This is a little old, 2014: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bundy_standoff
This COVID protest is more recent: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-52496514
I think anyone to the left of Biden taking guns to protests is risking their life but armed right wing nutbags never seem to get beaten and killed at protests.
Thank you for the kind thoughts. It’s been pretty rough lately. Try to keep your head up :)
Should/could the US population do more to get their batshit crazy government in line? Abso-fucking-loutly!
Should the sane countries of the world do more to push back on us and check our power grabs? Also Abso-fucking-loutly!
Why is any consumer anywhere outside of the US purchasing any of our shit? I recently saw a graph on the global sales of US liquor and most countries had like a 10-20% drop in sales and only Canada went hard with a 60-80% drop (apologies, I’m pulling this from memory so it’s pretty vague).
I’d rather be alive than be your hero. Black and brown people in the US already face violence without voluntarily painting targets on their backs. If people want to stick their necks out, good for them. But it’s kinda ballsy to try to shame black and brown people in the current USA for avoiding violence from some “place of privilege “
Tbc, I dont know the most appropriate solution either
I general strike would be a good first step. It would be very painful and risky given how many folks live paycheck to paycheck and how we have almost no social safety net, but it’s safer and more realistic than everyone trying to go full Rambo or Red Dawn.
Remember at the start of COVID when we didn’t know how it spread and people were disinfecting their groceries and the feds and the bosses wanted everyone to keep working? It was only when the flight attendants threatened to strike and shut down air travel that they finally relented.
He would happily risk all of our lives for a chance to avoid consequences. He will get us all killed before going to jail.
Only 47% think it has major problems? Is that because the remaining 53% don’t get to experience any healthcare at all?
So if I call an Uber and it’s a Tesla, it’s my fault if I can’t escape after a crash cuz I didn’t RTFM?
I think her husband and a cousin have criminal legal issues so this may be pardon seeking behavior. Not that it excuses anything
I think she’s an immigrant so maybe that?
Most of whom voted for Trump. It sucks for them but the US isn’t going to get better until the people supporting the GOP learn some really hard lessons
In my part of the US, if you go to the cheapest grocery store with the cheapest produce, then you will get better prices than the farmer’s market. But it’s very sad depressing produce. Mealy, grainy apples, banged up squash, etc.
If you go to a standard middle of the road supermarket you’ll get meh produce for slightly less than the farmer’s market. If you go to Costco you’ll get a shitton of meh to decent produce for what you would have spent on a normal amount of food at the regular grocery.
High end grocers have similar prices and quality as the farmer’s markets. The fancy grocers have out of season imported stuff at a high price.
Some Asian grocers have really good deals on really fresh produce, but they don’t have much organic stuff.
The farmer’s markets have really amazing selection and variety within the scope of what is local and in season. There’s a dude with over a dozen varieties of potatoes. There’s a mushroom seller with like 4-5 different kinds of oyster mushrooms. There’s a stand that just sells foraged stuff that you almost never see in grocery stores. The meat and fish are much more expensive but small producers can’t possibly compete with factory farms on that stuff.
2nded. Also I think the soda at 7-11 is even bigger.
For buying a house, isn’t it kinda like the stock market (except way less liquid). Yeah, the prices may go down in a year but someone may swoop in and buy while you’re sitting on the sidelines trying to time the bottom.
But even if we could get relief on inflation, the prices wouldn’t keep decreasing by large amounts forever, right? It’s not like cars would eventually cost negative money and they pay you to take them. At some point the expected savings from waiting aren’t enough to justify the pain of doing without the shiny new thing.
Same. Although I do lurk a bit with rdx. But I won’t touch Twitter or any Meta products with a 10 foot pole.
I used to play years ago (IDK how long ago, pre-pandemic). A month ago I picked it up on my iPad. It’s been like a warm hug from an old friend.
Same. I think I made it halfway through the first episode but as he continued to spiral it was just so deeply uncomfortable to watch. Does it get better? Is there a big payoff?
Cubes of fresh tuna Sweet Thai chili sauce Cilantro or Thai basil
Yes. It’s 100% real. I wish I was joking. This country is cooked.