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Mola Yam posted:oh you thought rich people could face consequences for their financial decisions? gently caress u 
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Apr 9, 2023 16:05
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The virgin train nerd: *wah!wah!* You can't fix climate change without massive societal and economic reforms. The chad Elon stan: haha I'm saving the world with my $200,000 toy that hasn't blown up yet.
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Apr 9, 2023 16:11
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they are doing a good job rebranding mobile homes
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Apr 9, 2023 16:25
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Archduke Frantz Fanon posted:in the end gently caress jack keorauc and his dumb book i wish they did publish it in scroll form so i could use it as toilet paper Yes! YES!! LET'S CROWD-loving-SOURCE THIS!!!
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Apr 9, 2023 16:26
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is that… the home? that’s not tiny at all?
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Apr 9, 2023 16:28
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euphronius posted:they are doing a good job rebranding mobile homes seeing a lot of “I live in a van and it’s total cool” social media posts the last few months, concerning
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Apr 9, 2023 16:29
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Gunshow Poophole posted:is that… the home? You've not seen it from another perspective. It's only 2 foot wide.
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Apr 9, 2023 16:33
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welcome to my vaulted ceilings 14 foot tall mobile doublewide home, it’s so tiny!
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Apr 9, 2023 16:33
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Happy Easter. realtimeinequality.org Have fun playing with that website full of stats.
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Apr 9, 2023 16:33
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BRAKE FOR MOOSE posted:Preaching to the choir here but nobody should have to process grocery costs constantly and nobody has to feel bad when they're earning enough that they're beyond that. That so many of us grew up worrying about feeding ourselves is a huge problem. All within reason and not accounting for like an endless supply of prime ribeye, but the single biggest benefit of having a well-paying job is not having to pay attention to every grocery store flyer, not having to count costs as I'm putting everything in my cart, not having certain fruits like berries be completely off limits because they're too expensive per calorie, being able to eat fish besides the most poisoned tilapia, etc. I still have a lot of habits like buying meat on sale and freezing it, but when I hit the income that I could just put what I wanted in my cart, my stress just plummeted. Everyone should have that for food, housing, and health care.
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Apr 9, 2023 16:34
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Ardennes posted:Granted, I would also argue that providing decent universal health care, affordable food, and housing is actually quite doable and you don’t even need a socialist government to do it. It is just incapable with the mindset of the American elite. our regime of constant precarity is deliberately engineered in order to keep labor disciplined
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Apr 9, 2023 16:38
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Tiny houses like that are a great metaphor for where we are as a society: luxury bullshit finishes with no foundation.
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Apr 9, 2023 16:42
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Gunshow Poophole posted:is that… the home? Article says 530 square feet so the picture is most likely bullshit
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Apr 9, 2023 16:43
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BRAKE FOR MOOSE posted:Preaching to the choir here but nobody should have to process grocery costs constantly and nobody has to feel bad when they're earning enough that they're beyond that. That so many of us grew up worrying about feeding ourselves is a huge problem. All within reason and not accounting for like an endless supply of prime ribeye, but the single biggest benefit of having a well-paying job is not having to pay attention to every grocery store flyer, not having to count costs as I'm putting everything in my cart, not having certain fruits like berries be completely off limits because they're too expensive per calorie, being able to eat fish besides the most poisoned tilapia, etc. I still have a lot of habits like buying meat on sale and freezing it, but when I hit the income that I could just put what I wanted in my cart, my stress just plummeted. Everyone should have that for food, housing, and health care. When I was a kid my dad would send me on a circuit of fast food restaurants within walking distance to steal toilet paper on the regular. Even the periods we look back on fondly in this country sucked for most people
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Apr 9, 2023 16:45
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TIL that BNPL plans are structured as 4 payments so as to avoid the 5-payment constrictions of the Truth in Lending Act:quote:Like every other lender in the BNPL space, Apple Pay Later loans are spread out in four installments. That number isn’t a coincidence, said Tom Y. Chang, an associate professor of finance and business economics at the USC Marshall School of Business.
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Apr 9, 2023 18:00
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Mr Hootington posted:Happy Easter. Neat site. The wealth distribution plot is fun:  TBH this is a little more static than I though it would be? The US has always been deeply unequal, but would have thought the top 10% would have gained a larger share of total wealth over the last 50 years of destroying labor. edit: I suppose the top 1% managed to grab an extra ~10% of total wealth over that period, that's a lot Also interesting to see how the bottom 50% went negative total wealth after 2008 and when they just barely got back to net positive after 2020 the Fed's decides to declare war on excess savings. Weird coincidence. Nocturtle has issued a correction as of 18:36 on Apr 9, 2023 |
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Apr 9, 2023 18:24
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ACES CURE PLANES posted:I feel like the same also applies to an order of magnitude in the opposite direction too. after being homeless for a long time (thrown out by parents multiple times) and at best working under the table i got one bottom barrel job with the state i clung to for a decade before i broke me enough i can't work anymore (well, i could work, if anywhere was willing to accept 'its a crapshoot whether she'll be able to work on any specific workday' rather than sticking to a schedule or plan and that's just not compatible with capital) i can't avoid accepting financial assistance but homelessness makes the act of doing so pathological as well still got rid of everything i owned that i enjoyed or was sentimental (or both, miss my legos lol), still live ready to get rid of everything at a moments' notice because of the obsessive expectation that the moment you accept financial assistance from someone you have set a moment in the future where the unstoppable growth of resentment will destroy that relationship forever. time forever converges to a horizon at the next crisis where the street (and i can't work, don't have a car and am trans; likely death) lurks and it can be pushed back months at best so long as i've had boxes in a move i've never unpacked them still, makes me drat grateful that ebt and medicaid are actually available in this state, because i've been at the scrounging scraps from leftovers and sneaking poo poo from pantries level before (you definitely do not ask for food if you are already relying of goodwill for shelter) and would not like to go back atelier morgan has issued a correction as of 18:40 on Apr 9, 2023 |
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Apr 9, 2023 18:37
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Demon Of The Fall posted:seeing a lot of “I live in a van and it’s total cool” social media posts the last few months, concerning The top comment in my city's subreddit on a post about someone getting evicted is tips for living in a car. Yeah I live on the west coast.
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Apr 9, 2023 19:17
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err posted:The top comment in my city's subreddit on a post about someone getting evicted is tips for living in a car. And goons want to destroy cars, think of all that emergency housing stock going to waste. You can’t live in a bicycle.
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Apr 9, 2023 21:30
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I think everything is very bad right now but it's better than it'll be in the future at least!
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Apr 9, 2023 21:39
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net work error posted:I think everything is very bad right now but it's better than it'll be in the future at least! You can't change the past. You can't control the future. You can live in the present.
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Apr 9, 2023 21:50
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Mr Hootington posted:You can't change the past. You can't control the future. You can live in the present. Can we afford to live in the present?
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Apr 9, 2023 22:19
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anonumos posted:Can we afford to live in the present? You can either be a programmer, marry a relatively wealthy boomer who subsidizes your videogame addiction, or die in poverty these are the only options
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Apr 9, 2023 22:20
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anonumos posted:Can we afford to live in the present? I see you, and hear you, but once you're making over 150k/yr youll understand how grateful you should be for the experience of being poor
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Apr 9, 2023 22:21
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Good Soldier Svejk posted:You can either be a programmer, marry a relatively wealthy boomer who subsidizes your videogame addiction, or die in poverty I don't know how you got the idea I married money or am a "kept man".
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Apr 9, 2023 22:46
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I wrote three options, don't let the beating of the tell-tale heart reveal some inner guilt It's archetypes. We have gently caress-tons of programmers, plenty of goons (e.g. Alec and Harton) whose wives paid their way through their posting crusades, and probably more broke goons than the other two combined
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Apr 9, 2023 22:53
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Mr Hootington posted:I don't know how you got the idea I married money or am a "kept man". maybe you should take a break and play some fortnite but please dont tell anyone about it
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Apr 9, 2023 22:59
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i have a normal job which pays alright. not great. maybe more at another job sometime. i think most goons are average., wait. isnt that how normal distributions work?
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Apr 9, 2023 22:59
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Good Soldier Svejk posted:I wrote three options, don't let the beating of the tell-tale heart reveal some inner guilt You said 2 days ago I was a kept man. That is far from the truth. My wife and I split the costs of all the bills, vacations, or other expenses. Money i spend on frivolous things is money I earned at my job.
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Apr 9, 2023 22:59
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Hon-hon-HUH?! https://twitter.com/unusual_whales/status/1645174832538202113?t=_5SZq-swGc9hMOMeDoj1nQ&s=19
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Apr 9, 2023 23:03
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China gonna loan them some yuan
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Apr 9, 2023 23:04
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jupiter pissing in his pants
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Apr 9, 2023 23:04
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Father Wendigo posted:Hon-hon-HUH?! Lol  From politico Europe https://t.co/FAtTKz0E6R
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Apr 9, 2023 23:06
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Mr Hootington posted:You said 2 days ago I was a kept man. That is far from the truth. My wife and I split the costs of all the bills, vacations, or other expenses. Money i spend on frivolous things is money I earned at my job. Alright man, noted in my comprehensive goon finances list. I've got no sense of you beyond you like to barb people (and presumably get barbed back, it seems to spark the fire in you) and you like fortnite but "supported unconditionally by spouse" is not really an own against most people unless they open themselves up for it
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Apr 9, 2023 23:07
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Father Wendigo posted:Hon-hon-HUH?! 
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Apr 9, 2023 23:10
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Father Wendigo posted:Hon-hon-HUH?! Hehehe
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Apr 9, 2023 23:14
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I would kill to be a kept man
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Apr 9, 2023 23:18
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RandolphCarter posted:I would kill to be a kept man I'm flirting with the prospect presently, it definitely has its ups but it'd suck to be caught on the back foot if/when things go sour Thats one of the main risks of dating above your station imo
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Apr 9, 2023 23:19
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RandolphCarter posted:I would kill to be a kept man this is essentially an accurate plot summary for almost every Dostoevsky novel also it continues to be funny the democrats are overseeing the death of american hegemony in all the ways they claimed Donald Trump would be
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Apr 9, 2023 23:20
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Father Wendigo posted:Hon-hon-HUH?! explain the significance for the dumb ie me
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