That sucks the first time.
But you get over it.

I have 15 identical black t-shirts.
When somone asks, “Do you only have one shirt?”
I reply “Yah! It’s so comfortable I got 15 of them!”

As an X-ray tech, I’m disappointed there isn’t a single image.
It would be worth 50k words to see just one image this makes.

What’s the answer to Life the Universe and Everything?
Or How many roads must a man walk down?

It’s too vague. So is the answer.

By their definition I love having and keeping a job. That doesn’t sound right to me.

“One death is too many!”

The second death:
“Fuckit. Whatever. It’s hopeless.”

Agreed.
Alternative app stores aren’t sideloading.

Not a Samsung. A Redmagic 10Pro.
More refering to Silicon Carbon generally.

I didn’t realise that. I just assumed I guess.

Mine’s been working great for nearly 2 years now. 👍

That sounds like fun!
Still cold as hell.

Barter, gift economy, whatever you call the direct trade of goods, is the alternative to money. And it only works in small local groups, where everyone knows who to trust and who not to.

Money looong predated capitalism. Every society that grew beyond a few hundred people eventually starts using some form of money. Acient Mesopotamia had actual accountants who tracked money and goods more than 5000 years ago.

Real wage growth was still negligible under Biden.
People don’t notice low single diget percentage changes.

But that’s not even important. Biden, Harris, the Democrats generally, were shit at selling to the public all the good things he did. They couldn’t point their finger at a real problem and explain how they’d solve it, because the real problem is their donors.

The best thing he did was appoint Lina Khan. And Harris was dogged by the donor class during the campaign to get rid of her. That’s the problem.

If things go back to a barter system, it’s already over.
Society has collapsed. Billions have died.

Where do you think the upper middle is?

It’s your entry level doctor or lawyer. Your average engineer or licensed construction worker. People making ~$120k/year. They aren’t the problem, and they’re already the most taxed people we have.

Don’t lump them in with the CEOs making 400x what their median employee gets. We need them on our side.

They’re closer to us, than them. The difference between 120 and 40 is 80. The difference between 120 and 1000 is 880. 11 times as far.

This is definitely mostly true.
It does breakdown some when every new deck has the same starting order, and people frequently shuffle poorly. Those 52! possibilities shrink massively.

The upper middle class already pays too much in taxes. They’re ones paying ~40%.

It’s the wealthiest 0.01% who’re only paying a tiny fraction of that. They’re the ones who need to be taxed more. They’re the “Donor Class” who drop $20-100k on political donations each cycle. Which of course is another tax deduction for them to take advantage of.

People aren’t that simple.
Some are. But not 35%.

When people look at their life and the world they’re in and see it’s all fucked, they want somone to do something about it. Trump points to immigrants, saying it’s their fault everything’s fucked, and he’ll do whatever it takesto fix it. While Harris and the Democrats say most things are fine. In a crisis, people will vote for anyone who promises to do something, when there’s nobody else offering a counter proposal.

If the Democrats had a decent candidate who was willing acknowledge how bad things are, and to truly talk about how to fix things for the average person. It would be stunning how small Trumps polling would get.

She lost to a convicted felon and rapist.
Why would she even try again?

Isn’t this just news, rather than TIL?
Maybe I’m wrong

Not even.
I can make a fake screenshot that says anything I want.
Links to the source should be required.