@sandibachom It's not wrong to feel entitled to something you were promised and earned! It is wrong for them to tell you that you don't deserve it!
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Lougriesel
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Lougriesel
@Spoolses
Illustrator and cartoonist in Seattle.
Seattle Beigetreten Kasım 2009
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@sandibachom That means you are entitled to it! It is literally an entitlement! Do not allow these bastards to conflate "unearned entitlement" with an actual, real entitlement! They are simply "acting entitled" to something they are not entitled to--YOUR social security!
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IT'S NOT AN ENTITLEMENT IT'S MY MONEY THEY TOOK IT OUT OF MY PAYCHECK FOR 55 YEARS
No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen@NoLieWithBTC
And there it is. Elon Musk just said he wants to cut Social Security and Medicare, calling them “entitlements”: “That’s the big one to eliminate.”
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@Imani_Barbarin Yes that's the result that ends up effecting a larger range of women
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Correct me if I’m wrong, but isn’t excluding trans women just segregating women who fail to meet a beauty standard a majority of us don’t meet in the first place?
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@jiratickets @bactriangates Because you might run into a friend, and you get free exercise.
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@FrankieVtotheD Guys idk if you know this but even if you call someone every day, if it's been an hour since last you talked it might already be too late.
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Again, Gene Hackman has 3 GROWN KIDS. You are not checking on your 95 year old father WITH ALZHEIMER’S?!?! Now to hear his wife died a week before, so he’s just there for a week with his dead wife’s body & nobody to care for him? This is all very sad & weird
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@benmaritz @jseattle sounds like it's still expected to be profitable as a late nite chow hall
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@rkylesmith @katrosenfield Apps are more awkward due to over analyses or jumping to conclusions without IRL communication, can lead to more hurt feelings due to ghosting or finding out when you finally ever meet that there is simply no attraction. And dangerous signals are easier to pick up on IRL
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@katrosenfield Fair but maybe it’s better to cordon off flirting into a designated space (an app) where decreased chance of awkwardness/embarrassment/hurt feelings/sense of endangerment?
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Flashback to my days as a teen advice columnist, trying not to be exasperated as I explained to some girl for the 1000th time that being asked out is not an insult!
Whoever started this particular trend I hope they’re somewhere accidentally closing a drawer on their finger
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@MarcAspinall A nylon hammock to hold you up, or planking on a stool?
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I need to do some pose reference that would need me to be airborne and I have no clue how to go about it 🤪
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@TheBettyRubble @TheFungi669 Dude people with green cards voted to have their own mothers deported, never underestimate the Trumpist true believer.
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@TheFungi669 I am doubtful of this claim because no businessperson with 80% Mexican migrant customers would vote to have their customers deported.
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My friend owns a deli and it’s going out of business after he voted for Trump.
80% of his customers are Mexican immigrants.
They stopped going there because the other customers work for ICE.
This is a true story.
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@deuceohsixx It's like saying you shouldnt give a guy $20 because he might buy something consumable instead of investing in gold futures or something "sensible". Like let a man live! if you're not going to run the vacuum yourself once in a while like a pal, buzz off!
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@deuceohsixx It's wild because there are plenty of people who own multiple properties who live in 10times more cluttered conditions. Disorganized struggles=/=character, and character =/= undeserving of a safe indoor place to live!
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It gets like that when you are coming off the streets into your own place. Your sense of organization is not there. It happened to me when I was coming from the streets.
Having a disorganized apartment is not indicative of their character.
Jeremy Kauffman 🦔🌲🌕@jeremykauffman
this is a photograph of how a homeless man in SF lived after being given free housing and free food you can't fix people like this by giving them stuff, because this is who they truly are on the inside
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@jeremykauffman Even people who own multiple properties live this way! Character is not indication of deserving a safe indoor private space to live in. And behavioral struggles around housekeeping is not an indication of character.
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this is a photograph of how a homeless man in SF lived after being given free housing and free food
you can't fix people like this by giving them stuff, because this is who they truly are on the inside
Rob Henderson@robkhenderson
Interesting exchange here between Tyler Cowen and Gregory Clark. A lot of people conflate poverty and squalor, but they are distinct. Subsidies and benefits can mitigate poverty but fuel squalor. Redistribution can alleviate material deprivation, but does nothing to instill the habits and norms that sustain order, discipline, and upward mobility. A society that prioritizes transfers over cultural expectations entrenches dysfunction rather than alleviating it. Squalor—whether in the form of disorder, decay, or social disintegration—is not merely an economic issue.
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My wife has friends she can talk to on the phone about what's going on with their lives and it really cheers her up. Really wish I had that
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@RichardMCNgo @micsolana Crimes to get money to pay rent with, and "crimes" like public camping, urination, and drug use sure would. As would crimes against humanity like sweeps a d class-based profiling.
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@micsolana Crime might not.
And more generally I do wonder if NIMBYism is a rational response to high levels of crime, and we need to fix the latter before getting buy-in for YIMBYism.
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can't actually think of a problem that wouldn't largely self-correct if we could just reduce the cost of housing by like 75%
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@MyHaploidHeart Just water is good for the inside but I think it's safe to give the vulva a once over with a little suds before you wash your butt. Pubes trap all kinds of stuff
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Ladies im not a MD but I am a biologist and your vagina is acidic (pH about 3.8) to kill yeast and bacteria. Soap has a pH well above 7, which means if you clean your *vagina* with soap you are making a UTI and yeast amusement park down there!
THE WOKER@CoochieBeating
I remember watching a YouTube video on black women and their connection to being super clean especially in the lower region area and it’s just sad it’s still really prominent because this is NOT how you clean yourself down there :(
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@CoraCHarrington Perhaps they used a comically large one so viewers could understand what they were seeing while watching on their apple watches
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@Spoolses I'm waking up at 4:30 every weekday man. It's rough. 😭
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I wish napping pods were more of a thing in this country. I don't want to rent a room for a day, just a pod for an hour.
Driving a school bus for work isn't too bad so far, but it's the schedule that's really hitting me the hardest. My body will NOT let me sleep in my car.
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@dreamsofskies Ach, looks like the bus buddy hasn't found a manufacturer.
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@dreamsofskies Maybe you've tried or it wouldn't work at all but ive seen people use hammocks, and one guy invented a school bus specific sling chair. That schedule sounds haaaarrrd
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