Buddy, you're jumping the gun, seriously.
Boomers have voted for their own interests at the cost of anyone else their entire lives, what makes you think this'll be different?
They'll take all the money social security had left and cancel it for gen x onwards, regardless of us paying into it for 30 years
The, obviously immoral, institutionalized racism in America (I said OBVIOUSLY for those in the back) has also had, and still does have, geoplitical ramifications as well. Further compounding the issue is the media, on the rare event it does get reported, it's almost always relegated to the back pages and never followed up on.
When the Nazi's (for clarity, that is the anachronistic 20th century spelling used to describe the German wave; the current 21st centuries spelling is NatC's - for Christian NATionalists, generally located in southeastern North America, tho not always, and not always just in the Americas).
I'm sorry, that aside aside; When the Nazi's received criticism from the Roosevelt administration about their treatment of the Jews (which was, in fact, reported on extensively during the war, the only surprise was the efficiency and extensiveness of the Germans, today much appluaded, record keeping), the Nazi's immediately clapped back with how America treats its black citizens. German officials spent a good amount of time in the mid 1930s, before any hostilities broke out in Europe, studying the souths Jim Crow laws for themselves so they could best implement their future aparteid state. Backed up with passport stamps and photographic evidence, Germany's rebuff effectively humiliated American opinion off the world stage.
Not known for learning from their mistakes, America continued doing what it does best, convincing the working class that they're the source of all their problems.
At the same time, the other never reported topic that America leads the world in, was amped up to 11. And that's rewriting history thru domestic propaganda campaigns. America did so well at this, that early in the 21st century it once again tried it's hand on the world's moral stage...
And was quickly reminded by the Chinese, who're deflecting their own allegations of crimes against humanity in their treatment of the Uyghers, that once again America's institutionalized racism, as shown evident thru its prison system, is a "functioning" aparteid state against non-white and poor white Americans, and forged the way, and that China was merely doing what has been shown as acceptable.
...when the rule of law is so corrupted that it's applied unequally, no one, rich or poor, respects the law. Those without the means to defend themselves may fear it, but no one respects it
Prob due to rising costs of rents.
Necessity is the mother(s) of invention
If they pay taxes, they deserve statehood. If not, give them independence.
The age of colonialism is over. No taxation without representation, its kinda what we're all about
The correct answer is
Fuck Pavlov
Motherfucker is like the Hitler of dogs. It's a shame his name is remembered for the conditioning and not the mutilation. Dude was a monster.
Buying from the bins (bulk purchasing) is all I ever do or will do, so beans and pasta, even nuts, are redonk cheap in comparison (thank you WinCo), and we're doubling the size of the vege garden this year. It'll be another year or two until we can make it pretty, but I'll take function over from anyday. I want to can an entire pantry by this time next year.
1/3rd of your life is spent on buying food.
I want that to be as close to zero as possible. I want all my costs to be as close to zero as possible. I fucking hate the despair of not having money.
The farmers market quip was hyperbolic to drive a point, but for reals I have some serious issues and concerns over buying produce that's out of season and not local. Like how apples and oranges are kept in anaerobic environment (prob nitrogen or argon) for 6-12 months before being shipped out, to make sure there's a year supply
Sure, it might be 'fine', but if I have the option to, like right now, buy pomegranates instead of nitrogen-doped pink ladies, I'm going with the seasonal
Only exception to that that I can think of is bananas, cuz Iceland
Some people just don't understand the obvious
That's any food that comes in a box or a bag.
So if you can't afford to shop at the farmers market every other day and buy locally raised and slaughtered meat, you're more likely to get depressed.
Great use of time and money there. 👍
This here is in case you listen to the song, and it sounding like a boss battle just WASNT enough, well, heh, EVERY Lindsey Sterling video looks like a pre-boss battle cut scene lifted from Final Fantasy.
I always expect lasers or explosions to happen at the end, commencing the start of the battle.
....i think my joking about that ruined Lindsey Stirling for my wife.
a guaranteed margin of error in all cars older than 2004
Is there no guarantee from 2005 on? Am I missing a memo here?
People say the market corrects itself all the time and I don't know what to make of it. I too was born of the lie of meritocracy and wild NeoLiberal economic claims and yet all I've ever seen, save for 2 moments in my life, is the market consolidating wealth to the top.
That definition of market correction insinuates the market only works for the rich, so, I mean, if you aren't rich maybe reconsider spreading their propaganda for free. Get paid for your services at the least, they can afford it.
Or, like the article describes, maybe youre one of the chosen ones to own a home, and your "retirement" or future financial security is tied to it, so you've become strong armed, blackmailed, into reinforcing this fucked up status quo.
Regardless, to fix the housing crisis everybody has got to accept that their homes are overinflated in value and need to come back to reality. Everybody has to give something, there is no social change thats not going to require change from everyone. Like...the dialectics make that clear in their own. Government might have to mandate banks renegotiating terms for some housing loans, but so what. Banks are part of the society too, they should also expect to change as well.
The alternative means you choose a heartless meatgrinder of a society. And really, with global inflation, China potentially crashing, the USA potentially crashing, the UK potentially crashing, and BRICS potentially undermining/destroying the value of the dollar well, news flash, no ones retiring.
I don't know how anyone could have that kind of faith in capitalism. A once in a lifetime financial event almost every 5 years now.
Think of how many years it'd take to salary out to 650k, vs finding free shit online and literally sourcing and making every component, from scratch.
I can source together the materials and build a house faster than I could pay for one already built, in this market. Decades sooner.
No one in the 90s could imagine the internet without AOL or Yahoo either, and yet..
Or the great Myspace collapse of 2008. Digg before that. Tumblr most recently.
Big sites go boom fairly often.
Now, watching Google go Boom, that's gonna be like modules breaking loose of the ISS and rez-entering the atmosphere. Drawn out over months, as one wing goes, government breaks up another wing, class action lawsuits bankrupt another wing.
Alphabets circling the drain. And good. Fuck em. Fuck Apple, Fuck Meta, Fuck Amazon, Fuck Reddit.
Just a couple more years now and imma nominate Craig from Craigslist for all the years nobel prizes for officially winning the internet.
Specific niche forums, Craigslist and Wikipedia are the last bits of honestness and fun online. And ymmv with Craigslist people being honest.