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I’d put money down to Kickstart a documentary series where we fly American Redditors (and Lemm users) to Europe to film their reaction when they see that, yes, they still need to pay for items with money (and perform labor to get the money! 😱😱)

It’s an older chart but I have no reason not to think the trend it shows has reversed since 2012. Colleges pivoted really hard in the past 30 years to offering a lot more than just classes and a dorm to attract students. Non-teaching positions have more than doubled since than 70s to handle all the “bloat and bullshit” (one of my professor’s terms, a real old-school guy who hated modern academia) that that’s come along since.

Throw in the fact that federally secured loans means that almost any 18 year old can sign off on whatever the sticker price without much thought and you get those kinds of costs for some students

Agreed. The only two options right now are to either do away with federally secured loans (worse option) or nationalize all universities with efficiency overwatch programs in place (better), but what we have right now is the worst of both worlds w/r/t public-private higher education

The biggest issues I think comes from the facts that A) there are a handful of very predatory schools with huge inter/national outreach programmes and B) highschool students are pressured into choosing their college path before graduating HS, when they’re still a kid.

The kids don’t know how to actually evaluate their options and end up picking the big, expensive schools just off brand recognition alone. Lots of people fell for this trap and graduated with degrees that weren’t very competitive to state degrees and cost 2-10x more.

I think the next 10 years are going to see students’ debt at graduation decrease as community college enrollment keeps going up and the stigma of “community college” education, which was a big deterrant for a long time, goes away.

Sounds like you answered your own question there. Tuition for foreign students is expensive because the ones who come here almost always have family that can pay for it. Like I said above, no American is spending $70k per year for undergrad studies. The smart ones are going to community colleges, which are becoming free in some capacity across most states, building up a GPA, and then transferring to a University off scholarships.

I spent 7 years in school without paying anything for tuition, everything was covered by scholarships. I’ve known many people with the same experience

Then why didn’t you send your kid to school in your country? Americans do not pay $70k for undergrad tuition unless it’s a very expensive study.

(E: the OP corrected me below that theyre not from the Great North. Ill still leave this next part up to demonstrate that universities charge a lot more for international students than domestic but I acknowledge that I jumped the gun here)

The fact that you use the $ symbol, have socialized college tuition, and are not from the US makes me think you’re Canadian. I did the reverse of your situation and used this tuition fee lookup tool from UToronto to see what I would be paying for a year of medical school. Came out to a little under $46k/ for the 2025-26 school year.

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McDonald’s itself is poison.

Fun thing I learned recently: You know that pigs’ feed is made with whole bags of expired bread that are ground up? It’s too expensive in labor to take the bread out of the bag so they’re ground up, plastic and all. You think that doesn’t make it’s way into the meat that we eat?

If it makes you feel any better, this happens in the UK, too.

Have you tried telling him… to leave you alone?

In that case they’re probably fishing for active numbers, seeing which ones are real out of the list they bought online. You should never say the word “yes,” when you’re on the phone with someone you don’t trust. Scammers will record that, clip it, and use it to cause all kinds of harm impersonating you

The biggest victims of phone scams are the elderly. Typically very socially isolated, lonely, and sometimes suffering from cognitive decline. Does anyone ever fall for it? You’ve got to ask yourself why the scammers would go through so much trouble if it never worked.

Alannah Pearce namedrop i love that Aussie she was the best part of Funhaus

I played through My Friend Pedro over the weekend when I had a few hours to chill. I can’t promise that it’ll keep you preoccupied for long but I really enjoyed it

You type like a child. I was genuinely shocked to see in the comments that you’re a 21yo male. If this is how you talk to people who are closer to you, that might be the reason

Post-Occupy American media social discussion has focused on nothing but race/race relations for the past ~15 years. Our 0.01%er overlords know its an immutable difference between people and use it to drive a wedge between us in the name of “progress.”

That’s the guy I told her not to worry about, too

I think most people do it, too. Probably just one of those weird human things.

On one hand, it’s a bad to look “desperate” and on the other hand, I assume that if they’re taking a while to respond, they’re probably busy and I should hit them up later.

The Witcher series

The Metro series (Exodus is the most open-world)

The Assassins Creed series

The Far Cry series

All have plenty of titles that are playable on a 9800