I bet you can’t show any objective negative societal consequences.

That was clear, wasn’t it?

Great. You’ve worked for hospitals. But surely you can see, if you take a step back, how it kind of proves my point if that is what is informing your opinion about fucking universities.

You get that universities don’t get to decide whether or not education is free, right? You’re pissed off at the wrong people, YET AGAIN.

I don’t know anyone who graduated without debt and I know several people struggling to deal with their student loans, which don’t even go away with bankruptcy.

An invaginated magnetar.

Saw one whistle, once.

A medical sound is a surgical steel rod used for “sounding” (ie, probing) parts of the human anatomy. More generally, a sound is any probe or pole used to test depth or similar properties; mapping the depth of a pond with a graduated pole is “sounding the pond”.

Oh, I thought they meant the other kind of “sound” and I am like, that’s a lot of mass to send interstellar for a joke.

Few locals graduate with debt.

[citation required]

Guy. You’ve been all over the place with your uninformed criticisms. I don’t think you really even understand what it is that has you so upset at universities, but there is something playing out before us.

Okay but larger enrollments help everyone. Attracting legitimate international students to our Universities tends to result in better educations for our citizens and better research for our society. There’s no necessary downside.

projection

Health care money is very notoriously being withheld from hospitals, and gets redirected to private clinics at several times the cost to taxpayers. This is not the situation in education. We don’t have a massive pay-to-play tier of Universities. They’re all non-profit.

Honestly, I don’t think you even know what the word “gouge” means. HINT: IT DOESN’T MEAN “EXPENSIVE”

The absolute cost of tuition doesn’t speak to whether the school is “gouging,” which would imply excessive profit-taking with funds moving to private investors – WHO DON’T EVEN EXIST IN THIS SCENARIO.

No school’s tuition covers the actual cost for Canadian citizens. Every tuition is highly subsidized. If anything, we’re gouging the schools, because they are not allowed to raise tuitions but their costs are going up while their revenue is dropping.

WTF are you even talking about?

What unexamined emotional need does that fill for you?

No, they moved to Discord because there was a for-profit corporation that was extremely motivated to move people to Discord. Mumble is better in every way that an anti-consumerist cares about.

Mumble is THE SHIT.

What institutions are you talking about, specifically. Name a couple.