Thats kinda funny gvien how other people complain about my writing. Usually people put stuff into ai to get a more well formatted and grammar correct writing. I think you could take a min and look at my profile and make a better determination.

Ultimately my point was if the wealthy had it as relatively bad as the plebs the upset would be less. People don’t like sacrificing for people of much greater privelege having a bit more.

Education but my bachelors degrees are microbiology and chemistry although I work in IT. You have to have a job to be making that and that is more difficult outside of HCOL areas. 95K in a city with a metro is barely enough to afford a place but likely not a stand alone home. Truly HCOL like new yor or san fran its have a few roomates. Aslo these jobs often do not have pensions and the people in it have serial unemployment over the course of their careers. They were not making something like that for 30 years. My father did way more than have a nice home. I mean it was kinda ramshackled but most folks would be ga ga to have it today. It was very much like the family at the start of caddy shack. That size house, single salary, with that many kids. Pension to boot. Thats a pipe dream for anyone who did not start workin in the eighties and even then unlikely. Xers are just about to start retiring and oh man is it going to be a trump show with social security barely covering medicare costs now. Combine that with no pension and savings only if someone is very successful like myself. So super successful today is < typical pleb of yesteryear.

I think this was the big failure of the unions. They stopped tyring to lower the work week and thus expanding their base and power. Union guys in the 80’s were salavating at bookoo overtime. It was a non sustainable way to go. I was hoping france or such would lead the way and split their weekly shifts in two. The standard by the turn of the millenium should have been 30 hours and we should be reducing it more now.

Home ownership, retirement. My janitor dad payed off a 5 bedroom house in a nice suburb with no education (he did not just not graduate high school he never went at all) and had a nice retirement. I have a masters and dual major bachelors and can’t afford to live in a free standing house (and luckily could not afford to have kids). travel - nope, drinking - long term less than once a year, expensive restaurants - nope, heck can’t even afford fast food at this point. Sounds to me like your social group is all rich kids. Heck I grew up with rich kids and still don’t know any.

So how is it the best times if the last generation had it better. People are frustrated because life is getting worse due to income disparity. The same thing that caused the last bad time during the depression.

yeah wisconsin has been going in a bad way. At one point it was clear which you would more want to visit between wisconsin and indiana. Now not so much.

I can say I feel this when talking with people who are upset at protests. Its kinda exhausting when they don’t get how rights won’t apply to anyone if they are selective. I literally have gotten them close. So you see then a cop could pull you over because he does not like you and have you shipped overseas and you would never get a chance to prove your citizenship. Response I get. Oh common do you know any cop that would do that. me. sigh. after taking a long long time to get them sorta kinda getting the idea.

in theory this goes for all donors but you are going to be judged by the company you keep.

I only learned about them in the last year or so but did not see them much but boy did they fuck around in my areas primaries this year. Their people did not win but they did eff up a few races. The are certainly on my radar now as unacceptable.

anyone know why the user was deleted. I mean this is techdirt so I kinda doubt its because of this article.

I have said this with putin but knowing trump is an albatross. Putin never did as badly as he did till he got involved with trump and now orbin. As long as he draws breath it will be a curse for anyone who has ever had dealings with him dragginf them down and there is nothing they can do but wait for fate to free them from the curse.

friggin everything. every day its like. why did I not do this or that. in particular is to take the trash out at the middle of the day dog walk when its nicest to do it. I start doing things then forget im doing them and go do something else.

you need the opposite. small enough space that its mostly in water before the pinch. just don’t have the squirts.

yes. and challenge it on the references. Its a great activity to unerstand how limited ai is. Curiously I just went through a reference think with gemini and its kinda funny the way it responds and recognizes the error and then repeats it.

No idea. I mean my exposure to it is with the bible and christiantity but asia seemed to have a lot of it to. Pagan europe felt a bit less so especially as you head north. Native peoples im not sure but did not seem to be so stark. I honestly never understood why inheritance and property did not flow down the maternal line. That would have at least equaled things out a bit and makes much more sense. I mean you know a womens kid is her kid mostly.

maybe he honors the sabath and his parents???

I wisht that guy would do another antichrist biblical quote comparison because his first term was pretty strong and I can’t imagine what all could be added now.

far from it. When I talk with folks who try at best I can say maybe I got something a few times. Times where its like no time passed but also like it did. It might be the way I am but im not sure I can ever say I will go mediate its always im going to try and meditate. Kinda an opposite yoda thing.

I like to think anything by jesse wells is appropriate but then there are some songs I just feel that much more in the modern age but are not necessarily good protest songs. rat in a cage, head like a hole, down with the sickness. Also many jethro tull songs.