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Now do ceo’s, board members, and management so we can compare.
Yeah, if you're using the "rich leaders in power are currupt" argument you might as well extend it to every single organization in the country.
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None of it's fine but it's simply disingenuous to ignore California and Virginia being a reaction to what MAGA politicians started.
I think it's all wrong but MAGA definitely got the nutty gerrymandering competition rolling.
For a state to have 90 or 100% of their representatives from one party when 40 - 45% of that state votes the other way is much more dangerous for democracy in this country than whatever policy the other party may support.
I think it's all wrong but MAGA definitely got the nutty gerrymandering competition rolling.
For a state to have 90 or 100% of their representatives from one party when 40 - 45% of that state votes the other way is much more dangerous for democracy in this country than whatever policy the other party may support.
Google was great when the search results returned the most exact match to your search. Now, ALL the results, even those that don't say they are sponsored, are really sponsored.
AI will allow you to have even more "sponsored" frustration when you're looking for anything specific not for sale on Amazon or linked to corporate partners' websites.
AI will allow you to have even more "sponsored" frustration when you're looking for anything specific not for sale on Amazon or linked to corporate partners' websites.
re: Who are y’all using for home internet?
Posted by wm72 on 5/20/26 at 7:42 am to King of New Orleans
Maybe not applicable to your location but I switched to T Mobile 5G 2 years ago and it's been great so far for $40/mo.
Since Landry took over the LSU program he's been hiring based on the "crooked politician" resume that got him in the Governor's mansion.
re: Average Home Values for SEC Towns
Posted by wm72 on 5/18/26 at 2:18 pm to AUTiger789
Lists like this probably best indicate simply whether most of the affluent areas and/or ghetto areas are in the city limits.
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your life is not worse because of the top 1%
it is worse because of the bottom 1%
Why not both?
As a country, our middle class has been duped into choosing between politicians that drain the middle class to aid the poorest or politicians that drain the middle class the help the wealthiest.
re: Why do some people use a Spanish inflection when pronouncing Hispanic names?
Posted by wm72 on 5/15/26 at 10:11 am to shutterspeed
Most English people pronounce the Spanish name "Silva" as "Silver"
and also pronounce "Silver" as Silva
and also pronounce "Silver" as Silva
With the way the middle class is shrinking, seems most future jobs will be fixing and cleaning shite for super rich people.
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The far reaching impact of all the inflation/tariff/gas price hikes is how it turbo charges larger corporatiions replacing small businesses.
They can weather these crazy cost shifts.
If you're looking for logic or conspiracy theories right out in the open that's the upshot.
Continually draining the middle class for corporate shareholder returns.
They can weather these crazy cost shifts.
If you're looking for logic or conspiracy theories right out in the open that's the upshot.
Continually draining the middle class for corporate shareholder returns.
The hit to wallets isn't just what an individual pays at the pump.
It's that guys like my brother, who owns a small trucking company, are currently having to significantly raise prices to transport Florida produce, flour and cooking oil and Hyundai/Mercedes parts etc
But everyone knows that.
It's that guys like my brother, who owns a small trucking company, are currently having to significantly raise prices to transport Florida produce, flour and cooking oil and Hyundai/Mercedes parts etc
But everyone knows that.
In Italy once I saw a guy just making total noise with an accordion and a sign that said "Help Me I'm Deaf"
re: Whole home 12-gauge wiring
Posted by wm72 on 5/2/26 at 10:26 am to Turnblad85
I noticed recently is that new 12 gauge and 14 gauge (armored or romex) was noticeably thinner than the older, even ones from about 10 years ago.
I recently did a lot of electrical work in my retail shop and a bath renovation at my mother's house.
I kept thinking I'd run the wrong wire when connecting the new ones and was also a little harder to cut them with the right gauge on the Klein tool.
Maybe they've improved the conductivity or just skimpy wire? Certainly much easier to work with the newer 12 gauge.
re: We're all stuck in a rut trying to do what people who lied to us told us to do
Posted by wm72 on 5/1/26 at 4:06 pm to Antonio Moss
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Again, who? Which specific industries have record-breaking profits?
Are you really going to straight faced argue that the wealthiest have not been increasing their wealth at a pace unparalleled in our history?
Not even suggesting what we can or should do about but to not acknowledge it is simple disingenuous.
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Do we not have the choice on where to shop, what products to buy, where to live?
I think we'd all love to choose the houses, food and home, health and car insurance, just for example, which cost a similar percentage of our paychecks they did in the past. We have even less choice there as whether to pay taxes or not.
re: We're all stuck in a rut trying to do what people who lied to us told us to do
Posted by wm72 on 5/1/26 at 3:19 pm to Antonio Moss
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Like what, specifically?
Like the price of almost every aspect of a middle class life -- from insurance, to food, to every other product, to buying/renting houses, to every service.
If you can control the prices of those things more power to you.
For us in the middle class, all those things are increasing more than wages. That increase isn't creating more or better jobs but does seem to be resulting in skyrocketing profits for a select group of shareholders that may have pushed it to a level that's unsustainable if, as a country, we really want to continue to have a true middle class.
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So what’s your solution?
The issue is the amount of taxes we pay, and the amount of money printing we have in our country.
Or, that the amount of money and time on everything being squeezed from the middle class to a handful of shareholders is constantly increasing and unsustainable.
Unsurpisingly, fresh fruit and vegetables are hardly represented in most of the budget menus posted here.
Any with flavor and nutritional value these days is why many people are at expensive markets in the first place and buying other stuff there to not make extra stops.
Not necessarily a problem if you can afford it but I'll be the first to admit I'll spend WAY more for tomatoes or other fruit that actually have flavor.
re: 62% of Americans now cook at home
Posted by wm72 on 5/1/26 at 12:34 pm to Oilfieldbiology
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No shite. If you cooked only one or two servings per meal, it wouldn’t be much cheaper than eating out. It’s the making multiple meals out of one prep that makes it cheaper.
I completely agree.
That also takes a pretty predictable schedule. And there's a ton of Americans with work / life schedules that are busy and chaotic to actually make the money to either eat out or cook at home.
I own a small business. Things come up. Constantly. That often means waste with trying to buy tons of fresh groceries or cooking giant portions to save, especially vegetables and fruit which I try to eat as much as possible.
I love my life the way it is so I'm not complaining (except about nutritious foods at supermarkets being sky high these days).
Also, not trying to say that it's impossible to plan way ahead and save money by say taking the time to make a bunch of extra food.
I'm saying that for many "cooking at home" means running by the supermarket after being out of the house 11 hours and grabbing something to cook and that's usually not so significantly cheaper than just eating out.
It is healthier which is why I do it often. If any "laziness" is involved it's not wanting to spend any real off days bargain hunting at supermarkets and preparing a week's worth of cheap reheated meals with 4 day old bread.
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Pasta from decent wheat $4
Shrimp or quality tuna $10
Cream $4
olives $4
Onions $2
decent Tomatoes $3
decently nutritious greens $4
brussels sprouts or asparagus $5
some good fruit $4
loaf of good bread with some nutrients $5
All of these prices are based on many servings per item
Those are almost all what would go into one pan of pasta and the salad.
Maybe some of you live in places with much cheaper groceries but the only thing leftover after the meal is going to be:
1/2 loaf of bread
3/4 of a carton cream I'll probably not use before it spoils
1/2 the package of strawberries or whatever
+There would a couple of servings of pasta and salad that we can eat for lunch as leftovers
The leftovers are the main thing that makes it much cheaper than take out but then sometimes when you have busy life you end up not eating the leftovers in the next two days and throwing them out.
Again, not saying this is some rule for everyone but simply explaining why much of this country finds current grocery prices so high that cooking at home isn't really the fantastic bargain some make it out to be, especially if you want to eat healthy real foods.
Cheaper but not 1/5 the cost.
re: 62% of Americans now cook at home
Posted by wm72 on 5/1/26 at 11:13 am to Oilfieldbiology
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A big reason that I end up eating out a lot these days is spending $40-60 just to get the ingredients for a good meal for me and and my girlfriend.
And that's just to make a good pasta, salad, bread and a vegetable side.
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Unless you’re buying super high quality meat, or you have to buy spices every time, I don’t see how this is possible.
Pasta from decent wheat $4
Shrimp or quality tuna $10
Cream $4
olives $4
Onions $2
decent Tomatoes $3
decently nutritious greens $4
brussels sprouts or asparagus $5
some good fruit $4
loaf of good bread with some nutrients $5
That's $45 and doesn't count the basics like olive oil, spices, butter or some extra produce you have on hand and add to the salad.
I'm not saying this couldn't be cheaper but to make it cheaper I'd need to do some of these things:
1. substitute produce/bread/meat that's not nearly as nutritious
2. make some special longer trip to a discount supermarket that takes a lot more time and therefore also plan the meal way in advance and that would only save $10 or so at most.
Really this isn't trying to say what everyone should do but to merely say that if I'm personally going to all the effort to shop, cook and clean then I'm not going to make a crappy unhealthy meal and the cost to make a healthy one is closer to 75% of a quality take out meal instead of 20% if you have a lot of good restaurant options where you live.
It's simply why a lot of America doesn't necessarily find eating out that extravagant with grocery prices where they are.
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