general

but you need to ensure it can't be spent at institutions who are price gouging

aka, unis with 40% admin costs and stupid unchecked spending

if you can't afford college then go to trade school or get an apprenticeship

fuck that Leg

then trade schools get flooded and they start upping costs

College shouldn't be a multi-generation endevour

become an electrician then go get an electrical engineering degree

I am a proponent of not going out and doing something just to make money so I cannot agree

if you want to go to some university and study pure math you should be able to if you have the aptitude to do so

and the money to pay for it

that's like saying we should have parents pay for K-12

it's a dumb libertarian ideal

again, if your system was less fucked that would not be an issue

like privatizing roads

4 years of school for me is about 10k in loans

that is repayable

you subsidize with taxes though Pika

yes

it's not free

i'd advocate for publicly funded college if there was a way to restrict the degrees that are funded by it to STEM

you have the same problems we do, where colleges spend unchecked

and business

the government just foots the bill

also true

university president here makes 400k a year

Fuck that Leg, I don't want to factory farm degrees

that's what Europe does, and it sucks

lol

@Traps are gay is this accurate?

Actually you should just do what my university does, only get donations from engineers so you build a new engineering building every year

we are up to E9

with plans for E10

The craziest thing I hear from leftists

is about cars

I don't get it

they want to ban private ownership of cars

Spooky just mandate everyone owns a shared tesla

climate change btfo'd

that's just it

why are "fleet cars" somehow their ideal

it's a literal dystopia

not owning a car

being at the whim of future Uber

just take the bus

lmao

bus gang

yeah focus on that and let China dominate space

sounds fun

china will be gone in like 2 months

they are a non issue

they will be gone to space

We don't have the technology to do Space right

thats the issue

maybe if astrophyicists would not have yet another fucking convention and set of notation

we would be farther

Instead of pissing away billions on space shit, I'd rather focus on other emergent technology... that might more realistically pan out

like wireless energy transfer from solar collectors in orbit

I think you should just let elon musk piss away portions of his money on space shit

That sounds hella saffe

and he can be in charge of that

thats what china is working on

totally not as a weapon

I'm way more interested in pushing the boundaries of computing, or energy, or material science, or biochemistry

computing is basically a race to quantum computers atm

we're doing all of those too

energy is going towards fusion

material science and biochemistry is worrying about better batteries

I'm not excited by Space, like I used to be I don't see a realistic endgame with our current tech

we better level up our tech then

so many things that are not feasible about spacetravel right now

I think it's an inefficient way to improve, same with Apollo

as expected

nice

He has my vote

we should rush the superluminal engine that bends the space around the ship faster than light

Having gotten to the point in my physics education where everything boils down to "we don't know why this works", I think we need to fix physics before we do that leg

quantum is weird