I for one believe that everyone is an addict, or anyone can become addicted to whatever. There is no pathology or dna, that’s just the way the human brain works.
Not every brain works the same way. Not every brain responds to chemicals the same way. You can’t just ‘believe’ those realities away.
Alcohol for example. Everybody in the western world drink, it’s even part of our culture and education in some countries. Some might become alcoholic after 2 years of drinking, some after 69 years. This difference is just life.
There are so many factors involved. But washing them all away as ‘just life’ to justify your beliefs is lazy.
Im in Canada and have friends who believed his second term would be mostly as feckless as his first.
They didn’t understand how project 2025 meant he was going to be coming out of the gate with someone else’s agenda with all of the key players, including scotus in his back pocket. It all lined up to mean shit was going to go down fast and hard.
Look where we are one year in. 3 more years to subvert or nullify the next election.
By making the American poor people pay them, they transfer more wealth to the captital class by contracting out jobs to their buddies. Also, it huts sales for the exporters, so its win win for him.
Just remember, anyone, or anything can be posting those ‘truths’. There is no way to verify it’s actually him, or even his intent being represented by them.
Renting in some cases is a valuable service to offer, but its also a bit of a chicken and egg problem.
When a huge portion of the population is renting only because they can’t afford to buy, the few people/businesses that can afford to buy rental properties are essentially just extracting value from renters. Getting paid to do nothing like a parasite.
Makes them get ahead faster than renters, and they buy up more and more properties. Driving up prices for both owners and renters.
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That makes the name pretty clear and meaningful entirely outside of the existence of a Slim Shady.
If they choose to not vaccinate their child, fine. But they shouldn’t then expose other people to their children’s infections.
It gets messier when they are communicable before symptoms are showing. But if my Sally and your Bobby were at a party with 10 other kids, and the next day bobby is showing symtoms, and then a week later a binch of kids at the party are as well, then they should be held responsible.
Especially if they had reason to believe Bobby had been exposed to it days prior.
Make your choices, but if your religious choices are that important to you, then account for how that impacts other choices you make, and don’t put other people at risk.
I don’t know for sure, but I imagine settling out of court, specifically avoids setting a precedent. Which in this case means if they want to run it, they’d not have the precedent to protect them, but also have to choose settling, or paying to fight an overtly partisan court system right up to the supreme court.
They’ve capitulated enough for us to know that was never going to be N option.
No network is going to do more to draw the attention of the administration, than allow late night hosts to make jokes about him, and even that isn’t going to last much longer I expect.
He does care about the law, just in the conservative way.
“Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.”
I'm going to take all the sacrifices my parents made to help ensure I have a successful life.
I'm going to have no problem getting a great job with, or without education.
I'm going to get into the housing market on a basic salary no problem.
I'm going to bring kids into this world, and make sure they earn their own way.
I'm going to shame them into leaving home as early as possible, make them rent for most of their life and wonder why they don't buy a house so they can make money on their investments.
Oh, by the way, i'll make a ton more money on other peoples kids paying my second, third investment properties mortgage off with their rent.
Then i'll live a glorious retirement, fully aware that my kids retirement is probably not going to happen ever.
I think that is a tough one. As long as we accept the value of a thing is what people are willing to pay for it, the prices will always climb.
For essential products and services, the value should be based only on the effort required to provide or produce it.
The main reason we’re dealing with our current inflation has everything to do with the amount of cash flowing upwards from the working class to the boardroom and shareholders.
The prices are going up on essential items because people can’t afford to not buy gas, or not eat, or not rent. They need those to stay employable, and they slowly sacrificed everything else to keep those. So the price goes up, and people keep buying it, telling the heartless corporations that they can raise the prices more.
Now we have significant portions of the population using short term loans or payment plans to buy their next weeks groceries.
I think the idea is if you’re guaranteed a subsistence pay, then you are free to devote your time to creating something. Art, a business, a community, whatever that makes your life meaningful, rather than devoting 90% of your time working for someone elses profit, travelling to work, resting to be able to work, and eating to continue to work.
You want to talk about bare subsistence, that is what most people are doing now in terms of time as a resource.
But the browser is just an app like any other. Apps have notification systems tied to the OSs notification system. Each app independently decides what they think it important to take advantage of that notification system.
The OS should have a notification system that supports mute/deferrals, and other apps, games, media players or whatever else the use wants should use that system for the users benefit.
Not every brain works the same way. Not every brain responds to chemicals the same way. You can’t just ‘believe’ those realities away.
There are so many factors involved. But washing them all away as ‘just life’ to justify your beliefs is lazy.