Jesus Karens cross age, race, and gender gaps with ease but it's often in my experience been older ladies.
The sad thing is that these are also the type who usually spread hate more than they spread love via racism, sexism, generationism, looking down on anyone not believing the same way they believe, and just generally being assholes except for one hour a week.
Yes, I was being genuine with my question (but reading it again I can see how I was a tad snarky). I'm totally ignorant when it comes to this stuff, obviously.
I also genuinely wonder if other countries couldn't figure out how to source that stuff from countries other than the U.S. if they really wanted to. Again, I am ignorant when it comes to this stuff.
Does the U.S. make anything of value as an export compared to what we import from other countries? Almost everything today has a microchip inside it (except food.....I hope) and I'm pretty sure we import most of the microchips we use in stuff. I think the trade war is going to make our economy MUCH worse pretty quick because we are in an even more global economy than we were when Hitler was in power.
I worked in retail for 7 years. Every damn Sunday we would get at least one customer in their Sunday best turn into an impatient, vile, insulting human being towards us because of something in the weekly ad or whatever. I wasn't particularly religious despite attending Catholic school for every grade until high school graduation, but this solidified my loss of faith even more.
Oh, and it was a tiny bit of an influence on me becoming an alcoholic too! Yay!
So let's say....somehow....every Democrat gets on board finally with impeaching the Orange King. Do we really think enough Republicans are going to get on board with this to go through with impeaching and removing him?
Call me cynical, but after the crap that went down with the CR, I'm not seeing it and have zero faith in Congress as a whole to do anything of value to stop this hostile takeover and is/will be violating basic human rights for anyone who isn't a white male.
Last year, the United States imported $438.9 billion worth of Chinese goods, according to the office of the U.S. Trade Representative. China was the United States' third biggest source of imported goods after the European Union and Mexico.
I’m guessing most of that is electronics? I feel like China is the biggest though for that reason alone. Things are about to get insanely expensive here.
While that sounds cool to me, it kind of defeats my main purpose of switching to an e-reader in the first place. I have trouble holding physical books for a long time due to hand pain. I had a similar issue with the e-reader, just not as bad, until I put a PopSocket on the back of it. Now I can hold it with the PopSocket resting in-between 2 fingers and can read significantly longer.
I switched from Kindle Paperwhite 1st Gen to a Kobo Clara Color a month or so ago. It was cheaper than Amazon's color Kindle offering plus Amazon not letting readers download their books pushed me out. I did try the jailbreak for the Kindle and....I gave up on it after numerous issues that I ran into probably relating to the age of my Paperwhite.
I mostly use Overdrive (Libby) to get books from my library. The Kobo has Overdrive support....mostly due to Kobo store availability and whether or not you have multiple library cards with multiple libraries. I'm in NY state and have a library card with my city library and then one with the NY Public Library. This isn't really a reflection on Kobo, more so Overdrive being shitty and not willing to update their Kobo app to work with how they migrated from the Overdrive app to Libby.
This is where Calibre comes in handy, I download the book to my phone from Libby, transfer it to my Mac and use Calibre to add it to it to my Kobo. It's not pretty like Overdrive's Kindle integration where you basically press a few buttons in the Libby app and the book is sent to your kindle.
As far as reading the book in general, I don't really notice that huge of a difference other than better technology. I did have some slight bugginess when I first used it, but after a full charge and a few reboots it seems to be fine now. I don't have a current gen Kindle to compare it to, so someone else can speak to that. I do wish it wasn't such a hassle to get my library books to it, but at least I have access to all my books!
Man this is a trip I remember Beryl and when it turned to Compiz. I spent way more time than I care to admit just spinning stuff around and playing with effects than accomplishing anything of meaningful value.
The easiest solution would be to do a UBI tied to a COLA of some sort to fend off inflation and then ditch all the other entitlement programs to simplify things. Anyone making more than UBI would have to pay a tax. I don't even want to go down that rabbit hole of what can fix our busted tax system. Let anyone who has paid into Social Security still be entitled to their benefits and UBI would be added if there is a negative difference with Social Security.
I dunno, these are just ideas I think of when I'm trying to sleep at night, I have no clue if they're even remotely feasible to do in this country with prices and incomes varying so widely in every part of the country.
All I know is what I had to go through to get SSDI and I discovered the social safety net is really just you free-falling through hoops on fire hoping you land on the tiny speck of an inflatable bouncy house on the ground that also has a slow leak in it and may or may not stay inflated to brace your fall. And you have to repeat that for each program you need to apply to for benefits. Oh and you get to free fall every year to 5 years depending on the benefit, but instead you're free falling from half the distance with less hoops on fire but the inflatable bouncy house still has a leak. Oh and if you happen to make it through and be protected by the bouncy house, don't even think about saving money for a parachute next time because you could lose some benefits or have them cut.
Anything is better than the broken system we have now.
Great! Show me a country that will willingly take in someone who's disabled, financially support them, and house them and I'll fly there tomorrow -- oh and they'll need to cover the cost of the plane ticket too. I'm terrified of what's coming for me as a "parasite" being on disability, Medicaid/Medicare, and HUD housing but I don't have the finances to move elsewhere.
Yes, he is a symptom, but he's also morphing the disease at breakneck speed to encompass anyone who isn't an able-bodied white male. I'm not fluent in diseases, so I don't know what I'm talking about but it sure as hell seems more than just a symptom.
Contrary to what the media tells us, those of us solely relying on SS retirement or SSDI/SSI are at or below poverty level. I’m on SSDI and am not making much more
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Wait….so we’re just going to ignore the separation of church and state, never mind spouting off sexist bullshit?