I ignored the claim that they owe 223000 now. It is possible for something like that to happen but it requires for the borrower to be paying less than the monthly interest accrued. And I just don't think it is a reasonable thing to complain about owing someone 109000, and paying less than 500/mnth

but also isn't working either for a non-profit or a government agency. (because they could have gotten public service loan forgiveness 10 years ago if they were)

Even if there were no interest on the loans, minimum payment to pay it off in 10 years would be $908 a month. So the government is giving them a pretty big break.

And also, somehow, this person is a lawyer who's making relatively shitty money for a lawyer (~80k, assuming no kids)

(assuming they're making the payments) regardless of the balance. Google tells me that fed. student loans taken out in 2005 would have interest rates of 6.1% (since its law school specifically, I'm assuming that is a PLUS loan). All fed. student loans are amortized for 10 years of repayment

OP doesn't give enough info to make exact calculations, but assuming they've been paying about the same amount for the entire time, they've had these loans for about 20 years, which if they are government loans, means they're on a income based plan, and the loans will be forgiven in about 5 years

related theres a pirate hack cartridge that allows you to trade Pokemon from Gen II to Gen III which is astounding since their internal data structures are different

The original version of Season 4 is entirely acceptable. Its just not Seasons 1 through 3.

I mean, Ron Howard also gave us Arrested Development, Seasons 1-3, so he gets a pass in my book.

Brian Baumgartner from the Office?!

I assumed that they were just replacing first-generation with boomers and 2nd generation with Gen X etc.

brb, going to start referring to Tauros and Pikachu as Boomer Pokemon.

It seems that the trend here is that reading the book (or claiming to have read the book) actually tends to make you worse at ferreting out the books that weren't set in that period.

my internal monologue whenever I hear "We cannot solve the climate crisis without dismantling capitalism" or the like, is always "Oh, okay, so we're not solving the climate crisis. Got it."

"in Massachusetts under Mitt Romney" is a really funny rule of three there.

Skeets claims that a circuit split develops in 2086 about time travelers' torts, but as of now, Sloan v. Holt (1944) is pretty clear that Cosmic Boy doesn't have standing.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6QF...

30-50 feral hogs was just kinda a twitter meme compared to the others.

In Pathfinder lore, there's a city, Daggermark, that has an assassin guild, and much like going to a barber's college for a cheap haircut, citizens can, once a year, hire a student assassin from the guild at a steep discount.

service shouldn't have allowed that to happen.

what the fuck do you mean Donald Trump spent his first Thanksgiving as president with Jeffrey Epstein