I still find that people don't actually believe college was free for most of our history.

Here's a 1951 UCLA catalogue casually says tuition is free; fees are $400 in today's dollars. Watch out for that out of state tuition, almost $2K in today's dollars! https://t.co/CUYmLYuhzX pic.twitter.com/Dd2yjNCh6C

— Mike Konczal (@rortybomb) September 5, 2019

I’ve had people argue with me about this. Very clear evidence of even the recent past, readily available, does not sway most people. Humans are flawed and doomed and new minds probably are not enough, or won’t be ready soon enough.

Reality is we could provide free college for all right now for the amount we spend just subsidizing college already. Just like Medicare for All would be cheaper and better than our utterly broken medical system, not only would free college at state schools be cheaper, it’d be superior.

Data storage produces similar levels of emission (c. 2% of total) to flying and is growing at a far faster rate, but you don't get anyone writing pious pieces about how it's time to give up the cloud.https://t.co/PYdvrxHKvP

— James Palmer (@BeijingPalmer) September 6, 2019

That’s because both of them are totally fucking moronic ideas, but the left doesn’t understand the cloud and largely doesn’t know what it is, but all of them have been on an airplane. Banning flying, therefore, appeals to their Antonian authoritarian asceticism but they don’t know enough to write even semi-coherently about the cloud.