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Dude, the enemy is not "the group of people who can afford a nice house and car and take vacations and eat well and have enough saved for retirement."

The enemy is the group of people who make it IMPOSSIBLE for EVERYONE to have a nice house and car and take vacations and eat well and save enough for retirement.

In the US, "poor people" USED to be the people who had not-so-nice houses and cars, or who had to rent instead of own. And it's not the dentist down the street who changed that; among others, it's the ultra-rich CEOs and shareholders who refuse to pay a living wage so they can live off your labor, and the exploitative corporations that buy up as much housing as they possibly can and charge exorbitant rent so you'll never be able to own your own home. It's the bosses who decide that "excess" food must be destroyed if it cannot be sold at a price that enriches shareholders. And it's the politicians who encourage and enable all of that.

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Another business idea

A food truck that actually is a mobile bar. I’d name it Booze-aru. Franchising opportunities available!

I already have a motto:

”Beer-goggles: it’s what makes a Booze-aru a Booze-aru.”

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I use a lot of qualifiers

I hedge. A lot.

I hedge so much my yard looks like a noble’s garden.

I hedge so much Edward Scissorhands comes to me for tips.

I hedge so much my warcry is “Bonsai!”

If I hedged any faster, I’d be Sonic the hedgehog.

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Trump: I’mma gonna make prices lower putting on a tariff on Day 1!

Democrats: That’ll make prices spike!

MAGAts: You’re just whining because you lost!

Day 1

Trump: BAM! Tariffs! Eat it, bitches!

MAGAts: He put up the tariffs today and prices are the same tonight! Lib losers!

Democrats: But they didn’t go down, did they?

One production and importation cycle later

MAGAts: Why are the prices so much higher! Must be a Democrat plot!

Democrats: We told you so.

Trump: No, it’s all a Democrat plot!

MAGAts: Aaah! WeloveyouTrumpwhyisyourBiblesomuchmoreexpensiveIdon’tcareIneedfivemore!

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Teen: “What happened to the big comfy chair?”

Me: “It died. People jumped on it too much.”

Teen: “Aww.”

Me: “Well, actually, it went to a farm upstate where chairs go to live out rich, comfortable lives being sat upon.”

teen laughs

Me: “You know, if we clear out that corner we could put a new comfy chair there, or a recliner. A recliner would mean we wouldn’t need an ottoman.”

Teen: “Comfy chair with ottoman.”

Me: “You know, that old comfy chair also had an ottoman.”

Teen: “What happened to it?”

Me: “It died. Actually, no, it went to a farm upstate where people could gently rest their feet on it.”

teen laughs louder. “Please stop! 😂”

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Looking forward to the Canadian Curling League.

petition to rename the usa ‘south canada’

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Living in bad fiction

So, I need to put this in perspective:

The Republican Party, previously known for saying character matters, and experience matters, and law and order matters, just nominated an old convicted felon who has given top secret intel to unfriendly foreign powers, incited an insurrection, bungled a pandemic, been barred from running a charity or a business in New York, hired hundreds if not thousands of undocumented “illegals”, made the US a global laughingstock, and who happened to increase the deficit every year he was in office. He also oversaw a sizable increase in crime in the US.

The man has massive verbal diarrhea, haring off in six different directions in a single sentence, appealing to fear, and this is who they want.

The Democratic Party has a sitting old president who cut the deficit, cut insulin prices, oversaw 15 million new jobs, rising lower and middle class wages, rebuilt US relations in much of the world, increased both renewable and non-renewable energy production, got a good infrastructure bill in place, oversaw crime rates going down across the board. He’s been solid.

… and many in the Democratic Party want him to step down, despite tremendous successes, because he’s old, has occasional name aphasia and he has a lifelong stutter he mostly — but not always — keeps under control.

Can any of y’all explain how this is not a case of unbearably bad fiction?

Anybody?

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Capitalist colonialism in the grocery aisles.

Feh.

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Dear Trader Joe’s: You’re Fired

You know, I was really fond of your Trader Joe’s stores when I first shopped there. Lots of great stuff! Usually reasonable prices! Cool shirts! Generally happy workers!

But now the shine is off the rose. Some of your stuff is still great, sure, but most of it I can find elsewhere. Many of your prices are above what I’d pay elsewhere. The shirts are still decent, but nothing like the sea of Hawaiian-themed prints of the aughts.

That’s not enough to make me stop shopping at your stores.

Your employees are not so happy any more and are trying to unionize. They’ve encouraged shoppers like me to keep coming to your stores because they are invested in keeping the business going. That could keep me coming to the store.

In response, you have tried telling your employees that you’re still a great place to work. Their reply? “Nah, if you were we wouldn’t need to unionize.”

That’s not enough to make me stop working at your stores either, because your workers asked. Support the workers!

But now, in your attempts to stop your labor force from unionizing, you’re trying to undermine the National Labor Relations Act and the National Labor Relations Board in court, trying to get them declared unconstitutional.

Unions help raise all workers wages. The more unions and union employees are out there, the more the wages go up for both union and non-union employees.

You are actively trying to undermine the wages of not just your employees, but also many of your customers, myself included — just so you can sock another seven to eight figures in your bank account every year.

So, in short: it’s not me, it’s you. You’re trying to hurt me, my family and my community. That is more than enough to make me stop shopping at your stores, and plenty enough to make me want you to leave my community.

You’re fired, Trader Joe’s. Good luck finding another sucker to shop in your stores.

Oh, and Amazon and Muskrat? I haven’t forgotten you. Your walking papers are in process.

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Expecting Apple this Monday

Welcome to the new iClipse!

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Tomato!

from https://qr.ae/ps2MDW

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“We take your problem seriously, but if we can make you laugh while we solve it you’ll make our day.”

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Dealing With Executive Dysfunction - A Masterpost

The “getting it done in an unconventional way” method.

The “it’s not cheating to do it the easy way” method.

The “fuck what you’re supposed to do” method.

The “get stuff done while you wait” method.

The “you don’t have to do everything at once” method.

The “it doesn’t have to be permanent to be helpful” method.

The “break the task into smaller steps” method.

The “treat yourself like a pet” method.

The “it doesn’t have to be all or nothing” method.

The “put on a persona” method.

The “act like you’re filming a tutorial” method.

The “you don’t have to do it perfectly” method.

The “wait for a trigger” method.

The “do it for your future self” method.

The “might as well” method.

The “when self discipline doesn’t cut it” method.

The “taking care of yourself to take care of your pet” method.

The “make it easy” method.

The “junebugging” method.

The “just show up” method.

The “accept when you need help” method.

The “make it into a game” method.

The “everything worth doing is worth doing poorly” method.

The “trick yourself” method.

The “break it into even smaller steps” method.

The “let go of should” method.

The “your body is an animal you have to take care of” method.

The “fork theory” method.

The “effectivity over aesthetics” method.

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Caramelized onions

No, you are not going to have caramelized onions in 10-12 minutes.

Yes, a little salt and sugar can speed the process a bit, but they also change the flavor and are contraindicated for people with certain health conditions. There are no true shortcuts.

No, you shouldn’t caramelize mild onions unless you want your caramelized onions less flavorful. No Vidalias, no Mauis, no sweet red onions. In the US, get the strongest, most eye-watering yellow onions you can find.

It will take hours when you do it at home.

Cut your onions up, at least a pound I only dice mine for sour cream and onion dip, but you do you put a 10+” oiled large skillet on a burner on medium heat which you make sure has reached at least 350ºF/185ºC don’t let it go over 450ºF/240ºC, please put the onions in the hot pan — I fill mine up to the lip cover the pan so the steam is trapped drop the burner to medium low. Only uncover until all the onions have been sweating.

Stir and scrape from time to time. Don’t leave the house.

Your energy bill will not thank you. Your taste buds will.

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Transcript:

Is interracial marriage and mixed-race kids the solution to ending racism?

No. Race and racism is a human social construct. “Interracial marriage” is the marriage of a human to another human. “Mixed-race kids” are human kids.

Racism will not end until humanity as a whole decides we will treat each person as a a fully human individual with the inherent dignity and legitimacy all persons should have, each with our own individual lived experiences, circumstances, merits, quirks and flaws.

This does not mean forgetting that the person in front of you may have suffered from racism and bigotry on both an institutional and an individual level. It means that you respect that person and that set of issues when they bring it up or circumstances rub it in everybody’s faces. I, for one, avoid bringing up race unless it is a professional requirement of my job for data collection purposes (spoiler alert: it is), and I generally do not linger on the topic unless the other person wants to linger.

“Interracial marriage” as we know it, if entered into willingly, can be a step on the long road to ending racism, but it is no more than a step. Treating others individually, mindfully and with kindness in our hearts and actions will at least be close.

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Never Said Aloud

Thank you for telling customer service you are voting for the people who want to remove the program you’ve relied on to improve your personal circumstances. We prefer knowing who the dim ones are.