Working exactly like it’s supposed to under trump.

Thank you for your service. Critical personnel like power and other utilities, medical and the rest that keep the lights on and save lives are undervalued.

Ignorant parents unwilling to monitor their kids or utilize already available tools to aid in preventing access to inappropriate material want devs to do so for them, ushering in a surveillance state.

I can feel this and it’s making me squirm. TIHI.

The NYT did a deep dive on the family finances. The only thing they were brilliant at was grift and dodging taxes. Nothing has changed because of it, they were thieves and liars back then and thieves and liars today. They are also brilliant at obfuscating all their activities, so well played, I guess?

Here: https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/top-five-bombshells-from-new-york-times-expose-on-trump-family-tax-dodging/

I grew up under Old Conservatism. The one that still kinda made sense. The one you could still discuss issues with. They wanted the same things you did, just how you got them was the difference. I guess I was a Conservative, though I definitely remember having early awareness of some of the issues with it. It took some years and a lot of growing up before all the hypocrisy, racism, shitty economic policy, misogyny and all the rest soaked in. Sort of a convergence of my awareness increasing along with the mask coming off of Republicans. My parents are/were rabid republicans; racist, fearful, stingy in that welfare- and homeless-hating way, fine with the violence against peaceful protests, etc. Nothing dissuades from voting Republican.

Thing is, I could actually still be a republican IF they actually did what they said they stood for. Fiscal conservative, keep government out of people’s personal lives, smaller government, “real” christian values, take care of the small towns and little people, etc. But that’s not who they are. The exact opposite of everything they claim to be. Even now the Democrats are republican-lite and too far Right for me, they just give us bread and circuses arguing over rainbow crosswalks while losing every important real policy battle that prevents the slide into fascism.

You think people working at a multibillion dollar grocery chain give a crap about your 14¢ round-up? It’s implied this is not some “family owned” small store.

Do you think anyone keeps grocery receipts at tax time to claim the $5 write off over the year with 30 receipt’s worth of round-ups?

The meme is essentially true. A big corp is asking a nobody who is probably trying to save some cash to give a billion dollar operation money so the Big Corp gets the brownie points for the donation. They don’t give a shit about you other than “Big Grocer & ‘customers’” donate $$$.

The only two points you made that I agree with are “just say no” if you don’t want to, and donate if you like the good feels. Just make sure Big Grocery is donating to a charity that is decent and doesn’t soak up most of the $ in admin costs.

She’s got a big hand herself.

I don’t think you know what a difficult situation that is. Getting rid of things for money is hard, and believe it or not, even donating things can be difficult. If you hire someone they’re going to pick through everything over several days (depending on the amount of stuff) and probably not take much if they have to store it themselves for sale, or charge you for storage rental if it’s a lot, and things don’t sell quickly or maybe not at all. Places taking donations will only accept certain things any more, we know this from personal experience, they only want stuff they know that will sell. Even shelters won’t accept a lot of stuff. So you’re left carting around a (probably rented) truck-full of stuff trying to find anyone that will take it only to wind up bringing a lot back home.

It’s far easier to rent a haul-away waste bin and do a cleanout in a day.

One last option, depending on the country if they allow it or there’s space to do so, is a “curb alert”. Advertise the cleanout on whatever social media or classified ad and state the kind of items available and just put them on the curb for people to take for free. Whatever’s left at the end of the day goes in the bin to be hauled off.

Right? What’d he do? I think his acting has improved with age rather than relying only on his pretty-boy good looks from his earlier films like River or Joe Black.

Edit: I found some issues with his family and divorce, looks like he was a drunk asshole a couple years ago.

FWIW maybe an office job isn’t for everyone. Some people need different challenges and changes of scenery. Some of those jobs may be a bit more blue collar. Things like survey teams, equipment operators, trades, etc. Probably union gigs, too. I couldn’t handle office politics or being trapped either.

Omg… except I call bullshit on the “speed of sound” claim. That would have been the equivalent of being hit by a 30mm round at 700 mph. That person would have been killed immediately.

I wonder if that would actually do damage. I think it would be painful at least.

But one seems to always grant the other. You don’t get just the power, or just the money.

The assumption that I lack knowledge of alternate economic and governing systems and left them unconsidered is as insulting as your smug confidence that any other system is immune to corruption and disparity.

That is the tendency of people. Any system is open to exploitation and greed. The restrictions on growing exploitation are only as good as the humans enforcing them, and people suck. There’s always people trying to force cracks in a system to benefit themselves, and some tribal influences that will allow them to do it.

I disagree. Capitalism can be curbed. The failure is greed on humanity’s part always trying to carve out more for themselves. No system of government or economy has proven otherwise over the long term. They all eventually fail.

E: Lol, downvotes seem to indicate some real confident fools here think they have an alternative all figured out that somehow eliminates what humans have been doing forever.

Respectfully I am not willing to get into this debate. If communism worked, we’d be doing it. Unfortunately so far it seems to have incredibly weak protections against authoritarian takeover despite its overall egalitarian appeal.

E: triggered .ml?

Yeah, corpos pushing products are using ads, but they’re not the ones determining the engagement algorithm that puts the ragebait in front of you.

Capitalism does play a part, but it’s more the lack of hard rules to curb it rather than the economic method itself. You want to make an even broader claim, just say “greed.”