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No clue what my parents' house could be worth, they're still living in it too. I do know they paid something like $30,000 for it in the 70's and it might be worth 5-10x more than that now -- if not more due to inflation. Cars were also $5000 or so then, and now the average price of a car is $30k-$50k on the low end.

Due to.....several traumatic issues and for my own mental health...living with them isn't an option and now that I'm on SSDI I can't really take any of their money or it messes with my SSDI and I went through too much for too long to do anything to risk it within my control (government shenanigans these days might leave me without income and a home but that's out of my control now). I have one sibling who has a family of their own much like how it was when we were kids but they are struggling to make ends meet in this economy too.

LOL I was born into a middle class family with at least one generation on each side born in the US. Dad worked at the local factory, mom was stay-at-home, had a dog, nice house, and two cars -- living the American Dream.

Then all the factory jobs went away, I couldn't handle college, and I job hopped for a while and got lucky landing a decent paying gig that lasted for 13 years until I went on disability. Up until then I was barely making ends meet living in a studio apartment with a used hand-me-down car that I got when my grandfather passed away.

Now I'm on SSDI and live in a subsidized studio apartment and rely on the city bus for transportation to appointments. Living the dream.

He's already a domestic threat, he doesn't care about the Constitution or laws

I'm on SSDI (and Medicaid and HUD housing) and have been having insane anxiety the last month and a half to the point that I'm wondering if I'll even get paid in April. I regularly check my SSA account online to make sure my direct deposit is still freaking scheduled. Missing a payment could mess up all of my other benefits as well.

I know the fuck up is coming, but I don't know if I can handle another few months hoping they don't fuck up the migration if they don't fuck up just paying people first with all that's been going on.

I'm pretty sure Im not the only one in this situation who can't handle the stress of this bullshit.

Back when I was working, I had a job that paid close to 3x what McDonald's was paying at the time. I could barely afford a studio apartment. And that was 5-10 years ago, it's even worse now here in the US.

Meanwhile Gen X:

Ok, so this solidifies my desire to never buy a Windows PC/laptop and why my switch to Mac was a good choice a few years ago. However Mac gaming is nowhere near where it should be right now and I was thinking about getting a cheap Windows laptop for games that aren't available on Mac.

I remember a push a few years ago to get some linux distros pre-installed on some OEM hardware but I didn't hear much of anything past the hype. Anyone have any good OEM brands that have linux installed instead of Windows and are relatively affordable?

I've set up a community specifically for release updates from the Rayhunter Github at !Rayhunter@lemm.ee if anyone is interested

Thanks!

I am an idiot. Show Bot Accounts was checked. At some point I blocked rss.ponder.cat for some reason that I don't remember 🤦🏻 I can see the posts now.

I'd like to have https://github.com/EFForg/rayhunter/releases.atom post to !Rayhunter@lemm.ee

But I also see an issue with being logged into my lemm.ee account that none of those communities linked show any posts unless I view them on rss.ponder.cat. That concerns me. Has lemm.ee blocked you? I checked my settings and I'm allowing bots to be seen on my end.

Literally disappearing people off the street

Didn't the U.S. fight a war against a country and its leader who did the same shit? I was never very proud to be an American because this country has done some fucked up shit since 1776. But this is downright terrifying to me as someone who is disabled and considered a parasite by Elon because if they aren't stopped after this then it's game over for any "non-white" people, LGBTQ+, and poor people in general to be disappeared.

This may be why they want Greenland so bad 🤔

Is there even a car that is 100% made in the US, parts and labor?

I ask because I'm very confused by this article.

President Trump on Wednesday announced 25% tariffs on autos and auto parts that are not produced in the U.S., effective on April 2.

Ok, so if I don't build a car here or build the parts here then I get charged a tariff.

"We'll effectively be charging a 25% tariff, but if you build your car in the United States, there is no tariff," Trump told reporters.

Ok, so I don't have to pay a tariff on the parts I use to build my cars here in the US?

In a fact sheet released after Trump's Oval Office comments, the White House said auto parts compliant with the USMCA trade deal will remain "tariff-free" until Customs and Border Protection "establishes a process to apply tariffs to their non-U.S. content."

You know, I might have to find me a Dino costume. At the very least I can have fun while I try to increase my steps. They look kinda heavy though

Mix in some rap, old school country, jazz, and dubstep with that group and you have an exact replica of one of my playlists

I would be very surprised if any of these idiots even know what 2FA is, let alone use it.

I knew about Apple's tactics and still went all in.

For me at the time it was a choice between sticking with Android (my first smartphone was the OG Moto Droid), trying to de-Google the Android phone I had at the time, or switching to Apple.

Android hardware may be better now than it ever has been, but that wasn't always the case. Samsung especially pissed me off when they had an Android phone out that after an update to Android the phone would randomly go into Airplane mode without indicating it. They refused to release a fix. That was the last straw for me after trying to use a ton of different ROMS on the phone to get around the issue. Also, back then if you didn't have Google Play installed that meant you missed out on a lot of apps or had to use Amazon's App Store.

I got fed up with having to constantly fix things after ROM updates and didn't have the time due to working so many hours at my job. I didn't want to stick with Google because I saw where it was headed. I switched to Apple and never looked back. Part of that switch was also influenced because I wanted to get out of the Microsoft Windows ecosystem and gaming on Linux wasn't great back then so I had to dual boot. Gaming on Mac's weren't that great either, but at least I had the "feeling" that things were more private with Apple than Google and MS.

I'm so tied into the Apple ecosystem right now that I'm just not sure I want to go back to hacking Android phones and al that even if things are 100% better than they were a decade ago. I "trust" that Apple handles my privacy concerns better than an ad-supported Google and Windows. I'm going to recommend Apple to non tech-savvy friends and family 100% of the time. Until there's a phone OS competitor that is both easy to use and on decent hardware out of the box, it's just a hassle.

That said, I'm thinking about looking at picking up a cheap pre-paid Android phone and checking out the ROM scene again because of the happenings in the US the last few months. I don't know if I can trust Apple to not cave to the government and destroy the only good thing it had going for the ecosystem for me.

Ok, say this all succeeds and Musk is thrown out of Tesla. What next? He'll still be the a billionaire with a US President as a puppet and complete "authority" to continue gutting the federal government.

I'm usually really good at being able to be objective and see both sides of an issue. I just can't do that with this. It's equivalent to a gang spraying and praying and killing innocent bystanders and saying "Oh well, it was for the cause". Like how is this any better than the right being ok with making millions of poor people homeless and hungry?

Meanwhile, in the U.S. I'm sitting here wondering if we'll even have a flu shot available for next winter, let alone a new vaccine that can protect from Covid and the common cold.

Oh hey, look! I don't have a Real ID or a Passport. I already can't fly or enter federal buildings. Now I won't be able to vote? They're basically making it a requirement to have a Real ID or Passport to be considered a citizen at this point.

Millions of poor people are about to lose their U.S. citizenship is what this sounds like it's coming to.

So this is a Pinky and the Brain situation only very real and very terrifying