In 2020 Pennsylvania didn’t finish counting enough mail-ins to call the state until Friday.

I started the ubuntu path on warty, was a distro vagrant after unity arrived, switched to debian a while which was and is fine, decided to give manjaro a shot and couldn’t stand it, but oh how that AUR made me swoon. Finally worked up the nerve to lose the training wheels and try just arch, got tired of the immense chore that it became and found EndeavourOS.

I cannot recommend endeavour highly enough. It’s exactly what I always wanted and as long as they don’t completely shit the bed somehow I doubt I’ll ever leave. I can’t speak to your hardware concerns, as I went full team red with common hardware for my last few builds because I knew they would have linux on them. The arch wiki is great. The forum exists. They have a plasma version.

The only games I have been unable to play are those that have shitty anti cheat software and the occasional very recent release, but those usually get resolved in a hurry. Genuinely no complaints.

Pa resident here, the fuckery has been going on for months already. Couple weeks ago a federal judge ruled county elections boards were within their rights to refuse to count mail-in ballots with minor clerical deficiencies on the envelope it was mailed in. Pa has 67 counties, guess how many elections boards are run by republicans. Now guess which party benefits more from having those votes thrown out.

As someone who lives 1/2 an hour from Lancaster, I’ll bet my hat this is some redneck Pennsyltuckian doing exactly this.

is now, in large part, a referendum on genocide

No, it isn’t. Part of the problem with articles like this is the idealogical bubbles so readily afforded by modern life to the author. Nearly twice the percentage of Americans are fine (or think more should be done) with the USs arming of Israel than think it is a problem. The percentages within parties aren’t even that far apart. The average American doesn’t care about brown people dying half a world away. Anyone who has been paying even the tiniest bit of attention for the last 50 years should already know this.

But when you hang out in leftist spaces online, have leftist friends IRL, and read mostly leftist news sources, you lose sight of the fact that the average American is politically much closer to your problematic uncle you only see on the high holidays, than you.

a vote for her is the best/only way to register a “no” to genocide vote. To state, as liberal Democrat supporters tend to do, that Trump will be worse when it comes to Gaza, obfuscates this point.

No it isn’t. Doing whatever it takes to keep it from getting worse is in direct service of this point. It sucks that the only outcomes are the status quo or make it worse, but as long as that is the case, then not choosing to not make it worse is a moral failing.

Especially when they still manage to be wrong on that one issue. Trump will be worse on Gaza and throwing away the only chance to stop him, without even getting into everything else he’s also going to make worse, makes them complicit.

It’s really disheartening that after a decade of this shit articles are still being written under the pretense that Trump’s appeal has anything to do with sensible governance.

https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/1g88apd/it_was_all_staged_trump_did_not_work_mcdonalds/

It’s my understanding that this would be a pretty low bar to clear.

Perry is my rep and and PA-10 is a weird district. Definitely drawn to dilute the influence of Harrisburg as much as possible, but not really homogeneous in its suburban and rural makeup. In Cumberland county especially the vibe has always been more of the rich/educated northern republican stereotype than the toothless redneck stereotype it seems like he is trying to appeal to. On the other hand he’s very popular around York in the areas where they’re big fans of banning books. I would guess on average the Republicans around me are more interested in maintaining the status quo than ushering in Gilead.

I always kinda hoped/figured he’d get primaried by a more moderate candidate at some point, it’s part of the reason I switched my registration, the other part being the sheer number of local government offices where Dems don’t have a snowball’s chance. As for the polling, that article is pay-walled but 270 to win has 2 polls with very small sample sizes. One has Perry up by 1% 6 months ago, the other has Stelson up by 9% a week ago with only around 300 responses. I want to believe, I really do, but I don’t. Most of the area still went hard for Trump in 2020 (not as hard as 2016, but still pretty lopsided) and PA really, really loves incumbents. I fully expect those things to continue with it carrying Perry to victory.

Zoomer tech literacy is on average almost as poor as their actual literacy.

And it was that all private student loans were stripped of their bankruptcy protections. Federal loans were given an out but its very difficult. But the amount of private loans exploded and those couldn’t be cleared at all. That’s it. The final truth.

https://www.consumerfinance.gov/about-us/blog/busting-myths-about-bankruptcy-and-private-student-loans/

For too long, a myth has persisted that student loans are not dischargeable in bankruptcy. The myth is not true because, in fact, student loans can be discharged bankruptcy. We have seen the Department of Education take important steps to ensure that bankruptcy relief is available to federal student loan borrowers. It is vital that private student loan borrowers also receive the relief the Bankruptcy Code provides —and that loan owners, lenders, servicers, and debt collectors honor that relief when a bankruptcy judge discharges a consumer’s debts.

Straight from the fucking CFPB. Stop repeating lies that harm people by making them believe they don’t have options that they do.

Its not their predecessors if its the same person.

The Biden administration was not running the Department of Education from 2017-2020.

I don’t know why you’re having such a hard time with this. I’m not talking about everything the democrats and Joe Biden ever tried to do in relation to students loans. I’m not talking about every mess ever made. I’m talking about their handling of the PSLF program. You know, the thing the thread is about.

You thinking that it’s right is indication of exactly what side you already agree with.

Saying I said it was right, when I explicitly said it was wrong. Well done.

So they drew a line. It ended up being in the wrong place and it needs to be redrawn.

It helps if you understand that a huge portion of rural Pennsylvanians are overtly racist. It’s like they collectively decided the worst southern stereotypes were aspirational.

//edit: I was born in Pa and live there. I’m not just slagging off my fellow Pensyltuckians. I see more confederate flags on the trip to my parent’s house a third of the way across the state than I did on my roadtrip to Tennessee last year.

It add nuance to the conversation that Democrats have done nothing wrong and only been pushing to fix what other older people and Republicans have done.

I didn’t say this. Democrats do things wrong, like all the time. Maybe the misunderstanding is my fault for omitting the article ‘a’ before ‘mess’ by mistake near the end of my original post. Mea Culpa.

But in regards to the subject of this thread, that absolutely is what is happening. The Biden administration is cleaning up a mess Republicans went out of their way to create with their deliberate mishandling of the PSLF program. Blaming Biden because he can’t wave away the consequences of Republicans malfeasance is exactly what the person I was replying to did.

so that none of that debt could be forgiven even after bankruptcy?

The reality of the matter is that people have very little recourse for handling college debt unless they are literally starving to death

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I didn’t say it was easy, I said it wasn’t literally outlawed. Which it is not. There may even be good reasons to make it more difficult for young adults just out of school, without any assets and low financial stakes, to discharge the large amounts of unsecured debt we’re helping them take on. They were right to be concerned about it. So they drew a line. It ended up being in the wrong place and it needs to be redrawn. Happens to the best of us.

You call someone else out on making incorrect statements while making them yourself and it becomes apparent it’s just ideology at the base not reality.

That’s rich coming from a person who opened by lying about the impossibility of discharging student loan debt.

Yeah, you want to litigate the entire FSLP and talk about the whole picture on how it’s affected education and the economy over the last three decades? I’m not sure I have time to write several doctoral theses and a nonfiction book today, however maybe we can start with the fact that student loans can be discharged in bankruptcy. Yes, the courts use a more stringent standard than Chapter 7 and it leaves a lot of discretion to individual judges, but it is not outlawed outright.

//edit: Poster attempted to ‘correct’ their misinformation with more misinformation.

Who set up the current college loan system and set it so that none of its nearly but not impossible that debt could be forgiven even after bankruptcy?

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-and-department-education-announce-continuing-success-student-loan

The vast majority of borrowers seeking discharge continue to benefit from the guidance. In cases decided by the courts from November 2022 through March, 98% have provided debt relief through full or partial discharge. And the overall number of court judgments providing full or partial discharge have continued to increase, with the number of such judgments over the last six months exceeding the number of judgments for the preceding 12 months.

and that account went off about how I’m blaming Biden.

Biden had us pay the illegally charged interest rather than fight it.

I guess someone else wrote his name in there.

Charging borrowers interest is not illegal. Denying participation in government programs over trivial errors is not illegal. Declining to earnestly help people who are eligible rectify their deficient applications is not illegal. Picking a fight you are going to lose on the merits is not smart. Especially when it detracts time and effort away from the much more immediate and necessary goal of helping the large number of people who are still paying.

No, it’s disingenuous to count the time a program was, by design, inoperable as functional because it existed on paper.

When does the dam exist? On the day the blueprints are drawn up or on the day it starts filling with water?

This is a program that existed for a very long time

7 years since the first person became eligible is a ‘very long time?’

The problem with it is when it was set up, some idiot put the loan companies in charge. And thru intentional incompetence most people didn’t get forgiveness when they should and the interest kept climbing for years.

So we’re just making shit up now?

The department of education made the determination of who fulfilled the criteria to have their loans forgiven. Forgiveness was never based around distributing a set amount of money, but on completeting a specific payment regiment for 10 years with a qualifying employment category.

The first year anyone was eligible for forgiveness was 2017. Do you remember who was president in 2017? Who he put in charge of the department of education? There was a deliberate effort by the Trump administration to sabatoge the program by denying approval for forgiveness on the basis of any minor technical or clerical deficiency they could come up with. Some months literally nobody got approved. Now also consider the kinds of people Davos hired for every role she could within the department. And now the kind of people they hired.

And here you sit, just another asshole blaming Biden and Democrats for mess their predecessors went out of their way to create, because they didn’t clean it up instantly and perfectly.

I’m correct because the door is closed nearly always. The difference in performance with the door open is barely relevant.

So I looked at link and I’m not sure this is making anyone’s point but mine. I don’t dispute that a chest freezer is more efficient, just not massively so. It looks like 15-20% more efficient for a chest vs upright, which is not shocking at all. And a fridge with it’s smaller gap to ambient will get less of a benefit. The air inside just isn’t that hard to cool and door is closed the overwhelming majority of the time.