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5 minutes ago, Pato del Muerto said:

What’s the timeframe?  Because I know a permanent resident alien that took a job in late sept or early oct. 

Jan-Jun - it's there in tiny print

also, pretty sure this a rerun. think they already rolled out this talking point back in june. they've run out of shit to lie about, apparently

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4 hours ago, Goofyboy said:

The ACA subsidies isn’t going away. A friend of mine just had his costs go from $1700 a month to $2800 a month. While he and his family can afford it - that is a massive hit on anyone’s budget. That $1100 a month kills spending money. It’s insane.

Exactly.

I can afford a similar increase, fortunately.  But that money still comes from somewhere else, for all of us.  Maybe some of us don't travel as many times per year, or we stop going out to dinners, or we buy a cheaper car for the lower monthly payment.  Or maybe we refuse to change our monthly spending and the huge new insurance premium eats up some or all of what was left over at the end of the month, so it's not going to our bank or our brokerage accounts.

And for some folks, it's way worse: they stop buying as many groceries, or new clothes, and they cut their electrical usage, etc.

I mean, if someone actually wanted to tank the American economy, this would be fantastic place to start.

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4 minutes ago, TwiceHorn said:

A $200 or $300 premium for the Trump version.  https://www.bondarms.com/www.bondarms.com/Stinger-P8525.aspx

Being in Granbury and 2A oriented, they're probably Trumpy as fuck.

But also may be a brilliant grift that we failed to take advantage of.

 

That gun is ugly as homemade sin.  I wonder if they had inventory that they couldn’t move, but a simple engraving session and double the price and suddenly they are in demand. 

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https://www.newsweek.com/full-list-degrees-professional-trump-administration-11085695

Full List of Degrees Not Classed As ‘Professional’ by Trump Admin

 

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Students doing certain degrees may no longer receive the same amount of reimbursement for their studies now that the Department of Education is implementing various measures from President Donald Trump's One Big Beautiful Bill.

One measure coming into action is that whether a degree is considered "professional" will influence how much reimbursement a student receives for their higher education.

However, there are a number of what many see as "professional" degrees missing from the new list, such a nursing, which sparked significant concern among nurses and nursing organizations.

 

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That said, the occupations not deemed professional among the health care space include nursing, physician assistants, physical therapists and audiologists, according to the education news outlet Inside Higher Ed.

Per the outlet, other professions not included are architects, accountants, educators, and social workers—which sector representatives pushed to be included in the list, given that they are high-demand occupations.

It has also been reported that engineering, a business master's, counseling or therapy, and speech pathology will not be considered "professional" either.

 

Nursing
Physician assistants
Physical therapists
Audiologists
Architects
Accountants
Educators
Social workers

 

 

 

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20 minutes ago, TwiceHorn said:

A $200 or $300 premium for the Trump version.  https://www.bondarms.com/www.bondarms.com/Stinger-P8525.aspx

Being in Granbury and 2A oriented, they're probably Trumpy as fuck.

But also may be a brilliant grift that we failed to take advantage of.

 

Easy there assuming they’re trumpy, that’s a major leap given those details! About on par with assuming a realtor in the north dfw burbs is maga, how dare you!

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14 minutes ago, Francisco 2.0 said:

https://www.newsweek.com/full-list-degrees-professional-trump-administration-11085695

Full List of Degrees Not Classed As ‘Professional’ by Trump Admin

 

 

 

Nursing
Physician assistants
Physical therapists
Audiologists
Architects
Accountants
Educators
Social workers

 

 

 

Newsweek needs a professional editor, that article just about broke my brain. This paragraph in particular was something 

This means that those doing high-costing degrees, who may no longer receive the same amount as their degree may not be deemed "professional," could financially struggle to cover the costs—which could deter students from choosing to pursue those high-demand careers.

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16 minutes ago, Francisco 2.0 said:

https://www.newsweek.com/full-list-degrees-professional-trump-administration-11085695

Full List of Degrees Not Classed As ‘Professional’ by Trump Admin

 

 

 

Nursing
Physician assistants
Physical therapists
Audiologists
Architects
Accountants
Educators
Social workers

 

 

 

The Department of Education does not classify educators as professionals. Yep, that tracks. FML.

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4 minutes ago, bluto said:

Newsweek needs a professional editor, that article just about broke my brain. This paragraph in particular was something 

This means that those doing high-costing degrees, who may no longer receive the same amount as their degree may not be deemed "professional," could financially struggle to cover the costs—which could deter students from choosing to pursue those high-demand careers.

 

The article was probably written and edited by AI.

The rest of your point stands however.  An architect or engineer isn't professional now?  Plus, you can see how this trickles down to red states---imagine opening up architectual licensing to anyone that wants one.  What could possibly go wrong.

 

 

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Can’t help but think Trump directed the accountant and architect from his biz and development background, ‘fuck those ppl’

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25 minutes ago, Francisco 2.0 said:

https://www.newsweek.com/full-list-degrees-professional-trump-administration-11085695

Full List of Degrees Not Classed As ‘Professional’ by Trump Admin

 

 

 

Nursing
Physician assistants
Physical therapists
Audiologists
Architects
Accountants
Educators
Social workers

 

 

 

This pisses me off. These are mostly female majority positions and this is specifically trying to keep them out of professional positions and back in the kitchen. 
 

My wife is a PA and, while it won’t affect her, it definitely hurts the profession as a whole. 

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19 minutes ago, Francisco 2.0 said:

 

The article was probably written and edited by AI.

The rest of your point stands however.  An architect or engineer isn't professional now?  Plus, you can see how this trickles down to red states---imagine opening up architectual licensing to anyone that wants one.  What could possibly go wrong.

 

 

that will never happen. or if it does, I'm getting the fuck out of this country (faster than planned)

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7 minutes ago, Longhorn_Fan68 said:

that will never happen. or if it does, I'm getting the fuck out of this country (faster than planned)

I keep feeling like we're in the prequel to Idiocracy.

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2 minutes ago, Red Five said:

I keep feeling like we're in the prequel to Idiocracy.

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I just said nearly the exact same thing to my dad, who is also an architect

wait, dad?

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31 minutes ago, Francisco 2.0 said:

 

The article was probably written and edited by AI.

The rest of your point stands however.  An architect or engineer isn't professional now?  Plus, you can see how this trickles down to red states---imagine opening up architectual licensing to anyone that wants one.  What could possibly go wrong.

 

 

Yeah, Newsweek is weird now.  It's not an independent publication really, but more of an aggregator like MSN or Yahoo.

Most stuff is "reprinted" from some other site, usually referenced.

Somewhat surprisingly, though, I haven't seen it reprint much utter bullshit.

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51 minutes ago, Francisco 2.0 said:

https://www.newsweek.com/full-list-degrees-professional-trump-administration-11085695

Full List of Degrees Not Classed As ‘Professional’ by Trump Admin

 

 

 

Nursing
Physician assistants
Physical therapists
Audiologists
Architects
Accountants
Educators
Social workers

 

 

 

CRNA’s have between 39-48 weeks of schooling for their doctorate, depending on the program. Half of that, you cant work, as you are in clinicals 50-65ish hours a week. 
 

Loans are the only way (myself and everyone I know who is a crna) you can pay for school, unless you have a sugar momma or daddy

 

 

good luck getting people to apply to be in healthcare now, especially considering we are drastically short on almost all disciplines, especially nurses

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5 minutes ago, Longhorn_Fan68 said:

I just said nearly the exact same thing to my dad, who is also an architect

wait, dad?

Hello son. I am very proud of the man you have become. Also, I had sex with your mom. 

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5 hours ago, Hank Kingsley said:

Nikki Haley is MIA because she is now a dirty dot Indian to the hardcore base. Her days are over. There is no Nikki Haley. 

But her son is trying out the White Nationalist schtick. Good luck, bro. 

 



One would think that claiming that the U.S. isn't an English-speaking country anymore while speaking (checks notes) English would strike these morons as moronic but they are too moronic to understand the irony. 

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2 minutes ago, Pato del Muerto said:

Al yankovic has an architecture degree so how serious and rigorous could it be?

The dumbest guy in my fraternity became an architect.

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3 minutes ago, GreenspointTexas said:

CRNA’s have between 39-48 weeks of schooling for their doctorate, depending on the program. Half of that, you cant work, as you are in clinicals 50-65ish hours a week. 
 

Loans are the only way (myself and everyone I know who is a crna) you can pay for school, unless you have a sugar momma or daddy

 

 

good luck getting people to apply to be in healthcare now, especially considering we are drastically short on almost all disciplines, especially nurses

This is yet another example of this admin walking in, fucking something up under the pretense of "we're going to fix this problem" without ever having the self-awareness to say, "Man, I wonder WHY its like this?  Lots of smart people have worked on problem X for a while.  Maybe there are reasons why things are the way they are."  

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This scene on repeat for 4 years. 

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39 minutes ago, Francisco 2.0 said:

 

The article was probably written and edited by AI.

The rest of your point stands however.  An architect or engineer isn't professional now?  Plus, you can see how this trickles down to red states---imagine opening up architectual licensing to anyone that wants one.  What could possibly go wrong.

 

 

Huh... 30 years in the profession and now I find out it's not a profession. Well, at least the great pay and short hours make up for... WAIT. FUCK. 

(yeah, this will go over super well in the A&E community - as an architect I needed to go through several years of mandatory internship then 9 exams. It's thankfully simplified now, although still rigorous. My engineering friends and colleagues have similar rigors to endure before becoming licensed. Sure would've been a lot easier to walk off campus with my degree and yell "I'm an architect now!" and been done with it.)

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6 minutes ago, South Austin said:

The dumbest guy in my fraternity became an architect.

My dumbass brother became an attorney, so I get it 😂

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2 minutes ago, flatdawgs said:

Huh... 30 years in the profession and now I find out it's not a profession. Well, at least the great pay and short hours make up for... WAIT. FUCK. 

(yeah, this will go over super well in the A&E community - as an architect I needed to go through several years of mandatory internship then 9 exams. It's thankfully simplified now, although still rigorous. My engineering friends and colleagues have similar rigors to endure before becoming licensed. Sure would've been a lot easier to walk off campus with my degree and yell "I'm an architect now!" and been done with it.)

I got my degree in '02 but didn't get my license till '23 cuz life and yeah, it's hard as fuck. there's a reason a lot of people don't get through it on the first try, and many at all. I am proud to say I passed all my tests on first try. but yeah, I'm sure any joe blow off the street could pull it off. health, safety, and welfare indeed

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13 minutes ago, South Austin said:

The dumbest guy in my fraternity became an architect.

From UT?

The B.Arch. is one of the toughest undergrads at UT.  It has most of the technical stuff  that engineers take in their first two years (producing a 2/3 attrition rate historically), plus essentially studio art classes where you have to produce drawings, with talent.  Very time-consuming and rigorous.

Can't speak to other schools.

But regardless of school, there is licensure.

Anyway, I could kind of maybe understand confining student loans to those degrees likely to enable repayment, but this doesn't seem to be that.  

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^ I'm glad someone else said it besides me. South Austin flippant comment comes across as a lie or he came from the smartest fraternity in the history of ever. there really is no in between

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2 minutes ago, Longhorn_Fan68 said:

^ I'm glad someone else said it besides me. South Austin flippant comment comes across as a lie or he came from the smartest fraternity in the history of ever. there really is no in between

There was a time I wanted to be an architect, but spoke to a couple of successful ones and realized the prospects might not be that good and that there was both an "artistic" element to it, which I probably lack, and the fact that people have to "like" your work.  It's not necessarily good enough to be technically competent and that might even be something of a disadvantage.

They steered me toward engineering, correctly, I think.

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2 minutes ago, TwiceHorn said:

There was a time I wanted to be an architect, but spoke to a couple of successful ones and realized the prospects might not be that good and that there was both an "artistic" element to it, which I probably lack, and the fact that people have to "like" your work.  It's not necessarily good enough to be technically competent and that might even be something of a disadvantage.

They steered me toward engineering, correctly, I think.

making it just as an architect is tough as hell, especially in Austin. that's why I pivoted to design-build and am moving into development. just designing shit doesn't pay anything, unless you're some world-known starchitect, which I am not (yet)

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15 minutes ago, TwiceHorn said:

From UT?

The B.Arch. is one of the toughest undergrads at UT.  It has most of the technical stuff  that engineers take in their first two years (producing a 2/3 attrition rate historically), plus essentially studio art classes where you have to produce drawings, with talent.  Very time-consuming and rigorous.

Can't speak to other schools.

But regardless of school, there is licensure.

Anyway, I could kind of maybe understand confining student loans to those degrees likely to enable repayment, but this doesn't seem to be that.  

Thank you for your attention to this matter.

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11 minutes ago, TwiceHorn said:

There was a time I wanted to be an architect, but spoke to a couple of successful ones and realized the prospects might not be that good and that there was both an "artistic" element to it, which I probably lack, and the fact that people have to "like" your work.  It's not necessarily good enough to be technically competent and that might even be something of a disadvantage.

They steered me toward engineering, correctly, I think.

You should have been a city planner.

Who's your favorite chess player?

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Dotard just answered a question and did the groceries thing again. "Groceries. It's an old-timey word that I have started using." 

If I didn't know any better I would assume he is doing a bit. 

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This thread is bringing up fond memories of the way my dad used to bitch about know-nothing architects all the goddamn time when I was growing up(he was in the structural steel business).

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10 minutes ago, Texaus said:

This thread is bringing up fond memories of the way my dad used to bitch about know-nothing architects all the goddamn time when I was growing up(he was in the structural steel business).

oh, there's a shitload of those. just like there are C-student doctors out there, architects are not immune from the same

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Genuinely the weakest, most easily influenceable man in human history.  Do you know how easy it should be for an 80 year old Republican to stay mad at a brown millennial socialist, and this motherfucker can't even do that.

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For all the speculation about a potential Oval Office dust-up during Mamdani's visit, Trump was cordial so far in the Oval Office.

"We're going to be helping him," Trump said, adding that "we agree on a lot more than I would have thought."

That's a notably different message than the one Trump gave during the New York City mayoral campaign, when he repeatedly threatened to withhold federal funding to the city if Mamdani were to win.

"I think you're going to have, hopefully, a really great mayor," he said. "The better he does, the happier I am."

Directly asked about his previous comments that Mamdani is a "communist", Trump said simply that he would "change".

"Some of my views have changed," he added. "I feel very confident that he can do a very good job."

Trump repeatedly expressed support for Mamdani during tough questions from reporters, tapping him on the arm and telling him it's "okay" to say he is a despot.

"I've been called much worst than a despot," he added. "So it's not that insulting."

Trump seems to be going to great lengths to avoid any spat at the White House - as does Mamdani.

Looking to the future, Trump said that the two might have disagreements, but that ultimately they would be able to convince each other.

"I hope we do [meet again]," Trump said towards the end. "We had a great meeting."

https://www.bbc.com/news/live/c0qpqkyp948t

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2 minutes ago, Chuckie Finster said:

Genuinely the weakest, most easily influenceable man in human history.  Do you know how easy it should be for an 80 year old Republican to stay mad at a brown socialist, and this motherfucker can't even do that.

https://www.bbc.com/news/live/c0qpqkyp948t

As everyone knew, he had no idea what mamdami stands for and was just screaming Muslim sharia communist without ever bothering to learn anything. 

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2 hours ago, Francisco 2.0 said:

https://www.newsweek.com/full-list-degrees-professional-trump-administration-11085695

Full List of Degrees Not Classed As ‘Professional’ by Trump Admin

 

 

 

Nursing
Physician assistants
Physical therapists
Audiologists
Architects
Accountants
Educators
Social workers


There’s really no mystery here fellas…..

Per our AI overlords:

Profession % Women (Approx.)

Nursing (Registered Nurses),89%

Physician Assistants,71-72%

Physical Therapists,65-70%

Audiologists,86%

Architects (licensed),27% (40% of new architects, however, are women)

Accountants and Auditors,59.6%

Educators (K-12 teachers),77%

Social Workers,81-83%

 



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