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Buying from the bins (bulk purchasing) is all I ever do or will do, so beans and pasta, even nuts, are redonk cheap in comparison (thank you WinCo), and we're doubling the size of the vege garden this year. It'll be another year or two until we can make it pretty, but I'll take function over from anyday. I want to can an entire pantry by this time next year.

1/3rd of your life is spent on buying food.

I want that to be as close to zero as possible. I want all my costs to be as close to zero as possible. I fucking hate the despair of not having money.

The farmers market quip was hyperbolic to drive a point, but for reals I have some serious issues and concerns over buying produce that's out of season and not local. Like how apples and oranges are kept in anaerobic environment (prob nitrogen or argon) for 6-12 months before being shipped out, to make sure there's a year supply

Sure, it might be 'fine', but if I have the option to, like right now, buy pomegranates instead of nitrogen-doped pink ladies, I'm going with the seasonal

Only exception to that that I can think of is bananas, cuz Iceland

Some people just don't understand the obvious

That's any food that comes in a box or a bag.

So if you can't afford to shop at the farmers market every other day and buy locally raised and slaughtered meat, you're more likely to get depressed.

Great use of time and money there. 👍

a guaranteed margin of error in all cars older than 2004

Is there no guarantee from 2005 on? Am I missing a memo here?

People say the market corrects itself all the time and I don't know what to make of it. I too was born of the lie of meritocracy and wild NeoLiberal economic claims and yet all I've ever seen, save for 2 moments in my life, is the market consolidating wealth to the top.

That definition of market correction insinuates the market only works for the rich, so, I mean, if you aren't rich maybe reconsider spreading their propaganda for free. Get paid for your services at the least, they can afford it.

Or, like the article describes, maybe youre one of the chosen ones to own a home, and your "retirement" or future financial security is tied to it, so you've become strong armed, blackmailed, into reinforcing this fucked up status quo.

Regardless, to fix the housing crisis everybody has got to accept that their homes are overinflated in value and need to come back to reality. Everybody has to give something, there is no social change thats not going to require change from everyone. Like...the dialectics make that clear in their own. Government might have to mandate banks renegotiating terms for some housing loans, but so what. Banks are part of the society too, they should also expect to change as well.

The alternative means you choose a heartless meatgrinder of a society. And really, with global inflation, China potentially crashing, the USA potentially crashing, the UK potentially crashing, and BRICS potentially undermining/destroying the value of the dollar well, news flash, no ones retiring.

I don't know how anyone could have that kind of faith in capitalism. A once in a lifetime financial event almost every 5 years now.

Think of how many years it'd take to salary out to 650k, vs finding free shit online and literally sourcing and making every component, from scratch.

I can source together the materials and build a house faster than I could pay for one already built, in this market. Decades sooner.

That same mindset tends to not apply that to themselves either, being quick to abandon all norms, decorum or decency to attain or retain power.

And then the historical editing comes down heavy handed

He who controls the present controls the past

It's a very capitalist, or monopolistic, worldview.

To run a business corrillary; Exxon and BP were undisputed leaders in their fields going way back, whether or not they were number 1 isn't even important, they were/are major players. Studies were conducted in the 70s that showed climate change was guaranteed (nevermind newsprint from the 1900's talking about the same thing. 120 years ago this was foreseen) gave them 2 options.

1. Use that knowledge and invest heavily into solar, wind and other energy generating tech, since they already know the energy sector as players in it, they have a huge advantage on every start up. They can control the conversation. If you're business is going to be made obsolete and replaced, well, it makes the most sense for you to do that to yourself, right?
2. Ooooooooor suppress the research, PR campaign public support, act innocent when scientists with scruples finally catch up, and extract as long as you can while you can.

Which did the ruling capitalist hegemon (cuz oil runs the world) choose?

Giving your kids all the tools so they can go create and contribute however they see fit is a fucking admiral goal. In fact, it's the best you can do for your child. Taking away all challenge and hardship by passing along immeasurable wealth does not help a persons pro-social maturing. How could it, it's isolationist by its own very nature. This is why the Scrooge trope exists.

The same logic needs to be extended to copyright law. 20 years then public domain. You had an idea that took off? Good for you! Now why should the inventor of pixie sticks not have to work ever again? If anything, they've just got the next 20 years of developing and innovating funded. They already have an advantage. Those who fail to use it, imo, shouldnt warrant pity. We shouldn't reward laziness and laurels shouldn't be a ride at societies amusement park.

I believe so, yea

Que the Iraq war part deux. Immediately followed by the Afghan invasion.

Paid for on credit card. Brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.

Don't forget the giant expansion of the government under Bush² either, the TSA, DHS, Medicare expansion

The aughties fucked over the entire upcoming century. Obama swaging the wall street plutocrats after 2008 with, not just the bail outs, but with relaxing corporate control of rental property is looking really, REALLY short sighted about now

Trump repealing Obama's DoddFrankLite is gonna come back and haunt us too, when wall street implodes in the inevitable 2008 repeat, because if you can trust a banker to do anything, it's to suck as much blood out as possible and let the public pay for life support. It's gonna happen again. Guaranteed.

You're not wrong, but at least they got a chance to prepare.

I asked my boomer mother why her generation wasn't leading the revolt. I took the first job I remember her having when I was just a wee one, asked her that pay, extrapolated inflation on it and showed her that she's making the same amount of money today as she was then. Inflation, as a tool to control the masses, has robbed her of every "pay raise" or advancement of her entire life.

Her story is not unique.

That doesn't let them off the hook for the housing market tho, that shit, intentional or not, is literally just robbing their kids and grandkids futures for themselves.

That town was in New Hampshire, tho I can't recall the name from memory.

They voted out their garbage collection service. Civic overreach or some bullshit. Then the bears came, and got accustomed to being around people. And started breaking into homes. People were attacked. I think there was at least one casualty.

Libertarianism is great for the individual, but anti-thetical to the needs of the group.

I don't know why it's so hard for some people to acknowledge that their own personal choices and beliefs might not make the best policy. Government and law, do not need to mirror your internal dialogue. That is some serious center of the universe shit right there. They'd do well to ponder on the notion of sonder.

Facts. Never doubt these peoples ability to withstand suffering, as long as it makes it worse for the 'other'.

It's sublime and sad and sadistic at the same time. They'll cut off their own nose to spite your face.

I've been unable to find where in the bible this attitude stems from other than a misattributed 'trials and tribulations' vibe.

C'mon man, that's a little harsh, don't ya think? I get that you don't owe him anything but for real, not everyone's calling is equally rewarding financially, and you know this, and you know how fucked up it is.

Teachers deserve a wage that allows them to save and vacation every year.

In fact, we all do.

Fast food burger flippers do too. Society could afford it before, that we aren't doing it now is the result of policy decisions, not some invisible market moral correction voodoo. Workers at Dicks Burgers in Seattle make $21/hr + bene's and Dicks food is 1000x better than any fast food chain, and cheaper too. The money's there, it's just not being spread around.

Good for you achieving your own security, honestly, I mean that. But the scales being balanced is something we all need to work towards. Youre still working class, and right now the games still rigged to make sure you die broke. If we can't collectively work together to make sure the economy works for us all (cuz what's the point of a society then? It's just a fancy meat grinder otherwise), that paramedics make more than minimum wage. I'd like to live in a world where words matter. Where "essential" workers weren't just sacrificed on the alter of capitalism bc the beaurocratic class got furloughed and are actually treated essential.

Otherwise it's just a matter of time until another round of Reaganomics or fascists usurp power and either way your union gets busted. Ask the control tower what it's like when the government doesn't give a shit about the law, or precident. The law only matters if it's enforced.

Lolololols. K bud. I think that's a a big leap you're taking but you do you.

You can take whatever you want from that, I'm not here to change yr mind.

I first read this as 'religiois scumbrage' as if you misspelt umbrage. Not only was I wrong once, but twice as well.

But goddamn, scumbrage feels like a word I can get behind.

Yea 1980 is the cut off. And I was born in 81 and while I understand the gen x around me, my values align with working class millennials and gen z.

I've met so many narcissistic gen x that I'm default sus of anyone older than me. Some of the best people I've ever known are gen x. But unfortunately many many more of the worst are too.

Don't misunderstand, I let everyone introduce themselves to me through their own words and actionn. My priors might register but that shits stays in the cupboard, its not even on the back burner. Knowledge of stereotypes, or behaviours associating shit I don't like does not equal those things, and everyone comes blank slate.

It occurs to me now that that's prob a remnant of being raised on the meritocracy mythos. And meritocracy IS a myth, that shit isnt real in the slightest. You can't point at anything in your field of vision and say there, that's merit. It's an illusion, but one that feeds to our innate, internal sense of justice. And if you want to dive into an esoteric rabbit hole, Justice is a much more rewarding one.

Rawls for the win.

Homie. I got a brother just like you. Same incrementalism, progress is slow bullshit. 2 decades ago he would've said weed would forever be illegal.

The 2 main problems with Democrats. And these are the reason you lose elections, btw.

You think youve got all the answers but never listen to anyone describing life out in the everyday. You don't take criticism. You don't even listen. It's why the haute taute epithet is thrown at y'all. Your head is in the clouds. You dictate, you don't conversate.

You can point to all the beaurocracy you want and scream LOOK WHAT WEVE BUILT. But no one asked for that. No one wants that. Dems pass policy that throws everything at corporations and scraps at the peasants. But yo, corporations are the fucking problem, and all sides of the working class agree on that. If that's news to you, you need to listen more and talk less. Bernie got a standing ovation at a Fox News Town Hall. How the fuck do you explain that? That's respect. He got RESPECT from Republican rank and file.

Dems don't create leaders or change. Liberals are socially conciliatory and even at that y'all fail to come across as sincere. Whatever shuts people up and then back to making money. Rename the street BLM but don't change anything REAL. The great Neo-liberal shell game.

Y'all move the needle 2 steps left after people been dying over shit for years just to point at something and act like you moved Gibralter. Then Republicans sweep you, take it back 10 steps and we repeat the process every 8 years while you pat yrself on the back. You're worse than ineffective, you're a distraction from the assholes bleeding our country dry trying to sell us microtransactions in lieu of justice and comradery.

You have no vision. Your colleges teach poli sci under the assumption we have all this shit figured out. It's solved, don't think for yourselves. It's that hubris, that blatant disrespect that's so disgusting. That's social darwinism for the record and if it's unclear, that's one step away from eugenics and only 2 steps away from miasma theory.

Neoliberalism will be remembered that way. Just once removed from Hitler. Future generations will look back at the obfuscation and attempts to come up with any excuse to justify a deliberate system set up to create misery and isolation in people.

House the fucking homeless already. People are more important than profits or property value. Everyday it's not done is another day people are dying.

There's no fucking excuse. GET IT DONE or GTFO. Admit that capitalism is incapable of solving these issues bro. Cause the cruelty is the point of capitalism.

But your false promises.arent working as well anymore. The left and the youth would rather see it burn down then this dystopia of the same fucking never ending problems with lying feckless leaders

Yea, look in the mirror man. If you can't see the ugliness of your party, even after hearing it over and over as I know you have, how the fuck you gonna change it?

Or is it gonna be steps forward, 10 steps back, all the way into fascism and then y'all gonna act like you tried to stop it, when you couldn't even take reports from those on the ground

Pfff. What you're selling has no appeal. Come up with a better offer. People, who you could sway, will vote against you just to say fuck you. You learned that in 2016 right? Or did you not take any criticism YET AGAIN.

I can't talk to democrats. It's a one-sided conversation. You guys to those critical or capitalism are the same bad faith you lobby at the fascists.

Yep. Lumping you next to the facists. That's about right.

Well shit, I was born in 81 whatdya know. I fucking graduated before 2000, you ain't got any footing there. You wanna talk about Jnco's? No Fear shirts? Matt Shepard being drug behind a truck and tied to a fence to die? What were you doin when news of Cobain came out? Shit my first concert was Rage Against the Machine in 96. Fucking good times.

And I knew all that, but all of that means fuckall. She was First lady, then ran for senator of NY, then secretary of state in 2012. But soooo what. What power did she really have?

Who gives a shit what HRC was trying to whip support of while first lady. She couldn't get the support, but fuck her for trying right? I'm not even a democrat, or a fan of Democrats, but I won't knock Americans for trying to help Americans. Even if I disagree with their direction. Motive is important, whole different kinds of laws come into play around it. I don't think anyone ever questioned HRCs patriotism. Hard to argue with the optics of the zero dark thirty war room. She didn't openly call for foreign aid attacking opponents in a political campaign, in and of itself is sedition. Was she a bitch? Probably. Given a choice of a leader who is a bitch vs say Mrs Butterworth, I'll take the bitch, thanks. For fucks sake, you people are impossible. Move to the south and secede. I'll stay in the NW and even vote to pay for your move.

Eh I agree with your first few points but his attire looks as 2023 as 2013 or 2003.

If dude just wants to be his dude self, I don't think that's a knock y'know. Then again, I was laughing when I read about Fetterman in his hoodie and ball shorts in the Senate, where I think your Sundays best is appropriate. So take my opinion for what may. I'm 42 and I still own ripped up jeans and flannels that I've worn since the mid 90s. I don't wear them all the time but that's still just me being me. More often than not you'd find me in a plain color or white T, prob with the sleeves rolled up over my shoulder and shorts on. Doesn't matter what time of year. In the winter id prob be in mud boots and in the summer I wear water socks almost exclusively.

You dress how you feel. My body still feels like I'm 25, just with numb hands in the morning and more scars, well, and in better shape. I haven't slowed down at all. If anything I've sped up.

Clinton huh? Obama...care...? Modelled off Romney(®)care? The ACA never happened? That was a pretty big deal. I don't agree with it but none the less, you're categorically, empirically wrong.

Go to wiki. Reassess your knowledge base. Milton Friedman. You want to start there.