That used to be a 50k house.

I ran the numbers and it was cheaper way back to live in the city than to commute, the cost of the car, and the lost time in the car at your hourly rate.

If you sold the car, moved to the city, or onto the rail line, a station is opening up in New Bedford and providence is a lot cheaper than boston and you can take the mbta pretty cheap or Amtrak and get a seat. Sometimes work will pay for the pass.

I have a grocery store on the other side of the street and I get delivery. I usually get a lot at once instead of going frequently. So it’s nice to wheel my caster shelves to the lobby and get my stuff and just bring it up and not leave the building.

My auburn hospital is overlooked. It’s a nice facility. The big hospitals are all backed up.

Yeah town based section 8 vouchers for public workers might help. Make them able to rent in the area.

AI BitTorrent will kill us all!

I’m boston it’s 12% of units anyway. So allowing them to go to any height should be 24-30% if they do it here.

They’re trying to pass rent control which might deter landlords from building, but also I moved a dozen times bc my rent got jacked up like 250/mo or more after my first years lease was up. Typical boston scam, along with realtors fees.

Yeah a crash is inevitable. Consumer debt is skyrocketing and consumer savings are plummeting while cost of living is dramatically increasing; during an already dodgey economy.

I think it’s the perfect storm for a major recession. I know people have been calling for one since before Covid but these new debt and savings numbers will clash and people won’t service their debt to pay for groceries.

I don’t know if the government has the money for a bailout of this magnitude. Auto debt 1 trillion alone, credit card debt is over a trillion. Like the bailouts were hundreds of billions, collectively 1.7-2t but nothing like the debt bubble that’s about to burst.

I mean maybe just let banking and finance fail. Credit unions didn’t need a bailout bc they didn’t do all the risky stuff bc nobody can own more than one share. So it’s not driven by stock price so they don’t do high risk high reward stuff for short term gain and kick the can down the line.

Let the banks collapse and let credit unions take over. If banking were non profit it’d save us a lot of money in interest but also bailouts.

How can they bail out the individual though? How can one “bail out Main Street” instead of wall Street?

Republicans will howl if the government started laying peoples debt for them. But they’d applaud if more money was spent bailing out the banks.

You have to get people to strike. I worked at a credit union, I was fired for having a disability and they denied disability yet no one even wants to join the union.

So if it’s hard to get people to join the union, and the government crushed the rail strike before it happened… I’m not sure how you’d get enough people behind it unless we had another crash and they bailed out Wall Street and not Main Street. That might lead to a strike.

So there is a huge army here and a heavily militarized police force. Police have weapons from the war from M4 carbines to armored personnel carriers, to humvees, they’d put anything down pretty fast.

Yeah, lobbyists, citizens United, etc. unfortunately they have massive lobbying power and unless we emulate the GameStop short squeeze, and pool money into a political action committee, I don’t think we’d be doing much other than agreeing with each other in an idealogical bubble.

If we made environmental standards international somehow, if we improved labor standards around the world in order to sell to the US, EU, Japan, etc than we might see more investment in American manufacturing but that’s mostly robotic creating profit for the .01%.

I mean the republicans want to gut the IRS and cut the social support system to pay for it. That’s horrifying for someone on disability and who knows a lot of people dependent on the system.

People having to pay taxes on stock over 10 million worth would help a ton though. It’s. 191X decision, before that they taxed stock like regular income. Also taking the cap off of social security tax. I think 180k and 1M pay the same amount and get paid the same amount. At least with the social safety net and deficit.

The companies should def pay more, but they have rigged the system to their advantage and they collectively have trillions to do it.

It’s really hard to fight the power when they hand already hoarded all the wealth.

Too bad we aren’t like the French and cut off their power!

Unfortunately regan decapitated labor with his union busting.

We really need ranked choice voting and a labor party. Even if they didn’t run for president at first, until they stood a chance of actually winning, but instead took local legislatures and city councils and eventually federal office.

They’d vote in line with Bernie and Elizabeth Warren I’d guess.

The problem is if you raise taxes that much they’ll move to Mexico or another country. Just look at outsourcing. We used to be the manufacturing hub of the world. Now we barely make any of our own stuff bc it’s cheaper, and much worse for the environment, to make it in china or south of the boarder.

They should def pay more taxes and itd help the deficit. But we have huge debt.

Snow tires if you have rear wheel drive. Seriously a game changer.

#“Hello clarice”

Yeah they’re gonna be really hurting when we don’t drop the sanctions until they pay to repair the country and pay pensions for the killed and injured. I hope they never drop sanctions and let Russia turn into North Korea.

F em.

Oh I hope they go bankrupt from the cost of the damage and the death they did in Ukraine and that they try all the war criminals and see them sentenced in The Hague, where they’re building a case right now. They have been forensically collecting data from everywhere liberate like a modern crime scene. Volunteers around the world have archived every tweet and telegram and other video posted by Russians media and Ukraine and has sorted it so there will be a big expensive trial. Until then they’ll keep ramping up sanctions and figuring out how the Russians manage to get stuff still.

So what changed?

I said I got a different kind of kool aid in my post. I’m not sure why you’re angry, but perhaps work on reading comprehension or your adhd?

My supposition was that they were getting around sanctions more effectively recently, and I asked a rhetorical question based on that to elicit a response.

Is English not your first language?

Yeah, the whole thing is a waste, and horrible.

I guess more Patriot missile systems are needed now?

Or I last saw it in 1993 when I was like ten.

How is this change possible and what can be done?

Yeah it seemed like they slowed down missile attacks for a time and focused on drones and then suddenly a ton of missiles again. Had there been a time with less missile strikes or am I remembering that wrong?

So has russia. We were both in Afghanistan and both did the satellite country espionage thing and had our intelligence services all over foreign democracies trying to get a fair shake.

It’s also called a rhetorical question. Like if I have been getting this info than why do they still have a lot? I’m questioning the source in my question and I’m admitting to being programmed by American propaganda at the same time as the Chinese guy was so I realized it wasn’t worth debating.

I’m not sure if you understood what I said. Big words and all.

I admit it in my post. “He… absorbed propaganda… and so did I”

Yes I’m aware I even mention it.