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Short-term they’re different,

That’s like saying in a million years everyone will be dead, so why do anything?

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That happened after Trump tore up the treaty, right?

Thank you. You’re going to get a lot of nonsense where people keep telling you that voting is meaningless. Don’t listen.

You do know that Obama signed a peace treaty with Iran that even the Israeli Mossad said was working? You knew that, right?

So, both sides are the same and don’t vote?

Funny how every time the GIOP does something awful we see a lot of BoTh SIdes ArE The SAMe memes.

No actual plans or ideas, but lots of memes telling people not to vote.

Tom Wolfe said that if a person goes from middle class to homeless in a shelter their life changes 50%. They still have the same clothes, watch the same TV shows, eat the same kind of food.

If someone goes from being a billionaire to middle class their life has changed 100%.

imho, it was Nixon who started America on this course. Nixon knew that the Vietnam War was unwinnable; he even ran in 1968 as a ‘peace candidate.’ He also knew that massive bombing would mean that the US steel mills would be working 24/7 and that would be great for the Unions and owners. All he had to do was pay for it with paper money, because he didn’t want to raise taxes.

Racism is always a good idea.

When I was a kid, the worst playground insult was calling someone a ‘J@p,’ because only a yellow bastard would pull a sneak attack like Pearl Harbor.

Tojo must be smiling in Hell.

90 year old woman goes to the local brothel. She tells the madam that she wants to try something new, so she wants to try being a hooker for a night. Madam makes some phone calls, finds some customers who 'd be into it, and tells the woman to come back the next night.

The next day the lady arrives, and soon the first john shows up. They walk upstairs, spend an hour, and come back. The second customer is waiting, and so he and she go upstairs. After she comes back down, the third guy arrives, so it’s back upstairs.

At the end of the night the madam asks if she wants to come back?

“Oh, no dear. the sex was fine but those damn stairs will kill me.”

Along the lines of the original post.

Compare Angelina Jolie and Elizabeth Taylor, for example. On paper, Angelina is far wealthier, but in terms of day-to-day lifestyles, they are pretty comparable. Only the 0.01% of multi-billionaires have reaped any rewards.

The inflation in luxury goods is staggering. High school kids used to be able to afford concert tickets, football games, and Broadway plays. That Phantom was a year’s salary for a school teacher; now the most expensive cars are twenty year’s salary. It’s not that the products are so much better; there’s a larger pool of very wealthy people. In 1960, if a man’s wife had a job they were considered ‘poor.’ Today, even professionals need two salaries to keep up with the Joneses

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I’m not much of a fan of ‘inflation calculators.’

According to most of them, $1 million in 1960 is $10 million today. But if you look at the actual prices, it makes no sense. $1 million in 1960 would buy two mansions, a fleet of cars, a nice boat, and you’d have enough left over to invest and have an income for several lifetimes.

If you don’t have a good sized freezer, buy one. There are small ones that fit in any home.

Too many veggies? Chop them up and put them in quart sized containers. You can add them to any soup or stew.

I have a five quart pot; make chili/stew/soup and freeze in pint size containers.

My house has a good freezer, here’s the first i searched out as an example.

https://www.homedepot.com/p/Magic-Chef-3-5-cu-ft-Manual-Defrost-Chest-Freezer-in-White-HMCF35W5/313922431

Leonard Bernstein has entered the chat…

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I can’t remember the author or title of the story.

Napoleon wants to give his enemies false information, so he picks a courier who looks bold and dashing, but has a reputation for being a complete fuck up.

The idiot manages to fumble his way past a dozen patrols and deliver the orders.

Exactly what they didn’t want.

“Well structured query” is what got me.

If I read up on a subject for two hours, chances are I am going to learn things that have nothing to do with the original problem.