Middle-aged white guy here. First and last names, total white bread. Middle name? Black. Think “Tyrone” or “Trevon”. (LOL, Trevon shows a spell check error on one of the top 20 black male names.)
Couldn’t get a response on my resume for 6-weeks, nada. Changed the email to take out my middle name. Next week, 3 interviews and a solid job.
Had a black neighbor with a valley girl accent show up to an interview. 8 white girls waiting for their interviews. They showed her the door and said there was a mistake, no openings. She eventually got hired since her preacher was a top dog at the place.
Arrives for the interview and there are 8 white girls, in scrubs, in the waiting room. Also, the person who was to take her in the back for the interview was visibly shocked.
My wife is a Filipino and I’m shocked at what she’s encountered in interviews.
“Are you Mexican or Asian?” Visible disgust at Asian.
“Are you a Christian? Oh. A Catholic. You have to attend our church every Sunday or we won’t hire you.”
Bonus points: Her first name is sorta black sounding. Told her to work around that somehow. Because I had to.
Yeah, me too. I’m a white woman with an Asian last name and a gender neutral first name. Honestly, I think my gender neutral first name opens more doors for me than the Asian last name closes.
man i just spent like an hour in the bathtub reading further into this and belly laughing
i will say though that i think the guy who sold mike lindell the ‘data’ that he’s referring to in the challenge might actually be a genius lol. this is apparently the third or fourth time he’s identified someone who needs some kind of technological hail mary and then he just shows up and is like “i have… the data”. he sold proof that obama faked his birth certificate and also sold a bunch of completely bogus software to the pentagon during the post-9/11 defense industry boom such as software that “decodes” al jazeera broadcasts into secret al qaeda messages. an employee of his testified that he doesn’t even have an IDE installed on his computer. he’s literally made tens of millions of dollars off of this grift and despite being basically constantly legally embattled for the past 20 years has apparently not suffered any consequences. i wish him a long and successful career being the smartest dumb guy in the room
mike lindell actually comes away from this looking almost sympathetic because he is so, so clearly a moron whose conception of data is like, a PS1-era spinning icon of a CD-ROM. it’s very hard for me to guess whether or not he was acting in good faith: on the one hand, the logical thing to do with proof of election tampering is not ‘announce a five million dollar challenge for someone to prove that i don’t have it’, but on the other hand, it doesn’t make any fucking sense to do that if you don’t think you have proof either. either way i would love to know how much money he paid for it (by the way, the data is: a text file with a list of IP addresses in mainland china, a PDF with a ‘graphic depiction of voting machines’, and many terabytes of gibberish binary files timestamped to several days before the challenge was set up). look at this quote the guy is literally zoolander stupid
“I said, ‘Wow!’ This would absolutely explain what I couldn’t explain!” Lindell recalled in an interview. “It was done with computers! I knew that was the only explanation."
Oh, if only my moral compass was just a bit weaker. The TSA spent about a decade after its conception trying to find a magic box that identifies terrorists in airports. The millimeter wave scanners are the most successful thing to come out of the entire effort. Those at least sorta work, and most of the rest on the list are far worse than that. Made a bunch of people a lot of money, though.
I don’t know if it is unethical. They want a narrative and you sold it to them. Is making a superhero movie unethical? Is roleplay in the bedroom unethical? You are taking money away from fascists which is always a good thing.
No, he admitted at some point the “5 mil to prove me wrong” was a publicity stunt to drum up media coverage of his conference.
He thought it was impossible to prove a negative, but in this case the data was so clearly unrelated to any election, much less election fraud, the judge found that the confrence go-er had proved him wrong.
I find it interesting that guys like this who want to start a race war always think that this is the thing that’s going to do it. Like we’ve made it through all the other hate crimes, injustices and large scale protests without erupting into a race war, but one more incident will do the trick.
Also interesting is how closely his plan is tied to the election. He isn’t just trying to send a message before the election, he specifically thinks that his side needs a specific outcome in the election for his plan to succeed. This plan seems to be a direct consequence of current political environment and the messages coming from his preferred candidate and his supporters.
Now the article doesn’t actually say which candidate needs to win in order to embolden violent white supremacists. But if you need 2 guesses, you should probably consider going back into the coma you’ve been in for the past decade, you’re not going to like the future.
That’s okay, I never asked to be saved. Having someone in charge who isn’t as hellbent on harming as many innocent people is still of value, even if I can imagine things being better.
He’s clearly insane, but you’re right, it’s still interesting how his “logic” works.
It’s scary that these psychos think violence is the answer to their perceived problems. There’s a line from The Boys that talks about this, I’m paraphrasing: they would rather see themselves as warriors against “secret forces of evil” than the lonely forgettable losers they are.
It’s even more frightening to me that they live in some fantasy world where they think they can win a race war. Nobody here would win that. We’d all lose, and some other hostile nation would take full advantage of our domestic self-destruction. I’m worried it’s not a fringe notion. I’m worried a significant percentage are deluding themselves along these lines of violent planning.
As corny as it sounds…United We Stand, Divided We Fall…is still true.
S04E02, ~33min into episode. Conversation between Firecracker and Sister Sage.
Firecracker:
Purpose. I sell purpose. These people got nothing. Maybe they lost a job or a house or a kid to Oxy. Politicians don’t give a shit, mainstream media tells them to be ashamed of their skin color, so, well, I bring 'em together, tell them a story, give them a purpose. Which would you rather believe? That you belong to a community of warriors battling a secret evil, or that you’re a lonely, inconsequential nobody that no one will ever remember?
They’ve been radicalised to become extremists. It can happen to anybody. It’s easier with badly educated people. In fact, a lot of Lemmy users are on their way as well.
“Extremist” is a pointless word in this context. Who’s not extreme about something that matters, like human rights? That doesn’t make a person the same as a white supremacist just because they have a firm conviction.
It’s always a self report with these people. They would do a race war at the drop of a hat, so naturally the people they look down on (and ironically characterize as more violent) must be just as ready to do the same.
I suspect they come to the conclusion that if black people had ever done the them what white people did to black people then they’d be dead-set on revenge.
They’re basing that mindset on white supremacist fiction like the Turner diaries. William Luther Pierce should’ve been shot instead of being allowed to die at an old age from kidney disease in a trailer park.
Narcissism and psychopathy are associated with conservative political orientations and political extremism, so it’s no surprise that a reich-wing lunatic believes he’ll be the one to finally cause a race war by murdering minorities. Conservatives often have overinflated ideas of their own importance, and this dude was no different.
sources- The impact of dark tetrad traits on political orientation and extremism: an analysis in the course of a presidential election> In the present research (N = 675), we focus on the relationship between the dark side of human personality and political orientation and extremism, respectively, in the course of a presidential election where the two candidates represent either left-wing or right-wing political policies. Narcissism, Machiavellianism, psychopathy, and everyday sadism were associated with right-wing political orientation, whereas narcissism and psychopathy were associated with political extremism. Moreover, the relationships between personality and right-wing political orientation and extremism, respectively, were relatively independent from each other. - Bad News for Conservatives? Moral Judgments and the Dark Triad Personality Traits: A Correlational Study> We found eleven significant correlations between conservative [Moral Intuition Survey] judgments and the Dark Triad – [narcissism, Machiavellianism, psychopathy,] all at significance level of p<.00001 – and no significant correlations between liberal [Moral Intuition Survey] judgments and the Dark Triad. We believe that these results raise provocative moral questions about the personality bases of moral judgments. In particular, we propose that because the Short-D3 measures three “dark and antisocial” personality traits, our results raise some prima facie worries about the moral justification of some conservative moral judgments
When Nixon used the southern strategy to win the presidency, there was a moral sorting that followed within the supporters of the two main political parties
As a former Texas resident: The Texas government can fuck alllllll the way off with that. Design a city that doesn’t need cars and people won’t need to use them. Residents HAVE to use cars because the place is so fucking unfriendly to pedestrians.
Houston is one of the worst cities I’ve ever been to. Fuck you if you’re trying to walk anywhere, fuck you right in the heart. That includes if you’re walking to and from your car. massive truck
Also fuck you are you trying to drive? You fucking crazy?
I’ve hated only a small number of cities I’ve visited. Denver comes to mind, Los Angeles, Wichita Kansas, and if you took all the hate I have for those three cities, injected it with hgh and heroin, it would be a small shadow on the wall for the pure unadulterated rage I have for Houston Texas.
Gary Indiana wasn’t as hostile. Fucking Ferguson during the protests wasn’t as hostile. And I saw a carjacking 10 minutes after stepping off the fucking plane thé last time I was there.
I will very slightly disagree. You can live without a car in Houston in some areas so long as you work in the same area (or from home) or one nearby with bus service. I lived in the Montrose and could mostly walk/cycle to anything I needed.
That said, most places in Houston are going to be a lot more difficult for that or impossible. Had I lived that close to the job that moved me to Houston, it would have been in one of the higher-crime-rate areas and not good for walking.
As a pedestrian in one of the mentioned cities, this is accurate. We have an ok bus network but the schedules are terrible and getting around on foot is dangerous and it’s like 100 degrees out with 90% humidity. Very few people put up with it and literally no one will because of this.
Did you read the post you replied to? They said financially liable. Read through the quote you responded with and tell us where they are held financially liable. They are (rightfully) mad that it’s the taxpayers that are effectively paying out the settlement instead of the police force.
30 months of probation?! That’s basically a slap on the wrist. That’s not accountability, that’s doing the absolute minimum to make it LOOK like “see, we’re accountable!”. Dude handcuffed a person in a car on railroad tracks.
I guess that’s technically accountability. Doesn’t sound like much of a punishment.
And this is damn near a unicorn. (and likely would have been swept under the rug without cam footage - just like every other case where cops see justice) Just like one black president didn’t signal the end of racism, a small percentage of cases where someone OTHER THAN taxpayers are on the hook for police misbehavior doesn’t signal the end of a need for reform, it signals a nearly imperceptible change to the status quo. I’m grateful for the change, but it’s barely a start.
The settlement amount will be split equally between the town and city and paid by their insurers, according to attorney Eric M. Ziporin, whose office represents the city.
Police aren’t civilians and they aren’t workers. Abolish their “union” as well as Qualified Immunity. They can earn the right to not be prosecuted while doing their job…
Where’s Oxford again? American policing is based on the fact that a civilian force polices a civilian body. Its part of the tools to avoid military dictatorship, the same way the President is a civilian chosen by the people to be the Commander in Chief of the military.
Cool now tell me what common parlance has to do with the legal classification of police officers? (Hint: legally cops are civilians and dictionaries dont supercede the law)
The argument was always that cops are civilians, no posts have been moved, you just realized you’re wrong and a definition from a non legal document doesn’t mean jack shit when it comes to government classification.
Friend’s mom frequently complained about unions - any union - because she heard people complaining on Fox or at work. She was a 20-year member of the police union (not as an officer). And bragged about that too.
He could never convince her of the mental disconnect there.
Police are supposed to be civilians. The whole idea of America avoiding mitary dictatorship was vested in the Army being under the control of the Commander in Chief (a civilian chosen by civilians), In conjunction with the police force being comprised of civilians, otherwise that force is just a military with a different name. You can make the argument they’re above civilians in current times but this is by no mean integral to american policing, and is in fact antithetical to the American idea of police.
Don’t get me wrong I still think they’re problematic even in the theoretical best case scenario, but they’re definitely civilians. Know you enemy, know them well.
I’m not an expert on the origins of police in the US, but I thought their origin story was basically to oppress the civilian population to protect corporate property.
Like, their entire purpose and why they were given authority was so that they could beat down civilians in the name of corporate profits. Which is the opposite of what you’re claiming.
How are those contradictory? Can a civilian force not shakedown people to protect property?
Or are you asking me why they made a theoretical safety on the idea of policing instead of just telling everyone ‘Hey these are going to be our new chosen opressors, have fun!’
Thierry’s district ... is not a swing district. ... Previously, Thierry had beaten a Libertarian candidate 87%-13%, with no Republican running in the race.
In case anyone thought this might have been a tactical ploy by a dem in a heavily republican area, it was not. Just a crazy person shooting themself in the foot with their own cruel thoughts.
Yes, clearly, by pointing out the absurdity of shitting on America in a piece about the Netherlands, I’m saying that America is perfect. It’s always black and white; there’s no room for nuance.
It’s only absurd if you don’t consider taxation of the rich a geopolitical issue.
If you had said something about billionaires across the world, this defense would hold some water. But it wasn’t, it was just mindless shitting on America. Couldn’t just talk about another country and it’s problems, without the knee-jerk claim that America is worse.
I didn’t realize the only two options were ‘only the U.S.’ or ‘every country in the world.’
Now… try to follow me… why do you think there are so many more billionaires in a country where they pay almost no taxes than one where they pay 28% taxes? Do you think the fact that there are exponentially more billionaires living in the U.S. than there are in the Netherlands and the fact that those billionaires pay almost no taxes might be related to the fact that there are billionaires in the Netherlands who pay over a quarter of their income in taxes, even if the average Dutch citizen pays more?
But sure, that comparison has nothing to do with the subject at hand and is just shitting on the U.S. for absolutely no reason. I’m sorry I offended your sense of patriotism. God bless America and all it stands for.
I didn’t realize the only two options were ‘only the U.S.’ or ‘every country in the world.’
Not that it is limited to this third option, but it should be very clear that there was at least one additional option: talking about Netherlands. You know, the country the article is about. But that would take actually critically thinking for a second.
Now, just because you blindly hate America and can’t, for a second, talk about another country without shitting on America too, that doesn’t mean I’m blindly patriotic. Again, the world’s not black and white. I understand that this is hard for you to grasp.
I was, in fact, talking about both The Netherlands and the U.S.
So why on earth were you so confused that you thought “the only two options were ‘only the U.S.’ or ‘every country in the world.’” Neither of these two options includes the Netherlands.
Maybe this is why you seem to be the only one confused about what I’m talking about.
No one is confused about what you are talking about: we all know you can’t talk about the bad in any country (at least in the EU) without at least shitting on the US too. It’s just a lot of other people are just like you.
So why on earth were you so confused that you thought “the only two options were ‘only the U.S.’ or ‘every country in the world.’” Neither of these two options includes the Netherlands.
Your question makes no sense. I was talking about two countries. Therefore, it was a geopolitical issue.
No one is confused about what you are talking about: we all know you can’t talk about the bad in any country (at least in the EU) without at least shitting on the US too.
Then that should be easy for you to prove. Please do so. Unless it was a lie. Was it a lie?
So, billionaires not paying their fair share is just a US/Netherlands issue? If not, in your attempt to weasel out of what you said, you’re just confirming my point that you can’t talk about another country having bad shit without shitting on America.
Then that should be easy for you to prove.
lol. You said that everyone but me knew what you were talking about. . .but now when I assume what everyone else knows, I’m lying. Pretty safe to say your accusation is a confession. What’s good for the goose…
So, billionaires not paying their fair share is just a US/Netherlands issue? If not, in your attempt to weasel out of what you said, you’re just confirming my point that you can’t talk about another country having bad shit without shitting on America.
It is an issue anywhere billionaires have to pay tax. Which is not “worldwide,” as you claimed.
However, I’m not interested in talking to people who tell blatant lies about me even if they admit it, especially when they claim their lie is now their point, implying that it is not, in fact, a lie.
Enjoy being needlessly combative with someone else.
It is an issue anywhere billionaires have to pay tax. Which is not “worldwide,” as you claimed.
Holy shit, is there nothing you won’t be pedantic about? lol. What a joke of an attempt to avoid the point.
However, I’m not interested in talking to people who tell blatant lies about me even if they admit it, especially when they claim their lie is now their point, implying that it is not, in fact, a lie.
Nah, it’s over. When backed into a corner, FlyingSquid always seems to just latch onto some point, regardless of how tangential it is to actual point, because they think it is a “winning” point, and then won’t let go. I wanted to see what would happen if I relented on that distraction and just admitted to their implication, so we could go back to the main point. Apparently it means they run from the debate.
Although, in retrospect, I wish I hadn’t agreed to their accusation of lying, and instead claimed it was just a rhetorical statement, which is more accurate, and that I (obviously) couldn’t prove it. That probably would have been a better test. Agreeing to their accusation of lying just gave them an easy out.
To be honest, I have no idea what that image means.
As an American, I can’t help but wonder why you’re so defensive of the US. It’s like you’re a shitty guy who just heard someone say they would pick the bear.
If it’s an article about the us being shitty, and people point out the us is shitty, I wouldn’t say anything because that’s the topic. But it’s tired when it’s just every time anything is mentioned, someone here has to point out that the us is shitty.
Basically, you have it backwards. It’s not me constantly being defensive of the us, it’s everyone here constantly attacking it.
How does me pointing out that this knee jerk America hating has shit all to do with the article preclude me from working to make the us a better place?
Or are you like flying squid and you can’t fathom a world where some doesn’t join in a mindless circle jerk, so they just think the exact opposite?
You never had to join in, the fuck do you think would happen when ya commented?
Oh yes master, America is great and we should never talk I’ll of the land OF THE FREE ^to not pay taxes as long as you have enough money^ and home of the brave
You have no criminals on the streets with the best armed trained police force in the world and holding 25% of the world incarcerated. Wow thank you for making the wold a much safer place by installing managed democracy around the world. Thank you for the bulmark missiles that defended Canada through out the cold war rather than the AV Roe Arrow. Thank you Bill Gates for CN Rail, thank you 3M for C8, thank you Cocola for Fanta, thanks Atrazine and glyphosate
Thank you America for fucking this planet at every turn
OK I’ll go hide in a cave a forget a massive land mass does not exist, no billionaires that only pay 1-2% taxes. Nope let’s focus across the pond instead of around the world.
Oh look China just arrested a billionaire for breaking the law…
OK I’ll go hide in a cave a forget a massive land mass does not exist
Is it possible for you to respond to what was said instead of the delusions you’ve created in your mind? At no point have I said anyone should forget about America. Again, you just aren’t smart enough to not thinking black and white: if I don’t shit on America with every chance I get, well, then, I must be blindly jingoistic! lol
I mean Team America was a pretty lowkey pro military intervention and pro america movie, to be honest. He’d probably have the opinion he would have if he had watched that movie and especially if he’d listened to the classic longwinded matt and trey speech that they throw in at the end to kind of spell out the message, it’s just that nobody really watches or remembers anything other than the like, first 20 minutes of that movie, where the protagonists get hit with kind of a low point and “america” kind of looks bad, because those first twenty minutes make the most memorable use of the gag.
“Dicks fuck pussies, and Dicks also fuck assholes”. Greatest speech ever
Yeah, that’s what I was referring to. The movie came out in 2004, you know, the year after we invaded Iraq, as was the context of the movie. If you pay attention to that speech, it’s basically just saying that US hegemony is good and US exceptionalism is real, and that our actions are a net positive for the international community. That the international community needs us. That we need to “fuck this asshole”. In combination with the movie making fun of celebrities that had non-interventionist views, and calling them a homosexual slur that will probably get flagged on lemmy, saying that they suck up to dictators. It being satire doesn’t suddenly make the movie mean the opposite of what it meant, that’s just classic irony-poisoning.
This has got to be the worst possible take on this movie I have ever heard.
Its literally making fun of the American military and the “we’re the best” mentality. The first 20 min (Paris scene) set up that the american military leaves a wake of destruction in their path and everyone hates them for it.
The Film Actors Guild are nothing more than “useful idiots”
I’m seeing more local places popping up. I’m happy with that. $15 for a big Mac meal or $15 for the Chicken tikka masala? I’ll take the big Mac, said no one.
Same here, but the reason this doesn’t work is because a bic Mac meal doesn’t cost $15. It’s more like $10 or even lower with deals. If you are on a budget and have no time to cook, I can see how the cheaper option can still sway the decision. For me, it’s lower than that and will settle for Wendy’s 4 for 5. At $5 bucks, it’s absolutely worth it every now and then when I just want something cheap and quick.
Dave’s combo $9.69 I assume that is a small combo. Local burger place $14.30 that’s with a fountain drink 20oz and a small fry (sweet potato or normal ones). Their small fry will feed two adults, like five guys, they add extra fries.
Local place uses local beef, veggies, and bacon. Wendy’s I get mystery meats. I’m hoping it’s fresh but we know none of it is.
If you get an equal product at Wendy’s it would be around $14.69. You will get the large shit fries and a liter of cola. I’ll take the local place. For the record I picked the cheapest meal Wendy’s had bc most families would look for a “deal”. There is the cheaper menu which has jr burgers but my local place has sliders for more $4.45 compared to the $2.49 jr burger. However I can get a good medium rare slider with normal toppings for the $4.45. I will still take that. More food for cheaper.
It’s not just fast food unfortunately. Sit down restaurants, even mom and pop ones are through the roof in pricing as well. Even groceries to cook at home are crazy these days with the pricing
I believe they’re throwing a fit about it right now but we’ll see. They don’t have a lot of room to complain about literal tons of free guns getting shipped to them.
The average price of coca-cola during this period of time, adjusting for inflation, has been $1.89, and the most current price of $2.69 is 42.33% above that average.
It’s not price gouging, there’s no coca cola shortage and it’s not a necessary for life good. You’re acting like you can’t just stop buying it
And yes, the price people willing to pay for some goods is a reasonable price for them, unless it’s some necessity or it’s some disaster area. If it was unreasonable, people wouldn’t pay that price. Especially for something like coca cola
Sorry… how is a price increase that is not justified by inflation not price gouging?
Price gouging has nothing to do with what is necessary and Coca-Cola is being used as an example. I’m not why you think this is singly about coca-cola.
I think this simply depends on your definition of gouging. If I used “to charge someone too much money for something, in a way that is dishonest or unfair” as I found from google, one could argue that the increase was justified by some others means that didn’t qualify as dishonest or unfair, which is also subjective.
It’s justified by inflation, inflation is an average.
For example, if thing A goes up 20% and thing B goes up 0% we say the inflation is 10%. You will complain that A went up faster than the inflation. But you’re cherry picking the data, since you ignored B not going up
My dude, corporations were putting in their earnings reports for the COVID years that they were having record profits because they were using COVID-based supply disruptions to increase their prices. Even a basic knowledge of economics would lead one to understand that if supply for a good becomes limited, demand stays the same, and profits go up, it could only be because the price of that good has significantly increased as well.
during those years the corporate/investors focus was on market share growth, so they purposely went for low prices or free when possible. when the money spigot turned off things switched from growth to profit/dividend and consumers are stuck.
Yes, the low interest rates we had for years meant basically free money for all these companies in addition to the low car loan and mortgage rates that the rest of us benefitted from. Interest rates being low was a tool used to pull us out of the recession but nobody had the balls to raise them back when things turned around because you can’t win elections by forcing people to take their medicine.
You can’t just throw an image up. You have to source it or we’re going to assume you made it in MSPaint. But you’re already showing signs of not understanding what inflation is. It is not some stand alone year by year metric. It’s a velocity measurement. Like your car’s speedometer. You drove X number of miles in Y time. Instead here it’s you rose X points in 1 year. The previous points do not go away. The wage increases from year 4 do not magically erase inflation from years 1-3, unless they beat year 4 inflation by the the sum of inflation from years 1-3.
Where in my comment do I even mention interest rates? At any rate, you’re not wrong that they’re supposed to curb inflation but they haven’t. You’re own source says-
Leila Bengali decomposes inflation into interest-rate responsive and unresponsive categories. (whether each inflation category has historically declined >after a surprise interest rate hike)
Current excess inflation is entirely due to the unresponsive categories.
That’s that flat red section. It’s unresponsive to the rate change. You can see the blue section responded even before the FED actually made the change. That’s when the FED made statements about raising the rate. So we can see that the responsive section was very responsive. But the unresponsive section is keeping rates from properly coming down.
When the Fed makes statements, banks already respond because it affects the curve. If you expect higher rates in the future, you wouldn’t accept longer duration bonds right now for the current smaller rate.
So a statement that rates will be increased actually moves them for anything other than the current over night rates
Yes, that’s the blue section. The Red section it turns out is the housing sector, that DGAF because they’re heavily coordinating prices and there’s no cheaper alternative.
Now do Metro Area Rent. And do it over the last 4 years. Housing is screwed because of the high interest rate loans locking homeowners in place and dropping the available stock. Landlords however just declared open season on their renter’s wallets.
I didn’t get why you’re so resistant to this? We know where the bottleneck is before our economy hits stagflation. We can fix this. And then we’ll all celebrate being able to afford celebration again.
Stagflation is high inflation, low growth. One of the warning signs is intractable inflation because it forces a demand crisis once prices get high enough. That causes low growth while inflation is still running away. So yes we’re in danger of Stagflation.
You can’t get 2024 numbers for most things because it’s still 2024. Unless you personally call up an organization that does the tracking to get monthly or quarterly numbers. And unless it’s going to drop the price by 20% this year then it’s not going back to where it was pre-pandemic.
Again, I’m not sure why you’re fighting so hard. We knew there was something going on with inflation not responding. This means we can fix it with new policy and subsidies.
Considering there was already an unreasonable rise in rents from 2008 on, yeah we really need to actually go back on this one. Accepting the standard corporate position of prices only go up is part of how we got here in the first place.
And it’s fine if you want to scrape Zillow’s information and do your own spreadsheet. But the Daily Mail would have us believe Austin is in the middle of it’s own little 2008 style housing meltdown. If that’s true then this really is an exception to the rule right now and we should go back to talking national numbers.
Greed is just one part of the equation of higher prices. You also need opportunity. If prices ramped up so rapidly without a plausible excuse, then it would lead to an investigation. Hell, the egg producers took their excuse of bird flu too far and jacked up prices about 6x, which was so ridiculous that it did lead to the threat of an investigation and that alone magically got the price down to “only” about 2x.
It doesn’t map so simply. Greed will try to push prices up as high as possible, but what’s possible depends on other factors. People can understand how a global pandemic causing supply issues would lead to higher prices, but greed took full advantage of that understanding and pushed it far beyond limits.
There are many scams and a lot of them don’t involve a contract at all. There are also ones that do involve a contract and upholding it is part of the scam. Regardless, you missed the point that just because someone pays the price, doesn’t mean everything is fine and dandy.
You have a point in that corporations align closely with human greed. However, corporations are anti-social and amoral unlike human beings. We need them to serve humanity and not the other way round. They’re currently taking too much too quickly.
I’m closer to a carnivore than a vegan, but if something is good, it’s good. I’m not going to hate on something delicious because I feel threatened by someone else’s life choices.
Don’t worry, farmers; if I start eating vegan cheese I promise I’ll make up for it in beef consumption.
I haven’t heard anything about it, only that it’s been detected in milk and pasteurization kills it. Cooking should kill it if it’s in meat anyway. At least to medium, preferably to full doneness.
“Consuming raw or undercooked meats, poultry, seafood, shellfish or eggs may increase your risk of foodborne illness" has been the standard disclaimer since 2016, but nobody’s thrown a fit, even though there’s a big difference between a rare steak and rare burger (the interior of the ground beef has been exposed, the interior of the steak has not).
Remnants of bird flu have been found in bovine milk and recently sampled in 20% of milk in grocery stores. So far, it’s been determined to just be “genetic material” - not live or infectious. Milk is pasteurized in the US so it’s reasonably safe to keep drinking. I don’t believe this would impact beef consumption, certainly not cooked beef.
Beth Mole at Ars Technica has been covering it arstechnica.com/author/beth/
The CDC is reporting at least one dairy worker has been infected www.cdc.gov/media/…/p0401-avian-flu.html
A lot of vegan “alternatives” are actually really good when you know what you’re doing with them. I will take tofu or mushrooms over meat any day tbh. Problem is some people don’t know that and will just prepare tofu like it’s meat, and then wonder why their tofu tastes like shit.
That’s a really dumb argument. Sorry but literally every food is really good when you know what you are doing with it.
It is not even a question of quality… some of the tastiest food is terrible quality used with great effect.
That doesn’t even take into account personal preference, which is majorly just familiarity.
The awards world is filled with awards that would never be given if there wasnt a story to go with it. This vegan cheese is an example of this as well.
Problem is some people don’t know that and will just prepare tofu like it’s meat, and then wonder why their tofu tastes like shit.
You arent even wrong about this, but you could say the exact same thing about damned near anything that has more than a single opinion on.
Like literally exchange in what i quoted tofu to a burger patty and instead of “like its meat” change it to some aspect of the experience. Whether its what temperature to cook it or how thin or thick it is.
Same exact argument based on different peoples familiarity. Many people dont have just dont care that much and also some people are really bad at cooking.
To sum up my point, you are making a statement that is so broad it is useless
I tried tofu multiple times in different meals as a alternative for meat, but sadly all were disappointing. Do you have recipes that you can recommend? I am eager to find one.
A lot of times I think the problem is trying to substitute the protein in a dish with tofu or something vegan. It’s always going to be compared to the meat version. Should just try to find recipes that were tofu based to begin with, like mapo tofu.
Tofu doesn’t really bring taste, just texture so that’s kinda to be expected. That’s why I typically get firm or extra firm. I like those textures over softer ones.
I’m not sure what you mean by pressed as all tofu is pressed. That’s how tofu is made. I’ve never tried dipping it in cornstarch so IDK how that would turn out. I don’t typically do anything other than cut it up and cook it.
As for how to stir fry; I suggest looking that up. You mostly just use whatever veg and protein you want and add some stir fry sauce at the end. I haven’t really found one I prefer. I don’t do stir fry all that often. I really should since it’s super simple.
Extra firm+fried in oil has never NOT been a hit for me! Generally sesame or strangely peanut butter has killed it among my non-veg friends, trying to make a dish for both non-veg and vegan friends.
“Pressed” tofu usually refers to firm or extra firm tofu that is then put under much higher pressure to expel not only more water but also most of the air, and has a completely different texture.
They’re not mutually exclusive. For those too lazy to follow the link - traditional mapo tofu (like many Chinese tofu recipes) isn’t vegetarian . Tofu as a total replacement for meat is a Western idea - in most Eastern cultures that use it, tofu is just another ingredient and often used along with meat and animal based broths. The same is true of soy milk.
Notwithstanding the fact that the comment was obviously made in jest, why would it matter whether a consumer had anything to do with the preparation of the food? I don’t think anyone is genuinely ignorant of where meat comes from.
I’m also a meat eater but Impossible burgers hold a special place in my heart. If I’m craving a whopper I’ll always go for the Impossible whopper instead - it’s just so much more satisfying.
Similarly, the meat quality at my local Chinese spots is questionable so I always get tofu instead.
I’m down to only eating meat half of days, and only for dinner, vs eating meat with every meal every day. My wallet and waistline have thanked me.
What the fuck? They’re homeless. Sleeping outside is their only option. Shelters are often dangerous, very restrictive on who they let in and there aren’t anywhere near enough of them in the places they need to be.
Sleeping in public places isn’t a fucking crime. It’s not like they’d choose the park over an apartment if they had one.
Also prisoners are slave labor thanks to the 13th amendment so if you can take people off the street and chuck them in jail, you get free labor. Yay capitalism. /s
Slavery is a great way to maximise profits! Who cares about humans? If you just reduce them to numbers in your excel sheets it gets a lot easier to do maths with them!
Humanity just never changes, does it? Are we doomed to be forever despicable?
These aren’t the “oh, poor innocent homeless, down on their luck” portrayed by advocates, they are drug addicts and thieves, leeching off society, and actively making life worse for themselves and everyone else.
Perhaps if they had housing and sufficient social nets so they didn’t have to steal to eat and places they could get managed drug doses (you can’t just quit, especially without resources) then this wouldn’t be a problem.
It’s not like people choose to be problems and homeless. Almost all Americans are one or two bad turns away from joining them.
Ideally, what I’d like to see is this… It would probably take 1.5 to 2 billion to pull off:
You build and staff a state of the art medical facility for mental health and addiction treatment, including the ability to hold people long term if necessary.
You build and staff a facility for job training and placement, including specialized support for people with criminal records. This would also need to include interview and resume skills. Assistance for email, phone, and Internet, but also clothing assistance, laundry assistance, and the like for interviews.
You build and staff a facility for housing support. Like work assistance, there needs to be specialized support for people with criminal records. But also a permanent address for mail.
Once all that infrastructure is in place, you sweep the streets.
People who need mental health and addiction treatment get institutionalized and treated until they are healthy, then they get released to the job and housing programs.
People who have no job get the job assistance program.
People who have a job get the housing assistance program.
People with warrants or otherwise engaging in crimimal behavior (stolen cars, stolen bikes, other material) get arrested.
People who are otherwise able bodied, but who are homeless by choice because “I ain’t part of your system, maaaan!” get their asses kicked and pressed into service cleaning up homeless camps.
Your last sentence is what is so unreasonable. You are criminalizing being alive without a job, which means humans have no right to live without being in your system.
Since one day you will go bankrupt, or your children will be destitute, and we can throw you all in a cell and laugh at you, I think your lack of empathy has the perfect end game.
Careful about them medical bills when you have a heart attack, tough guy. We don’t like poor people around here.
Been bankrupt, addicted to vicodin, and had 2 heart attacks with a bonus of open heart surgery. Never homeless. Never had to steal from others to get by.
Funny thing, after working in the medical profession many years, you’ve made it all up. The statistics of surviving these things, combined, its zero unless you’re a billionaire. Also since insurance paid for it, you didn’t. Oh that’s different though isn’t it.
The bit that has changed since then is the 2nd heart attack in January… Was running short of breath, thought it was because they changed my meds. Doc told me to go down to the ER and get checked.
Troponin was elevated again. Well, fuck. Having a heart attack right there in the ER… and the power goes out. January remember? This was right in the middle of the ice storm.
They get me checked in, get me an angiogram, tell me I need a stent but they can’t do it at Mount Hood, I need an ambulance ride to Good Sam, and the ambulance system is over loaded.
So, first night at Mount Hood, I wake up around 6 AM and am screwing around on my phone. Nurse comes in…
“Hey, were you asleep?”
“Yeah, why?”
“Your heart rate dropped to 40.”
“. . . Is that bad?”
Yeah, apparently bad.
They tell me again, ambulance should be there around 10:30 that night.
Same deal… Wake up around 6 AM, on the phone… nurse comes in…
“Were you asleep about an hour ago?”
“Yeah, my heart slow down again?”
“No, your heart stopped for eight seconds.”
“Uh, thanks? I guess? I don’t know what to do with that information. But wait, the machines didn’t go off, aren’t they supposed to go off or something?”
“Alerted us at the nurses station.”
Anyway, the ambulance showed up that morning, got me to Good Sam and I got stented.
4 days, 2 hospitals, 1 ambulance ride, $2,100 after insurance. Big difference from Kaiser.
Some might say making forced camps for a subset of people might be considered a final solution. But maybe I am just concentrating on the whole sweep the streets of undisrables part.
Ah yes, they can put a uplifting phrase on all the entrances as well. Something like work will set you free maybe. That way you know the camp was built to help people and would be way better then just leaving them alone.
There are some other things that would need to be done as well though. How would the authorities know if someone was both working and had a place? Oh I know we can issue papers to each person that have their job and residence listed, that way all it would take is the local authorities asking everyone out “Papers, please”.
On what is a seemingly unrelated note, how much of a history buff are you?
Studies show the majority of homeless people have jobs. Furthermore they didn’t have one big reason for going homeless. They just couldn’t afford housing and eventually they are unable to pay. People report sliding into homelessness over the course of years as the cost of housing kept rising without pay rising.
Trying to depict all homeless people as junkies is disingenuous at best.
That was the estimate from the University of Chicago in 2021 which has since been actively been disproven by point in time counts of actual homeless people.
“53% of people living in homeless shelters and 40% of unsheltered people were employed, either full or part-time, in the year that people were observed homeless between 2011 – 2018.”
“According to the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority’s (LAHSA) 2019 Adult Demographic Survey, over 50% of single adults (24 and older) experiencing unsheltered homelessness in Los Angeles County are unemployed (LAHSA, 2019a). Of those unemployed, approximately half reported that they are actively looking for work. The same survey found that 49% of unsheltered adults in family units are unemployed, but a much higher percentage of them (36%) are actively looking for work than single adults. Additionally, 46% of unsheltered adults cited unemployment or a financial reason as a primary reason why they are homeless (LAHSA, 2019a).”
And:
“According to the same survey, about 20% of single adults experiencing unsheltered homelessness in Los Angeles County are working, including full-time, part-time, seasonal, and self-employment compared to about 32% of unsheltered adults in family units (LAHSA, 2019a). Not only are people experiencing homelessness employed at low rates, but evidence shows that those who are employed report very low annual earnings (California Policy Lab, 2020). In Los Angeles County, employed people experiencing homelessness earned an average of just under $10,000 in the year prior to experiencing homelessness (California Policy Lab, 2020).”
So first of all, you’re comparing two different regions. Second 51 percent of people in the document you linked have an income and 36 percent are seeking work. Third, you should really read their myths document. It pretty clearly refutes all of your claims.
While employment helps people stay housed, it does not guarantee housing. As many as 40%-60% of people experiencing homelessness have a job, but housing is unaffordable because wages have not kept up with rising rents. There is no county or state where a full-time minimum-wage worker can afford a modest apartment. At minimum wage, people have to work 86 hours a week to afford a one-bedroom. Even when people can afford a home, one is not always available. In 1970, the United States had a surplus of 300,000 affordable homes. Today, only 37 affordable homes are available for every 100 extremely low-income renters. As a result, 70% of the lowest-wage households spend more than half their income on rent, placing them at high risk of homelessness when unexpected expenses (such as car repairs and medical bills) arise. Source
“You should work for what you have! Also, you should donate your time to corporations because they shouldn’t have to pay people a living wage to earn all their profit for them!”
They aren’t asking for anyone to give things to them (well, besides spare change). They just want to live their lives and not go to jail. Some want to find a job but can’t. Some have a job but not a good enough one to get an apartment. Some want to do drugs and sleep in oblivion. Some have severe mental challenges and couldn’t hold a job if they tried.
How does 51% of homeless people being unemployed in LA County disprove the claim that only 47% of homeless people are unemployed in Chicago? They’re almost the same figure…
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