printing press fired up in 2020 and real estate investors seemed to get plenty of that cash.

Maybe I’m just ignorant, but in a just world that should have never been allowed to happen… I’m sure our politicians had nothingggg to do with that “oversight.” :/

Thanks for the links!

Yeah that was me too… I FINALLY got to the point where I could realistically start looking, got the pre-approval and everything just after COVID started… People had already starting WFH and moving away from where they worked and investment companies kept buying and now I’m still living in someone else’s garage because prices went through the roof pretty much as I was looking…

Of course once you mention WFH everyone gets defensive and claims this was a trend, but those charts are the same everywhere. Houses in 2018-19 were often less than half of what they cost now…

Just depression in general. I don’t want to live one lifetime, let alone never being able to die.

If you’re immortal in a body that isn’t broken then that might be a different story, but you’d still grow to love people only to have to lose them and go through that pain over and over.

No no no, they’re saying buy more NTFs! They just need to be different apes so you can have a broad index of them!

:P

I was never going to “find myself” and so I should have just gone to college with my friends for computer science and made the good money when jobs were easier to get even though I had no interest at all in it. Hindsight is 20/20 and all that jazz. Now I’m a worthless schmuck in a factory living in someone’s garage paying their mortgage in rent prices.

All my interests are hobbies, some of them even too expensive for me to do lol they’re nothing you can monetize.

I guess if we’re going to keep using war and conflict terms you could say we’re in a cold civil war.

We might as well call schools “sporadic shooting galleries” the way we’ve been treating the issue… It’s absolutely absurd :(

“They give you a little extra security nowadays, you notice?”

Who mother fucker, who gave your more security?? It was all deep state pizza Biden conspiracy b.s when you weren’t happy about it, now it’s magic? Of course he’ll never admit he isn’t being treated unfairly, he’s always the victim. Strong man baby.

https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2024/08/28/key-things-to-know-about-us-election-polling-in-2024/

According to some of the information in here they seem to be claiming we’re still overestimating Dem performance in presidential elections, but that midterm elections where Trump isn’t on the ballot thing are more accurate. :(

I’m almost positive Trump wins with how close all the swing states are now and how he’s improving in polling (what the actual fuck people?!) the closer we get to the election.

I’m also almost positive we will not know for sure on election night as I absolutely expect R controlled states to drag their feet and declare “irregularities” that they need to investigate if they don’t like the way things are going.

That was really a great read thanks for sharing that!

It was absolutely hilarious to get to the end not entirely realizing it and reading “You can pre-order Jason “David Wong” Pargin’s book Zoey Punches the Future in the Dick …” Lol

The future definitely deserves to be punched in the dick though.

We really are that fucking stupid… It’s absolutely insane

That’s quite a metal headline.

There was really only one comment in here that I think addressed what I believe to be the real issue: propaganda works. Especially when people are ignorant to how government works and have siloed themselves into realities created by their chosen propaganda outlets, refusing to look outside of them or to acknowledge their veracity.

Republicans can deny aid by the Republican speaker of the house not calling an emergency session and then Trump and Fox News can blame Biden for something he has no control over. Something similar is happening with DeSantis. I imagine the recent news about Florida being potentially a toss up state has them a bit worried so they’re pushing whatever angle they can to attack Democrats.

As to why they would do this at all, I think that’s kind of obvious. Power and money. The Republican party have pretty much completed their takeover of the courts and the heritage foundation can institute their psychotic wishlist (project 2025) without resistance. Winning this election means they win indefinitely.

Super optimistic title there lol

I’m with Cowbee. I don’t see this happening outside of a few mom and pop places that decide to do it on their own until “government” forces the change. Just look at the 3 letter jackasses freaking out about WFH.

But they brought a snowball into Congress and everything so obviously climate change is fake news!

Anything and everything for money… I wonder if they’ll take cash in hell?

I guess I got triggered by “northerners” lol I’m from long Island NY and it gets absolutely brutal in the summer. The NE gets surprisingly gross in the summer months

It gets to be 90°F with a dew point of ~75°F where I am.

You can swim in the air with those numbers and absolutely suffer heat stroke. Fans just circulate the humid as fuck hot air. :(

I’ve started noticing that now that I cook 100% of the food I eat. No more processed anything, no more prepackaged anything, no more eating out.

Mostly because of money and my location, but I’m better off for it.

Oh you mean one of the only two reasons I use this fucking thing? Ad blocking and privacy?

You’re shitting on both. That’s like… Idk, Craftsman making tools out of plastic and removing the lifetime warranty… Wtf do I even need you for then?

“Press 1 to continue followed by the Octothorpes”

Lol I love it