Awwww, that sounds almost magical to have watched, really glad for all of you.

I live to apologize to her.

I’ll see if I can make it work sometime.

Glad it made you smile! Also glad I’m not the only one who gets reprimanded for laying out an arm incorrectly!

His whole plan was to avoid jail, I don’t think he gives a damn what happens next beyond his own enrichment.

I can’t speak for OP but personally, I want to help as many small lil communities as I can as I think that’s the best way to expand.

As far as I understand it, that system is also why our eggs still cost normal amounts. (If a farm has to cull their birds because of avian flu, it’s not millions of chickens.)

I think the UK at least has talked about putting troops on the ground as part of a peace deal which is huge.

As so many have said, amazing work, thanks for sharing! I’ve saved this for future reference, may look into the scratching the post for my elderly lady.

Physically, most of us are way weaker and in worse physical shape. (Look at old time photos for far people, or sideshow people labelled as “world’s fattest man” who would not raise an eyebrow lumbering through walmart these days.) I wonder how the balance of more manual work vs our sedentary and fatty lifestyles would play out.

I also think folks were more ready to die or get hurt as that’s just how things happened, so probably more willing to be beaten as part of a strike etc.

I have no idea what point you’re trying to make other than, I dunno, some crazy shit like everyone who disagrees with you is a Zionist or something?

But I stand by that post, if you voted for a third party, you helped trump. If you’re trying to wrap your stupidity around the plight of the Palestineans you either aren’t following the news or never really cared about them in the first place.

I get that this is probably the first humanitarian crisis you’ve seen on social media and pretended to care about but as you grow up, hopefully you’ll realize there are sometimes unfortunate restrictions around your choices. While I would have loved a better option than the Dems, the choice was them or trump. If you voted third party, you helped put an administration that is absolutely hostile to them and worse than what would’ve been the case otherwise.

Sorry if reality sucks but whining about it like a petulant child isn’t going to change it or rally others to your cause.

Ahahaha, “As long as you’re respectful one can disagree.” And a paragraph later “hey, this guy pointed out trump would be worse for Palestineans that means he is down with genoicde!!!”

Could you prove my point much harder?

I think on the Left we have a “virtuous” cycle/feedback loop that results in increasingly outlandish positions.

Essentially, for most people there’s a serotonin feedback when people upvote, applaud, reteeet etc. People, responding to incentives like anyone else shift their online discourse to match.

Similarly, even beyond the positive feedback, on thr Left no one wants to be a white cis male contradicting the feelings, emotions or arguments of a POC or LGBTQ+ person.

The Right doesn’t really have this problem as the Far right opinions are generally understood to be reprehensible to most people so those movements have evolved to work on dog whistles etc.

It’s a structural issue but one that puts us out of touch with the mainstream (consider defund the police, transgender athletes or immigration until we were getting murdered in the polls and it was too late to do anything.)

Thank fuck social media wasn’t around when I was a weird 10 year old.

Absolutely! And in fact, pretty good time to do so. A lot of ppl are transitioning from school to work at your age, so finding new interesting friends etc.

That being said, making and nurturing friends is work and you may be a bit out of practice. No worries, just be ready to feel a bit out of your depth or nervous at times, knowing is half the battle. Plus, I think your cohort/age group are way more open with talking about enotional intelligence and friendship and the awkwardness of making new friends, which is super helpful.

Probably not the right answer on Lemmy but Ford to Marx is pretty damned brutal:

“f you’d saved a penny for each daughter you named Jenny You might not have needed to bury quite so many”

(Among Marx’s retorts, I love “you were worse for Michigan than Flint’s water pipes”

I really love this answer.

Oh, a 10% drop is not super concerning. It’s more “what happens next.” The magnificent 7 have gone through the roof in terms of valuation since 2022… should those come back to Earth abruptly, it’s not just tech bros who suffer.

Sure but that doesn’t help the people who trusted their pensions would be safe.

… Also bad for some people with 401ks and similar retirement funds.

A lot of of families unable to hire bespoke financial advice put their savings into traditionally safer index funds like the S&P500 which have been increasingly weighted towards those companies.

Those lost trillions of dollars of value represent a lot of lo “retail” that is to say, not particularly wealthy, investors. Also a fair number of pension funds are probably similarly exposed, think teachers, nurses etc.