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Replying to @Jason
We should make the essentials of life cheaper rather than continually trying to subsidize people's ability to afford expensive things.
you have good goals but some bad methods to achieve them imo
1) We've discussed this before - raising the minimum wage sounds good, but it makes it more expensive to hire less experienced workers, shutting them out of the labor market. We should want wages to rise because employers are competing for workers, not because the government mandates it.
2) Agree on ending wars! The Iran war did accomplish its main objective - to get people to stop talking about the Epstein files
3) Why subsidize trade school loans at 1% for 30 years? Haven't we seen what easy government financing has done to college tuition?
We should reduce licensing requirements, encourage apprenticeships, and make it easier for people to enter the trades.
4) We need way more housing. But let's start by making it easy and legal to build! Eliminate restrictive zoning, streamline permitting, and remove unnecessary building requirements
5) no chance Trump does anything like that but I like the push lol
broadly we should be thinking about how to make things more affordable rather than how to help people afford expensive things... imagine how much better off Americans would be if housing, education, healthcare, and energy were dramatically cheaper. We don't need to continually increase subsidies and mandates to make life affordable, we just need to remove barriers that make everything cost so much!
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I’m not sure how yet, but shouldn’t Apple be punished for this?
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ALT WIRED: Developers need to target the iOS 27.1 software development kit (SDK) for full Duo compatibility. That will take some time. But it is a little maddening that some app developers, who for years have never seemed to care about optimizing their app for Android folding phones, are so quick to embrace Apple's fold. Slack, for example, never offered the two-pane view of its desktop app in the Android version, but it's on the Duo. C'est la vie. Hopefully, Apple's entry into foldables will result in a "rising tide lifts all boats" situation and Android fold lovers will get to enjoy those optimizations.
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I love how Japan brought over the capybaras as an experimental food source, discovered they weren't appetizing, and then bred them as cute zoo animals, only to find that they loved hot springs.
Now, they're a national symbol of relaxation and healing.
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Every time I visit a college campus, I inevitably meet people convinced that finance contributes nothing to the American economy.
I think it’s actually one of America’s greatest competitive advantages.
This is the screenshot I always show them.
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My favorite reaction to this is all the Europeans laughing at the guy who moved to Poland to escape right wing populism lol
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European military pilots would get based in TX to instruct at Shepard AFB as part of an international program.
They bought big trucks, rented large houses & had a ball. Some took garbage disposals back to Europe, where it’s unheard of.
Not everything is as it appears.
The internet told them Europe was a social paradise. Turns out the trains are awful, the health care isn’t free, and people can be really mean. buff.ly/5cLtnha
в твітері нагадали про цей абсолютний діамант, я досі не можу визначитися чи це така тонка пародія
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"My cousins Russian wife has strong mestruation pains, Chinese herbs don't work and so 2-3 days each month he has to do household chores and it tires him out"
Amazing post, anthropology level that qualifies it to Louvre
中俄通婚剧增,若不了解俄罗斯女性生理缺陷,婚后可能会很痛苦。从生理层面看,俄罗斯女性由于地域和遗传等因素,身体特征与国内女性存在差异。我见过太多这样的例子,男方一开始觉得特别有面子,可婚后没多久就开始抱怨。
我家远房堂弟去年刚娶了个俄罗斯姑娘,办婚礼的时候整个家族都去凑热闹,堂弟带着高挑明艳的洋媳妇站在台上,一米八五的堂弟站人家姑娘旁边都没显得格外魁梧,当时多少去吃席的男亲戚,眼睛都直了,背地里羡慕堂弟走了大运,说小伙子这辈子都值了。结果才过了不到一年,堂弟上次偷偷找我喝酒,三杯白酒下肚就红了眼,说这日子过得实在难受,早知道说啥都不结这个婚。
堂弟说的第一个问题,就是体味问题。我之前其实也听过说欧美人体味重,可没想到会严重到这个程度。俄罗斯纬度高,天气冷,当地人自古就习惯吃高热量的红肉、奶制品,还爱喝高度酒,本身汗腺就发达,天生体味就比我们亚洲女性重很多。堂弟说,刚谈恋爱的时候都是在外面约会,姑娘天天喷好多浓香水,俩人也很少近距离待很久,他只觉得香水味有点浓,没往别的地方想。结婚住在一起才发现,香水盖不住底层的体味,尤其是运动完或者天气热一点的时候,那个味道混着香水,直往鼻子里钻,堂弟天生鼻子敏感,闻到那个味道就犯头疼,连着好几个月都睡不好觉,天天失眠。姑娘也挺委屈,已经做到一天洗两次澡,出门进门都补喷香水,遗传带来的东西,她也改不了啊,为这事儿俩人吵了好多次,好好的感情磨得没剩多少了。
第二个问题就是皮肤衰老速度差太多。俄罗斯姑娘年轻的时候真的绝,皮肤白皙,轮廓深邃,十几二十岁的时候嫩得能掐出水,可她们松弛衰老的速度真的比国内女性快太多。堂弟媳妇今年才二十六,按说正是女人最好的年纪,可这两年嫁到国内,天天跟着我们吃重油重盐的饭菜,本身又爱喝甜奶茶,不到两年胖了快二十斤,胖了之后皮肤松得特别快,眼角的皱纹都出来了,颈纹也深得能放进去一根手指,跟结婚时候拍婚纱照比,简直像换了一个人。堂弟说,每次带她出去,朋友都背地里开玩笑,说你这哪里是娶媳妇,分明是带了个大姐出来,说者无心听者有意,堂弟心里别提多别扭了。
第三个问题说出来可能好多人想不到,就是生理周期和产后恢复的问题。我之前查过相关的数据,俄罗斯女性因为从小饮食结构的问题,普遍骨量更大,骨架也更宽,按说生孩子应该更顺利?其实根本不是,俄罗斯女性的生理期普遍比亚洲女性反应大得多,我堂弟媳妇每次来生理期,都疼得下不来床,要吃强效止痛药才能缓过来,国内的中成药调理对她根本没用,每个月都要有两三天躺平,家里所有活儿都扔给堂弟,时间久了堂弟也吃不消。
更麻烦的是产后恢复,去年秋天姑娘怀了孕,快到预产期去做检查,医生说孩子的个头比同孕周的亚洲胎儿大一圈,本来俄罗斯姑娘骨架大,我们都以为能顺,结果生的时候还是顺转剖,挨了一刀。产后更头疼,人家俄罗斯女性的体质就是生完孩子很快就能下地蹦跶,可我们这边的坐月子习俗她根本接受不了,忍了半个月就忍不住洗澡吹空调,结果落下了腰疼的毛病,现在一变天就疼得直哭。而且产后身材走样得特别厉害,肚皮松得收不回去,她自己也焦虑,天天跟堂弟吵架,说堂弟嫌弃她了。
其实好多人只看到娶俄罗斯媳妇新鲜有面子,觉得人家姑娘大方开朗不拜金,不要房不要车,可这些藏在表面底下的差异,根本没人提前告诉你。文化差异生活习惯差异都能慢慢磨,可这种生理上天生带来的差异,真的是怎么磨都磨不平,难受的只有自己知道。我不是说中俄通婚不好,也不是歧视俄罗斯姑娘,只是真的想提醒那些一心想娶俄罗斯姑娘的小伙子,别光盯着面子和新鲜感,一定要提前了解清楚这些问题,扪心问问自己能不能接受,别等结了婚才后悔,耽误了自己也耽误了人家姑娘。你们说,这种天生的生理差异,真的能靠感情完全克服吗?
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not opening a savings account bc the interest i accrue is blood money from the bank
чергова хвиля Дискурса про кредитні картки вчергове нагадує наскільки в світі багато імпульсивних долбойобів
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The overwhelming majority of the benefits/cash back for credit cards is subsidized by people making purchases with debit or cash, because merchants build 1-2% into prices to cover credit card interchange fees.
The rest is covered by credit card users who rack up interest.
Studies on the economics of premium credit cards show that they are a transfer of wealth from low income debit/cash buyers to high income spenders with premium cards.
So if you're not participating in this you are basically handing over your money for no benefit so that I can get a 3% discount when I pump my gas or buy a new refrigerator
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Goodbye to the iconic flying piss dungeon. Retired this morning, after landing in Frankfurt. 🙏
I’m flying the iconic @lufthansa A340-600 this week, in economy 😱
The toilets are downstairs! Such a rare beast.
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- women do a lot of cooking because they have to care for children. Now the kids are removed so you don't have to cook by necessity
- many people, but women in particular, have the money to eat out now, even daily. All money that would have gone to kids now goes to the self.
- delayed marriage means a man now has an extended single life, past when he might stop tolerating the early 20s "bachelor" food habits typical of men of the past
- cooking (beyond just manly grilling) became a technical nerd hobby with a huge internet audience. Women's existing cooking attention transitioned online away from magazines and TV, but they didn't seem to become huge converts to a hobby in the way men did
- cooking is an attractive skill for a man to perform for a women; this also ties into the "no kids" thing because A) the woman isn't always cooking on her own, and B) the kind of cooking you do as a couple is different than the utilitarian cooking by necessity to feed a family every day. Men can cook only the cool stuff for date nights and parties and not batches of spaghetti and meatloaf for hungry kids
Also related to this - "leftovers" seem to have fallen out of fashion and relevance. Economical cooking is for poor people and immigrants (you know, the kid-havers) while cool adults try to entertain themselves every day.






































