Of all the cuts recently made, seemingly doing away with the CFPB is the most befuddling. For a supposedly populist administration, one would think this one would be top of the list to keep, if not expand.
Gracie Lynne, a 32-year-old fellow at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, who lives in Eugene, Oregon, took a pay cut when she started her job four years ago.
Her parents lost their home during the Great Recession, which led to their divorce, years of financial angst, and Lynne’s own interest in financial regulation. She found herself following the nascent CFPB’s rulemaking and poring over 1,000-page bills on bank regulations. She wrote her master’s thesis on the bureau. She couldn’t pass up the job.
“This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity,” she told herself.
If DOGE can show evidence of lease renewals for buildings that have no employees in them, I'm all for doing something about that. Absent that, we're just calling normal business practices fraud.
I think you just restated what I had summarized above. Is it bad journalistic practice? Of course. Is it a straight line to electing Donald Trump president? Let your imagination run wild. If that's all it takes, you had one foot over the cliff already.
Would I put it past people who think there is some vast overarching conspiracy against them based on video game magazine and chatroom behavior to vote for Donald Trump? Of course not. There's always someone controlling things one would think are uncontrollable. There's always the omnipotent "they" to point the finger at.
Here's my take after reading that essay and doing a little digging on Reddit. What a wild story!
Guy meets girl. Guy falls for girl. Girl likes to get around. Guy is heartbroken and writes a long blog post about it. Gaming magazine gets involved for some reason and does some journalistic stuff that ain't quite on the up and up. Gaming community takes umbrage to that and does stuff it really shouldn't have. Gaming community, despite probably being right about journalistic malpractice, wonders why it's being portrayed as the bad guy. Fair?
I’m going to read it. I got a couple of paragraphs in before I posed my question. I dearly hope it’s a little more than a bitter rant about a romance gone south.
In answer to your preamble, of course! It was a self-published free game. What possible beef could there be?
As for the next branch, I would have a strong preference for choice 1, but I would be interested in hearing your thinking behind 2. Bearing in mind, however, that you're asking a layman to understand the context of what appears to almost any lay reader choice 1.
Let's run with that. The woman game developer develops and gets published a game that doesn't appeal to the usual audience for video games. Said audience claims that the only reason she got it published was because she's a woman. Absent that, a game as sucky as the one she developed never would have seen the light of day. Am I on the right track?
All right, I'm just about as befuddled as a man could be. You and Jay seem to think there's a defense of the perpetrators of Gamergate to be made that would be understandable to someone coming in with zero knowledge. As a person who fits that description, I'm anxious to read it.
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If he didn't say it, someone ought to!
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Also true. The level of vitriol is truly astonishing.
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Perhaps the more befuddling thing is the voters don't see this.
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IIRC, Gore didn't ask/specifically declined Clinton's help on the stump. For all of Slick Willie's failings, the guy was a master politician.
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Of all the cuts recently made, seemingly doing away with the CFPB is the most befuddling. For a supposedly populist administration, one would think this one would be top of the list to keep, if not expand.
https://www.fastcompany.com/91283520/i-need-job-why-fired-federal-workers-struggling-replace-government-work
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My thought exactly.
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Seems to have worked for the TX university system, though I'm sure Chris has a better take since he's a resident.
https://news.utexas.edu/topics-in-the-news/top-10-percent-law/
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This was brilliant.
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If DOGE can show evidence of lease renewals for buildings that have no employees in them, I'm all for doing something about that. Absent that, we're just calling normal business practices fraud.
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Hell's bells, it happens here once in awhile.
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I think I've demonstrated my understanding of that. Keep going, if you will, this is fascinating.
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I think you just restated what I had summarized above. Is it bad journalistic practice? Of course. Is it a straight line to electing Donald Trump president? Let your imagination run wild. If that's all it takes, you had one foot over the cliff already.
This smacks of "Look what you made me do."
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A lease is a lease, man. Landlords don't care who's there. (The company I work for is in the same boat.)
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Would I put it past people who think there is some vast overarching conspiracy against them based on video game magazine and chatroom behavior to vote for Donald Trump? Of course not. There's always someone controlling things one would think are uncontrollable. There's always the omnipotent "they" to point the finger at.
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Worked for Goldman Sachs. Not a wonder.
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Here's my take after reading that essay and doing a little digging on Reddit. What a wild story!
Guy meets girl. Guy falls for girl. Girl likes to get around. Guy is heartbroken and writes a long blog post about it. Gaming magazine gets involved for some reason and does some journalistic stuff that ain't quite on the up and up. Gaming community takes umbrage to that and does stuff it really shouldn't have. Gaming community, despite probably being right about journalistic malpractice, wonders why it's being portrayed as the bad guy. Fair?
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I’m going to read it. I got a couple of paragraphs in before I posed my question. I dearly hope it’s a little more than a bitter rant about a romance gone south.
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Before I read that post, did she ever publish a rebuttal?
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In answer to your preamble, of course! It was a self-published free game. What possible beef could there be?
As for the next branch, I would have a strong preference for choice 1, but I would be interested in hearing your thinking behind 2. Bearing in mind, however, that you're asking a layman to understand the context of what appears to almost any lay reader choice 1.
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Well, that just muddies the water a little more. Write that piece! It'll get a million comments.
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Let's run with that. The woman game developer develops and gets published a game that doesn't appeal to the usual audience for video games. Said audience claims that the only reason she got it published was because she's a woman. Absent that, a game as sucky as the one she developed never would have seen the light of day. Am I on the right track?
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All right, I'm just about as befuddled as a man could be. You and Jay seem to think there's a defense of the perpetrators of Gamergate to be made that would be understandable to someone coming in with zero knowledge. As a person who fits that description, I'm anxious to read it.
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Maybe you and Jay could collaborate.
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If there's another angle, by all means have at it. As I wrote above, my knowledge is extremely limited, so enlighten me.
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I would be anxious to read a defense of that reprehensible behavior.
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