If you're born rich it doesn't matter what color you are. The difference is probably being born middle class and white, that's probably where you reap the most benefit from systemic racism. Being born poor, doesn't matter, the cards are forever stacked against you.

I think there's a suggestion we start teaching it. I'm 37, but there were idiots who didn't understand credit cards when I was 18, and there's just as many now, and there were just as many in 1995. I think this response thread here was meant to say yes, understanding the system is fucked, even if we come out on the other side with a functional economy, people still need to learn some personal responsibility when it comes to spending.

It's a slippery slope between saying something ironically and having it become part of your lexicon.

I keep mine at 145, because I fear legionella.

That's how it is for me in the summer, and Jersey ain't exactly tropical. But it's kinda nice being able to just turn on the shower and get in. The cold water is likecold in the summers, and it's usually humid, so a shower with no hot water ends up very refreshing.

Did the same for our cat, minus the meal, because she couldn't eat. She hated trips to the vet, and it was honestly easier on both of us not having to go somewhere, and getting to be at home. Will do it again for the next cat, unless he just disappears one day.

They already hand out 3k a year for kids, up to 6k, as well as up to 5k in credits available based on how much you spend and your income level. And I live in Jersey, where everything is expensive, and we were ranked fifth most expensive place to have kids in daycare, and even with two kids in I didn't pay 40k. Not sure we even cracked 30k, but it was probably close.

EDIT: Info is dated, good thing I have an accountant. Looks like it's 2k per kid, and the 3/6k is for dependent care credits, which applies from 35% to 20% based on your tax bracket (goes down the more you make).

It used to be so much more Linux, but replacing that with politically charged statements parading as memes isn't a much better alternative. My two least favorite parts of Lemmy are how every conversation is somehow just one degree of separation from Linux or Nazis. Meme about dogs? Now the conversation is about genocide.

You know, it should be obvious, but until you brought it up here, I was guilty of thinking of it as just some colloquialism (which it very well may be). But if you think of the suffix -oid, taking "humanoid" for example, you get something that isn't presenting itself as a human. But I didn't come to that conclusion, I just was like, wow, they bop the Pope with a hammer.

So thanks.

Same. Not even sure what we're talking about, but same.

You've hit the nail on the head, and I sit and have this and other similar conversations with my brother, and they always boil down to change. And it's a devil you know kind of argument, but the devil we know (establishment politics) has whittled away at the middle class consistently since it's explosion in the 1950s. And it's more than just policy, but down more to things like interpretation of the constitution and separation of powers.

And so we are in for a wild ride, and the smart thing for Democrats to do would be to put up their own candidate who stands to be the antithesis of Trump, and not this amalgamation of populist ideals, but a platform for change across the board. I like AOC for that, but we won't get that. We will get another establishment Democrat who tries to run on the same policies they just lost on, or whose platform is blanket undoing of Trump policy. The Democrats need to not be an anti-Trump party and instead be an actual progressive party.

Yes, eat some billionaires, and then give everyone left a choice: Glorious Revolution or French Revolution.

You've nailed my languages:

Por favor (you'll see this later)

Bitte (had to check the spelling, but I knew how to say it)

S'il vous plait

Pleeeeeeeeeease

Por favor

I dunno about Japanese.

I can also say it in sign language.

For reference, I am a 37 year old dude from Jersey. I took French in middle and high school (we got to go to Quebec in the eighth grade because someone thought that was a good idea). We have large spanish and Portuguese speaking populations, and my mom's stepmother was also from Cuba, so we got some lessons early on. My high school girlfriend did the German thing so I picked up a little (ich haba einen bruder). Wife speaks pretty fluent sign language. Can also say Kurwa, but that's neither please nor thank you.

Half the comments on any given post are a reproduction of some memeified response.

Piqued your interest.

Appreciate the share, because I can't see something like this and not want to hear it play G.

Yes, he knows when I'm in that deep sleep like 30-60m before my alarm goes off, so that when I give him the boot I don't have enough time to go back to bed for any meaningful sleep.

The northeast corridor has a lot of this. It's rural America that's (probably) not.

I live in Jersey, and mixed use is very big just about everywhere (not including South Jersey, I don't know anything about South Jersey). The idea of a walkable downtown made a very big comeback in the last decade or so.

I see mixed-use zones in most of the towns in NJ, where a chunk of the work I do is in land use. I am assuming it must be different outside of NJ, because this is certainly not the first time I've heard this criticism of zoning.

The Busy World of Richard Scarry. To me two looks at Dick Scarry, not sure anyone's ever referred to him that way until this meme.