TORT: The ONSC Rant Thread (12 Viewers)

[Comet]

State School with no scholarships for smart white male. Electrical Engineering with no scholarships for a smart white male. He does have an internship after his freshman year with an unnamed contractor that pays better than average. He had to sign "keep my mouth shut" papers. But he is still an intelligent white male who under different circumstances (race) would qualify for a lot of scholarships. So sad that his entitlement hasn't panned out the way the media portrays. His academic advisor is no help, just points him to a website that had scholarships for everyone but an intelligent white male. Johnny, the conversation was had prior to college enrollment, thanks for the perspective though (no kidding intended). Just making sure he realizes we are not going to mortgage the house. First world problems yet again..

 

[NCFJ]

I have been saying it for years, I am in the wrong line of work. The big money is in higher education. People are selling college on line and people are gobbling it up and have been for 2-3 decades. It is big business. Look at the money in college sports. Its a well oiled money making machine. Odds are that young waiter or waitress that served you your diner has a degree and a but load of student loan debt. Want your kid to be rich and take care of you in your declining years? Pay for them to go to plumbing school, no shiz.

 

[uzj100]

Great info here from everyone. The jobs that AI and robots can't do will blow through the roof. No robot is coming to fix your toilet or install a roof or fix your car. You can't run data analytics to repair a electrical short. There is already a shortage of skilled labor. Europe is ahead and started large groups of pooled skilled labor that keeps everyone busy working versus having to run the entire business yourself (Marketing, sales calls, book keeping, healthcare, etc.)

Don't get me started on smart, male, and white. We would be here for months discussing. SMH.

 

[angerhater]

It’s ridiculous. Why should the federal government be Responsible for reparations? Did the US government import slaves? I believe anyone who thinks they deserve reparations need to hire a lawyer so that their family can sue the family that owned their ancestors slaves. This should not be a government responsibility. And once they prove their lineage all the way back they would have to re-pay all their food stamps and government payments . And then we should give them a plane ticket back to the country they were taken from.

 

[Comet]

I am all for helping those who are truly in need. I was let go from a job years ago when the company didn’t have enough work and had to scramble to make ends meet. I was fortunate enough to work multiple jobs so we didn’t go hungry. Through the entire experience I dealt with government employees who would look at me and say I wouldn’t be down for long. It was true and I never took a hand out unless it was a hand up. Never took advantage of assistance programs even though we qualified. Never received anything I didn’t earn. Where has that mentality gone? I’m not perfect, I swear too much, and when I let loose it ain’t always pretty, but the necessities are always addresses.

 

[Comet]

Don't get me started on smart, male, and white. We would be here for months discussing. SMH.

Agreed. Someone would go away b¥tt hurt and mad. Don’t want to go there either.

 

[weejub]

 

[lt1fire]

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Still one of the best shows ever

 

[fourtrax]

I think it is called buying votes.

 

[onemanarmy]

This is who the author thinks should pay reparations

From: Ta-Nehisi Coates Clapped Back at Mitch McConnell for Saying ‘No One Alive’ Is Liable for Reparations. So We Came Up With a List


By no means should this list be considered all-inclusive. However, it is an indication of how many people blissfully walk around thinking that the legacy of slavery, Jim Crow and racial discrimination is dead.

1. Anyone who lives in a white neighborhood: A home in a majority-white neighborhood, on average, is worth $48,000 more than the exact same home located in a black neighborhood, even if the neighborhoods have similar crime rates, characteristics and amenities, according to a report by the Brookings Institute. The Root’s “Unpack That” explainer dissected how the racist practice of redlining created this disparity, which affects home prices to this very day. When one considers that the value of a primary residence is still the biggest fraction of most American families’ wealth, then it is no wonder that the devaluation of black-owned homes is calculated at $156 billion, according to Brookings. That is a measurable wealth disparity that can and should be made whole.
2. Anyone who graduated from a majority-white school: If you spend stolen money, should you have to pay it back if you didn’t know it was stolen? Well, according to Edbuild, children who attend schools in predominately white school districts receive $2,226 more funding per student that districts who serve mostly non-white students. That’s another $23 billion dollars stolen from black students whose parents pay the same state and federal taxes as white students. We’ll take that in check, money orders or Tubman twenties, please.
3. Anyone who was accepted to a segregated college: Taxpayer-funded colleges like Alabama and Ole Miss (which reclaimed its title of most racist name for a University after Trump University folded) were still integrating in the 1960s, so a lot of these graduates are still alive. Not only did students at these whites-only institutions not have to compete with black students for admission, but they enjoyed facilities, educators and resources that were paid for by black taxpayers who could not even access them.
4. Shareholders for Lehman Brothers, USA Today, Wells Fargo and hundreds of other companies. There are a number of major corporations who were founded on and profited from the slave trade.Moses Taylor made his fortune in slave-trading even after it was outlawed in America. He eventually took his money and started a bank on a not-so-popular location in Manhattan called Wall Street. A few years later, he convinced the US government to store millions of dollars of gold stolen from former slaves who had overthrown the white slave-owning government in Haiti. And that’s how Citibank was founded. The company is now valued at $1.8 trillion. Wells Fargo is worth a reported $207 trillion. Three hundred and thirty-nine of New York Life’s first 1,000 policies were written on slaves so I think shelling out one-third of its $311 billion in assets is more than fair.
5. Anyone white person whose family lived in America before 1865:Even if their family didn’t own slaves, they benefitted. They bought items that were cheap because of slave labor. They worked in job markets that excluded African Americans. Plantation owners owned slaves, but they sold cotton to textile mill owners who benefitted from cheap labor. So did the cloth manufacturers, the exporters, the retail merchants and even the people who bought clothes. Part of the reason that white supremacy exists is that, for most of America’s history, white people didn’t have to compete with anyone but other white people. Can a nigga get some residuals?
6. Christians: One of the often-overlooked aspects of slavery is the financial organization of the Triangular Slave Trade. Friends, families and even religious groups who never owned slaves participated in the Middle Passage by investing in the trade and buying shares in the slave ships’ cargo. Churchgoing slave owners contributed money made off slave labor while churches looked the other way. Slave labor and its proceeds built churches in many communities in the Southand North. It wasn’t until 2018 that the Southern Baptist Conventionapologized for supporting white supremacist ideology and fighting segregation. The Presbyterian Church in America split from its larger organization in protest of the church’s stance on integration … in 1973.
7. White people: Every white person in America is a direct beneficiary to the legacy of slavery, Jim Crow and white supremacy. Their votes are not purged or discounted. They do not pay higher car insurance rates. They qualify for mortgages at lower interest rates. Their auto interest rates are not falsely inflated. They get cheaper food and don’t have to travel as far to buy it. They use more drugs but are arrested less often. When they are arrested, their bail is lower. When they are convicted their sentences are shorter. They get better health care, education, jobs and pay.

 

[izzyandsue]

All artificial, made by us hoomans and our decisions. Most college capital expenses have gone and are going for non academic facilities, the bullsheet stuff. Glad I went through at the starting point of the curve, but then the "gym" at school was an old closet with old weight equipment that smelled like old socks. Back then; Want to climb a wall?, get the faak outdoors and do it. Want a smoothie", drink some milk and do some jumping jacks quickly. But universities felt they needed to spend money on facilities to attract students, which led to higher costs, and more competition for facilities, and even higher costs. Its a spiral we are not done with. UNCC's football team workout room puts some NFL teams to shame. I know, I paid for that sumbitch when my daughter was going there. But hey, they gave us a tour, yi-fooking-peeeeeee.

I have only one kid to go, 3 more years. He is at Western Carolina, so tuition is pretty good.

 

[stevezero]

There are many small scholarship opportunities that go unrewarded. Civic organizations, clubs, etc.

FAFSA was a joke for us, said we would be 100% responsible for our daughters college. Her major offered a handful of schools to attend, with most running between 40 and 55k a year. Maxing out one school's scholarships would have still left us close to 30k a year. Our local community college is the only two year school in our state and area that offer a degree in aviation business management. She took a bunch of small scholarships, worked for the school, and graduated with her degree and an additional cert, and 18k cash flow positive. We let her do an extra semester taking courses would carry over into Embry Riddle's distance learning 4+1 program. shes paying for her classes with that money, and has no student debt. Shes working in the field, with a very supportive employer.

Scholarship searching is work, and should be treated as such. Essays should be saved, so each time a school asks for an essay, its only.minor tweaks to meet the question, and not starting from scratch.

Most go for the unobtainium full ride, which are now going to more diverse recipients. Focus on 500 to 4000 dollar awards, those usually go unawarded, because noone applies.

Best of luck. Msg me if I can help

 

[stevezero]

Trade schools, and Mike Rowe's SWEAT program. Less debt, meaningful work, for great money

 

[izzyandsue]

My mother used to sing to me "Be, all that you can beeeee"

 

[JohnVee]

My mother used to sing to me "Be, all that you can beeeee"

I was laughing my ass off until I realized I was mistakenly singing that to the tune of “the best a man can ge-e-et!”

 

[Fort Knox]

That whole "my wife can't have kids" thing is starting to sound better and better when I hear about the costs of putting a kid through college these days.

 

[izzyandsue]

Has anyone experienced the new HULU Family Reconnect feature? The streaming fails every night, forcing you to curse it and eventually start talking with people. Genius HULU!

 

[S4Cruiser]

Listen to this s***...

So over the past couple months I’ve noticed kinda a sewer smell when grabbing yard tools/mower/stuff from our shed. The wife did t notice it and just thought I was ‘smelling things’. This shed is quasi attached to the back side of our house and was ‘built’ by the PO. I chalked it up to nothing...for a while...but kept smelling this ‘smell’.

I ended up crawling under the house to check the main plumbing stack intending to likely find a leak. Nothing, no leaks, no issues. I chalk it to maybe smelling something from somewhere else.

Today I was doing some stuff in the yard and when walking by the shed I notice what looked like a hint of wet dirt where the shed subfloor meets the ground. Told myself I’d investigate later...later I walked by it again and notice a decent sized wet spot in the mulch downgrade from the shed.

I recalled the PO mentioning there was a clean out under the shed, which didn’t make much sense to put one there (shed or clean out)...so I cut out a section of the shed floor where I thought the clean out should be...holy fock. Picture speaks for itself...

I’ve spent the past 4 hours cleaning out the shed and then started to tear it down. We experience no plumbing issues inside the house, no backups, nothing so I’m guessing maybe the shed has settled and cracked the main line and it’s leaking. Won’t know until I beat the shed out of the way.

Positive is that I’ve always hated this jerry rigged shed and now have a great reason to get rid of it and build a new one in another spot.

 

[angerhater]

Damn.... I can smell that from here

 

[fourtrax]

yowsers. but, on the bright side you have some soil for the rose bed.