Foreign investors and real estate speculators are squeezing the middle class dry. The only options out there if you don’t want to live in the middle of bumfuck nowhere are either really really old properties, really really shitty properties, or too far above your means to be able to afford it.
Renting should be the most affordable option, yet if you actually look at the numbers, you are paying almost as much as the value of an entire mortgage with one monthly rent check in some areas. Properties built in the 60’s that are falling apart and lacking modern amenities should not be going for $2,500/month, but that’s the reality I live in right now. I’m on the fucking brink and I’d do anything to have a chance at climbing on the real estate ladder right about now. I don’t care if my house never gains a cent in value, at least it would be mine.
When I first started this show I found it to be a really awkward mix of comedy and seriousness. It had some jokes thrown it at the most inopportune times as some kind of comic relief from a really serious situation. Perhaps the first half of the first season was actually a bit rough or maybe the show just grew on me, but by...
The Orville is to Star Trek as Spaceballs was to Star Wars. A humorous parody, but I can appreciate the effort that they put in to have the show take itself a bit more seriously during dramatic scenes. I enjoyed it, although I only saw two seasons.
Justice Elena Kagan declined Thursday to outright answer the question of whether Congress could impose an ethics code on the Supreme Court, but she did allow that it could do “various things” to regulate the high court....
When the check against the highest level of the judicial system is amending the constitution, and the partisan split ensures that congress will never agree to ratify any new amendment, it’s functionally not a check anymore.
That’s the sad part. Trump couldn’t have possibly done this alone. It was the result of countless failures of both the moral fortitude of our political ruling class and the system of checks and balances itself. Even if Trump the Traitor takes the fall for this, the framework for his authoritarian ascension still remains firmly in place, and the next demagogue to come around will have all of Trump’s dumb mistakes as a roadmap to avoid.
Do you dislike career politicians because you think they are somehow more corruptible than your average Joe Schmoe whom you’d like to share a beer with? Or do you just hate the idea of government being run by people who know what the fuck they’re doing?
Trump was not a career politician and he did a horrible job. Maybe you should reevaluate your criteria for good leadership qualities.
'ello there! I have my 11 year badge on my primary reddit account. I haven’t bothered to go back to reddit, and I don’t really have much desire. I’m splitting my time pretty evenly between Lemmy and Squabbles.
I also appreciate that neither of these communities have been completely co-opted by psycho alt-right nutjobs like Voat was.
edit: my biggest regret was that I was something like 12k comment karma away from making it to centuryclub :( that was kind of a big deal as a casual poster who usually showed up to threads way too late.
Yes. Quite often, sadly. Usually when I’m driving, but also when I see someone blatantly littering in front of a perfectly good trash can or absent-mindedly blocking an aisle at the grocery store.
Integrity is no longer valued in our society because it’s an intangible virtue that you can’t directly benefit from, so many people toss out that decorum for marginal gains. The reason I throw my trash away in a trash can is because I respect the social contract and I don’t want to leave a mess for someone else to have to clean (even if it might be their job to clean it) not because I’m afraid of being judged or confronted by others, which I think is the only thing keeping most people on the right side of the equation these days.
The Shopping Cart Theory is a fantastic way to determine if you are dealing with somebody who doesn’t respect the social contract, and indeed, that attitude transcends mere niceties and seeps into their personality - laziness, selfishness, and a general lack of respect for other people’s time and property.
I like how Gen Z has the easiest litmus for qualification. If you were old enough to remember 9/11, you’re not a Zoomer.
It’s a lot trickier for Millennials, because everyone disagrees on when it starts, but most people agree that they grew up during a time where access to technology was just starting to take off.
Tesla has consistently exaggerated the driving range of its electric vehicles, reportedly leading car owners to think something was broken when actual driving range was much lower than advertised. When these owners scheduled service appointments to fix the problem, Tesla canceled the appointments because there was no way to...
Karma was pointless. Nobody cared at all. Upvotes and downvotes are fine and useful to be able to see both. Karma is a worthless system and encourages spamming low-effort garbage memes and endless reposting of the same shit.
It seems strange to me that people have pride in the circumstances of their birth, something which they have no control over. Most Americans became Americans by doing nothing more than sliding out of their mother’s womb. It’s one thing to be proud to be a citizen if you worked hard and took the citizenship test to earn it, or during certain times where citizenship actually matters like when doing one’s civic duties such as voting or attending jury service, but the people who go around boasting about how proud they are to be American always seem so phony to me. What exactly are they proud of? Why are they proud of it? So bizarre.
You can polish a turd, but at the end of the day it’ll just be shiny shit.
Rebranding won’t save the sinking ship that is Twitter. Making it a better platform might actually save it, but Musk is not interested in that, he just wants to make money.
Hunter Biden’s lawyer filed an ethics complaint in the House of Representatives on Friday against Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene for reaching a “new level of abhorrent behavior” after she displayed sexually explicit pictures of him during a hearing Wednesday.
A more plausible explanation is that a visitor on a tour brought it and left it there, and Occam’s Razor says that the simplest explanation is most likely the correct one.
But that doesn’t feed your insane narrative about Biden Crime Family, so I can see why you’d rather live in a fantasy world where you feel vindicated for having bad opinions.
Because people high on drugs are known for their excellent decision making and clear-mindedness, right?
Regardless, whoever left it there probably didn’t intend to leave it there. Maybe they left it in there along with their cell phone (which gets checked at the west wing entrance when you go in for a tour) and then forgot to grab it when they went to leave.
I guess we’ll never know, since the investigation closed with zero suspects.
Thankfully they are making it super easy for me to resist placing pixels this year. Doesn’t work on old.reddit, only works on new reddit or their official mobile app. No way in hell I’m downloading that piece of crap app and I don’t feel like swapping back and forth between old and new site designs.
Reeks of desperation. Thankfully, it looks like everybody knows what to do, although I think there will be the very natural counter-protest where contrarian redditors will say “Can’t we just paint flags without complaining about the API or Spez?”. We’ll have to wait and see I guess.
Johnson & Johnson sued the Biden administration over Medicare’s new powers to slash drug prices, making it the third pharmaceutical company to challenge the controversial provision of the Inflation Reduction Act.
empowered Medicare to negotiate drug prices for the first time in the program’s six-decade history.
This is long overdue. Both my parents are on Medicare and they say the prices for some commonplace things are truly absurd, and it all has to do with the fact that the government legally can’t negotiate the price, so whatever price the pharmaceutical companies set is what gets paid.
Allowing the government to negotiate the price would benefit 99.9% of people and harm only CEOs and billionaires, so you can expect this to fail spectacularly.
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The new system to replace Reddit coins and awards is here. You got out at the right time. (www.reddit.com)
Read all about it at the above link. There’s way too much to process here. This is going to be wild.
USB-C confirmed for the iPhone 15 in new leaked part images (www.macworld.com)
Musk Goes From Bragging About Weight Training to Claiming He’s Injured After Zuckerberg Pushes to Confirm Cage Fight (www.mediaite.com)
'Renters Are Struggling': Economists Back Tenant-Led Push for Federal Rent Control (www.commondreams.org)
Your thoughts on The Orville? (lemmy.world)
When I first started this show I found it to be a really awkward mix of comedy and seriousness. It had some jokes thrown it at the most inopportune times as some kind of comic relief from a really serious situation. Perhaps the first half of the first season was actually a bit rough or maybe the show just grew on me, but by...
'We are not imperial': Justice Kagan says Supreme Court still subject to checks and balances (www.cnn.com)
Justice Elena Kagan declined Thursday to outright answer the question of whether Congress could impose an ethics code on the Supreme Court, but she did allow that it could do “various things” to regulate the high court....
Mega Thread - Donald Trump Pleads Not Guilty to Conspiring to Defraud the United States in Arraignment - Washington DC (lemmy.world)
Trump has been charged by the Department of Justice with the following four counts:...
Trump dominates DeSantis in 2024 poll with third place way behind (www.axios.com)
This stood out to me:...
How does everyone here feel about foldable phones?
Previously on Lemmy:...
Sound Off: How many 10+ year redditors have left the site?
I was just browsing a thread on c/nfl looking for new mods. There were multiple 12+ year Redditors there offering to help....
Do you ever despair at the apparent lack of regard for the "social contract" by so many?
In this case, I’m referring to the notion that we all make minor sacrifices in our daily interactions in service of a “greater good” for everyone....
Boomers v Millennials (Sarah's Scribbles - Sarah C. Andersen) (i.imgur.com)
Sources:...
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Tesla exaggerated EV range so much that drivers thought cars were broken (www.reuters.com)
Tesla has consistently exaggerated the driving range of its electric vehicles, reportedly leading car owners to think something was broken when actual driving range was much lower than advertised. When these owners scheduled service appointments to fix the problem, Tesla canceled the appointments because there was no way to...
stop asking for a karma system (lemm.ee)
Most young people are no longer proud to be Americans, poll finds (www.axios.com)
Overall, 39% of U.S. adults say they are “extremely proud” to be American in the most recent poll....
Musk's new idea (slrpnk.net)
Hunter Biden lawyer files complaint after Marjorie Taylor Greene shows Congress nude photos (www.usatoday.com)
Hunter Biden’s lawyer filed an ethics complaint in the House of Representatives on Friday against Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene for reaching a “new level of abhorrent behavior” after she displayed sexually explicit pictures of him during a hearing Wednesday.
/r/place going full-on French Revolution now
Current state of r/place (lemmy.world)
r/place is back... (www.reddit.com)
Johnson & Johnson sues Biden administration over Medicare drug price negotiations (www.cnbc.com)
Johnson & Johnson sued the Biden administration over Medicare’s new powers to slash drug prices, making it the third pharmaceutical company to challenge the controversial provision of the Inflation Reduction Act.