@A_Hollywood1776 @AgroNationalism Yes, but outsourcing is much more easily rolled back than a genuine advance in technology.
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AfterTheRocket
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@AfterTheRocket @AgroNationalism Either way we will be unemployed
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Dave Ramsey is practically the Germanic Protestant Saint of Money.
Imagine how bad things would be if men like him didn't save millions of white people's finances over the last 30 years. He probably boosted the fertility rate by half a percent fixing family finances.
That said, the era of quantitative easing inverts virtually all his advice. When the money printers go brrrr, debt is good, and saving your money is stupid. Many didn't realize this and are far poorer now because of it.
Yonan@yonann
Dave Ramsey says a $600 pressure washing job can be the first step to making 150K a year "You don’t want to be 63 years old still pressure washing. But to get through this week, you can do a lot of pressure washing" "Use the pressure washing money to pay $10,000 for code school, then go make 150K a year coding, every move should be a step toward where you want to be in 10 years"
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@A_Hollywood1776 @AgroNationalism AI is not coming for our jobs any time soon. AI is the scapegoat for big corporations outsourcing our jobs overseas.
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The only way to make it to the average boomer level of comfort in this country requires a hail-Mary. Not a pressure washer so you can pay for an education to do a job AI is already doing.
Not to mention in 15 years AI will be doing the pressure washing too.
Just never forget the black market is always hiring, it pays well, and there’s no taxes. That’s real advice.
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@AgroNationalism "debt is good" is only true if you have the means and will to use it for economically productive purposes. The vast majority of Millennials and Zoomers who balk at Dave don't come even close to that. So it is far worse, far less helpful or relevant advice for them than his rn.
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@wiztom88 @VladTheInflator You may be able to get by just fine without a degree, but you won't be able to skip the fundamentals that are taught in one if you want to stay in. Out of dozens of bootcampers I've worked with, the only one worth keeping was someone who had an Aerospace Engineering degree.
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@VladTheInflator You dont need school to get a coding job. You need the certs and a portfolio of work that translates to todays infrastructures.
10,000$ is high end if your not motivated.
Degree days for coding are over. Senior levels require them. Production matters today
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This may be the dumbest most boomer shit I've ever seen in my entire life.
$600 to get a "coding job" for $150,000?
What the fuck are you talking about.
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@Thepeoplesfool @ubiquitousnewt Because the story doesn't even mention that he gave them a family discount, and repairing a rental is a legal duty of a landlord.
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@ubiquitousnewt He’s providing housing and repairs to his children. Since when is that ‘nothing’? 🤔
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I know of a wealthy boomer yank down south, (business not friends) who rents out 2 properties. One to his son and one to his daughter, both in their late 20s. He bought both the properties a number of years ago.
I asked whether he would give the houses to his children or help them out with a deposit for their own because of the current housing issues.
He said "No. What will that teach them?". So basically he is pocketing their rent money. He isn't doing anything productive to help them like putting it into stocks and shares to build up a deposit for them.
He's just pocketing the money. He's one of those boomers. "The youth of today, including my children are just lazy. If they wanted a house they work twice as hard just as I did".
And that ladies and gents, is how you kill the American dream.
unusual_whales@unusual_whales
"First-time home buying plunges to record low as baby boomers prevent younger Americans from ever owning," per NYP.
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@FromLtoW @Pat_Stedman He was directly citing men who ditch their wives for a younger, tighter model after they gave up their careers and best years to raise his children without any earnings. No bro, those women deserve to chew his ass up in court absent infidelity or violence.
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@Pat_Stedman You are basically saying that when a marriage stops , it is fair for the guy (who may struggle with his own employment issues later in life) to continue paying for the woman who has stopped taking care of him for the rest of his lifetime.
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We don't know the full story, but I have heard some horror stories IRL about men who never married / got prenups with women and had many kids with them, and then decided later in life to dump these women for someone younger, leaving her basically destitute.
Being objective, it's not a good deal for a woman to enter into this sort of arrangement. If you're both W2s, it's reasonable to protect all respective assets coming into a marriage, but it becomes a harder sell for what is built after. If the earnings differential between you is within 2-1 I'm not sure it really matters much, you risk making things too transactional.
If he's well established compared to her however or has companies, and she's coming in with little and intends to be a housewife, this is a different story - he needs to make sure his assets are completely protected. But she should still have some financial vesting in the event of a divorce, assuming no infidelity on her end. Like a "salary" that only materializes in the event of things ending. This is basically like alimony except pre-agreed upon.
Bottom line is you cannot expect a woman to have no career, stay at home and raise the kids, and have no financial protections or earned stake over the years. I get that things have gone too far in divorce court but the reason this stuff started to begin with is that women who trusted their husbands were ruined when he decided later on to ditch her.
NRM84@Mappy6984
At 27 you know what you're signing. Enjoy the ride
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Caleb Hammer on why he assumes people with nice clothes and nice cars are broke
"The nicer stuff people have, the worse I assume they're off. Look at the wealthiest people in Silicon Valley, they dress like whatever. Go to a white trash community, you'll see all these lifted $100,000 trucks. Go to a poor black community on the opposite side, muscle cars completely decked out. Everyone does it to flex. So many people I know would prefer having a nice car over a nice house. It's insane."
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@Vxesn_ @teneleven04 @kai_xbt Stripping down to bare necessities to maximize savings is precisely how most Boomers, Xers and Millennials pulled it off.
Only Gen Z thinks it's normal for working and middle class people to not have to make deep sacrifices to afford a house in their 20s and early 30s.
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@AfterTheRocket @teneleven04 @kai_xbt Yeah but this is like saying “save every single penny and only eat what you meal plan” bro I can get a monster a few times a week without it killing my wallet
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Caleb Hammer reveals what micro purchases are actually keeping Gen Z men broke
"Gooning for sure. Energy drinks on the way to work every day. Stopping at the gas station. Men love to do that. It's these reoccurring things that really fuck them up. They'll have multiple OnlyFans and they're paying to chat and it's just some Indian dude like 'you look really cute today'. Don't cancel me, but that's what it is, some guy chatting with you telling you look hot and you're paying for it."
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@teneleven04 @kai_xbt You will almost never find someone who patronizes convenience stores **daily** who has good saving and spending habits rather than terrible ones.
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@MikeWingerii Among other examples, it should be the black letter of the law that a criminal referral must be made when a Brady violation is discovered and material Brady violations in capital cases should be punished with the DP to provide proper incentive to obey the law.
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@MikeWingerii 90% of the debate around the DP isn't about the DP itself but the fact that we don't have a system that ruthlessly polices the police and prosecutors when they are negligent or corrupt and someone suffers for that.
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This is a biblical position. It’s not common and probably the majority of Christians would hesitate over it, or simply disagree, but I believe it is very biblical.
Allie Beth Stuckey@conservmillen
If, after a fair trial, we applied the death penalty quickly, consistently, and publicly to murderers, the “temperature” would go down real quick. “Because the sentence against an evil deed is not executed speedily, the heart of the children of man is fully set to do evil.” Ecclesiastes 8:11
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@seanmdav Do you think this should be retroactive for the American heroes that fought with the British to fight Germany before we entered the war?
Or does this only apply to the jooooze?
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Serving in any foreign army should result in instant forfeiture of American citizenship.
Cernovich@Cernovich
The Emerging Push to Extend Some US Benefits to IDF Soldiers military.com/feature/2026/0…
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@RandomQueriant @baalzamon35 I just looked up Katko v Biney, and I can't believe you'd compare the two.
A mailbox with a hardened steel post, secured with a large block of cement underground would have the same effect.
"It's a boobytrap because its sturdiness was deceptively strong."
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It is a weak reed, and I already acknowledged that with the Boy Scout reference. It is also likely to be the grounds that any “boobytrapped”mailbox is challenged in court. Not “my client did no wrong and shouldn’t have been maimed”, but “it could have been someone innocent, so the other guy was in the wrong, even if my client was also”. It has happened before, and the case I referenced, Katko b. Briney, is the current standard.
Stupid or not.
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The concrete mailbox is a litmus test.
One side thinks society should protect those who bring violence/destruction by ensuring victims are limited in defending/reinforcing their property
The other thinks if you hit a mailbox with a baseball bat and hurt yourself. Don't do that.
New Jerusalem ASI@NewJerusalemAI
@92huskies @ggetzie @TwoRulesOfWar You did break his arms. You just did it in a sneaky way, and you are trying to pretend you didn't. You set a boobytrap for him. You did it.
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@tekthis1 @ShamashAran Disproportionate would be putting a landmine in the mailbox. It's totally proportional to secretly fortify a mailbox such that a vandal would have their arm, shoulder and collar bone shattered if they tried to destroy it from a car.
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@ShamashAran They don’t seem to understand. Someone wrongs me, my family, friends, or country, I want the response so disproportionate that they and others will think at least 4 times about it before attempting it themselves.
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People like this are the reason that rapists and murderers get out of jail with no bail after being arrested.
The Blessed Salt 🧂@theblessedsalt
This post is an excellent litmus test for understanding of just war theory. Despite the fact that I can see how effective this would be, I must oppose it because the damage it would do to my enemy (who bashes in my mailbox) would far outweigh the good of saving my mailbox. Its disproportionality is opposed by our duty in charity (and even justice) to watch out even for the good of our enemies. (Yes, by the way, I have had my mailbox bashed in by random vandals.)
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@baalzamon35 @HattsworthIsYou Ironically, a kid doing that in my suburban neighborhood would likely shatter their arm on any of our standard mailboxes. Why? They have very sturdy metal posts buried deep into the ground. The demographic that would destroy them likely doesn't understand that.
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@HattsworthIsYou With a metal bat swinging out of a moving vehicle, it can.
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@RandomQueriant @baalzamon35 The "poor driver who lost control" argument could just as easily apply to a sturdy tree left within dozens of feet of the road.
It's also extremely unlikely to happen.
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The third side will call it a hazard to people who also shouldn’t be driving. Pointing out that accidents happen.
Mostly, they’re in group one, but we DO have a legal precedent against boobytraps after some robber successfully took a landowner to court over his trap gun.
The argument? What if some Boy Scout had broken in? Never mind that a Boy Scout, acting AS a Boy Scout, wouldn’t make free with someone else’s property.
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@NewJerusalemAI @MedicNamedHope No, it's not normal male teen behavior. I spent the last 3 years of HS in a rural area. The vast majority of teen males not only didn't do that but would have wanted to whoop the ass of a peer who did that to their family. Also...
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J.T. Alexander@JTAlexander
There was a massive DOJ study done decades ago that among people in Federal custody, the single trait career criminals had most in common was that they had all gotten caught as a teenager and the case resolved in a way that left them feeling like they 'got away with it.' More in common than race, than marital status of parents, than bullying, than presence of a father. It was *the* issue.
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"the predator"
It's your neighbors kid going through puberty.
We have the data, 85% of males do something like this at that age. It's normal male teen behavior.
Calling them criminal predators is just your own wide eyed bloodlust.
A strong longitudinal U.S. source is the NLSY97-based DOJ report Self-Reported Law-Violating Behavior from Adolescence to Early Adulthood in a Modern Cohort. By age 21, about 84% of males in that cohort had reported at least one delinquent or criminal behavior from the study’s list. By age 21, male lifetime prevalence was about 68% for any property offending, 53% for person offending, 49% for vandalism, 54% for minor theft, and 41% for assault. In that same table, males were also at 21% for major theft, 26% for fraud/fencing, 29% for drug selling, 34% for carrying a handgun, and 15% for gang membership.
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Covertly fortified mailboxes are morally superior to overtly fortified mailboxes.
It teaches the predator not to swing at normal looking mailboxes.
This is also my opinion on concealed carry.
The Blessed Salt 🧂@theblessedsalt
This post is an excellent litmus test for understanding of just war theory. Despite the fact that I can see how effective this would be, I must oppose it because the damage it would do to my enemy (who bashes in my mailbox) would far outweigh the good of saving my mailbox. Its disproportionality is opposed by our duty in charity (and even justice) to watch out even for the good of our enemies. (Yes, by the way, I have had my mailbox bashed in by random vandals.)
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@MichelangelYo @MrLeadslinger Right. Jus in Bello has a lot of built in room for "FAFO" to be experienced by the aggressor in response to their acts.
By his logic, if 100k lightly armed criminals invaded the southern border the US military would be guilty of "grave sin" for wiping them out w/ artillery.
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@MrLeadslinger If you don't understand "jus in bello" you won't understand this is either purposefully farcical or made by a catholic who things apologetics has something to do with feeling sorry.
I do feel dumber everyday here
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Weird how this is the litmus test. Whether you reinforce your mailbox with concrete or install some heavy steel box, what difference does it make? Is it your responsibility to make sure your property is easy to break or steal so people don’t get hurt when they make that choice?
The Blessed Salt 🧂@theblessedsalt
This post is an excellent litmus test for understanding of just war theory. Despite the fact that I can see how effective this would be, I must oppose it because the damage it would do to my enemy (who bashes in my mailbox) would far outweigh the good of saving my mailbox. Its disproportionality is opposed by our duty in charity (and even justice) to watch out even for the good of our enemies. (Yes, by the way, I have had my mailbox bashed in by random vandals.)
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@theblessedsalt No, nukes are not intrinsically immoral. There is nothing intrinsically immoral about using tactical nuclear weapons on a battlefield. They're just another form of ordnance in that context.
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> “Well, but, we have nukes and we tell the whole world that! So we’ve advertised our fortifications. So we can deploy them!”
Nukes — conceived as nuclear weapons — are intrinsically immoral. Nuclear fission reactors aren’t, but nuclear fission bombs are.
(I suppose you could have them for, say, launching into space to deflect an asteroid. But that wouldn’t be a weapon any longer. So it’s not the same category.)
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This post is an excellent litmus test for understanding of just war theory.
Despite the fact that I can see how effective this would be, I must oppose it because the damage it would do to my enemy (who bashes in my mailbox) would far outweigh the good of saving my mailbox. Its disproportionality is opposed by our duty in charity (and even justice) to watch out even for the good of our enemies.
(Yes, by the way, I have had my mailbox bashed in by random vandals.)
My moms caregiver@mymomcare
People who have lived in the country understand this!
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@1265Packers @cspan @ChrisCoons @SecScottBessent That's the experience every typical tax payer should have. No fees to CPAs, EAs, etc. The IRS collating all of your 1099s, W2s, etc. and then asking you if anything else needs to be added.
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@1265Packers @cspan @ChrisCoons @SecScottBessent Ordinary people shouldn't have to prepare their own taxes unless they have significant information the government didn't get.
Reagan tried to make us like Europe where the IRS would be responsible for collating the information it has an then asking for updates 1/
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Sen. @ChrisCoons: "Why'd you shut down Direct File when it was free and easy to use?"
@SecScottBessent: "It wasn't free and the—"
Coons: "Direct File was free to taxpayers."
Bessent: "Not to the American people. It was … $72 million for about 300,00 taxpayers."
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