Sadly, it’s more than just that. Years ago, the Department of Education had a program that gave highly-rated(?) teachers massive raises if they went to underperforming schools.

Every loan I’ve ever gotten had some kind of truth in lending page that shows the min payment, the number of months you will make that payment, and the sum of all the payments at the end, and the APR. Do these loans not have something like that?

You start with a zero - at least you do when you immigrate to the US. You have to play games like get a sears card and buy something and then pay it off in a few months or open a secured credit card account, then after a few months try and get a low limit / high interest card.

you understand that to do that would require them to acquire new licensing for a one off image which would likely need to go through a buying department and take multiple days...instead of just using the image library they already have a license for and getting the article out in a timely manner. Journalism requires…

Many payday loan places also do title loans. Also function as pawn shops.

Literally the only one on Getty.

Damn, their sources didn’t even request to be anonymous for this. They clearly had their lawyers review the article beforehand, and the sources absolutely do not give a fuck. Kudos.

Stories like this make me miss The Consumerist blog.

Inevitably, anytime an article like this gets written, the heartless assholes love to crawl out of the woodwork saying things like, “If anyone’s dumb enough to take out one of these loans, they deserve what they get.” As if everyone is born with an 800 credit score and knows what an index fund is. But the picture…

Gotta love the optics of a rich executive whining about “cancel culture” 24 hours before cancelling the jobs of 10,000 people.

And people wonder why they need unionization. 

The absolute tone-deafness displayed by having Sting play a private concert to MS executives in the fucking Swiss Alps the night before announcing 10,000 layoffs is incomprehensible to me. Just some Bond-villian fucking bullshit.

That sucks. Seemed like an interesting dude. Always enjoyed when he popped up in things.

“…somewhere in the Crystal Lake area…”

Because it’s sincere when it takes 2 apologies and the silent treatment. 

Am I alone in finding that an awful lot of responses to this have been... a bit much? Like I know that social media and online videos can skew hyperbolic anyway, but I’ve found myself rolling my eyes pretty hard at a whole lot of content creators this week. Maybe it’s because my own interests and friend groups lie…

I personally think some additions to the existing OGL are warranted. stuff banning NFT’s and addressing new tech and trends should be added. the monstrosity that got leaked definitely wasn’t needed though.

As a Dungeon Master since the 1E days, my take is that this is a step in the right direction, but I still feel like they aren’t hearing what being said. Nobody wants a new OGL. The same old OGL we’ve been using this whole time is just fine. Wizards still own the D&D trade dress plus all the lore and stories that come…

Hasbro owns Wizards of the Coast, so it’s technically true, but Wizards is still a corporate entity of their own with their own CEO, management, and employees. Hasbro does own D&D, but I wouldn’t insist on that kind of labeling or call it “more accurate”, or else you end up with things like “Yum Brands introduces a…

I’ve learned that corporations are not friends. An apology means nothing if the new language of the 1.1 doesn’t line up with what is promised.