Keep on them. The troubled teen industry is full of schools popping up, abusing kids, ruining lives, raking in cash, getting shutting down, no one at the top getting in trouble, and they rinse and repeat.

IMO the thought sequence goes: I’ve had struggles in my life and I’ve always had the option to use drugs to deal with it, but I didn’t. And most people around me feel the same way. So when I see other people with struggles turn to drugs, it’s their own fault for not being as strong willed as me and my ingroup. And when drug users cause problems in our society, I don’t feel bad for whatever happens to them, because it’s their own fault.

But clearly not all life struggles are comparable, not everyone has the same system of support around them, not everyone has the same genetic predisposition to addictions, and probably 100 more variables.

But a war on X is rarely about everyone in a society coming together and deciding that we should crack down on X, and more about a party/demagogue using X as a scapegoat for real, systemic issues that they have no idea how to solve. People hear politician make loud, confident speech about solving all problems using war on X, and people say “sure, sounds reasonable, do that, just solve it.” Obviously it won’t, the question is just how much damage the demagogue will do before people catch on.

We’re talking federally, though. Trump isn’t repealing any state regulations, right?

MTG is sitting there acting so surprised and outraged when it was so plainly obvious for over a decade. It speaks volumes about her personality that she’s not devastatingly ashamed for being so incompetent. She and Tucker Carlson have the same sociopathic playbook: read which way the wind is blowing and ride it for all it’s worth.

Woah, I didn’t realize fusion would directly generate a current. I assumed it would be yet another way to boil water.

Also correlation is not causation. People living in denser cities both tend to lean left and have a higher cost of living, which makes a family less practical. People living in rural areas tend to lean right, have a lower cost of living, and live closer to more family, which makes starting a family of their own much easier.

Making it illegal to be efficient. Perfect example of why the US is too dumb to continue to exist.

He’s not saying he’ll do it. He’s trying to scare them into voting Republican by arguing that Democrats will imprison them all on BS charges if they get control of the house.

He’s literally arguing for a one party system though, so maybe that’s the quiet part you meant.

Is that true? Wikipedia says Geely only has 4.4%, 14.7% votes.

Edit: oooo “AB Volvo” vs “Volvo cars”. Dang.

TIL Polestar is majority owned by a Chinese holding company. Only 16% is Volvo.

Except that he’s arguing that it wasn’t news worthy, and the “deep state” made a big deal out of nothing to destroy Nixon’s presidency.

In other words, don’t believe your lying eyes.

So, wouldn’t it make more sense to say “fuck the US”? I assume you’re not saying “fuck the Olympics” just because Nazi Germany hosted it once for propaganda reasons, right?

That sounds like you’re describing someone who is only making a lemmy account because they see potential customers they want to advertise to.

That’s the exact reason I don’t want someone to make a lemmy account.

Either way you’re sorting. The difference is what value you’re using the sort by.

Greenland is now asking Trump to invade, hoping to secure a deal similar to the one Iran got.

citing the need for bodily autonomy for servicemembers

Also Hegseth,

No more beardos. The era of rampant and ridiculous shaving profiles is done.

He knows what he is.

Ah yeah, I misread that. I agree $500 is high for what it is, but it’s also kind of a novelty device that they’ll surely only make a relatively small number of to guage interest. The industry has shifted all of its manufacturing away from making flip phones cheap.

I would expect to pay $50 for a modern flip phone with hardware comparable to one from 20y ago. But this is running Sailfish OS, has a decent SoC, camera, DAC, and up to 64GB of RAM. This ain’t your grandma’s flip phone.

You don’t sound atypical to me. The millennial generation is buying houses later and starting families later, or not able or willing to do either one. $100k in the bank is doing far better than most your age. At least in the US, something like 50% of people are living paycheck to paycheck, and wouldn’t be able to pay a $1000 emergency expense.

Don’t take this as financial advice, but it seems there is evidence that all the housing speculation is nearing an end. There is a lot of supply that is currently just being sat on by companies who are hoping demand catches up again. But we’re starting to see a rise in foreclosure rates, and it’s suspected to go up through the year.

Many people in their 30s-40s have instead been spending their money on things like pokemon and sports betting. I recommend going to your bank or credit union and just putting the money in some kind of high yield savings account for now. Again, not financial advice, but I would not buy a house right now.

The potential exception would be if trump deliberately triggers mass inflation in an attempt to “offset” a market collapse. In which case…I don’t know how it shakes out in the end, but it can’t be good for anyone holding USD…

At first I was going to say, the 3 2 1 Backup rule won’t stop the planet from being destroyed by a meteor. But then I remembered the data on Voyager1.