doingthestuff

Yeah their impact has mostly been lost too. I've never had a job where I worked less than 55 hrs/6 days. Pensions don't exist. Most jobs in my area pay around $12/hr. Even skills like welding pay $15. You need three incomes per household just to survive on those wages.

Yeah I only learned it verbally hanging out with the Norwegian family of a friend of mine. I didn't speak much but I learned to understand quite a bit just from hanging out at their house all the time. And that was in the late 80s. I think I did okay. 😎

This why I drive anything less than 2500 miles. That's two days of driving and I get to see the country. Flying would take a whole day anyway, and then I'd have to get a rental car on the other end anyway. Plus it's difficult to find a decent lifted 4wd rental, and I usually travel to spend time in the mountains on unimproved roads and hiking and camping. Probably similar carbon footprint to flying anyway.

I'm inside the 275 loop in Cincinnati but can't get downtown without getting a ride in a car to a bus station. At that point, might as well just use the car to get downtown. Or to wherever else I'm going. Train travel is WAY too slow in the US. I've never had a vacation longer than a week, I'd barely be arriving at anywhere interesting and I would already be due back at work.

What was the shirt?

The angriest people I see on the road these days are people driving five year old Teslas.

100k for the family isn't very high, especially in places like California. Im curious how it would look if you added a $200k, $500k, $1m tier to the survey.

They literally believe the left is just showing their insanity by calling everything fascism. It's what their media tells them too. To them, this is the authoritarian, violent left and these types of actions only confirm their biases.

My elementary school childhood home, the fuse box was over the bathtub. And although they didn't completely make it a shower, it did have a removable shower head on a hose mounted down low so you could use it to rinse your hair etc. You had to be really careful where you sprayed it though.

Is it moral to deny Medicaid to people who earned $5 too much? Because that's what we've been doing forever. The benefit cliff intencentivises people to stay in poverty.

I guess the quote is from 1905. I'm in my fifties and have never seen broad union involvement anywhere.

I have tried multiple times to get union jobs but they're less than 5% of jobs in the last few communities I have lived in. My wife and daughter have union jobs. But it's certainly not like they're available for everyone.