I'm not sure where that part of the post comes from. The source says "The judge said he will apppoint(sic) an independent receiver to manage the dissolution of the corporations whose business certificates he canceled." Which I can only take to mean that the judge is doing the appointing, not Trump.
I don’t know what’s it’s like where you are, but there are definitely also a lot of young homeless people where I live. I don’t just mean house-less, I mean living in tents or worse.
It really sucks that so many people are suffering, and there isn’t even a good reason for it.
You can work your arse off day in, day out, only to get hit by someone driving drunk. Then, you get stuck on insufficient disability payments, even through you had no fault in what happened to you. Even if you manage get a decent court payout in a good country, you’re still probably looking at a lot of expenses accessibility-wise (ESPECIALLY if you live somewhere like the US.) A lot of that stuff isn’t cheap. Plus, you would have to try to make that payment last for the rest of your life. Food, bills, rent, clothing, and more would all still be costs you would have.
It sucks that so many people push back against any kind of support for these individuals. It really makes you wonder what they would do if they woke up with the shoe on the other foot.
Honestly, maybe this is an effective strategy. Rather than continue to try to convince them to care about others, we just have to convince them that they are in danger themselves. Republicans discovered that fear motivates boomers better than avocado motivates millennials, so it’s time to start using the tools we have available to drive the point home.
And then we can finally get our hands on all that sweet avocado and toast…
I don’t know whether they’re trying to stir outrage to keep their narrative in the public sphere, or realistically attempting to solicit new members from the general public at a shopping mall. Either way it’s moronic and wrong.
We are not shitty at voting, we are shitty to keep supporting the right wing duopoly. Not voting is a choice, and voting 3rd party is a choice. If the 76% of democrats that do not want Biden to run voted 3rd party they would win. People choosing to vote their fears instead of their conscience is whats holding us back
What the actual fuck?! When I read this story a month ago I was furious because they claimed he was out of the car and lunging at them with a knife when they shot him through a closed car window. Mistaking someone for being out of the car and lunging at you when they are inside the car with the window rolled up is not the same as (claiming to) think a knife is a gun. So, you get to lie about what you were scared about and then revise your lie to something more plausible later on? So much fucking bullshit.
Also, it should be noted that the police only "walked back" the statement about him being out of the car when the family went door to door and found ring cam footage that he was in the car. And they had to do this because the police wouldn't share body camera footage with the family.
Noone is disenfranchised. By choosing to elect an executive nationally it only makes sense to popularise the vote. Why should Wyoming citizens have more sway than California (per capita)
Democrats in Texas might as well not even vote under the current winner take all system. If the electoral points were awarded proportionally then Clinton would have won against Trump.
Why should Wyoming citizens have more sway than California (per capita)
That’s only happening because the size of the HoR was set at 435 in 1929. Fix that and suddenly Wyoming’s 3 EC votes would be a drop in the bucket…even per Capita.
I go out of my way not to buy from Amazon. It’s not some altruistic move - about 3 or 4 years ago I started noticing how little oversight Amazon was placing on the products listed, and you’d be lucky if anything (especially tech) was actually what you’d ordered and not some knockoff or used.
I think I’ve only bought one or two things from Amazon (other than digital books) in that time frame. I always look to buy directly from the vendor, if I can.
What concerns me is that I’ve started noticing more and more companies seem to only sell on Amazon. I see this as a mistake, as it hands over more control to one sales channel. I understand a new company doing this, but companies who are well established should maintain their own sales channel directly with their customers, even if they also sell on Amazon.
Recently I bought items from Wahl, Nike and Anker, directly from them. Wahl has products you can only get from their site. I always feel more comfortable just ordering directly from the company when I can, and I notice some companies seem to get that.
If I order directly from the company, I also get better support. I have an actual order number from the company, and correspondence/confirmation from the company. Special deals work better (the same deals on Amazon sometimes have hiccups).
They hand it over to them because of how Amazon operates.
Let’s say you’re a small shop and you ship out oven mitts. Paying for storage of your oven mitts can get expensive. So instead of paying for storage, you can actually have Amazon store them in their warehouse and allow people to buy directly from there. You don’t have to pay Amazon extra for storage, just their standard fees.
It does make sense if you have a business model that doesn’t support storing your products.
I don’t like it, but it makes sense for businesses.
Unless it’s changed, I’m pretty sure you do have to pay extra for amazon to store items. It’s not a lot, but when i dabbled in selling on az using them to store and ship had an extra fee involved.
And they only ever ship via UPS or some courier that fucks you with extra fees at the door and won’t deliver if you’re not there to receive it. Also they conveniently deliver only during regular working hours when people aren’t home. Also they cost twice as much as Canada post. Also they’ll simply return your item to the seller and keep the money you paid for shipping without even fucking delivering it because they “tried” to deliver it when you weren’t home.
I will buy a company’s product on Amazon instead of on their own site just so it can be shipped by Canada post and show up in the mailbox like a normal fucking parcel.
I’m shopping more and more on aliexpress. Same stuff pretty much. All made at the same places. You just have to be patient about the shipping (though that’s definitely getting quicker).
I’m happy to bag on Amazon any day of the week, but most of what you buy aren’t cheap knock offs. No I wouldn’t buy Micro SDs or other generic electronics but for the most part you get what you pay for.
I’ve completely switched to eBay for most purchases. Yes they are also a giant company, but more focused on used goods and small sellers.
It’s often cheaper than Amazon too, and most major brands have their own official store page. Certified refurbished items come with a 1 or 2 year warranty. I always buy used if it’s available, and from the smallest seller, so it recirculates products and helps everyday people who are trying to declutter.
Selling fees have gone up over the years (about 13%, but still much lower than Amazon). And eBay does a lot more advertising for new products now, so I’m not so hopeful long-term. If there was a smaller company offering the same benefits I would switch, but so far nothing comes close (in the US at least).
I’m telling you what - eBay seems to really care about its buyers. In every dispute I’ve had I’ve generally came out happy. Keep the item and full refund or return free of charge.
Almost every time I find something interesting and unique on Amazon I can find it from the manufacturer at their own site for less, even after shipping
There’s been some fantastic work in tech about electronic peripherals mostly being rebranded Asian stuff. If you want to follow the rabbit hole there’s stuff you can get for insanely cheap that’s the same as American brand name quality. (because the insides are literally the same)
If you look closely you can see who fulfills the order and what “store” is selling it. An official brand store will usually be reliable if the brand is.
Due to amazons stock mixing practices, You could still get a counterfit/return/broken item no matter what seller you order from if its fulfilled by amazon
That’s why I mentioned fulfillment. However official store items are supposed to have a unique identifier to stop anyone else’s product getting sent. If you buy (for example) an Anker phone battery and get an Ankre phone battery instead then it was because Amazon specifically injected that. And if true that’s another thing to go after them for. But I’ve never had that problem as long as (in the case example) I buy from the official Anker store front on Amazon. Now if buy from 123Electronics it gets bad. And worse if fulfillment is through Amazon on that third party seller.
the problem isnt getting an Ankre Phone battery when you order Anker
the problem is getting battery that says Anker, but came from a ripoff factory with no safety and ends up burning your house dow, because the box and the internals are identical, thus counterfit… not knockoff.
Or, like one motorcycle guy on youtube got, an official box with a precise weight of rocks in it…TWICE.
Okay that’s literally theft at that point. I highly doubt Amazon has a policy of replacing products with a weight of rocks meant to fool their own sensors.
No ones claimed amazons the one putting fake stuff in boxes… I’ve said, repeatedly, that the issue is their stock mixing. Private sellers, returns, brand names, all their stuff is mixed together, without any indicator of what originated from who, Which leads to cases like this.
Have you seen how their system works? Everything is individually tagged. Sitting it next to other things isn’t an issue. And getting a box of rocks is something that can happen to any retailer.
That being said, if I was in a trolley dilemma with one Nazi versus five racists I would still take out the five racists with the trolly over the one Nazi.
Of course, then I would walk over to the one Nazi and beat them to death while they're tied to the track for good measure.
You mean like promoting conspiracy theories to excuse violence against minorities, forming a coalition out of the most violent racists you can find, and using that coalition of domestic terrorists to assault Congress while it’s in session?
Because that’s literally the chain of events that got Hitler in prison writing Mein Kampf in the first place.
I don’t really understand. Did I miss something? What I see in the post here is someone who only wants to meet white people. That is racist, but nothing compared to what a Nazi does.
That one can become the other is a different issue. So far, all I see is a flyer. That is about as harmless as racism can be. Calling that Nazi removes any meaning of that word, which should be reserved for people that are extremely violent etc.
Boomer retirement plans and savings aren’t enough? Sheesh what hope do any of us have, then? They are the wealthiest generation this country has ever seen…
It doesn’t matter how much money you make if you spend it all after you’ve already exceeded your ability to earn income through work when you still have decades left to live .
I don’t subscribe to “all boomers blew their money.” My parents worked hard all their lives, and were as successful as any average couple. They are fortunate enough to have a roof over their head and some assets to liquidate, but there’s no question they were not where they anticipated being financially entering retirement.
It’s just hard out here. Every year the rug gets a little longer, the treadmill runs a bit faster. Even if you get ahead, do everything right, it just takes one market downturn or medical diagnosis to still lose.
Every thread where boomers get mentioned, there’s so much hate, and a lot of questionable information. I don’t think this community would stand for it if people said “I can’t wait until they’re all dead” about any other group, but I see it regularly about boomers.
Here’s a Pew research chart on the 2020 election demographics by age. Yes, it does show that there are more older Trump voters than older Biden voters, but bit look at the magnitude of the differences - it’s very small. Also notice that the difference between the number of younger Trump voters and younger Biden voters isn’t that great either.
People think all the older people are wearing MAGA hats and all the younger people are wearing pride shirts, but the reality is the amount that the age groups skew one way or the other isn’t that huge. There are tons of liberal older people (like me) and lots of conservative younger people.
I’m not seeing the disconnect. Your said an awful lot of boomers are GOP voters. I said that it’s more than half, but not a lot more, and the percentage of younger GOP voters wasn’t a lot less than half. What did I miss?
If you want to adopt the boomer tag and be offended go right ahead, but the point is, the boomer generation had the leg up on voting during their prime years and they chose to elect pieces of shit that slowed world’s progress and harmed millions of innocent people. Sure there were boomers who didn’t but I’m not talking about them.
I think you’re wrong. Look back on the chart I linked, at the first column in each set. That’s the demographics back in 96, since we’re talking about laws enacted that we’re living with. We could go back further, but this one is handy and the data doesn’t change drastically.
You’re saying boomers have been voting conservative and elected in all those shitty Republicans who passed laws favoring the rich. Well here’s the data. Keep in mind that in 1996, boomers were 32 to 50 years old.
The same percentage of people 18 to 29 voted for Republicans as Democrats.
For people 30 to 49 (the vast majority are boomers), 43% voted Republican and 41% voted Democrat, just a 2% difference
For people 50 to 64, 22% voted Republican and 21% voted Democrat, a 1% difference
For people 65 and older, 18% voted Republican and 20% voted Democrat, a 2% difference
So where’s the wild split saying boomers were overwhelmingly conservative? Oh, and take a look at this chart showing average political leaning by year of birth. It just doesn’t hold water. The silent generation shows as much more conservative, but you know what? It’s because that data was taken when they were old. When they were young, it wasn’t nearly as true. Old boomers now are more conservative than younger boomers on average; is basically true for every generation and there’s zero evidence that it don’t be true for whichever one you fall into.
For every hippy progressive, there were at least 5 Leave it to Beavers ready to take up the conservative mantle. Sure, not every Boomer supported the GOP, but a ton definitely did.
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