Oh now that you bring that up you’re right. Not wanting to take a 1 hour transit trip or drive for 30 minutes a few times a week is actually the same as needing to sell your labor in order to have food and healthcare.

A bit further outside the HCOL area or a smaller dwelling, genius.

Then sell the house.

Owning a house in a HCOL area is one of the luxuries I was talking about. Any million dollar asset is a luxury.

There is a fundamental difference between working to survive and working because you don’t want to move out of your NYC brownstone or further from lake como or whatever the fuck.

Oh no, a few hundred kwh per year. I did some back of the napkin math and using quite generous estimates the electricity for that came to roughly the same carbon emissions as 1 tank of gasoline per year. The ‘multiple kids’ part is going to be many, many times more impactful.

Boohoo the millionaire can’t afford all the luxuries they want. How will they make the payments on their BMW this month, they might have to switch to weekly tennis lessons instead of 3x weekly.

A million is easily enough to live a comfortable life and never work again. If they ‘struggle to make ends meet’ they are bad at budgeting. They are not working class, they do not need to work. Maybe they work because they want to live in a HCOL area and have extra luxuries but anybody with a million dollars worth of assets can stop working any time they feel like it.

Especially any multi-millionaire is distinctly bourgeois.

“The S&P 500 posted a loss of 1.6% this week.”

Wow, it sure is popping. Nvidia is only down about 0.25% compared to a month ago. Lets keep this week’s pace of pullback going for a few more weeks and maybe then we can talk about a pop. The bubble is so absurd that 800 billion is relatively not even that much in percentage terms.

I looked up the tax in question and I struggle to believe anyone was seriously pretending it would cause capital flight. It’s an extra 4% on income over a million. That’s just adding a modest tax bracket. At first glance I assumed this was a state level wealth tax.

I was ready to play devil’s advocate because right now petit bourgeois consumer spending is the only thing propping up the US economy and you really don’t want to fuck with that. But come on man. ‘Millionaire’ normally refers to total wealth not annual income. This income bracket wont even notice this.

god I wish I lived somewhere civilized. The general level of societal function this implies sounds amazing.

‘glad we have this type of weirdo here, I don’t need to see this shit though’ -me once per week on lemmy

I’m hoping it’s mostly europeans, I feel like most americans with any exposure to gun culture should already know about this being illegal.

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I’m wearing black in winter to catch more heat and also black in the summer to hide the sweat stains. Can’t lose

Man I still have the box my fucking zune came in. It’s where all my old microsd/sd cards and assorted small semi-valuables live.

A small nice box can be a useful thing to have.

For a second I thought this was the kitchen in one of my previous apartments. Is it that common for shitty apartments to not have drawer pulls on the cabinets?

NASA claims the Earth is hit with 48.5 tons of natural meteoric debris every day, much of it being metallic. Somehow that hasn’t been an issue in all of history so far.

A ton is such an absurdly insignificant amount of material on a global scale.

Cops are weird, it’s a mix of ‘this our turf, you wanted to come in here so FAFO’, laziness, a vague sense of duty directed at ???, and some eclectic variety of incoherent personal politics that separates the feds into the camp of ‘other’ at least temporarily.

But nobody is hurting for renters at the bottom of the price bracket. Those units go fast unless there’s something horrible about the unit.

You can say ‘they’re all talk until they’re not’ about anyone. There is no doubt in my mind that this guy would gladly do some gay bashing if he was getting out of some shitty abiline bar/““honky-tonk”” and saw somebody visibly queer walking into a relatively isolated street. But I also understand the gulf between that and publicly planning a mass shooting. Don’t get me wrong, I hate this exact type of hick in a way that is indefensibly bigoted in it’s own right. But they aren’t that stupid.

I mean he’s a vile piece of shit but this is like, par for the course chatting shit for west texans. This doesn’t even remotely read as an actual threat to me. You have to understand these are uncivilized and stupid people who have thoughts only marginally more sophisticated than their cattle and dogs.

haha what if shoot (thing we don’t like) we should do that.

They’re stupid but not ‘genuinely invite homie to do a mass shooting together with a public faceboook post’ stupid. Even these yokels would assume ‘surely nobody would take this literally.’ Who among us hasn’t seen a picture of a white nationalist march and thought things you wouldn’t post publicly. It’s that frame of mind but if you were a bigot and too dumb to have a filter.

tldr; put him in the reeducation camp for bigotry, not for posting

Surprised everyone is blaming windows. Maybe I just have bad luck but almost all of my laptop problems have been hardware or firmware related. Although windows certainly doesn’t help the battery life when it decides to just ignore power rules and I open the laptop to find it never reacted to closing the lid and it has just enough charge left to flash ‘battery low please plug in’ before dying on 0%.