MyNameIsIgglePiggle @ MyNameIsIgglePiggle @sh.itjust.works

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Fair. I was thinking today he seemed more to be referring to crops

I don't understand why a 20% deposit is necessary. If you can make repayments as you can make rent, let them own the house already

I read through until chapter 1 in that section you linked and he is pretty scathing of landlords and if I understand it correctly his argument is that landlords exist solely to soak up all extra profits above what would leave the tenant just enough to survive.

Base load

Was thinking instead of calling them tweets we should start calling them kisses

I don't come from somewhere with a tipping culture, but if someone came to me with an airtag tracker and said hey can you get my bag, and my job is to get your bags, I would happily just do my job instead of thinking "fuck you" and start to fight.

Shit I would even apologise for having lost it in the first place.

It would not even occur to me that someone would tip, or I would be getting one.

Cool, now do the same with an airplane so we can save global warming

He strikes me as the kind of guy who has someone sent to him to be fired daily so he can feel important, and at this point they just hire an actor each day to be the victim

The shooting will continue until the love improves

What happened to lemmygrad?

It's also gone hilariously bad for those who tried in the past

The worse the conditions a baby is born into, the better wage slave they will be

I did a little digging once when I was in an argument with someone. Per capita the US government spends (from memory) like $600 per person on healthcare per year. For only like $50 more per person, per year, Australia provides universal healthcare and enormously subsidised medication - insulin for example is $30/script for high income earners and $6 a script for low income / retirees, and if you spend >$500 a year on medication, everything is free after that.

But is it really the same country that participated in WW2?

So basically a cat that can't climb trees?

I was thinking about your comment and came back. I'm nearly 39 so a similar age.

First of all. What if you put your phone down, got off the internet and had a look around at your life and what is happening directly in your world. I'll bet it's not as chaotic as it feels when we see crazy headlines everywhere. You get up, chat with your family if you are lucky enough to live with someone, perhaps you go to work and interact with your coworkers or clients, hopefully the day isn't too stressful. Come home, think about what you will have for dinner and hope it doesn't make you too fat. Go to bed. You might squeeze in some time for hobbies, or visiting friends on the weekends.

Sure, housing is a massive problem right now, but financial bleakness isn't new - imagine how it felt to live through the great depression? I'm in Australia, but a couple of years ago we had my son's birthday at this nice lookout at the top of a hill. There was a plaque there that read that the road to the top of the hill was built by men during the depression in exchange for food to feed their families. The more kids you had the more hours you had to work. It was like 5 or more kids was a mandatory 12 hour day.

That would have felt bleak and like there was no way out.

Imagine getting caught up in world war 2? You would think the world had now really gone to shit. It was so traumatizing to the population here that every tiny town has a plaque of all the people who died from it. The names in the list are usually longer than the population of the town right now.

Then after the war, stuff like the threat of atomic war, nuclear winters and the entire earth dying because of a conflict escalation.

You described my childhood experience perfectly, but we might have just been very lucky and grew up in an optimistic decade full of rationality and scientific progress.

I know I'm not the same anymore

Colombia tried this in Medellin some time ago and if I remember correctly it went well.

It might surprise you to know that comment was written by chatgpt

Not with that attitude