Mantergeistmann
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Mantergeistmann
55m ago
new cars costing between $40-$70k
You can get a brand new toyota or honda SUV for under that, to say nothing of a sedan.
Mantergeistmann
1hr ago
So you're saying the meaning has changed enough that the former explanation no longer works, since everyone should be familiar with the more commonly held opinion of it even if the bearer thinks differently?
Mantergeistmann
3hr ago
Iran, maybe, but Hamas has perfected the fine art of "shooting from behind their own children, and then when there's return fire displaying the dead body as Israel's fault."
Mantergeistmann
9hr ago
That reminds me of an old complaint that "the Department of Energy's job shouldn't be to tell people to use less energy, it should be to provide energy".
Mantergeistmann
9hr ago
Your core gameplay is a day-night cycle of inventory management. During the day, business is open and customers come to your counter offering to buy or sell. You want to maximize margins by buying low and selling high. Modifiers are applied based on what a particular customer wants, station-wide economic issues like water shortages, or the five-finger discount of selling stolen goods. During the night, you can go to a few specialty stores, try to scavenge, or recover from previous wounds. At the end of every week you pay rent, which is always going up, so you need to make ever more money to stay afloat.
All I have to say, is, Capitalism, ho!
Mantergeistmann
1d ago
That's either awful luck with the stock picking, or a million dollar index fund portfolio. If it's the latter, I wouldn't be concerned.
Mantergeistmann
1d ago
Market update: hahaha welp.
Mantergeistmann
1d ago
paycheck-to-paycheck
That's one of those metrics that gets thrown around, but is awfully defined. How does it reflect, say, automatic retirement plan contributions? If someone is putting (say) 15% of their salary into a 401k every month, but have basically nothing extra left over in their bank account at the end of each month (because they have a defined budget, and spend on luxuries and vacations everything beyond bills, needs, and retirement savings), is that "paycheck to paycheck"?
Mantergeistmann
1d ago
The survey also states that the "cash-poor" have a significantly lower rate of disability/chronic health issues than the general population (40% vs 75%), and is at odds with data that "the median American has $8,000 in transaction accounts (savings, checking, money market)".
Mantergeistmann
2d ago
If any of the nuclear companies could stop futzing around and get cracking, sure.
Mantergeistmann
2d ago
I guess an Israeli apologist might say that comparing Gaza to Ukraine is an apple to orange comparison in any case
Yes, but not because of anything you said: the nature of the war environment in Gaza & the methods of Hamas are both significant drivers in the amount of civilian casualties.
Mantergeistmann
2d ago
Half of American households dont have $200 in savings,
That's one I'd like to see a bit more detail on, in terms of how it's calculated. There was a while where I didn't have "$200 in savings", having only about $25 in my "savings account", but I instead had about $5k in my checking account (at a similar interest rate but more convenient, same credit union), and a bunch more in a Cash Management Account stored in a MMF. Would I have counted as "not having $200 in savings"?
Mantergeistmann
2d ago
But that’s just not a lot of money to most workers. Like 5-10 a week. It’s copium to say the election swung on a minuscule expense. Gasoline just isn’t a big budget item like it use to be because of fuel efficiency.
It's a visible and ever-changing one, though, in a way that groceries (weekly list might change) or even a daily coffee (which tends to be pretty smooth) isnt. Every day, you drive past the price of gas, and notice when it changes. So it's an obvious sign of "prices are going up" in a way maybe everything else isn't.
Mantergeistmann
2d ago
Big new phone is really addicting and now I have to bring it to work so my screen time is really on the rise.
In hindsight, I really appreciate my former job where I was literally not allowed to have my cell phone with me. It had its annoyances, sure, but for the most part the benefits outweighed it (especially since I had a corporate cell for any emergencies/minimal family texting).
Mantergeistmann
2d ago
In revisiting, apparently not? Hence why I don't even try to time the markets.
Mantergeistmann
2d ago
That's the most predictable thing that could have happened.
Mantergeistmann
2d ago
October was bad for my 401k. But I'm not retiring any time soon regardless of how the markets do. It's a blip, it'll recover.
Sure, I'd have been happier if it happened before my paycheck auto-deposit rather than after, but hey, you win some, you lose some. I'm sure I won't be lucky enough that the markets will stay down until January when my company's stupid "once a year at the end of the year rather than throughout the year" retirement contribution gets deposited.
Mantergeistmann
2d ago
Wasn't Friday a worse drop?
Mantergeistmann
2d ago
Personally? I don't think the Iran war was the wrong decision. Could and should have been prosecuted better, certainly, but I have no objections to the concept. Of course, I also have no objections to the Republican party in general taking a hiding, and Trump specifically, so...
Mantergeistmann
3d ago
As with everything, it depends on the perspective and who's telling the event, doesn't it?
The tall windows that framed the lobby were plastered with people yelling and banging on the glass,” we wrote. “They were trapped. The senators hid under a stairwell, out of view, while the police ordered a city bus to pull up in front of the building. Officers then formed a human wall on the sidewalk, parting the sea of protesters and creating a pathway for the senators to reach the bus.” Once the senators were on board, “the mob on the street began punching the windows and shaking the vehicle. … The police told the senators and staff inside to keep their heads down in case a window shattered.”
Thankfully, no one was killed. But during the course of the occupation, Walker received a steady stream of death threats against him and his wife, including one that promised to “gut her like a deer” and one threatening to kill his sons. Police found dozens of .22-caliber bullets scattered across the Capitol grounds. The occupiers drew chalk outlines of fake dead bodies etched with Walker’s name on the floor, and carried signs that read “Death to tyrants,” “The only good Republican is a dead Republican” and one with picture of him in crosshairs with the words, “Don’t retreat, Reload.”
Mantergeistmann
3d ago
Say we set the definition of “insurrection” at the level of storming the Capitol. Multiple people controlling a location in the hopes of forcing a particular decision. There’s basically zero chance of Democrat voters trying anything like that!
Mantergeistmann
3d ago
I don’t know how you get a religious degree without some genuine faith.
Don't non-denominational schools of theology exist at some universities?
Mantergeistmann
3d ago
Also, maybe don’t make the gnomes working in the bank Jewish stereotypes
Here I thought they were a reference to the Swiss. Personally, I still find it entertaining (and expected) that the most hardcore anti-Rowling folks on the left immediately stopped accusing her of being anti-semitic the moment October 7 happened.
Mantergeistmann
3d ago
Less useful than even a standard anecdote, but I've been seeing a decent chunk of "rumours have it that the Republicans have hacked voting machines to change your vote" posts going around Tumblr.
Never heard of those, but I can definitely appreciate the concept.
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