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Joe Biden said on Wednesday that he is considering a request from Australia to drop the decade-long US push to prosecute the WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange for publishing a trove of American classified documents.

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[–] [email protected] 33 points 5 months ago (2 children)

The student debt stuff was nice, even though refinancing made me ineligible.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I'm genuinely curious, is that how it works? If you refinance, the new loan loses the "student loan" earmark and you're no longer eligible? Or did you consolidate two/multiple loans and the student loan was one of them?

It sounds a bit unfair in the former case because in my mind it's still the student loan debt, just with (hopefully) better conditions.

But I agree, it's good that at least some headway has been made. I miss the "investment into the future" perspective we had from before the news became so gloomy :)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

It was the former. The wounded pride of having to actually pay for my unused degree* is somewhat lessened by having the interest paid to a credit union rather than a national telecom/finance conglomerate.

*Still would, being educated is hella good.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Or getting mandatory the overtime pay cutoff more than doubled, OTC birth control, investment in renewables and infrastructure, new anti-redlining regulations, fighting junk fees in finance, advising the DEA to reschedule MJ, domestic semiconductor investment, getting more pro-union leadership back at the NLRB, better consumer protections for flight delays an cancelations, healthcare for veteran burn pit victims…

I wish the guy was further left but there’s plenty of stuff he’s gotten done that under four more years of the orange menace would have never happened.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I know a Rick, and you're nothing like him.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Good! Rick sucks!

Alternatively, Rick is tough to measure up to; I’ll try to do better!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Rick's kind of a dick. If life were the Internet he'd be a troll.