I think this is the place to post this so hopefully others can see the truth
https://realprogressives.org/debt-ceilings-for-dummies/
We don't need to tax the rich to fund shit. We need to tax them to remove their insane power in our political and economic system.
How can our government run out of the money it creates ex nihilo?
The "debt" is just the count of dollars that haven't been destroyed through taxation.
"Karashta, you don't want kids? You'd make a great dad."
I've been asked this several times by close friends since my early 20s. My response has always been about what I feel is the irresponsibility of bringing a child I will desperately love into a world that I've seen crumbling around me since my teens.
People called me stupid for believing in things like the oncoming ecological and societal collapses, despite me trying to show them what I'd seen and read.
Somehow, "I told you so," doesn't, in any way, make me feel better about the situation.
Then you should be fine with people smoking weed since there's evidence of its use since 10,000 BC. About 7000 years before the creation of beer by the Egyptians
Enshrouded and Old School Runescape
So much this. I can't remember the last time I had a huge pile up of dishes that I didn't clean while something was simmering or whatever. By the time my meal is ready, everything is clean or there's one pot that might need to soak while I eat.
My step uncle is one of the most thoughtful and considerate bosses I have ever experienced. It was just him, myself and his best friend Artur doing construction for years after hurricane Sandy. The pay wasn't amazing for any of us but it was how he treated us and the other couple people that would rotate in that really stayed with me.
It's the only place I've ever been encouraged to take the breaks needed when doing grueling, back breaking labor in the blistering heat and freezing cold. I was also encouraged and told to take the time actually needed to complete a task as long as it was done correctly. I honestly only saw us mess up a bare handful of times in the five years I worked for him.
He bought us lunch every day. Normally at some cool local joint he knew in the area we were working in. And lunch was almost always closer to two hours than one. We pretty much would finish lunch then have poop time because we were all on the same schedule.
My work day "started" at 8am. But that just was when I got to his house and he'd be there reading the paper eating breakfast. I was offered anything at the table, always given coffee when I asked. About thirty minutes after I showed up, I'd be asked to go grab Artur from his little studio apartment out back.
I wasn't treated this way because I was family. Anyone that worked with us was treated the same way. Like a human being.
Don't get me wrong. We absolutely busted our asses and did high quality work. And if we had to pour a foundation or something time sensitive, that shit always got done in the time needed.
This is how bosses are supposed to be. Leading from the front lines. Leading by example.
The Beatles had a huge and demonstrable effect on a large portion of rock n roll music. I'm not their biggest fan in any way, but you can literally see how they helped initiate a huge change in popular music in their era if you look at what came before them and what came after. It's pretty disingenuous to claim it was mainly only hype.
No mention made of sky high insanely record corporate profits. Lmfao.
"Walden (/ˈwɔːldən/; first published in 1854 as Walden; or, Life in the Woods) is a book by American transcendentalist writer Henry David Thoreau. The text is a reflection upon the author's simple living in natural surroundings. The work is part personal declaration of independence, social experiment, voyage of spiritual discovery, satire, and—to some degree—a manual for self-reliance.[2]"
It's his "independence" and "self reliance" parts that make him a hypocrite
This doesn't invalidate everything he says and does.
But it's really easy to be "independent" when someone else foots the bill for the land you're living on and you mom does your laundry for you.
Latin. I would have suggested it before you started learning two Romance languages.
There are a lot of operas that I thoroughly enjoy that are largely in Italian that are just incredibly moving. Pavarotti singing Pagliacci is insanely moving, as one example.
I feel like too many people take being corrected like this as a sign that I'm trying to be condescending when, to me, it's a simple courtesy I hope other people extend to me as well when I mess up.