We don’t generally forgive convicts and let them have a new life, that’s why recidivism is so bad. Society is also quietly prejudiced against people with mental health issues, which is why it’s so hard to get treated or get time off for it. “Finding Jesus” is loaded in so many different ways I can’t cover that here.

That said, I’m totally for understanding people can change and am very much against ghost banning people with a history that they have grown out of. People do change, everyone has things they’ve fucked up in the past.

I’d say that’s true. It’s easier to get strength back than it was to get it in the first place. Anecdotally I went to the gym regularly for a long time. It took weeks to add weight increases. I quit because covid, work, etc. Started going again years later and it was far more rapid weight advancement, however it was harder to hit the higher weights I’d done previously. Just getting older, I guess.

When the economy rebounded?

For who did the economy rebound?

Re-do the study and check it against people’s disposable income levels. I’d be willing to bet the “birth bracket” moved to a higher income level thanks to inflation, housing, and food costs among others. Not the smart phone’s fault, it’s an economic problem. The study looked at poverty rates, but government defined poverty rates aren’t the same as the economic hopelessness felt by many even in the middle class.

The rich kid solution. Just SMH when I play against some super-low level player with all the skins and kit that normally take months to acquire - if they can even be earned in the first place, some items are cash only. Usually huge tryhards too with other “skill assists”.

They don’t need this to do that if things go that direction. They can make up whatever they want.

Lost its focus on everything except their job security and their corporate donors. Toss in a few strong words defending rainbow crosswalks to appease the masses.

There’s a lot fewer rich people to kill than there are poor people. Doing the trolley problem on this means the rich people lose.

Busing in more republican voters. Can’t win any other way except to cheat.

I said “the bathroom”. Not “the men’s room”.

Your call.

You can smoke in the bathroom too. Like the cool kids from previous generations did.

Sure. You can do plenty of things that aren’t allowed. By that same argument a millennial could’ve smoked a joint in target 20 years ago. The only difference is the likelihood of a negative outcome.

Being pro-union and having a family member deeply embedded in Labor rights the stories of Blair Mountain, the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory, and the Homestead Strike are all very familiar.

I am always surprised at how few people know of these and other events that changed the lives of the working class. People fought and died for the rights we have today, and wealth is trying to take away or render ineffective as many of those as they can.

History isn’t an arc bent any direction except towards shortsighted greed. It’s human nature. That’s why we face things like the climate crisis or bubbles in financial markets, and it’s a perpetual battle that has no end to try to push that arc the other way.

There are absolutely pro-authoritarian agitators here who feel the need to inject their venomous or smug anti-west rhetoric at any opportunity, just looking to start an argument or push propaganda.

As far as posts about African nations being ignored I’d say that’s par for the course for the West. We’re wildly ignorant about the continent, so much so that we say that someone is “from Africa” while ignoring the 50+ countries that exist there. Our news doesn’t cover it unless we can bomb it or exploit it.

Is there a stone wall under it with a rock that has no business being there?

That’s the world they created. They always took the shortest path to profits, and that path was the one that exploited people the most by giving corporations all the power in the name of making the line go up.

Target doesn’t allow any of that in the stores, so no they can’t do that anymore than someone could light up a cigarette.

That said, millennials didn’t just disappear when pot became legal. They can vape, smoke, dab, or whatever the heck they want right alongside everyone else.

The important thing is that pre-Z gens can appreciate the improvements, whereas Z and after just take it for granted.

Treating this country like everything he’s ever owned: disposable.

If his mouth is moving he’s lying.

Good. Those clowns will trash the index funds that so many depend on for retirement funding if they tank. And AI certainly will, and SpaceX is dependent on the whims of a drug addicted wingnut.

That’s incredible. I hope it happens in my lifetime.