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Congress has approved the first national school voucher plan, which will help all but the wealthiest families pay for private school and other educational expenses.
The plan, passed on Thursday as part of Republicansโ all-encompassing domestic policy bill, now heads to the desk of President Trump, who is expected to sign it into law.
Families who earn up to 300 percent of their areaโs median income, equivalent to more than $300,000 in some parts of the country, will be eligible, including those who already send their children to private schools.
The legislation is the culmination of a decades-long campaign by a coalition of private-education advocates, religious conservatives and some parents, who argued that families should have the freedom to choose the whitest K-12 school option for their children and get help paying for it.
@Chuck Darwin I think it depends somewhat on the situation. In Seattle, with grades 1-4 we had a few black and others, not much Latinos but a lot of Asians and we all got along and did reasonably well. Then in 5th and 6th grade, they started busing blacks up from the south end of town and all hell broke loose. It was not being black that was the problem it was cultural, those that lived in the North adopted our culture, those from the south immediately formed gangs. I know it's just anecdotal but it was an important lesson to me.
Boomercons are obsessed with finding this scapegoat since they wont dare talk poorly of pet minorities. They know a lot of guys are checked out of society and that won't pay for the hordes of illegals or keep the social security scam running. Minimalist lifestyle is only increasing in popularity and people are getting better at it as the days go on. Needless to say this strategy of getting people back into the wagie cage is not going to work.
Saying you plan on gutting the poor of basic benefits so some rich guys can buy another Yacht doesn't sound too good. Its a bad strategy but they're going with it.
I just asked a friend what she's up to tomorrow. Her response was that she hasn't given it any thought because, even though it was a short work week, it was a rough one and she felt "all 47 days of it." Not being a libtard I just found that a weirdly specific number and she responded "it's an UNlucky one these days" and I realized she meant Trump. I'm genuinely at a loss. Would it be dickish of me to say "it's unpleasant that you need to make literally everything political?"
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I've talked about this before, but I think it bears repeating: Canada is near the top of the pack when it comes to the number of people with post-secondary education.
That sounds like a good thing, but in reality I think it speaks to an underlying weakness in Canada. People aren't going to college because they *can*. They're going to college because they feel they *must*.
The cost of housing isn't a problem that popped up yesterday. When I was a teenager, you could buy a house in some places for $50,000. Today, in most of Canada the same house would be easily $500,000 (and in some cities it's $1,000,000 or more). I'm old, but I'm not "10x inflation" old. Food prices have skyrocketed. Internet prices have skyrocketed (High speed Internet used to be 20 bucks a month, today that's the sales tax on my internet bill). I pumped gas to pay for college, fuel used to be 60 cents a litre, today it's 1.60. Electricity in most places has doubled or more.
If you're a hard worker but you haven't gotten onto the class treadmill, then there's a good chance you can't afford a life. So people get on that treadmill and start running just to stay in place. Meanwhile, the politicians act as if there's actually unlimited prosperity to go around.
South Korea is in a similar state. It's another outlier with very high postsecondary education, and it's another places where people need to stay on the treadmill or they'll get thrown on the floor hard.
Canada is a country with substantial tailwinds, but also substantial headwinds.
The current prime minister of Canada, Mark Carney, had an ad with famous actor and comedian Mike Myers in this years election campaign. The two have something in common: neither of them have spent much time in Canada in the past 10 years. Myers moved to the US once he got some success, and Carney was a Goldman Sachs investment banker at the start of his career in the US, spent some time in Canada, and then moved to Europe. This speaks to the reality that Canada has a big problem with brain drain. Once people get to a certain level of success, they tend to leave.
Part of the cause of the recent trouble was actually Canada's immense success. In the 2000s, the federal government under the liberals managed to balance the budget and paid down a considerable percentage of the federal debt, crime was relatively low, Canada hit most lists for one of the best places in the world to live, and opportunities particularly in the oil sands meant that normal people could go out into the world and do very well for themselves. In a situation like that, a lot of people are going to feel some level of guilt knowing that there are still other people who are suffering. This is how successful countries end up with a leader like Trudeau in charge.
The housing problem by itself has also been something of a double ended sword. Housing makes up an overwhelming amount of Canada's economy these days, because it's something very easy for the government to prop up. Make it harder to build and easier to buy, and prices go up. Import people from around the world, and prices go up. Let people raid their retirement savings for a down payment, and prices go up. Meanwhile, the government can collect taxes on the million dollar homes and all the businesses that end up surrounding those homes. Prices nation-wide peaked around 850k for a single family home. This ends up being a boon to the government and to a few boomers who bought 50k homes in the 90s, but it's bad for the economy when you need to come up with 1500/mo to live in a basic apartment in a second or third tier city.
Those high housing prices aren't the only high costs. Canada has a huge and overbearing state, and a jealous one too. The United States generally has free trade between states, but Canada does not have the same between provinces. You can have a product manufactured in Manitoba that cannot be sold in Ontario or Saskatchewan. Moreover, for products such as crude oil which Canada has an abundance, it is proven essentially impossible to build pipelines to get those resources to appropriate markets within Canada, so Canada ships those resources to the United states, the United States builds pipelines and the like, and then we buy it back from The Americans. The Canadian Federal government, after implementing sweeping new legislation to make it more difficult to build things like pipelines ended up purchasing one of the major pipeline projects. I believe that they did so in order to show Private industry how easy it was to complete a pipeline. In reality, it prove that even with the full power of the federal government behind it, they barely got the project done. Ontario's greenstone field contains generational levels of wealth, but it has been stuck in the ground for decades because the various levels of government can't agree on how to let Private industry make use of those resources.
Canada was once a major center of tech. At the beginning of the computer era, it spawned companies such as ATI and Adlib, and later on companies such as Nortel and blackberry. Today, the Canadian government has passed numerous laws to explicitly censor the internet and implement corporate socialism whereupon in return for being allowed to operate in canada, successful American companies pay a tithe to unsuccessful Canadian companies of course selected by the Canadian government.
To make up for the fact that GDP cannot be produced with innovation or productive industry, the Canadian government makes up for it by importing an overwhelming number of people. The Canadian population was roughly stable at about 40 million people, in order to increase GDP the government embarked on an unheard of amount of immigration, over a million people every year. This did result in higher gdp, but it also resulted in lower per capita GDP and it was self-evidently a direct causal element in rising cost of living.
All of this doesn't look that bad for the state, but in spite of massive increases in the number of people employed by the state in the last 10 years, most people don't work for the state. As a result, investment in the country takes a downward spiral where companies in Canada have a much harder time attracting investment compared to comparable companies in the US or Europe. This means that there are fewer opportunities overall, which means fewer opportunities for tax income, which means the government tightens its grip further, which means fewer attractive investment opportunities, and so on and so forth. Entire regions of the country have been hollowed out.
Which brings us back to the university and college education. What we are seeing with the extremely high levels of education in Canada is not a virtuous country that values education. What we are seeing with the extremely high levels of education is a feedback loop where people require overwhelming amounts of money just to survive, and so people make major time and money investments into education in the hope that it will give them the opportunity to join one of those high paid professions that will let them get the million dollar mortgage for their forever home. Meanwhile, pure economics says that the more you have of a thing the less valuable it is, and so in spite of having all these educated people, they're just aren't enough elite jobs to go around.
And so that is why Canada is so highly educated and yet is doing so poorly.
@SJ Zero GDP isn't the end-all be-all, but it is important. I personally think the downturn in the relationship between our two countries, USA and Canada, has not been good for either.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy announced a landmark agreement with a company owned by former Google CEO Eric Schmidt to jointly produce drones, including interceptors.
A new ProPublica data analysis adds to the mounting evidence that abortion bans have made the common experience of first-trimester miscarriage far more dangerous.
Well, O.J. Simpson's lawyers stopped feuding this week finally. The Dream Team - F. Lee Bailey and Robert Shapiro - were able to put aside their differences, and express their admiration for each otherโฆ
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@dangillmor@mastodon.social > Big Journalism -- have chosen to be quislings when courage was needed. They're all owned by billionaires now who are making bank with all the tax breaks and tax credits that we're all paying for. Frankly the best course of action is for every mainstream journalism outlet to die.
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The war of words between Trump and Musk erupted after the worldโs richest man renewed his sharp criticisms of the One Big Beautiful Bill, calling it โutterly insaneโ and โpolitical suicide.โโฆ
In June, the USA had only a little more than 6000 encounters with illegals at the border, and of those, there were zero let into the country. ZERO!!!
But remember when Biden & Harris were in charge, letting 200K illegals in every month, and Joe said that Congress needed to pass his bill? That there was nothing he could do to stop them from coming in unless Congress passed his law?
Well, I donโt recall Trump signing any immigration bill, but yet, they have stopped the illegals from coming in.
I'm kind of surprised. I finished the first draft of Future Sepsis tonight.
Final word count is 67,912 words.
The original plan was for 60,000 words completed 1,000 per week starting in January and ending sometime in early 2026. Obviously I was able to have some very productive weeks.
Planning to edit in 3 passes using different techniques for each pass to catch different potential problems in the work, then I'll have to start all the legwork of getting it out there.
For anyone who goes "This dummy writes too much in his posts", just imagine -- I've been writing this much outside of my posts! ๐
Under the ordinance, the first of its kind in the state, new cell towers and antennas on Hawaiiโs Big Island must be at least 600 feet away from homes and schools.
Congresswoman Jen Kiggans (R-VA) โ who represents a swing district encompassing Virginiaโs Eastern Shore and much of the Hampton Roads region โ took to Thursdayโs CBS Mornings Plus and calmly explained the facts behind the Big, Beautiful Bill, specifโฆ
20,000 more rural homes currently under construction.
Total = 100,700 rural homes built or being built.
๐ฐ๐ต DPRK Population (Estimate):
~25 million people
Weโll assume:
These homes are for rural areas only (not urban high-rises).
These are single-family or small-unit homes, likely modest, i.e., working-class style.
๐งฎ DPRK per capita housing construction:
100,700 homes / 25,000,000 people โ 1 home per 248 people
๐ง Step 2: Compare with USA (Working-Class Focus)
๐บ๐ธ U.S. Population:
~336 million (2025 est.)
๐๏ธ U.S. Annual Housing Construction:
According to U.S. Census data:
2023: ~1.45 million new housing units were started.
About 65โ70% are single-family homes, the rest are multi-family.
A significant share are high-end homes or investment properties, not working-class housing.
๐ฏ Filter: Working-Class Style Homes
Assumptions:
Assume 50% of new homes are working-class homes.
(Removes many luxury homes, vacation homes, and speculative units.)
50% of 1.45 million = 725,000 working-class homes annually
๐งฎ U.S. per capita housing construction (working class):
725,000 homes / 336,000,000 people โ 1 home per 463 people
โ๏ธ Side-by-Side Comparison (Working-Class Homes Only)
Metric
DPRK
USA
Population
25 million
336 million
Working-class homes (recent project)
100,700 (est.)
725,000 (annual est.)
Per capita rate
1 per 248 people
1 per 463 people
Type of homes
Rural, modest
Mixed, filtered for WC
Scope
1โ2 years project
Annual basis
๐ง Insight
On a per capita basis, the DPRK is currently building nearly twice as many working-class homes as the U.S. โ 1 per 248 people vs. 1 per 463.
DPRK's campaign is state-directed, rural-focused, and ideological, aligning with their "Rural Revolution".
The U.S. system is market-driven, uneven, and often skewed toward urban and suburban developments, with working-class housing increasingly squeezed by:
Zoning laws
Rising material and labor costs
NIMBYism
Profit motive favoring luxury construction
๐ Conclusion
The DPRK โ despite sanctions, isolation, and limited resources โ is currently outperforming the U.S. in building working-class homes per capita during this rural housing campaign.
The U.S., with a far larger economy, could do much better, but market distortions, speculation, and class dynamics reduce the actual rate of affordable housing production.
Let me know if you'd like this broken down by region (e.g., U.S. rural vs urban), or if you'd like a comparison over a decade.
@nanook Nigga shut the fuck up. We have had a deficit of homes in the USA at least since 2008. That the DPRK is beating us in building homes is a fucking embarrassment. That I am putting attention to this isn't something to tell me to leave for. I'm literally advocating for the USA to try harder in treating its citizens with respect by building more homes, while getting shit on by citizens like you who are blind and retarded "patriots". No idea if you are American but if you are, you are a fucking retard. Happy 4th you faggot.
@Sovereign I don't argue that we have, but I wouldn't accept a North Korean lifestyle to resolve it. If you can't have food to eat having a place to live is somewhat irrelevant.
@Sovereign Yea well nuff said I guess. People who won't learn history are destined to relive it and unfortunately the rest of us are destined to be dragged along for the ride.
If you think the left are losing their mind now, wait until the Dow hits 45,000 points AND the FED drops the prime rate by 1 basis point. The former may happen on Monday, and the later just may occur a week or so after.
BTW, as an update, I finally got a job. It's contract to perm, but I'm certain that I will get a full time permanent job by the end of the year... Now. I will have increased confidence if the FED comes through with at least two rate cuts (making the cost of money lower to corporations, so they will increase investment in talent).
Ex-Labour MP Zarah Sultana has announced she is resigning from the party, saying she will be founding a new party with her former leader Jeremy Corbyn. ๐ฅ
Sultana, the Coventry South MP stripped of the Labour whip last year for backing a move to scrap the two-child benefit cap, said the new party would be formed with other independent MPs and activists, aiming to challenge a "broken" Westminster system.
My community does its Independence Day parade tonight, followed directly afterward by the fireworks. Itโs nice not having to fight people for spots along the route and to be able to see the fireworks, though I do sort of miss it.
Where you have - over $500K of pay for one lifeguard for a single year (2024) - over $700k of overtime pay for five years and plenty of other examples.
Uh guys? I'm watching Trump's ralley and he just was listing off all the bad groups of people and he mentioned we gotta do something about the Shylocks. I was like wait what? I had to look it up
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๐ฉ My intention isn't to swing in, shaming ourguys for being excited--but rather to rein in the jumping whenever we're shown the barest ankle. It's a tease (and one likely even unintended, tbh).
Elon did a straight up Roman salute. A tease--perhaps intended. Trump (after saving Israel just last week) is not rallying a cry against jews or even "just the business coy jews" in saying "Shylock."
He's doing boomer-tier, reddit name-calling. That's just an old businessman's "Voldemort", "Vader." It's calling out a *business* practice. He's just naming a fictional character, real reddit-level stuff.
Why such an obscure one? It's not. It's old business lingo. (I'm not in business, but even I've heard this, have read this term--even in normie books.) It's like the left saying "the 1%" or the right saying "international globalists." They're not nudge-nudge nodding. Trump is inviting 500,000+ Chinese on visas. He's not "saving Israel for last" or thinking about the 14 words. His married kids are married off to jews.
Have a good night despite this, guys, but don't gush over a boomer when he speaks like a redditor to show off his Yuge Brain at the 250th Pride Parade.
i watched, curious, thought you were going to show a clip of some shocker--only for it just be a republican at the 250th Pride Parade saying "and you know what? i hate [democrats]" ๐ wuh-oh watch out don't slip on all that winning
Regardless of Oval Office revisionism, Americans should never forget that their nation was forged in resistance to political slavery and claims by distant masters to unlimited power. Let us remember that the United States was founded on freedom, liberty and the rugged individualism of the White patriarchy. That's what they have taken from us.
The Declaration on Taking Up Arms contains flashes of wisdom that should have been burned into popular memory as much as any phrase from the following yearโs Declaration of Independence. In 1775, Congress boldly declared that โour attachment to no nation upon earth should supplant our attachment to liberty.โ Unfortunately, Washington policymakers long ago buried that maxim in their pursuit of dominating much of the globe.
i assumed EQ stood for equalizer and typically the frequency bands go from low to high, left to right. so my images eq would have bass to the max and everything else as is.
I was about 12 and my brother, 8 and we were dropping firecrackers in coke bottles and our 6 yo brother wanted in on the action so we would light them and drop them in his bottle. One didn't go off until he looked into the bottle and I'll never forget he looked up and said "I can't hear anything." Lucky for me it was temporary.
@Sir Matt Long time ago. It as fun. Watched Jurasic World last night, lacked pretty much everything, dinosaurs moved like mammals, the sheer physics of it didn't work, if the plot had been any thinner it would have had to been made of graphene.
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It's a fact
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