1984, and a bunch of fascist dystopian writing.

7. Still have a few plates.

We’ll see if the monster she helped create crushes her, or, if for some bizarre reason trump doesn’t run again, Republicans hate Democrats enough to vote for a woman.

She’s just going to push her own brand of awful. Don’t think for a second that she’s grown a conscience. Probably going to make a run for prez, hardline dictator instead of stupid dictator.

Playing “Who is the more extreme patriot?” Trump went in like an aimless wrecking ball, she’s going to do precision extreme moves. Bet she runs for prez. All or nothing.

“…high paying jobs are.”

And that is the problem.

Capitalism run amok with the increasing need to push the line higher and maximize profits resulting in gluttony eating up all the spare money in a market.

“Desirable area”

Shouldn’t be. A pardon means you were guilty. Hence the pardon. So the search was legal.

Yeah. The problem is that the goalposts keep getting pushed away faster than income is keeping up. Someone might have what is considered a good paying job, but the buying power for major purchases like cars and homes keeps taking hits. On top of that the bills get steeper and steeper. Six figures should be a fortune.

Middle class didn’t mean a big McMansion or desirable area. It meant a modest house in a small lot in a boring suburb of someplace like Detroit where you’d work for Ford or something.

Our ideas of what kind of house we should have is really distorted. It’s like pickup trucks. What was considered an everyday pickup 40 years ago was 1/3rd the size of the behemoths available today, and of course today’s trucks cost $80,000 compared to the $6,500 of something like a ‘85 Toyota Pickup ($20k in today dollars).

Looks like they paid off the big debts with the Big Tech salary first, then took the lower pay job. So yeah, if you grind out the big bills first it’s absolutely possible.

Lower 6 figures today is middle class. Or at least what middle class buying power was 40 years ago.

Crazy attracts crazy.

Extreme isn’t extreme enough for some people.

Rolling troll.

Maybe if someone enlisted long enough to get the GI bill for education and used it things would be different, but if one only does short military time and leaves with no further self-improvement the odds of being better off financially probably aren’t great.

Fuck this.

Meanwhile they busily edit anything a Democrat says to indicate something other than what the context of the statement was.

NASA is funny. They are always searching for signs of life, past or present, on planets in our system when they can send a lander of some sort. But, if there is a spot where there actually might be a chance of life existing, they avoid it because of the minuscule chance of some bacteria on any rover contaminating the area.

We’ll look for signs of life where it’s hard to find and avoid the areas where there might be a better chance of it.

Yet another beautiful story about how a young person has to sell their youth in order to afford medical care in America.

Deeply /s

TIL hebophile and ephebophile, two words I didn’t want to know existed.