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[–] burningquestion@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

Plenty of business owners in the US are invested in commercial real estate, so an undercurrent at least in the US is that a lot of people with decision making authority over this kind of thing personally stand to lose money if the value of commercial real estate falls.

It seems a bit off and corrupt from a business standpoint to deliberately mismanage your business in hopes of limiting personal losses from investments in other industries, but most of how business works in America seems off and corrupt to me.

[–] burningquestion@lemmy.world 57 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

The relief is targeted at people who enrolled in income-driven repayment (IDR) plans, which allow student loan debts to be forgiven by the federal government once payments have been made for 20 or 25 years, depending on the plan.

But because of well-documented errors in tracking payments, many borrowers enrolled in IDR plans have been left paying well beyond their payment end dates, with no forgiveness in sight.

Let's read that again. No changes in policy are happening, the Biden administration is literally just applying the literal basic terms of the already-on-the-books-and-already-lawful repayment plan to nearly a million people who were supposed to have their debts forgiven already.

[–] burningquestion@lemmy.world 28 points 1 year ago (3 children)

The sunk cost of unused office space has been a major factor in companies’ decisions to change their RTO approach, says Kacher.

So what we're seeing here is a situation where 80% of bosses fucked their businesses up by falling victim to an economic reasoning fallacy they teach you about in Econ 101?

[–] burningquestion@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I'm just sitting here biting my nails wondering if they're going to kill Pelia now so they can make Scotty chief engineer as fast as possible.

[–] burningquestion@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

They've been building up an impending Gorn conflict since early in season 1 and this is like the third or so episode that has centered on them. It's an arc, unless we think the story gets reset to zero every season?

[–] burningquestion@lemmy.world -4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (6 children)

Idk, it was pretty predictable and it's still not clear to me why writers who seemingly can't do better than blatantly rip off Alien deserve to be at the helm.

Get Stephen Baxter and IDK Arkady Martine on the writing team as consultants ASAP because this show needs help. People deserve more interesting sci fi than this. Arkady Martine wrote a more interesting and thought provoking Star Trek style story than whatever this Gorn arc is shaping up to be.

[–] burningquestion@lemmy.world 21 points 1 year ago

Why do you think destroying public education is a key right wing priority?

[–] burningquestion@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Admining an MS shop is like "haha yeah isn't it great? all these tools! so great!" dies on inside knowing all these tools are tied into cloud infra that we've had to assume is unsafe ever since SolarWinds, can't challenge anything because your boss saw a list of open source CVE's and isn't aware there isn't a similar database for how many foreign governments and criminal enterprises have backdoors in Azure

[–] burningquestion@lemmy.world 21 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)

“One day, in the deleted scenes, you will see there’s an alternate version of that, which is opera,” Goldsman tells TVLine. “But [co-showrunner Henry Alonso Myers] and I were very much married to the boy band thing.”

I mean, the opera version was 100% what I was expecting, although I guess in retrospect there was no specific reason to suspect that. The boy band version was, however, the funniest/best version possible

[–] burningquestion@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

If you're just looking to mess around, Bard isn't half bad. Okay, it's pretty terrible, but it can do Internet searches and has a Python interpreter built in, so you can do stuff with Bard you can't do with GPT-3.5

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