@malgorium @Pack_Rat_EWaste To be fair tv/entertainment was free but they only had 3 channels.
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🇺🇲Reece🇺🇸
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🇺🇲Reece🇺🇸
@Reece2076
Here for sports (mostly 49ers), politics, and an occasional laugh
California, USA انضم Ocak 2012
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@Pack_Rat_EWaste In 1966, the avg person spent their money on housing, food, insurance, maybe a new gadget very now and then.
In 2016, the avg person spends their money on all the above plus 500 streaming services, doordash, the latest iphone, random junk on Amazon, etc etc etc
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So, I'm watching all these people talk about 'oh just pack your own lunch, make your coffee at home, you're all just a bunch of lazy spendthrift kids'.
Which, to be fair, some people really are spendthrifts.
However, none of these people are addressing the elephant in the room.
In 1966, any potato brained idiot who barely got out of high school could afford to buy a house on a single salary, and support a wife and 2 kids, and not have to scrimp at all.
In 2026, It's all Double Income No Kids, because nobody can afford to have kids, we're all working 60 plus hours a week, and living like a monk, just to scrap up a downpayment on a stupidly over-priced house on a 35 year mortgage at 9%, even if you do have 750 credit. Oh, and if you do find a house that isn't a shoebox, and is less than 200k? It's in some shithole corner of the country with no jobs, no infrastructure, and no local economy.
But sure, we can't buy houses because of door dash.
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The guy who farted during a press conference wasn’t even the worst.
49ersMuse@9ersmuse
Who was the worst 49ers head coach? Mike Nolan Chip Kelly Jim Tomsula Mike Singletary Dennis Erickson Every name brings back a different kind of pain.
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Lil Duval wants to know what hurt our community the most 👀
1. Desegregation
2. Drugs
3. Gangsta Music
4. Social Media
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🇺🇲Reece🇺🇸 أُعيد تغريده
🚨MAJOR BREAKING: Leader Hakeem Jeffries just laid out the Democrats’ ENTIRE midterm message in plain English and it’s one to be PROUD of:
🔵 Driving down the high cost of living
🔵 Fixing the broken healthcare system
🔵 Getting ICE under control
🔵 Cleaning up corruption in the White House
🔵 Cleaning up corruption in Congress
🔵 Cleaning up corruption at the Supreme Court
🔵 Ending the “reckless and costly war of choice” in the Middle East
🔵 Bringing people together vs. Republicans tearing people apart
“Do you want an affordable country… or a country that solely is benefiting the wealthy, the well-off, and the well-connected?”
“Do you wanna move America forward, or do you wanna turn back the clock?”
“Democrats are gonna fight hard to make your life better.”
That’s the choice.
Democrats fighting for lower costs, healthcare, accountability, and stability, while Republicans keep dragging the country deeper into chaos, corruption, division, and endless outrage.
THE CHOICE IS AN EASY ONE.
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we are the richest country in the world why SHOULD I eat like a peasant?
Ben Klayer@the_satellite23
Loaf of bread = $5 Peanut butter = $4 Jelly = $4 18 pack of chips = $12 Bag of apples = $5 Total = $30 And you'll have lunch for an entire week or two. $2-4 average per day. Inflation isn't the problem. Your spending habits are.
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@KentuckyRoots @indexnforgetit How does not spending $28 on lunch everyday = never enjoy anything?
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@indexnforgetit "You should work all your life and never enjoy anything (even if you watched everyone older than you spoil themselvesat your expense)"
JFC we've come full circle back to the 1880s entirely due to one generation
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The "packing your lunch" debate is a financial literacy test
It's the marshmallow test for adults... and 70% on this app fail
If you pass, you're almost guaranteed financial success at some point in your life
If you fail, I am 100% certain you will never achieve any sort of financial success and will struggle with things like "payments" and rent prices your entire life
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@Shizcrey @J_Buster_Keaton How did we go from you shouldn't spend $28 everyday for lunch to you should never go to McDonald's?
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@J_Buster_Keaton We should live within our means and financial literacy is important but that's true whether you live in America or a 3rd world country.
To go from president doing campaign stops in McDonalds to telling everyone they need to eat canned Tuna the rest of their life is bullshit tho
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I own a home. I cook food. 10 years ago I could get a $5 footlong at Subway and eat half for lunch and half for dinner.
Stop being dense, economy is shit and telling zoomers it's all fine they just need to eat like it's the great depression isn't the rebuttal you think it is.
4nt1p4tt3rn 🏴☠ Appalachistan Wolf Lodge #47@4nt1p4tt3rn
"Don't spend $28 on lunch! Don't buy a $5 soda!" "So me buying a soda is why I can't afford a home, or to live?" No, moron. Your insistence on spending that kind of money is illustrative of a few things: 1. You're financially ignorant, at best. 2. That's a habit that stands as an exemplar of similar spending habits in your daily life. 3. It's emblematic of your priorities and self-discipline. You argue in bad faith to avoid further self-examination.
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@markaprovost Move to the 2nd poorest US state in a poor rural area you should be able to afford that
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I've spent four of the last seven years living in Mexico's second poorest state. People eat at restaurants all the time. Mexicans get 10x more food delivered to their homes, same in India & China. The reason you can't afford living in the US has nothing to do with buying a coffee
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On the one hand people shouldn’t overspend on lunch.
On the other hand, it is genuinely weird to me that the norm is for everyone to prepare their own food when basically nothing else works this way. Used to be that everyone made their own clothes too.
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@JoeC75111983 @m_stevenson78 How would boycotting the naacp or cbc convince southern states to give Black people representation?
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@m_stevenson78 Notice the NAACP and CBC are not offering to walk away from their paychecks in protest, the kids who may only have one shot should walk away from theirs, because they say so
This is disgusting
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The NAACP is clueless and it’s time for Derrick Johnson to resign. You want a parent that probably has spent upwards of 25-50K of their money sending their child to camps, pop warner, AAU and some to prep school to get a D1 offer from one of the Power 4 conference to take one for the team when the legislators themselves could have codified voter rights 13 yrs ago when Shelby v Holder started.
philip lewis@Phil_Lewis_
The NAACP is urging Black athletes and fans to “withhold athletic and financial support” from public universities in states that “have moved to limit, weaken or erase Black voting representation”
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🇺🇲Reece🇺🇸 أُعيد تغريده
The President just used his power to exempt himself and his family from audits on every tax return they've ever filed.
If that is not corruption to the highest degree, then what is?
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@Wulf__Sorenson They're not 50 50... its more like 30 30 40 split between democrats republicans and independents. Furthermore that 330, 000,000 includes people who are not eligible to vote. There are roughly 200,000,000 eligible voters and only 140,000,000 voted in 2024.
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How is it that American politics are divided almost perfectly 50/50?
A country of 330+ million, and it just so happens that almost exactly half of the people support red, and the other half support blue?
Seems suspicious to me
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Why does Elon Musk push far-right ideology so hard now.
He’s not always been like that.
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@FanSince09 Or maybe its because weed is legal in many states, a healthier option, and a better high than being drunk
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Boomers were “mean drunks” who’d come home hammered and beat their family
Gen Xers were “fun drunks” who maybe had some beers on the couch every day and it totally wasn’t alcoholism but it kinda was
Gen Z grew up with them as parents and grandparents so of course they don’t drink.
S.🎧@1ssve
Serious Question: The alcohol industry has lost $830 billion in the last 4 years, because Gen Z is not drinking. Why do you think they aren’t drinking?
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@BestMovieMom Someone help me out. I keep hearing this is such a great show but ive had a hard time getting into it.. Ive watched several episodes in season one and still don't get it... is there a ceratain point or episode where it gets really good?
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The Wire (2002) was nearly cancelled every season. HBO kept renewing it reluctantly despite mediocre ratings, only because critics wouldn't stop calling it the greatest show ever made.
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@EdmondoColucci @AP Thats your take a way from this? That the journalist didn't get the exact dollar amount that the president is stealing from tax payers to pay his loyal brownshirts?
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@AP Closer to 1.8 , $1.776billion to be exact, again using a reference to 1776 , could you fucking journalist, and I use that term loosely be any fucking more complict to the downfall of our country,
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BREAKING: The Trump administration announces a $1.7 billion fund to compensate prosecuted allies after dropping a lawsuit against the IRS. apnews.com/article/trump-…
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