even talking about the idea of creating such feedback systems.

Shortly thereafter I left academia forever with a lingering sense of disgust at the willful ignorance of any institutinalized academic.

That’s why it’s time we shat back.

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That’s the point if the saying I started my comment with.

There is no written policy stating that student debt will be used as a tool of social control. That’s the ‘quiet part’.

However there are numerous data sources showing the impact of student debt on people’s choices. Such as https://clp.law.harvard.edu/knowledge-hub/magazine/issues/student-debt/debt-takes-a-toll/

The meaning of the saying is that it doesn’t matter one bit what you SAY the system is for, stop instead and look at what outcomes are actually produced.

A common example is when the drumbeat starts for a new war, we hear through media that the purpose is to bring freedom or somesuch. It only takes a little scrutiny to discover that a small number of people stand to make a lot of money off the war.

The purpose of a system is what it does.

Higher ed as currently constituted keeps young troublemakers distracted during their wild years and then burdens them with long term debt obligations.

Before we began recognizing the humanity of women (and their usefulness in the labor force), the preferred method of social enslavement was early child birth. Student debt seems to be a good replacement as a social control mechanism.

Disney is going to memory-hole this one soon.

Keep circulating the tapes!

I recently began learning about mixnets. Interesting stuff there. Look up the Nym project for example

In many jurisdictions you can just file a police report on a self-serve website. This avoids them showing up and shooting your dog and usually suffices for a claim.

Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt.

Risk vs Reward.

A relatively small cost towards legal fees has a decent chance to yield a large payoff.

Musk is a warped gollum-man, but not an idiot by any means.

Lkke Kleenex and Xeroxes for tissues and photocopies, DnD is now the generic term for tabletop analog RPGs. All the wizards of the coastal AND land-locked regions can suck on that fact.