50% of the electorate wouldn't be hurt by sanctions, or 50% of the electorate would be arrested?
In either case, I'm referring to the president, his staff and cabinet. People actually directly making decisions who won't see any consequences from sanctions.
Nah. Just a targeted police action to arrest the rogue elements who purport to be the lawfully elected government.
They'd be justified in sanctions, but I don't think that it would actually accomplish anything. The people doing this shit don't give a flying fuck about them because it would hurt you and me, not them.
I mean, it can be absurd and also why they do it. Plantars don't add extra oil to theirs, so they need more binder. They're not doing it for no reason at all or to specifically spite those who don't eat animal products.
Animal protein works better as a binder in most cases. It keeps the seasoning from falling off as fast.
Honestly, nothing much really comes to mind as a special precaution that I would think of. Don't go down alleys alone, don't follow strangers that try to get you to go places. Don't get drunk alone in unfamiliar areas that aren't super populated. Don't make flashy displays of wealth.
No real impact on daily life. I've gotten lost in bad parts of Detroit before and that was unideal, but that was because there's still a lot of ability for people to know you don't live there just based on appearance.
So, my intent is not to turn this into the misery Olympics or anything, so I'm just going to clarify a few points and say that the main thrust of my message was the end: if people are telling you what they can and can't afford in a country you're less familiar with, it's probably better to assume they know their own economy better than you do, rather than deciding a nation of hundreds of millions of people are financially over cautious.
The $1000 figure is for all of the US, regardless of if it's high income low cost of living or anything else, and refers to money that can be deposited in savings at the end of the month.For example, the UK has this figure at roughly $1100 USD.
The city I live in has remarkably close to twice the expenses as yours. In the US a car isn't optional unless you live in the biggest if cities though. It would take four hours for me to walk to my doctor's office, and longer by bus, but there's only four bus visits per day at the office. A fair bit of the roadway lacks sidewalks. Either way a doctor's visit means taking a day off work if you don't have a car.
The 25% rate isn't poverty rate, it's more a measure of financial safety margin. You can be well above the poverty line and still have zero net income, it just means you can't tolerate changes in income or expenses without things becoming extremely problematic. Our poverty level is based on an idealized measure of food costs nationwide and does a poor job measuring things. It was originally put together before we had great knowledge of what contributed to poverty, and it's been a political tool used as a lever to justify cutting assistance programs for a long time, so changing it has been difficult.
I think you got my description backwards. There's an amount I pay no matter what, and a point after which I pay nothing (with caveats). So the most I pay is that $11k number, unless the insurance company decides a procedure was unnecessary or the provider was unsupported (if you end up in the hospital you might not be able to choose your doctors, and some of them might not be covered by your insurance, which you'll find out later. Aforementioned baby delivery cost $650,000 . I paid $6,500. Then I got billed for another $12,000 and change because of stuff like the insurance company deciding some tests were unnecessary and not working with some of the nurses.). My insurance situation is pretty good though, since a lot of people have significantly less at a higher cost.
it sounds like you're probably better off with any odd job in Europe if you put it that way
That is in many ways true. America has a higher cap on income but Europe generally has a better safety net. I'm fortunate to have ended up in a low cost of living area with a high salary job, so I'm currently better off where I am, but as children and myself get older, a social safety net that means my retirement isn't at the whims of the stock market and an education system that won't potentially put my children in debt for life has an increasingly large appeal.
San Diego is a very high cost of living area. $100,000 would be a modest income there that would get you a minimal comfortable life. Like, $3,000 a month for a 1 bedroom apartment.San Diego is also one of the safest cities in the US. Fun fact: while confirming that I found out I live in one of the more dangerous cities in the country. So that's fun.So yeah, San Diego is gonna give you more wealthy people with higher costs of living and very low crime. Factor that in to your assessments.
Housing economics are very disparate between countries. You can't directly compare them easily. A two story house is basic construction here, they tend to avoid building anything smaller because it's not significantly cheaper to build or sell. Our houses are built with different objectives so they tend to be cheaper to make taller, and it's just expected that it'll get replaced in 50 or 60 years.The person you talked to in San Diego was likely renting a house, which is often cheaper than an apartment. That fits with the price you mentioned.
Well that's different. We all know that the second amendment is the only enumerated right to have no exceptions or limitations, and the founders explicitly wanted every American to have as many guns as possible, and that it's downright treasonous to imply that "since militias are critical for free society, you can't stop people from owning guns" might imply an intended use case for said guns.
... Are you actually taking a "blame the baby" approach to "baby run over by lawnmower"?
Margaret was bringing in the groceries and her 18 month old went to pick a flower while she tried to get something unstuck in the trunk. Quiet street, nothing crazy going on. Kid darted off to the other side of the driveway, slipped on the dew on a small grassy incline and shot under the robot mower that had none of the safety features I mentioned. Margaret thought it was safe to let her child be within eyesight but out of reach in the front yard while the neighbor mowed the lawn, unaware there was no one there.
Are you satisfied that maybe the manufacturer has some blame in this tragedy, or are you going to continue to maintain that the maker of a thing is morally unencumbered by the impact that thing has on the world?
Consider what the world would be like if chatgpt just... Didn't engage with what appeared to be delusional lines of thinking? Or if, even if you promised it was for a story, it said it wasn't able to help you construct a plausible narrative to justify killing your mother?
We do not need the tool, and so defending unsafe design choices is just "personal responsibility stops at the cash register".
Fun fact: I think that firearm and firearm accessory manufacturers continued drive for high sales at all costs should make them legally liable for certain attrocities committed with the tools they made.The argument that it's the users fault for using the tool in the way it was designed isn't a compelling defense, particularly when the accusation is that it was reckless to make it in the first place.
understand this as over half Americans make less than 1400€ a month. I assume you were exaggerating a bit
After expenses and taxes the average American household brings in under $1000 dollars a month. It varies by region since cost of living and wages vary significantly. 25% of Americans have no net income after expenses, and 1/3 have a net worth of $0 or less. In euros that's less than €800 a month.
Essential goods usually refers to medical expenses, but it's also used to refer to food, rent and utilities. Even if you're employed and have insurance medical costs can be high.I'm not in a bad situation at all, I'm actually in a very good one, and I pay about $400 a month for insurance and have a yearly cap of $6500 in costs, not counting medicine or the actual cost of insurance (so I'll pay at least $4800, and at most $11,300+the cost of medicine+the cost of anything the insurance company thinks I didn't need after the fact. ). I've hit the max for the past two years, once because baby and again because baby got a nasty cough and they spent a little being observed for safety.
My example was not homeless people. That's what happens if you become elderly and have financial difficulties earlier in life here. A lot of Americans simply can't afford to stop working, ever. I don't remember a time I haven't seen at least a person who should definitely be retired doing menial labor, and wheelchair and oxygen is common enough that it's not really not worthy.
Besides, I know many people doing odd jobs and working a couple days a week. Working this way allows them to safely rent a house, to have food and extra money for diversion as well as saving up for times in which there may be no available jobs. Most of them can probably go on one year without working with the minimal savings they have.
That is not how it is in America. Housing, food and recreation on a part time job is actually a laughable fantasy, and that's before you add "having savings".
America's economic disparity and lack of social safety net makes risk taking exceptionally dangerous.
You seem like a worldly and well traveled person. Use that experience to understand that there's a rational reason Americans tend to be risk adverse in this regard. We either actually can't afford it, or we can't afford it without a shocking risk.
Just in case you missed the point of what I was saying: I don't think we should have a baby killing machine. The maker of a tool has a responsibility to take at least reasonable precautions to ensure their tool is used safely. In the case of an autonomous lawnmower, they typically have a lot of sensors to avoid stuff, are shaped so they can't easily run over things they're not supposed to, and in many cases have blades on pivots that while they could hurt someone are able to do significantly less damage.
Being "just a tool" doesn't exempt something from being critically judged because it could be an unsafe tool by an irresponsible maker. The tool maker has a responsibility to make their tool safely and properly, and if they can't they need to not make the tool.
It's an autonomous lawnmower: a thing. How's it supposed to know if it's supposed to run something over? That baby obviously needed better parental supervision, and our terrible system failed, but don't blame the tool.
Legal responsibility lies with the company that produced the tool, made it in such a way that it will confidently engage in roleplay that plausibly mimicks a dangerous mental break, advertised it as smart and competent, and didn't even out any sort of safeguards or fallback to check that something is roleplay if it shows signs of being worrying. And this is them failing to do so after multiple incidents of the software being unhealthy for people with certain mental conditions.
It may just be a tool, but we regularly hold tool makers responsible for building tools that hurt people.
Most of the country is not New York, and transportation is more expensive. Basing travel costs off of the cost at a major transit hub isn't representative.
France requires you to file your visa applications before travel. If you show up on a travel visa and then apply for long term residency they'll reject it because you didn't follow the rules.A residency visa requires €1400 a month in income, so good luck getting residency with €1000 cash. Particularly when a significant portion of Americans don't have that to begin with.
No one said you had to be rich to leave America and move to France, just that it's not available to most Americans.
I don't see how losing one year of income could noticeably ruin your life
Says the person who is obviously not American.https://www.norc.org/research/library/most-working-americans-would-face-economic-hardship-if-they-miss.html Remember that we don't have a social safety system here like most countries do. Being unemployed means you don't get medical treatment , and even if you're employed the costs can be devastating in their own right. You can end up homeless, where housing assistance can have a wait list of more than a year, if it even exists. Same for food assistance. The only medical care you're entitled to is that the ER must do the minimum necessary to stabilize a life threatening condition.That's what's looming over Americans when we weigh taking financial risks. Loosing a month of income can create an unrecoverable financial burden.
That's what I mean when I say most Americans can't afford to fail at something like that. They may be able to afford to do it, and it might work out, but if it doesn't the consequences are crippling.
How often do you see an elderly person in a wheelchair with an oxygen tank doing menial labor at a supermarket or hardware store?
I think you're conflating the wealth of the nation and the wealth of individuals. Saying that if you really want to go to France it's possible, you just need to sell or abandon your belongings, walk away from your debt, abandon your family and travel by steerage on a cargo ship to get to France and live illegally because you don't qualify for any type of long term residency and you also can no longer return home because you'll be homeless and left to die in the street is... Unrealistic.A very significant number of Americans simply do not have the resources to fail at something like that.
Please elaborate on how LLMs can functionally replace politicians, elected representatives, lawyers, or political activists.
I really want to hear how you think that works.
To be completely fair, rising rates of measles prior to 2024 or even 2016 and the general increase in antivaxer sentiment for decades has nothing to do with rfks death by measles being a win for society.
It's entirely unsurprising, considering people voted for a person who said they were going to put an antivaxer in charge of stopping communicable disease.
It would be a net positive for society if rfk died of measles.
Yeah, but then he's just ... Down there. Poor lake doesn't deserve that.
Yup. The risk of someone breaking into your house and stealing your post-it note is vastly different from someone guessing your password, and the risk changes again when it's a post-it note on your work computer monitor.
One of the best things you can do with your critical passwords is put them on a piece of paper with no other identifying information and then put that piece of paper in your wallet. Adults in modern society are usually quite good at keeping track of and securing little sheets of paper.
I'm paranoid, so I put mine on an encrypted NFC card that I printed to look like an expired gift card to a store that went out of business. It's got what I need to bootstrap the recovery process if I loose all my MFA tokens (I keep another copy in a small waterproof box with things like my car title. It's labeled "important documents: do not lose" and kept unlocked so any would be thief feels inclined to open it and see it's worthless to them rather than taking the box to figure that out somewhere else. The home copy is important because there's vaguely plausible scenarios where I lose both my phone and wallet at the same time. )
Stealing my laptop and getting my stuff is a significantly larger risk than me leaving my computer on and unattended without locking the screen.
Passkeys are a good trend because they're just about the only security enhancement in recent memory that increases security and usability at the same time.
And you still manage to miss the point entirely.
Your party is awash in the blood of Gaza's children.
There's no American political party that isn't by the standards of "supporting Israel or didn't stop them is complicity in genocide".
your voters continue to support the leaders that make this holocaust possible.
What leaders would those be? Which Democrat in charge of the Senate, house, executive branch or judicial branch is responsible in your eyes? Has having the Democrats hold next to no political power done anything to help?
When your time comes, I wonder how you'll feel when others point and laugh?
And here's the biggest misunderstanding of all: you're entirely misunderstanding why people don't have sympathy because you're mad at Democrats. If Democrats overwhelming voted for and supported the genocide of Democrats people would be justifiably unsympathetic when they got what exactly what they voted for. That's the key part you don't seem to get. Person wants X to happen. People tell them X will be bad for them. They vote for X. X happens. Person is unhappy X happened. No one feels sympathy for them that X happened.
It's hard to feel sorry for someone getting precisely what they asked for.
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Why do you think violence would accelerate things? They don't need the violence to be real to react to it, so if it would accelerate things for them they would just do it. Likewise, protest or strikes aren't going to magically be treated as peaceful. They'll just call it an insurrection regardless. . It's why a lot of people hesitate to act. There's a big difference between a protest where your local police department might use tear gas if you stick around after they tell you to leave and a protest where the president is encouraging random nut jobs to hit you with a car, has encouraged your police department to shoot you, and is sending the national guard to shoot you.