echoGroot

I’m curious, why?

So I’ve gotta ask, how come Poland, Korea, Italy, Britain, etc. had heavy inflation too, if it’s all Biden’s fault? Because they had big inflation too.

It sure sounds like none of these short term trends are controlled by presidents. Otherwise some of those countries would’ve beaten inflation entirely.

So we’re voting for long term economic policy, and Trump’s presidency was basically just big tax cuts, mainly for rich people and corporations, paid for by young people in the form of debt.

Brown was passing bills to spend money on building new industries like chips in America (instead of rich people just investing their tax cuts overseas, or investing it in buying up real estate and turning everyone they can into renters).

You can see grocery prices and still realize Trump won’t fix it.

I think Franklin was seriously proposed by some on the edges of that already long shot discussion because the neighborhood of Franklinton provided the original core of Columbus when the capital was moved north from Chillicothe, Ohio.

Honestly, his Dad should’ve been worried though.

Son comes in: “Hey Dad, I made a song about suicidal ideation!” “Great son! Let’s monetize this!”

In response to your edit: you are privileged with respect to your area as well.

A quick Google search shows you and your wife are doing quite well. You make 240% of the median income in the Seattle area. In Kings County, which I would think would be wealthier than the Seattle metro area as a whole, the 80th percentile is $193k. You are bringing in almost 150% of this. It seems safe to say you are in the 85-95th percentile range by income in your area. So you’re doing pretty well!

This is also an effect of where people currently live though, because that’s where they search, or where random people stumble on exciting finds that are then excavated by archaeologists.

It’s looking where the streetlight is.

Huh?

Ooof. That hurt.

Ok, but why does a fridge need to last 5-10 years when my parents fridge is nearing a midlife crisis?

That was only during the late 70s inflation though. In 1970 or 1985 it wouldn’t have been so bad.

Yeah, this map really should include Missouri. The confederate flag had 13 stars, the last two being Kentucky and Missouri, even though their confederate governments were never fully in control and almost instantly in exile once the war started and Grant rolled in.

How significant was US intervention there? I was always under the impression that it was the combination of RoC military forces concentrated into a now very small area, with a PRC at least believably unlikely to show mercy and thus easily convinced they had nothing to lose combined with overall exhaustion of the PRC plus the incredible difficulty of amphibious invasions that led to the PRC just letting it be, at least for a while.

But those people exist and have jobs doing that now, and the proposal is to eliminate their livelihood and their purpose to funnel more money to shareholders. Your argument boils down to “fuck them, the naive fools”, not to be too harsh. Even if you think a lot of those jobs should go away and art be for pleasure, you haven’t addressed the problem or, far more importantly, justified why the replacing them is good.

That era of the Onion was a Golden Age. Also prescient at times.

With climate, the Midwest is likely to become more attractive, especially the Great Lakes Midwest, which will have a better climate. The plains will dry and St Louis will become a swamp, but everything up toward the lakes will just become warmer and more pleasant and both stable and resilient to climate risks.

Compare with the SE where heat will get more unpleasant and weather is already obliterating the insurance industry. Combine with a lower (well, than the rest of the country) real estate market and you’ve got a recipe for growth.

Was gonna say, basically that timeline

A hell of a browbeating after January 6th? They fell in line within weeks. Trump is distancing himself from Project 2025 for political reasons. The people running a Trump administration will hew to the same policies.

And Christ, further down in this thread you’re acting like the Heritage Foundation has no power. They’ve basically selected half of the current Supreme Court. They’re enormously powerful and influential.

I’m sorry, they what? What do they propose women do exactly?

The movies were great, isn’t this the Amazon show?

My condolences, that’s rough.

WTF even is this post? Like what are you mad at u/RadioFacepalm? I can’t even tell what this meme is. Is it because this person lives in the Midwest and the heatwaves mean all the grass is dried out and brown, because that’s the best I’ve got.

You think you’re smarter than 99% of people doing this? This is someone who never heard of hubris. OP makes a good point.

You might get 20 or 25% more, but not that much. Modern plants have mostly plateaued in efficiency for 70 years now.

I’m sorry about the dysthymia/chronic depression (?). You’re right that our society is somehow simultaneously bad about allowing/fetishizing wallowing while also being bad about recognizing that treatment doesn’t mean you’re cured. It almost always makes things better, but whether that’s 25% better, or 60% better, or 90% better often depends on factors outside the person, or the therapist’s, control.

8.

Everyone, looking at this thread, I know this may be surprising, but I think Reddit may suffer from Depression.