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Biden administration begins canceling student loan debt for 804,000 borrowers
  • Detractors like Republican Rep. Virginia Foxx, who is chairwoman of the House Education and Workforce Committee, have called the relief an abuse of taxpayer money.

    “The Biden administration’s blatantly political attempt to circumvent the Supreme Court is shameful. The Biden administration is trampling the rule of law, hurting borrowers, and abusing taxpayers to chase headlines," she said in a statement when the policy was announced last month.

    Her daughter owns Grandfather Mountain Nursery, which Virginia Foxx used to own with her husband from 1976-2004.

    Grandfather Mountain Nursery was forgiven $25,161 worth of PPP loans in December 2020.

    Obviously it’s not an “abuse of taxpayer money” when your own family and generational business can benefit from it.

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  • Probably not so surprising given its 8/9 years old at this stage. Hard enough for this sort of project to get off the ground in the first place let alone supporting nearly 10 year old hardware (despite the ongoing popularity of the 10 series, it is old).

  • Google raising price of YouTube Premium to $13.99 per month
  • It’s not bad if you max out the family subscription (5 members) and use YouTube music.

    Still, I’m a hypocrite because I absolutely hate their habit of hiding features behind the paywall, and making ads more obnoxious to irritate users into paying for premium.

  • 'Get used to a less sweet diet' - expert on aspartame (video)
  • It’ll be interesting to see where this goes, but odds are it will be meaningless - the research is sketchy at best for now.

    In my mind with the quality of research out there right now, it will boil down to 3 outcomes:

    • If you used a lot of artificially sweetened products to avoid consuming lots of sugar, and you would go back to using the same amount of sugar otherwise, then keep using the sweetener. Sugar is far more likely to cause damage to you.
    • If you think you could cut out the aspartame and cut down on sugar, then do that instead.
    • If you eat a decent amount of red meat, you may as well continue consuming aspartame. Odds are the meat will cause cancer long before the aspartame does.

    The trouble is the news can latch on to the IARC plan to classify it as a class 2B carcinogen (“possibly carcinogenic”). The problem is, the IARC classification is kinda trash for an end user, since it only classifies the quality of the research available. Meat is a class 1 (“known carcinogen”), but so is asbestos and sunlight and alcohol. No one would argue that those are equivalent. Similarly, coffee, pickles and petrol are also 2B classifications. It’s easy for the news to run with “aspartame has been identified as possibly carcinogenic” and be completely correct while also entirely misleading.

  • pointers are very eleganto
  • that’s the whole idea of passing by address in C

    Wait stop, so in other languages like C#, when you pass a variable into a function “by reference” is that just passing the pointer to the variable?

    Have I been baited into using pointers my whole life?

  • Help. Accidentally enabled 2FA and now I was signed out and I can't sign in again
  • The instructions were there, you just didn’t do the second step which was to refresh the page. It’s a janky way of setting it up for sure, but the green popup notification did have the correct steps.

    Your account is most likely lost.

  • ELI5: Why did LED notification lights silently got removed from phone?
  • This doesn’t really make much sense in this context though.

    All iPhones have the feature built-in by using the camera’s flash LED. Androids have the same camera flash LEDs, but the software side simply doesn’t use them for this purpose. There’s no “cheaper production” here since the components are already there. Dedicated notification lights are gone, but the flash LED is efficient enough to serve the same purpose these days

    Pretty sure you can still enable the flash LED on Galaxy phones under accessibility but I don’t have one to check - not sure about other android phones but I’m sure there’s a third party app that does it anyway.

  • Is it finally safe to pair Asus MBO-s with Ryzen 7000 CPU-s?
  • It’s not as clear as you might think - for starters, 99% of people had no issues with the boards anyway. The real issue with Asus is how they botched their BIOS patches anyway (they weren’t alone though!) and their dreadful consumer services. The BIOS stuff should be smoothed over by now, but that doesn’t make Asus any less scummy.

    I’d say don’t get the Asus board purely because of what Asus is as a company, but even if you do get the board, you’re probably going to be fine :)

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