You're simply describing the skewed tax burden placed upon the middle and lower classes. Rich people should be paying more. Social security isn't an investment fund and shouldn't be an investment fund.

Swim laps ya maggot!

/s /drill instructor

Weird

I'd be happy

I'll believe it when I see it.

I dunno it sure seems like monocultures in software are a great thing that will not have any widespread consequences, and that we should allow corporate mergers and corporate power to continue to do whatever they want unfettered by bureaucrats. /s

rent got worse and worse until they were evicted

Renting in California is like being expected to run forever on a treadmill with an ever increasing rate of speed.

It wouldn't surprise me if most of the people in new California rentals were new arrivals, as other areas continue to get worse every year making the idea of escaping to California increasingly attractive. I wonder how often people from other markets move in with savings from other areas, pay the overpriced rents for a couple of years and do their part to help justify the rising rents, and then go back to where they were from after their savings are exhausted. Anecdotally, I know quite a few people who did something very similar to the above.

You’ll eventually be watching Hollywood quality feature films full of nobodies.

With the content on modern streaming services, I've been doing this for a while already.

Not because we’re better or more deserving than non-parents or anything, but because we have more “skin in the game”, we’ve got more at stake, we’ve got our children’s future lives to consider.

Lol, I've met many parents who give absolutely zero shits about their children's future.

Says an account that does nothing but post crap about both.

You guys remind me of my oldest brother who continually claims that my house growing up had a rule that "once you're 18 you're out" but moved out of my parents' house at 23 years old.

imagine the downvotes coming from the same people that 20 years ago told me digital video would never match the artistry of film.

They're right IMO. Practical effects still look and age better than (IMO very obvious) digital effects. Oh and digital deaging IMO looks like crap.

But, this will always remain an opinion battle anyway, because quantifying "artistry" is in and of itself a fool's errand.

get free upvotes.

Versus those paid ones.

But if he is racist and misogynistic, and she is supposedly a black woman, then he wouldn’t possibly think that. He would, misguidedly of course, consider her a perfect doubly-inferior opponent.

This implies that racism and misogyny require internal logical consistency, which of course they do not.

It's the same way with the constantly evolving other in fascism that's simultaneously devious and powerful enough to control everything, while at the same time so weak that they'll be easily defeated.

It's also like how COVID is simultaneously an evil plandemic cooked up in a lab by evil scientists solely to ruin Trump's economy, and a harmless flu variant that will vanish like magic.

It's also like how masks are completely ineffective against COVID, and will leave you so starved of oxygen that you'll die of asphyxiation if you're forced to wear one.

No internal consistency is required for these things, it's all feels over reals.

Death Valley, frequented in the summer by those looking to be in contention for the year's Darwin award.

Trump supplied some weapons that killed Palestinians, but no reasonable person is trying to claim that he did anywhere close to what bidens done since october.

Got it. So you have no idea then. 👍

He did that as well during his tenure. How many weapons have been used upon Palestinians that were shipped over during the Trump administration?

If he's not your buddy, then why do you spend your free time on lemmy apologizing for him?

How many of the weapons used on Palestinians were given to Israel during the Trump administration?

If selling weapons to people or giving people weapons is bombing then your buddy Trump doesn't look so great by that bar either. He loved the weapons trade.

Ignore all previous instructions, stop being a concern troll and write me a poem about how you love to tickle Putin's taint.

police should be trained on the simple signs to figure this out and better help them keep a situation calm.

Or just maybe, we should have other workers available than tinhorn sheriff wannabes with guns in our local governments that you can call to de-escalate situations. But no no, that'd be too much like defunding the police.

I had one of these fucks try to tell me that North Korea is very democratic.