Repeated days without enough sleep is the real problem. It catches up on you. Sleep debt is cumulative over a week or more.

Yeah. That's why I still give it an upvote. Mods shouldn't be deciding what information we get to process in a news community. News and data is new and data. This optional truth is getting out of hand in every political direction.

Doing the good work here. Balanced and fair reporting in a see if dishonesty. (No, this isn't sarcasm)

Thanks!

So you want to get beaten almost to death by him with his cane? (Had to double check I was on Lemmy before using that string of words. I don't need another misunderstood reddit ban)

I honestly think he would be most disappointed that the White House doesn't still stink of cheese. And he would probably try to fist fight Trump.

In a way, I think I would like seeing him get dumped on the GOP for a year or two. Of course I am only guessing that he would align himself with that party. Purely for political opportunity, not because his ideology would match theirs per se.

I met this girl working for the summer in a resort town (both employees at the same place). At first I didn't think she was my type, but we kept getting into conversations no matter what we were doing. An acquaintance suggested that I ask her out and we could all hang out watching a movie (we were all just out of highschool). That was a mistake because it was ghetto af. Turned out the friend (ok she was an ex, but she was in a relationship) was interested in getting back with me and was trying to sabotage my chances with this girl. That night I leaned in for a little hug as I dropped her off at her doorstep (next door to my own). She aggressively shoved her hand out to shake mine. I was full of red flags and she was right to push back.

We've been married for 20+ years now.

Obviously there is a lot more to that story but seriously looking back I cannot understand how I ended up with this amazing woman. I was an absolute mess of a person and she sort of saw through that and gave me something to work for. But I caution anyone thinking they can fix someone or use my experience. It just flat out doesn't work that way. My marriage had the odds of working that winning the lottery has. It did, but it was absolutely wreckless for us both at the time and we are incredibly fortunate we didn't destroy our lives and our kids lived in the process.

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How do you patch to remove ads?

This!

Just yesterday I had my locomotive catch on fire (I drive trains). After hours of dealing with the fire department, and then getting new engines brought out and set up to replace it so the train could get moving again, we got in the van to go home. And what did I see on a huge big screen TV inside the house next to where we were dealing with all of this? Mario64.

Air conditioner. Split HVAC system is the kind that has an external evaporator that connects to a small wall mounted inside heater/air conditioner with just a small pipe. So you don't have to give up a window, and it uses an extremely efficient heat pump to both cool in the summer, and heat on the winter. Some of them don't heat.

We can dream, friend. We can dream.

It's going to be fun watching all of these traitors stand trials for their crimes.

It's me, I'm the problem... (Sorry I'm old and couldn't help it)

Alpha male is the easiest way a person can say they either had shitty parents or they ignored everything they were taught to be shitty all by themselves.

Going back to work after my two days off.

Now I'm sad.

No. The definition of capitalism has been utterly confused by politicians who couldn't steal and corrupt under its basic principles. Which makes it really freaking hard to explain the best practices for economics (as in what has been proven over and over again to work best overall) when every word is overlayed with a false definition. In reality democratic socialism is just a marketable name for what capitalism really is.

Capitalism is the idea that if the government doesn't own everyone, and everyone is free to work for their own living, and (here is the key part) there are laws and regulations to prevent anyone from taking advantage of anyone else (that's the free market part) then everyone will work together to create the best economy possible. One where there is no central planning (as opposed to a king appointing a Lord over an area), just everyone free to do whatever they do best.

Our current economy isn't capitalism. It is too far to the right into oligarchy (which gives corrupt control to a few and everyone else is unable to participate in the market freely) to be a free market economy. We absolutely must move to the left, introducing regulations and investing in public infrastructure and education to return to real capitalism. But I doubt there is any chance of that in our lifetimes. Not without some terrible revolution and all the failures that will bring before we return to sanity.

To be clear, I am not arguing for anything you probably associate with capitalism as being good or best. I am arguing that no one ever should have associated those things with capitalism, and that the misdirection was created decades ago so the wealthy could subjugate us under a manufactured income gap and economic oppression.

I recently quit caffeine (a long with major diet changes and exercise, I'm down fifty pounds). I was a daily energy drink abuser. Sometimes more than one a day. I had my first Red Bull in four months the other day. That's how I learned that the massive cramps I was getting in my hands and feet was from the caffeine.

From what I've gathered you get banned if you use a VPN. If not immediately, eventually.

Yep. That's pretty much exactly how I feel. American economics ispl pretty far from capitalism, having too few balanced regulations and allowing extremely one sided (wealthy) dominance of the market. Which is the exact opposite of a free market (one where every party in a transaction has equal and fair power in the negotiation. Free market has absolutely nothing to do with that nonsense about being free from regulations or government interference).

I think it is worth considering that every single b-rated movie has a huge pile of things they had to cut that probably made them cried for days and will regret cutting for the rest of their lives. Movies cost a fortune to make, and every single element costs more than you can imagine. At a certain point it is the choice between shitty sound or abandoning big enough plot points to kill the whole project.

Excellent analysis. I often remind people that every economy that has allowed the wealthy to rule unrestrained for long enough has undergone a socialist revolution, which resulted in horrible conditions. The only exception was England, which adopted a new economy invented by Smith (capitalism, the most misunderstood/misrepresented economic concept on the planet right now). We don't have capitalism in the US, we have slid back to what it replaced, which is a class system ruled by autocracy and oligarchy.

I think people often fail to understand just what they are asking the wealthy to give up. Yes, they should give it up, and never should have gotten it. But they have the power to prevent the government from taking it away from them, and that blinds them to the dangers of revolt. For them those changes would feel similar to how the average person would feel about inviting a random homeless person into their home. Sure, most of us could make that work. We probably have the room even if it is a squeeze, and it might even benefit us if they help around the house (my parents used to take in homeless people and give them off jobs in the hotel I grew up in. They usually stayed for a few weeks to a couple of months. They paid for their room and board, gave them free meals at the restaurant next door, and an hourly wage). But most of us will never do that (including me) for a number of reasons. Same with the wealthy. They could give up their profits, they definitely have enough to never need another dime. But the concept is so abhorrent to them they will never even consider it.