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The Borg are all races and Romulans, though majority portrayed as white, likely have multiple skin tones the same way the Vulcans do. Though the idea they purged different skin tones at some point fits with their overall narrative.

All the Dominion races were white, more or less. The Changelings have a whole meta commentary going for them.


People see what they want to see and are offended by perceptions driven by their own biases, even in cases where no offense is portrayed or intended.


Might have been true with Star Trek as of early TNG, but not sure it's been that way since. I imagine there was uproar around Tuvok being a black Vulcan, but would be hard to imagine Trek fans caring about that today.


Many of these students lay at the generational divide between college guaranteeing a great job (during the generation when most people went to high school and then trade) and college being a prerequisite for any job (today). And those universities only became so expensive because the federal govt guaranteed loans in the first place. University is radically more expensive than it was a few decades ago.

It's not as simple as you lay it out to be.


His point still stands that giving everyone 80k is more fair. The people who took out huge loans for degrees still have degrees from nice schools which will likely help them in the future. This shouldn’t be a win-win for people who mismanaged their money


Well, there are many many many problems in this world. Nothing is simple in this world. Including forgiving student loans. Forgiving student loans will create another sets of problems, like Pandora's Box that we can't ever put back.


Though result would just be a lot less people able to go to college.


There are millions of people attending university who do not belong there, enrolled in programs that should not exist, in order to study theories that are wrong.


IIRC, PAYE requires you to pay taxes on the amount forgiven. Depending on how large that is, this just repeats the cycle outside of this "student loan" bucket.


So if you break your arm…


... you go to a doctor to have it set and casted. Unless the break is so minor that you can self-treat with RICE. You don't have to be a passive recipient of a medical treatment flowchart.


This could just as easily be related to increased infections among young people at this time. You have no reason to pin this specifically on vaccination.


The timing is a very obvious reason to pin it on the vaccine because that's what was changing at that time. Omicron emerged later (end of 2021) and is much milder.

But yes, one way to answer that question definitively would be to do a cohort study on conception rates. Split the data by vaccine status. This can't be done because public health agencies systematically refuse to do this sort of study, nor do they expose the necessary raw data. They don't want anyone being able to answer these sorts of questions. Most data that is available has to be forced out via FOIA requests and the courts.


Are we looking at the same graph? Vaccinations were well past the inflection point in August in the data you are responding to, so the vaccine affect would have already happened if we make the bad simplifying assumption that the population is homogeneous. But Delta was drastically increasing infections in August, leading to a proportional much smaller increase in vaccination then.


Well, for me there's no real need to try and divine it from some rough and ready study. I already know that the vaccines drive this because so many of my girlfriend's social groups reported disrupted cycles immediately after taking the shots, and for some the doctors said specifically it seemed to be vaccine caused. Seemed for them actually mostly that the periods vanished, rather than unexpected bleeding.


Except they would have shown up earlier if it was COVID-19 infections driving this rather than vaccinations driving it. Timing matters here.


Two wildly different issues. Medical debt is still generally owed to payers, student loan debt (as considered in debt relief) is largely federal. The impacts of forgiveness of either would seem radically different.


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