At no point did I suggest otherwise. In fact , I clearly stated WWIII was on the table. Go make up something else I said.

There you go again.

Dems bad, who cares if trump is worse.

Well, you’ll get what you wanted when Israel finishes off Gaza and everything else, or starts WWIII when they can’t keep the bombs inside their extermination camp.

They believe it because that’s what people have been told to believe.

It should be glaringly obvious that trump’s implied policy that he will let Israel “finish the job” is far worse than the dems poor attempts at negotiating cease-fires or any other moderation on Israel’s aggression.

All the propaganda has focused on the democrat (in)action regarding Israel. Zero on trump’s plans.

That’s what the propaganda machine has been pushing.

Ignorance is bliss.

Invest in index funds. They are self- cleaning…IOW when a stock stops performing it is removed from the fund and replaced by a better performer.

Use a brokerage that is low fee. Fees steal your money.

Do NOT let someone manage your money that moves stocks around for fees.

Use Dollar cost averaging . Even if the market is down, keep adding regularly. Which is tied to…

Don’t time the market. You can’t win.

Don’t touch it. Don’t touch your money. Don’t incur fees and capital gains taxes. You will lose. Leave it alone.

I am up 8% average yearly over the lifetime of my fund including all the downturns, it has been stellar this year well over 12%. Is this a “get rich quick” way of doing things? Is it exciting? No. Not at all. But it works.

Investing (NOT TRADING) is EasyHard, because it’s really easy to do, but really hard not to mess with and screw it up.

They have become that which they hated.

Treating Gaza like an open air extermination camp and even branding them the way prisoners were tattooed in German camps.

Wonder how Thai is the zipfile of languages.

Why come to lemmy if you’re not down for linux?

I dunno, maybe the brothel gas a restaurant with a good prime rib special.

I do this too, to keep them separate in my head. I get that they’re interchangeable.

If every prostitute approached you and had to tell you how much better she is at something than your current SO/wife, you should ditch your SO in favor of prostitutes, even though you’re not there for service.

Then it would be like Lemmy.

They got their Applebees. Does’t matter.

[freedom of speech]

I really like airplanes, especially the historic ones. The speed and sound is amazing. The engineering and skill in building and operating those aircraft is top-tier.

However, the airshows often extoll the fear and damage the aircraft can do to their targets, especially the modern ones. Really not interested in the bodycount or terror these aircraft inspire, but plenty of people enjoy the flex.

Probably. Willful ignorance.

Yep. Hurricane info is available from official sources for free.

However, I can’t help but imagine some tiktok of someone finding themselves trapped on a rooftop crying because their preferred app wouldn’t show some critical info.

I’d like to see that without the lens distortion.

Even the taillights.

The quarterly earnings report takes precedence over not destroying the planet.

We absolutely have the ability to fix this planet, it’s just too inconvenient. People would literally prefer famine, disease, war, and death to going without comforts and conveniences.

It’s just greed. They throw in god’s name to relieve themselves of any personal responsibility.

Expensive wood and fixtures. In a nice home there was lots of varnished wood, there were nice castings for hardware on cabinets and doors, lots of carved wood accents, and plenty of stone and tile. Varnished wood has to be high quality, sanded smooth, and takes a lot of wood to remove material for carving to make it look nice when varnished. Materials were heavier then, too. A 2x4 really was 2x4 and not “mill” like today, moldings, planks, decorations, trim…it was all heavier and wider. Back then you’d still need to be better off to have the nice stuff. I lived in a “normal” Victorian and I can assure you that “old world craftsmanship” was just as slapdash and unexciting as your normal home today. Hardly a straight wall or anything finer than a pine wood floor in the whole place. The old equivalent of “contractor grade” Home Cheapo finishing.

Today things can be plywood, MDF, poor-quality stitched together scraps to make trim and moldings. It’s just going to get painted, so it doesn’t matter. Way more plastic, way less metal, almost no ornamentation at all. Ply or OSB flooring with carpet or “engineered” flooring, which is often just plasticized and decal’d or veneered sawdust.

There was also no employer health care, no social security, no retirement funding or anything like that. Cost of living was cheaper. So employees and the entire production chain were cheaper. Good quality wood was far, far more abundant.

To sum up - materials and labor costs. Especially the materials. Good quality costs way more today, and then add contractor and labor costs on top of that.