Get people hooked on a culture war and they’ll quickly forget there’s a class war nearly everyone is losing.

Lol I literally just picked it off the map. I really wasn’t expecting anyone in this thread to know that location intimately.

Well damn that’s depressing. They can’t make up much of the total market though that is I imagine people’s index funds and 401Ks outweigh people gambling with penny stocks.

150k in like NY, SD, LA, SF. Maybe closer to 60k in Beckley WV. Cost of living and taxes aren’t the same everywhere.

Lol casino’s*

This is an iconic German Stielhandgranate (specifically resembling the Model 1916 or Model 1924), a type of military hand grenade used extensively during World War I and World War II. It is famously nicknamed the “potato masher” due to its distinctive shape.

Had to look it up since I’m not well versed in WWI / WWII German equipment.

By now it’s safe to assume both sides are pretty worked up and thirsting for some violence. That’s the whole point though. Get people hooked on a culture war and division so they don’t both see they’re getting fucked two ways to Sunday. The best way to win is to sell to both sides.

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Try a Casio casino, lighting your money on fire or even worse NFTs.

There’s far more than enough money to go around, it is that most spending is inefficient. Lunches should be free and healthy, books should be free unless it’s intentionally damaged, teachers should be paid well (60k minimum) and management should take a pay cut.

Please, it’s a useless concept in today’s world.

Totally cool so long as they stop pouring untreated sewage into the ocean. It’s a bummer for the surfers and the ocean life.

Anyone else seen pompoko?

The atmosphere is crazy, don’t even get started on the water.

I can’t see my general practitioner for the next five weeks and that’s with insurance.

The second one. The sands of the Sahara are vital to the Amazon rainforest. They blow all the way to the Amazon and deposit phosphorus which would totally get washed away without that deposit. The surface of the earth is hyper connected. You only experience yourself as a separate being from the rest of nature just because of the limited awareness we have, not because we are actually independent.

How was the Amazon? From my understanding it gets a substantial amount of benefit from the sands of the Sahara currently.

That isn’t what I said but you’re free to take it that way if you prefer.

I never said don’t not tell people they’re wrong. But for instance one of the most dangerous things in any faith are ex-believers and every religion knows they are dangerous because of how effective they are at changing people’s minds. Leaving a faith is typically one of the greatest sins to said faith. That’s not an accident, they understand marketing and how ideas die. Now some ideas are tough to kill. There’s always going to be some person who wants to control everything at essentially any cost, I’m not sure that’s going anywhere anytime soon. Same with the idea that X people are good and Y people are bad not based on actions of said people. That is tribalism isn’t likely to go away anytime soon regardless of really anything we do short of genetically altering humanity. It’s like the idea of war or hatred itself, it’s too fundamental to our organism to go anywhere without some particularly extreme efforts. That’s not to say ideas don’t die. There’s been a plethora of bad people leading bad causes essentially lost to time and that’s because ideas do die for all sorts of reasons including people denouncing them.

I’m curious, what’s your ideal circumstance? People don’t technically have to rent if they don’t want to but typically that means giving up a lot.