Now do voting rights!
āThe dose makes the poisonā is the oldest bit of wisdom in the field of chemistry. Of course a chemical that already exists in some small amount in nature could be considered a pollutant at higher concentrations.
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thatās one of the worst cases of ālibrul bureacracy run AMUCKā actually being true that Iāve ever heard of, fucking lol. they did it because legally they already defined fish as including invertebrates and this it was the most expedient way to get bees on the list of animals.
like just write a new law, hahahaha
as Iām writing this though, I realized that very technically bumblebees are a type of tuna.
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Why waste time write lot laws when few laws do trick?
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Dihydrogen monoxide is freely soluble in drinking water. Exposure times of 4 minutes can cause death. Itās everywhere. Itās in your food
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Props if true.
Thatās the joke.
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by transitive property, Jim Halpert is also a bumblebee.
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The reporting on this (as with basically everything) has been atrocious. The details matter!
As someone mentioned earlier, this isnāt always true. At my school, undergraduate business school and engineering students definitely pay more in instructional costs.
Any word on whether this student loan thing applies to graduate loans? I was endowed with my wifeās law school loans when we got married. We havenāt had payments paused and I donāt really think we ādeserveā to have them cancelled. But if weāre eligible for a free $10k, Iāll certainly take it.
There have to be a ton of people who refinanced or have private loans and donāt understand they arenāt getting any forgiveness.
Looking at the details, it looks like she consolidated them in 2003 (almost certainly resulting in a private loan). But theyāre at a 1.625% rate, so itās really hard to complain about it. I mean, I can complain that weāve still got these loans even though she only worked as a lawyer for like 3 years before becoming a SAHM. But I donāt really expect any sympathy on that front - weāre in a pretty fortunate position.
The problem with making arts/humanities guys pay more is that only rich failsons will occupy those spaces and they will look like what the NYT op-Ed pages look like now: cultural fields will just be full of dipshits like Bari Weiss and Brett Stephens who can afford to work an unpaid internship in Manhattan.
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You can probably reconsolidate these loans back into the federal government through myfedloan, and keep your interest rate, and be eligible for both the payment pause and loan forgiveness (depending on the timeline of when the loan forgiveness happens and the exact details). The fact that they are āgraduateā loans has nothing to do with it.
It depends on exactly how you consolidated them originally, but yeah, the messaging on this has been terrible, and as long as you didnāt consolidate them with private loans, they likely can be consolidated back with the feds. I posted about it 2 years ago when the payment pause first started. The only thing you might lose are minimal āextraā incentives your current servicer has thrown in (like if your current servicer gives you a .5 percent rate reduction for direct debit instead of the feds .25 percent).
