with the lobster industry. One of the frustrating (or amusing if I'm feeling mean) things is watching several "red" states (e.g. they vote GOP, the party currently calling Climate Change a hoax) clearly impacted. Florida had a huge problem with red tide this year. If it keeps getting worse it'll kill their tourist industry. Meanwhile the SEC filings, where mega corps aren't allowed to lie, are chock full of lines about the negative impacts of climate change.
I'm not necessarily blaming the rank and file though. Most of the Dems don't really have a solution besides "consume less", which would be great if a) the vast majority of pollution was from consumers and not the companies they buy from and b) folks weren't living paycheck to paycheck so on edge they're terrified of any change. A few lefties like Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez have suggested a "Green New Deal" to address this, but the Clinton Democrats (the right wing of the party) don't want to tax their wealthy donors to pay for it all.
So the result is this, we're all going to hell in a handbasket and just pretending it's not happening.
which is why the average price of a home is north of $200k but Median income's around $67k/yr.
Residents don't care about property values. In fact they hate that their homes are "worth" $2M (more like $500k actually) because they can't afford the property taxes and they get forced out of the neighborhoods they spent their lives in.
Nobody really wants to live in a high density multi-story building for very long. I don't think humans are wired for that. You can do that in your early to mid 20s, but when you decide you want kids it's not gonna fly. We're used to having open space. Kids need a place to play. With proper transportation and building that's not really necessary either. But it means more highways, more roads and more infrastructure spending, and that means taxes on the ultra wealthy. It means putting an end to the wealth inequality that's as bad as it was in the 20s now. It means taking all that absurd power the 1%ers have away from them.
The question is, are guys like you gonna like the 1%ers have unlimited power, becoming the new kings? That seems to be the case. I'm not sure why you're doing it, I think you're just "kicking down", e.g. looking down on folks below your social standing to feel better about yourself. There's a saying I've heard before: if nobody's poor then nobody's rich. Thing is, that's an emotional thing, that desire to feel wealthy in the sense that you have more than other folks. It's being exploited to keep working class Americans at each other's throats. It's biting you in the ass. You're having everything taken away from you gradually and that's how the 1%ers are getting away with it. You might die before the worst of it happens (e.g. "I got mine, fuck you" school of economics) but if you're under 55 you won't. Nows the time to stop screwing around and shitting on the poor to make yourself feel better short term and actually solve the problems in your life and mine.
Demand better. Demand a decent life for all Americans. Demand guarantees of that decent life. Remember: you can tell how good a society is by how it treats it's least members.
you need the land graded, roads built, water, gas and electric lines run. You need police and fire departments. In otherwords, infrastructure. That's not billions, that's trillions of dollars in land development that was all done on the gov't's dime.
Zoning regulations are a red herring. The rich got tired of paying for working class Americans to have decent homes. The only reason they had to for a time was post WWII the working class, having just got back from fighting a war, had gained a sense of entitlement. They felt owed something. Also a _lot_ of working age men died in that war, meaning labor shortages. So for a time they were better treated. Those times have passed, and we're back to where we were in the 1920s. Better tech at food production and a few depression era policies (social security & medicare, food stamps, etc) have masked some of that, but even those are under siege.
What I don't get is why is it that confronting all this reality makes Americans so damned uncomfortable? It's not like anyone's gonna tax you to to the max. Odds are you're living paycheck to paycheck like the rest of Americans, and even if you've got a bit of savings it's not enough to matter. When it comes to raising taxes to pay for social programs it's the top 5% who would be the targets. And it's not like they'd lose much in the way of standard of living, what they're really lose is _power_.
That's what you're defending when you post stuff like you did: a group of ultra-wealthy power mongers who's wealth has ceased being material and become raw power.
you buy dry food in bulk and put them down if they get sick. Also, if you're a 63 year old woman living in a trailer you need a lot of dogs for protection. She could ditch every one of those dogs and wouldn't have the extra $2k/mo it takes to rent a tiny, dumpy apartment.
And what's with all the non-stop poor shaming? Is this supposed to make you feel better about abandoning these folks to their miserable fate? Does it? Somewhere in the back of your mind it's gnawing on you, how you're letting fellow Americans live like shit. The Americans who do work you want done.
Bottom line, You want those people to live near where you are so they can cook, clean and fix your plumbing but you'll be damned if you want to pay for them to have an OK life. When people bitch about "gentrification" that's what they're talking about. You know that's messed up, so you do crap like this to try and convince yourself it's their choice. Gives you an out, but like I said, it gnaws on you, doesn't it?
and prep land for developers. That's the expensive part of building homes, not throwing up a frame and some wiring/plumbing around it. Folks don't realize how heavily the US Government subsidized their lives in the 50s, 60s and 70s. The just took all that for granted. Land developers sure as hell aren't going to pay to get that land ready themselves, and since the government ain't paying anymore it's just not getting done. The result is massive housing shortages in a lot of places.
and not median. I suspect the numbers are heavily cooked. I make good money in IT and I don't spend my evenings at McDonalds. Yet we know for a fact many teachers in Kansas are doing just that. Too many for it to be the occasional workaholic.
I know that in my neck of the woods schools in wealthy neighborhoods have much, much better pay. That's because schools are funded by property taxes, so wealthy districts have wealthy schools. That would, of course, screw up the averages. I can't find any sources for the $44k and $56k figures being but I wouldn't be surprised to find University research professors mixed in there with their $100k+ salaries. Again, anything to inflate the average.
Doing music on one. And there's a vibrant homebrew game scene. A lot of little indies find it easier to write for old computers than to compete on Steam with the 900,000+ asset flips out there.
are all the white supremacists finding out they're made up of 30-40% some kind of dark skinned folks they've decided to hate. It's been a bit of a problem in their community since a sizable chunk of their leadership's been forced out by it. Gotta love the way science chips away at all the old crap our species has put up with.
you pass the full pop for everything, it usually adds about 20% to your bill. My bro hates shopping so he looked into it and that's why he still shops. It woulda been around $150/mo to get his groceries delivered.
on hardware that their users aren't likely to have. If you want software that tightly written you can have it on an old Amiga or a Mac from mid 1992 or so. There's a vibrant community writing software for the old things. But you'll give up stuff like video playback and complex interfaces inside webpages. Maybe you want that, but most folks don't. And if you do, well, it's out there, just don't expect all of us to follow you.
UPS and FedEx will stop leaving them. I've had this happen to buddies in bad neighborhoods and it sucks. Everytime you get a packge you've got to drive on down to the main depot to pick it up, and that's usually out in the middle of nowhere.
Then again with recent laws regarding EULAs and arbitration (which have been upheld by the Supreme Court on the grounds that, well, it's a law) I'm not sure you can sue for this kind of thing anymore.
Universities aren't for job training. You're thinking of Community College. Universities exist to teach fundamentals of science. When you graduate then your employer gives you specific job training.
Oh, you mean "How Do Universities Prepare Graduates For Jobs so employers don't have to pay for industry specific training anymore?". Sorry, you can see why I'd get confused....
(Bitter as hell because I'm paying for $32/k for 2 years of Nursing school for my kid that's basically on the job training that you used to get paid for, but fat lot of good I can do about it in this hyper-competitive job market).
a. Not having consistent access to basics required for a decent human life (Food, shelter, education, healthcare & transportation).
b. Being able to be forced to do things you don't want to do because you don't have access to those things (join the military, sell drugs, prostitution, work a job you hate that's also dangerous, etc, etc).
Poverty is when you don't have enough resources to live a good life and that others with access to those resources can force you to do as they say. That's poverty.
because the cost is baked into my rent. You do know your landlord isn't doing that out of the goodness of his/her heart, right? Donald Trump rather famously used maintenance as an excuse to jack up rates and increase profits.
to create a new boogie man now that the blacks are becoming less and less effective. Without laws to stop it races mix and folks mellow out and you can no longer use race to divide the working class. Religion's on the decline in America too so that's petering out. The ruling class need something to keep us at each other's throats so we don't demand better pay and healthcare. It's always the same patter, what amazes and depresses me is that nobody really talks about it much outside of the occasional lefty complaining about the Southern Strategy or Dog Whistles or the real reason all those "confederate" monuments were erected in the 60s and 70s.
it's not too hard, but you do get some crazy bullshit from folks who do 3-5 anti-SJW videos a week. There's a guy named "Cult of Dusty" on Youtube who calls that phenomenon "peak blue haired college girl" where there's not enough dumb blue haired college girls saying dumb shit on camera to feed the machine so you get crap like a gag story about Rodolph the Red Nose Reindeer being about social justice being picked up by the anti-SJW community when the original story was posted to make fun of how the anti-SJW community will jump on anything. It's Poe's Law in action...
none of this is new. They were doing this crap via IRC when I was a lad. The encryption isn't very useful since you still need to advertise the crap for trading and there's plenty of honey pots out there to catch these sickos.
This is just more bullshit fear mongering narrative from the "ban encryption" crowd.
they come in "official" Sony packaging and are sold as new. I use them on my PC and the current drivers (a package called "SCP Toolkit") can spot them in software, but once you have them in your hand it's pretty obvious. The Analog sticks don't perfectly center. It doesn't hurt the gameplay (at least not that a scrub like me can tell) but it's an eye sore.
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with the lobster industry. One of the frustrating (or amusing if I'm feeling mean) things is watching several "red" states (e.g. they vote GOP, the party currently calling Climate Change a hoax) clearly impacted. Florida had a huge problem with red tide this year. If it keeps getting worse it'll kill their tourist industry. Meanwhile the SEC filings, where mega corps aren't allowed to lie, are chock full of lines about the negative impacts of climate change.
I'm not necessarily blaming the rank and file though. Most of the Dems don't really have a solution besides "consume less", which would be great if a) the vast majority of pollution was from consumers and not the companies they buy from and b) folks weren't living paycheck to paycheck so on edge they're terrified of any change. A few lefties like Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez have suggested a "Green New Deal" to address this, but the Clinton Democrats (the right wing of the party) don't want to tax their wealthy donors to pay for it all.
So the result is this, we're all going to hell in a handbasket and just pretending it's not happening.
which is why the average price of a home is north of $200k but Median income's around $67k/yr.
Residents don't care about property values. In fact they hate that their homes are "worth" $2M (more like $500k actually) because they can't afford the property taxes and they get forced out of the neighborhoods they spent their lives in.
Nobody really wants to live in a high density multi-story building for very long. I don't think humans are wired for that. You can do that in your early to mid 20s, but when you decide you want kids it's not gonna fly. We're used to having open space. Kids need a place to play. With proper transportation and building that's not really necessary either. But it means more highways, more roads and more infrastructure spending, and that means taxes on the ultra wealthy. It means putting an end to the wealth inequality that's as bad as it was in the 20s now. It means taking all that absurd power the 1%ers have away from them.
The question is, are guys like you gonna like the 1%ers have unlimited power, becoming the new kings? That seems to be the case. I'm not sure why you're doing it, I think you're just "kicking down", e.g. looking down on folks below your social standing to feel better about yourself. There's a saying I've heard before: if nobody's poor then nobody's rich. Thing is, that's an emotional thing, that desire to feel wealthy in the sense that you have more than other folks. It's being exploited to keep working class Americans at each other's throats. It's biting you in the ass. You're having everything taken away from you gradually and that's how the 1%ers are getting away with it. You might die before the worst of it happens (e.g. "I got mine, fuck you" school of economics) but if you're under 55 you won't. Nows the time to stop screwing around and shitting on the poor to make yourself feel better short term and actually solve the problems in your life and mine.
Demand better. Demand a decent life for all Americans. Demand guarantees of that decent life. Remember: you can tell how good a society is by how it treats it's least members.
you need the land graded, roads built, water, gas and electric lines run. You need police and fire departments. In otherwords, infrastructure. That's not billions, that's trillions of dollars in land development that was all done on the gov't's dime.
Zoning regulations are a red herring. The rich got tired of paying for working class Americans to have decent homes. The only reason they had to for a time was post WWII the working class, having just got back from fighting a war, had gained a sense of entitlement. They felt owed something. Also a _lot_ of working age men died in that war, meaning labor shortages. So for a time they were better treated. Those times have passed, and we're back to where we were in the 1920s. Better tech at food production and a few depression era policies (social security & medicare, food stamps, etc) have masked some of that, but even those are under siege.
What I don't get is why is it that confronting all this reality makes Americans so damned uncomfortable? It's not like anyone's gonna tax you to to the max. Odds are you're living paycheck to paycheck like the rest of Americans, and even if you've got a bit of savings it's not enough to matter. When it comes to raising taxes to pay for social programs it's the top 5% who would be the targets. And it's not like they'd lose much in the way of standard of living, what they're really lose is _power_.
That's what you're defending when you post stuff like you did: a group of ultra-wealthy power mongers who's wealth has ceased being material and become raw power.
you buy dry food in bulk and put them down if they get sick. Also, if you're a 63 year old woman living in a trailer you need a lot of dogs for protection. She could ditch every one of those dogs and wouldn't have the extra $2k/mo it takes to rent a tiny, dumpy apartment.
And what's with all the non-stop poor shaming? Is this supposed to make you feel better about abandoning these folks to their miserable fate? Does it? Somewhere in the back of your mind it's gnawing on you, how you're letting fellow Americans live like shit. The Americans who do work you want done.
Bottom line, You want those people to live near where you are so they can cook, clean and fix your plumbing but you'll be damned if you want to pay for them to have an OK life. When people bitch about "gentrification" that's what they're talking about. You know that's messed up, so you do crap like this to try and convince yourself it's their choice. Gives you an out, but like I said, it gnaws on you, doesn't it?
and prep land for developers. That's the expensive part of building homes, not throwing up a frame and some wiring/plumbing around it. Folks don't realize how heavily the US Government subsidized their lives in the 50s, 60s and 70s. The just took all that for granted. Land developers sure as hell aren't going to pay to get that land ready themselves, and since the government ain't paying anymore it's just not getting done. The result is massive housing shortages in a lot of places.
and they're trying to cover that up. e.g. it was all just a grift. Kansas has gotten really, really corrupt these last 8 years or so.
and not median. I suspect the numbers are heavily cooked. I make good money in IT and I don't spend my evenings at McDonalds. Yet we know for a fact many teachers in Kansas are doing just that. Too many for it to be the occasional workaholic.
I know that in my neck of the woods schools in wealthy neighborhoods have much, much better pay. That's because schools are funded by property taxes, so wealthy districts have wealthy schools. That would, of course, screw up the averages. I can't find any sources for the $44k and $56k figures being but I wouldn't be surprised to find University research professors mixed in there with their $100k+ salaries. Again, anything to inflate the average.
I said, "white supremacist". OTOH it says something about the alt-right that when you mention white supremacists folks think of the two together...
meant art. Guess I got music on the brain. Google "SID Chip" if you wanna hear folks using old hardware for music. Or track down some OPL3 tracks.
Doing music on one. And there's a vibrant homebrew game scene. A lot of little indies find it easier to write for old computers than to compete on Steam with the 900,000+ asset flips out there.
are all the white supremacists finding out they're made up of 30-40% some kind of dark skinned folks they've decided to hate. It's been a bit of a problem in their community since a sizable chunk of their leadership's been forced out by it. Gotta love the way science chips away at all the old crap our species has put up with.
I forget who, but somebody dumped several million into it, so yeah, currency manipulation.
but can it run Crysis?
you pass the full pop for everything, it usually adds about 20% to your bill. My bro hates shopping so he looked into it and that's why he still shops. It woulda been around $150/mo to get his groceries delivered.
on hardware that their users aren't likely to have. If you want software that tightly written you can have it on an old Amiga or a Mac from mid 1992 or so. There's a vibrant community writing software for the old things. But you'll give up stuff like video playback and complex interfaces inside webpages. Maybe you want that, but most folks don't. And if you do, well, it's out there, just don't expect all of us to follow you.
UPS and FedEx will stop leaving them. I've had this happen to buddies in bad neighborhoods and it sucks. Everytime you get a packge you've got to drive on down to the main depot to pick it up, and that's usually out in the middle of nowhere.
Then again with recent laws regarding EULAs and arbitration (which have been upheld by the Supreme Court on the grounds that, well, it's a law) I'm not sure you can sue for this kind of thing anymore.
Universities aren't for job training. You're thinking of Community College. Universities exist to teach fundamentals of science. When you graduate then your employer gives you specific job training.
Oh, you mean "How Do Universities Prepare Graduates For Jobs so employers don't have to pay for industry specific training anymore?". Sorry, you can see why I'd get confused....
(Bitter as hell because I'm paying for $32/k for 2 years of Nursing school for my kid that's basically on the job training that you used to get paid for, but fat lot of good I can do about it in this hyper-competitive job market).
Poverty means two things:
a. Not having consistent access to basics required for a decent human life (Food, shelter, education, healthcare & transportation).
b. Being able to be forced to do things you don't want to do because you don't have access to those things (join the military, sell drugs, prostitution, work a job you hate that's also dangerous, etc, etc).
Poverty is when you don't have enough resources to live a good life and that others with access to those resources can force you to do as they say. That's poverty.
because the cost is baked into my rent. You do know your landlord isn't doing that out of the goodness of his/her heart, right? Donald Trump rather famously used maintenance as an excuse to jack up rates and increase profits.
to create a new boogie man now that the blacks are becoming less and less effective. Without laws to stop it races mix and folks mellow out and you can no longer use race to divide the working class. Religion's on the decline in America too so that's petering out. The ruling class need something to keep us at each other's throats so we don't demand better pay and healthcare. It's always the same patter, what amazes and depresses me is that nobody really talks about it much outside of the occasional lefty complaining about the Southern Strategy or Dog Whistles or the real reason all those "confederate" monuments were erected in the 60s and 70s.
it's not too hard, but you do get some crazy bullshit from folks who do 3-5 anti-SJW videos a week. There's a guy named "Cult of Dusty" on Youtube who calls that phenomenon "peak blue haired college girl" where there's not enough dumb blue haired college girls saying dumb shit on camera to feed the machine so you get crap like a gag story about Rodolph the Red Nose Reindeer being about social justice being picked up by the anti-SJW community when the original story was posted to make fun of how the anti-SJW community will jump on anything. It's Poe's Law in action...
none of this is new. They were doing this crap via IRC when I was a lad. The encryption isn't very useful since you still need to advertise the crap for trading and there's plenty of honey pots out there to catch these sickos.
This is just more bullshit fear mongering narrative from the "ban encryption" crowd.
they come in "official" Sony packaging and are sold as new. I use them on my PC and the current drivers (a package called "SCP Toolkit") can spot them in software, but once you have them in your hand it's pretty obvious. The Analog sticks don't perfectly center. It doesn't hurt the gameplay (at least not that a scrub like me can tell) but it's an eye sore.
past a certain point _fewer_ works are produced as culture gets monopolized. That's why copyright has a limit.
And no, we're way past letting the creator make new works and into "Disney profiting as long as possible".