1. I watched a video today....some young gal (probably 24)....college-degree....coming to a 'freak-out' over the college loan (she was showing the spreadsheet....$119,000 of debt presently).
Based off salary....she was pulling near $70,000 a year, but she had a nice apartment, and a relatively new $70,000 car (figure around $1,200 a month).
I got the impression that she had no financial advice given around age 18, and just kept thinking things would work out. Are they really that stupid?
Surviving through 20 years of paying this off? She'll be in some mental rehab by age 30, and probably half-way suicidal from that point on.
2. Ghislaine Maxwell said that she never saw Donald Trump do anything that would cause concern.
What's odd to me....all this hyped-up isle-sex stuff, and neither Joe Biden or Hunter....ever got involved?
3. Someone asked Grok (AI for Twitter) to assign a possible IQ-level on someone. Grok responded....kindly....'no', that was not possible.
Generally, you can ask me about folks...and I have no problem in assigning a IQ-level.
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Eugene, Oregon, fUSA.
In a few weeks, I turn 74yo.
I seem to spend most of my days at the two dental clinics in town, one at the junior college and the other a proud recipient of U.S.A.I.D.-type 'funding'.
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As I understand it:
* A dental hygienist graduates from the program costing around seventy grand (us$70,000).
* A dentist graduates from the program costing nearly a half-million smackaroos (us$500,000).
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As they work on me, I ask each student about their planned location to get a job.
At least once a year, a female student will say they intend to be a stay-at-home parent instead of working.
No mention of re-paying their life-time(s) of loans.
[LM blinks rapidly, eyeballs twirl; inside tiny LM brains, file-cabinets explode, papers flying every which way]
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After hearing about her mothering plans -- and within weeks of graduating -- I asked one gal about the cost of completing dentist school.
This potential stay-at-home told me she received a full scholarship including housing/food/transportation/etcetera.
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Correlations.
I work for everything I own, so I tend to place a higher value on protecting it and maintaining it.
I also pay cash, despising and distrusting bankers in general.
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At the risk of sounding like a stereotypical clichè... "Young people these days!".
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