Where I live, that would be a ludicrous income, definitely comfortable money.

In California, that would be a lower-middle-class-maybe-i-own-my-home-if-i-bought-early mind of an income. Our regions are so different in cost of living that these kinds of numbers can get funny/confusing

How many times have multiple billion-dollar businesses had a fleet of RC planes at their disposal?

We're all in uncharted waters here. And if the people responsible for ensuring an environmental disaster doesn't strike after a train derails can't be trusted to protect the environment or accurately disclose shipments, I don't have faith the #1 food stamps employer is going to be much more scrupulous with their transportation safety.

I know my height, didn't know it in metric, remembered the conversion incorrectly, posted that. Hope that helps clear up the confusion

I got my education in a rural town of a backwoods region. They had a drive your tractor to school day. A lot of kids took the first day of bow or gun deer hunting off. I also don't think he had a yardstick, this wasn't a math class and so he had no business talking about units of measurement.

No, and I do not agree with the above poster, but we're aided in that most of our forms are in both English and Spanish, the two most common native tongues of people who live here.

Again, if the whole district could be marketed to the same exact way, you'd be right.

You would be correct. I'm not 8ft, just tired and lacking attention span to do basic math. Thank you for the correction

No no, I wasn't trolling, just stupid and on lunch and somehow remembered a teacher laying two foot-long rules down and saying it was a meter

Ignore me, about 2 meters total. 6 feet and 5 inches

Man gave his height in meters and his weight in kg unprompted, we just don't do that in America.

I'm the American (and yeah, the portion looks small, but I'm 2.43m and 120kg)

Someone gets outspent by a factor of 7, and you think the most likely reason is the candidate? I don't know man, I think you're not applying Occam's* Razor appropriately.

No I agree, but he seemed keen to try and bring up facts, wanted to be sure we had receipts just in case.

Look up public television viewership numbers based on income, ask me whether or not the Bronx WATCHED Latimer's commercials, or even saw them.

Hidayati, N., Kartikowati, S., & Gimin, G. (2021). The influence of income level, financial literature, and social media use on teachers consumption behavior. Journal of Educational Sciences, 5(3), 479-490.

In case you needed a source

I'm saying people in the suburbs seem more adept at picking up garbage takes

But more pointedly, suburban households are more likely to purchase cable television packages or engage in live TV coverage, where a majority of that spending took the form of advertisements.

That's not how that works, different communities consume different forms of media and at different rates.

I think we're still missing the mark because it's tax payer money.

Rip immunity from that fucker and let it come out of his pension (if he's got one) or garnish his wages like everybody else.

Spending. I think his outreach was unable to beat the advertisements paid for by his opposition, in part due to the absolutely bonkers investment from the AIPAC. So, that's my answer

Yeah we just found out (we as a city knew, just without confirmation) who the 'mystery' business is that's building a server farm on the outskirts of city limits. And they've got a 10 year tax break from the city on the land.

I'll turn my AC down when google turns their Power Plans to Eco for those servers

For the most part, all anti virus software I've found that is pretty "mainstream" are bad or have backdoors built for bad people.

Macafee -absolute Spyware, delete it Kaspersky - Russian ties apparently - but I don't believe reports from Just the US, and they've been pretty integral to the security space for businesses for years. I'm not sold on them being 'bad' yet. Norton - not malware, but not good and going the Macafee route

I hear good things about BitDefender, and Windows Defender is mostly good enough for the average person + an adblocker and you're good to go.

I don't refute that there's far too much callous cruelty in the production of meat products. I hope there's a greater push to, at the very least, reduce the suffering to as minimal as possible for the duration of the animals' lives. I worked on farms growing up, but never factory farms or anything larger than 20-30 cows and flecks of sheep or a barn of egg-laying hens, but the cruelty of factory farms and the shit stained floors and the breeding cages and the systemic abuse, it's all on another level far above what I'd consider humane.

Unfortunately, I grew up and had to work on farms, both parents worked separate shifts to have no babysitters best they can, and whatever was cheapest or easiest to shove in our guts is what we were fed. I will attest to the 'brain washing' element through the everyday normalcy of buying the cheapest frozen bag of gigantic chicken breasts, but that's also all my mother and father could afford to feed us, and we didn't live in a location that had many options for grocery stores (a 'local owned' kroger/owens, and a Walmart if you drove another 15-20 minutes the other way). I definitely think, if they had had the training or information or the time and cash, they'd have fed us better meals (I don't think either of my parents know a single vegan friendly dish).

All of that to say, myself and many other people were living in conditions incongruous with the forethought and planning necessary to even attempt veganism. The few vegan locations I was able to find when I went to college were terrible, the food wasn't good, or at least I didn't like any of it. I've had good vegan dishes, but I have to make them, every single one, or I stomach food I don't enjoy. I can live on apples for lunches, I've gone many a day eating throw-together salads, I meal prep grains and veggies each week so that a majority of my meals are already set. But I want meat dishes sometimes. And until there's a more affordable way to get lab grown meat, the only way I can dive deep into a MASSIVE section of the culinary arts, is through engaging in capitalism that supports a horrific industry.

In fact, I can't eat my bananas without inadvertently funding the violent private militias enlisted to put down dissent among the local farmers. My wife has to buy all of her beans through a local seller who supposedly employs previously indentured coffee bean pickers and gives them a fair rate, but surely she can't only drink coffee she's made from home, so we'll try local places (boycotting Starbucks still, options very limited) and not all of those places buy from that bean seller so it's not all confirmed ethical. The list is exhaustive, and so my minor attribution to the slaughter or those animals is, to me, the same contribution I make to the military juntas who ensured I could buy a banana, and the same as the polluting of the rivers for any manufacturing process or project. Although not worthless, I do value human life above animal life, and so dealing with those internal struggles and questions and navigating where best to purchase fabrics because of the indigo staining children's hands who wash jeans, to me, are all above the suffering of animals, the sheer number of those animals (the 90 billion figure) does not hold any weight, to me, when comparing the two. So I am just as culpable, to myself, for engaging in those other acts of violence through capitalism, as I am for engaging in eating meat.

So, I try to buy less bananas and less fruits out of season that aren't grown locally wherever possible, but I will eat at dairy queen and order a banana split. I reduce the total red meat in my diet because I want to impact the problem where I can, but I do like the taste and I don't believe that consumption of another animal is wrong, so a dozen cows over my lifetime will bother me morally as much as driving my gas car (I'd do electric, but I couldn't afford it the 8 or so years ago I bought the car), which is to say, I don't love it, but I won't lose sleep over it.