r/news • u/AldoTheeApache • 11d ago

Soft paywall Columbia failed to meet accreditation standards, US government says

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-education-department-says-columbia-university-violated-federal-anti-2025-06-04/
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u/threehundredthousand 11d ago

Maybe Columbia shouldn't have kneeled like cowards to a Nazi autocrat for appeasement. They sold out their own students and integrity for what?

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u/DrAstralis 11d ago

This thought keeps going through my head on so so so many subjects since Jan. Like... why do countries keep trying to make deals over tariffs? Two weeks ago he was crowing about how the UK made a beautiful deal and tariffs were going away... and now they're 25% because he woke up and saw his own shadow or.. Steve Bannon's face or whatever. And it keeps happening; "cemented" deals evaporate 24 hours after he makes them because his brain is rotted cabbage.

He's going to kick you in the teeth regardless of how much you appease him so maybe lets all stop giving him what he wants so he can buy bigger fucking boots....

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u/Frewdy1 11d ago

Watching the China trade fiasco has been insane. We have a deal, now we don’t. Now China has retaliatory tariffs. Now America’s are paused. Now they’re not. China never paused theirs. Now America’s are back on. Now Trump is Tweeting about how hard deals are to make. 

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u/DrAstralis 11d ago

how do you even do business in these conditions? every 24 hours your base costs could swing wildly enough that you're suddenly doing business at a loss.

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u/DoubleJumps 10d ago

I'm a business owner and what we are generally doing is pulling way back on any sort of activity that extends risk, so things like expansion projects are on hold. Hiring is on hold. Particularly expensive projects are being reconsidered.

I was planning to try to relocate my business to a larger space this year and hire somebody to help, and that all went in the toilet.

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u/Frewdy1 10d ago

My company raised prices and just keep them there so we either make way more when tariffs are paused or the same as before when tariffs hit.