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Does inflation count?

In a less polarized and post truth world you’d probably be right. I fear however that the solid 36-37% maga base will never find an issue that can’t be spun or rationalized. In the magasphere this situation seems to be framed as the GOP stepping up to fight against free health care for illegal immigrants which seems divorced from reality.

Pretty easy. Be not white, not straight, not cis, etc. They’ll fear for their life. Or at least that’s what the reports and ensuing investigations will conclude.

Hm, but what if we just haven’t tarrifed hard enough yet?

I’m waiting for the subsequent headline where it turns out it was a non-violent protest or something.

I wanted the future with flying cars and teleporters, instead I got refrigerators with advertisements.

Exactly, just needs a little motivation.

Congrats! My office is in a grudging detente with a hybrid 3-2 schedule, though it’s clear they’d like to go full RTO if they could swing it.

When asked for comment about the lawsuit, a USDA spokesperson responded with a statement: “We are approaching an inflection point for Senate Democrats. Continue to hold out for the Far-Left wing of the party or reopen the government so mothers, babies, and the most vulnerable among us can receive timely WIC and SNAP allotments.”

This seems like a perfectly normal thing for an ostensibly non-partisan federal agency to say. I mean I get that it is increasingly normal these days but fuck this timeline.

Wow, that’s so intuitive and user friendly! /s

“Just give up your only leverage and we’ll talk about what you want. Pinky promise.”

Visual, he can tell the you the sperm count of any individual at twenty yards with uncanny inaccuracy.

A side benefit to FIRE, you get to a financial position where you can shrug and absorb the cost increase because you still value the activity enough.

No one said it had to be yours.

In my area Xfinity cable has decent upload now, though it still trails fiber. Doing a speed test just now I get 2 gigabit down and 300 megabit up and I pay $85/month with a five year price lock. This is a relatively recent phenomenon so worth checking out if you can get a similar package. Prior to this I was getting 25-32 megabit.

I’ve never made my friends or family pay, but prior to getting decent upload bandwidth I did cap remote streams / concurrent transcodes and let people duke it out fist come first serve. Mostly it was fine. I’ve given maybe 15 people access, but only a few are regularly active.

I also keep a small offsite server at a family members house that splits some of my user base and serves as an offsite backup.

Meanwhile I doubt I’d notice if my neighbors had dead bodies on their porches given how little attention I pay.

States rights has always meant that states have the right to do exactly what republicans want them to do, nothing more.

and I haven’t died from it.

Yet.

Results inconclusive.