All wares whose demand increases disproportionally with an increasing income.
Bread for example is not a luxury. If you were to earn twice as much, you wouldn't buy much more bread than you already do.
The same isn't true for jewelry for example.
Not a parent, but my first name is the first name of a close friend of my parents, and my middle name is a slightly changed version of my grandpa's first name
There are apps that can automatically track in- and outgoing payments for your account, as well as classify them to give you an overview. I use Finanzguru, though I suspect that's only available in Germany.
If you're struggling with money, here's my approach: If it isn't absolutely necessary to have, sleep on it at least once before buying it, no matter how cheap it is. Works quite well, its weird how much your perspective can often change within a day.
I don't see anything wrong with an occasional blunt, but regularly smoking weed will fuck you up in the long term, do not recommend.
How about a hobby?
I don't know about the US, but in Germany the right lane is for getting on and off the high way, so going very fast there might be dangerous.
It also just makes things less chaotic, traffic becomes more predictable and driving less exhausting.
I don't think that's a Christian thing. I live in Germany, a mostly Christian country, my parents are Christians, yet the only circumcised people I know are Jews and one guy that needed to get a circumcision for medical reasons.
I have heard its common in the US tho, to prevent masturbation or something like that.
He doesn't mention protest votes though, only not voting out of protest, which is something entirely different imo.
Not voting can be interpreted as satisfaction with the status quo, while a protest vote is the opposite, a clear statement of rejection of all available choices. Not voting is quiet approval, a protest vote an active display of discontent.
Also, I disagree that a vote for a third party is a protest vote. I usually vote for a fringe party, but I'm not doing so to protest the system or ruling parties, but simply because I think they are the best candidates.
Finally I don't agree with the idea that I am throwing away my vote by voting for an unpopular candidate. If anything, I am doing the opposite, I am making my will known. The people who decide that this vote has no worth are the ones throwing away my vote and they are the ones undermining democracy.
The people doing the reforming would need to be the people with the power to change the system in those ways. I'm not familiar enough with the system in the US to know whether that is the president, the supreme court, congress, or some other entity, but someone has the power to do that I'm quite certain.
To get them to do this, the people would need to pressure them into it, be it with their vote, petitions, demonstrations, social media posts or whatnot. There are many ways to achieve change, but it won't happen as long as people just keep voting for the lesser evil, because "eh, what can you do"
I understand that. What baffles me is how willing he is to accept the FPTP system they have in the US, especially with his history. Given the beginning of his tweet, you'd think he'd conclude with an appeal to reform the system, to make it viable to vote for third parties. Instead, he acts as if the system was a constant of the universe, not a man made one that can quite easily be changed. He lays down the perfect argument for a reform of the system, without actually speaking out in favor of it. Thats whats wild to me.
I'm all for rehabilitation. But according to the University of Adelaide, almost half of prisoners released in 2018-19 returned to prison within two years. Not much rehabilitation going on there.
Also, if we're talking about rehabilitation, fixed lengths for prison sentences make no sense. A prisoner should then be released into society when they have been rehabilitated, not after a fixed amount of years.
All wares whose demand increases disproportionally with an increasing income.
Bread for example is not a luxury. If you were to earn twice as much, you wouldn't buy much more bread than you already do. The same isn't true for jewelry for example.