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I am excited for another addition to the Jessie Wareniverse

Wars have consequences. And if the Trump White House was unprepared for the eventuality that the Fanatics Flag Football Classic might need to find a new venue, they never should’ve launched those missiles.

each generation of pokemon should be introduced to the public by having them perform every activity at the combine. i want to see that flaming pomeranian's bench press

what if you included the pokemon's 40 time

The last Amtrak I took in 2024 had 40 year old seats and the bathroom stopped working halfway through. I wish it could be improved because I’d prefer that more of travel. But unfortunately my takeaway after reading is it’s worse because it wasn’t profitable and as a public service it can be damned

It feels like a very recent change, last few weeks seems right. My text messages are all signed off with Edited now

As a reformed internet engagement addict, I wish them all luck in realizing it’s not worth it

I can tell bluesky is getting worse and becoming a “real” social media because it’s getting easier to find “posts >20 times a day” people than ever

i'm also realizing now that i'm arguing with an internet engagement addict. so i'm going to mute this since it'd be irresponsible to feed into someones addiction.

sorry, its clear now that you took my 'everything is rented' to be specifically about homes and not all the other objects in existence. Although your chart shows home ownership hasn't improved in nearing 50 years now, i still recommend you go outside to see how everything is now existing at rent

see this is more believable to me than boredom

it's ok, youll get to watch that number begin to plummet soon.

yes, i understand that now. no issue with you, i enjoy getting to talk politics with people who arent poisoned by it

i imagine that during that 1999-2003 rise of mortgage that would ultimately help crash the economy, you would be here arguing "its getting better" but it wasn't. it turns out these markers aren't the meaningful ones.

this is a wonderful post. thank you so much.

according to this chart, home ownership hasn't gotten "better" since 1975. but it did get "better" during the exact period of the subprime mortgage bubble, until that fell apart- really bringing contradiction to the term "homeowner" if they lost it

Think you should go outside if you don’t recognize the rental economy

So to make the case that things are “easier than ever”- it’s also easier than ever to lose everything because everything has adjusted into a rental state. You rent everything. You own very little. Access is improved, but ownership hasn’t. And the latter is what makes a life stable.

Well let me put it this way about that analysis, if you killed everyone below the median, the median marker would improve. That right there is a problem with looking at it that way.

You can say technology is better than ever before, but so is the exploitative markets (housing, gambling, medicine)

I think that requires an assumption that previous societies found purpose in god and didn’t do it as a boring expectation in their routine.

I don’t think boredom is the fundamental factor since boredom drives people to have hobbies probably earlier than it drives them into political battlefields

Sort of a meaningless marker and kind of stupid to suggest tbh. A homeless person isn’t having a better life experience because you can afford an iPhone.

So this take especially is one that I don’t think this correct at all, as far as I know most people in the US (let’s ignore globally) struggle with their finances every day since at least the 70s. It’s actually a very small group of people that don’t. I don’t think there’s a boredom problem.

Please don’t align me with blue maga, I do not support either party

Well for one, if you’re getting it a lot it means that regardless of intended message, this is one that’s coming off from it.

the second statement, I agree but it’s not the message i took from your post. it’s actually unclear bc my first read was “is he saying we need to bomb iran for our freedom?”

I hate whoever changed the iPhone autocorrect so much, it’s so useless now

I don’t think it’s hard to look back at decades of American history including the time period directly after WW2 to see that at all. Many people just didn’t experience it, they were passengers on a pre-set track for so long they still have no idea that track wasn’t available to everyone

I went back to read your post and want to say I think you (and Denny tbh) are projecting your own comfort prior to all of ~this~ as being the common experience. I think large swath of people who tuned out of reality for a long time, because it was easy for them, but it wasn’t easy for the majority.

I think it’s relieving that most of these news platforms have stopped pretending what they do is informative or useful.

The mask is off everywhere, is there any institution even bothering to keep theirs on anymore?

wife chasing me around the kitchen table with a rolling pin because she found me in the epstein files being a Mossad Operative