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22 May 1937 | Dutch Jewish boy, Benjamin Comprecht Nieweg, was born in Amsterdam. He was deported to #Auschwitz from #Westerbork with his mother Selma in November 1942. They were both murdered in a gas chamber after the arrival selection. --- 📖The fate of Jews deported from the German-occupied Netherlands to Auschwitz: lekcja.auschwitz.org/32_en/

On this day in 1944, a 6 year old Dutch Jewish girl was murdered in Auschwitz. It appears that her mother and sibling survived. Her father perished in Auschwitz on the 30 Sept 1942. Her name was Rachel Druijf Support @AuschwitzMuseum

Allow me to help Tucker out. This is “Islamic jihad.”

22 May 1937 | An Italian Jewish girl, Giuditta Pavoncello was born in Rome. She was deported to #Auschwitz from Rome. On 23 October 1943, she was murdered in a gas chamber after the arrival selection. --- ▶ Gas chambers and crematoria of the Auschwitz camp: youtu.be/-A05i25j9Ck

@PlanetaryWhisky @p00dles2000 @ShamashAran I worked in a restaurant that was small enough to not be covered by federal minimum wage laws. In 1968 I made $0.65 cents an hour, KY minimum wage, washing dishes. I could not afford a house. Owned my first house at 40.

@p00dles2000 @ShamashAran yeah and for nearly 20 years single minimum-wage worker could comfortably afford a mortgage on an average house. Now we should just settle? the math isn't mathing. If it was possible for 20 years what stopping it now.

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@CyborgPeds Every health care facility should have a care coordinator, especially if you deal with anything other than annual check-ups.

I’m willing to say when I’m wrong. So far the VA health care has exceeded local health care options by a mile. Easy scheduling, care coordinator who’s calls me to check that everything is getting done, competent physician, minimal wait times. Lovell VA is doing a great job. I like my Endeavor doctor a lot but this is a new world for me.

@saulgoodman178 @emzanotti Nor shop, which is why too many young people have never used a hammer or screwdriver.

@emzanotti Is Home Economics not a thing in school anymore?

Every few months it becomes clear that I should probably teach the internet how to make food and run a household, because it’s clearly a massive need, but I just don’t know how to get started.

@emzanotti @TNFreedom21 Without mental blocks humanity would be 1000% more productive. It bothers me to have things I want to do, but just put it off to a tomorrow that never comes.

@TNFreedom21 No I just literally have some sort of mental block

@emzanotti Our kids junior high school had a class that covered cooking, laundry, sewing, and other household skills. They had homework. This and some basic financial skills, like compound interest and investing need to be taught since it seems it's not being taught at home.

@LeahLibresco @Prof_Cooper @suzania Unfortunately men do, but they are usually sloppy looking baseball hats, kept on indoors. I'm sure @Prof_Cooper wears a nice hat. I'd wear a more stylish hat if I could figure out what would look good on me.

@Prof_Cooper @suzania “Does anyone still wear… a hat?”

I bike to church and I'm a mom of small kids. I like to veil at Mass so there's one part of my clothing that is always marked out as special and reverent and distinct from ordinary life, even as I roll up in jeans and a milk-stained nursing top.

21 May 1937 | Belgian Jewish girl, Suzanne Szalek, was born in Antwerp. She emigrated to France. She was deported to #Auschwitz from #Drancy on 13 April 1944. She was murdered in a gas chamber after arrival selection. --- ▶ Gas chambers and crematoria of the Auschwitz camp: youtu.be/-A05i25j9Ck

Walking and drinking water will in no way, shape, or form reduce your quality of life. Quite the opposite actually.

@SooperMexican I'm looking at 15,000 sq feet. I gotta spend the big social security check on something.

Did you guys know all of the boomers lived in 5-bedroom homes in LA and NYC? Amazing stuff.

@DerUntermutt @jscamp2 @AnechoicMedia_ It's a long way to Russia to get a beet.

@jscamp2 @AnechoicMedia_ Yeltsin was a drunk retard. Soviet workers grew foods on their Dacha plots that no American had access to.

All these complaints over the affordability of eating out or getting the best groceries are about class anxiety. They don't want to eat our normal, abundant, healthy food because they think it's for poor people and children. The marketers won the war on our minds and replaced our own need for comfort and nutrition with an insatiable desire to be better than the normal guy. For several days I've been thinking about the famous image of Yeltsin's visit to the US, after it made the rounds again. I think to the current day, millennial to younger viewer, this image of an ordinary grocery store now feels somewhat low-class, and the frozen desserts that caught Yeltsin's attention look like poverty or childhood. This is not because the younger adults of today aren't eating ice cream, but because they've come to expect much fancier versions of it. Every other year there's a newer, more expensive pint of ice cream from a more premium brand. It's striver-class-coded to sheepishly admit to binging a pint of Ben & Jerry's, it's embarrassing to say you'd demolish a box of Little Debbie cakes. The 25 cent ice cream sandwiches, those are for poor people. The dollar-a-pound bread is for poor people. Or they're for children, partly because children are viewed as having low taste and can be tricked into eating poor people food, or today's adults recall eating these foods as children, and if there's one thing today's younger adults feel entitled to, it's buying high-status foods that their parents definitely didn't buy. The boomer and gen x condescension of frivolous spending is mostly correct, and there is no shortage of people ready to come online and play the character of the entitled younger consumer because giving up $7 a day coffee orders doesn't itself buy you a house.

@Scholars_Stage IBM Research had a very good cafeteria. I brought my lunch because it was good enough, I had a mortgage to pay on one income and it was easy to eat healthier. The latter became more important over time. But I agree fast casual has made better food available.

Older generations are absolutely correct that there is a strange sense of entitlement to this resentment--but they should also remember that the food options they were passing up when they browned bagged their lunches sucked.

I point this out every time this discourse comes up: one reason for this trend is the meaningful improvement in the quality and diversity of food available for purchase. "Fast casual" restaurants did not exist in 1980. Most did not exist in 2000.

@Badgergrl90 @CyborgPeds When my wife and I travel we rarely eat eat out more than once a day and I start feeling too stuffed after a few days. For extended stays we get a place we can cook.

@CyborgPeds This is the part of the back and forth I’ve been unable to square. Eating out with that frequency can’t be healthy. And honestly, if they’re getting lunch out, what are they doing for dinner?

My Gen Z middle daughter (23 yo) has been working for me part time. She always brings her own food from home and even offers me some. She can afford restaurant food but thinks it’s gross and unhealthy. Maybe they’re not all like what we see on X?

@CyborgPeds One of the irritating things about generational discussions is the assumption that most members of a generation are the same. And your daughter is right. I can't imagine eating restaurant food frequently and not being obese. Even salads end up being 1000 calories.

@aelfred_D @sourpatchlyds @Pontifex isn't too bad.

@sourpatchlyds Tbf, this website tends to attract the worst representatives of the respective faiths, present company excluded

I must’ve clicked on some Mormon content in the last couple days because every third tweet I see is LDS-related. I love going into these threads & seeing them arguing their theology. I have no frame of reference, I don’t even know the issues, just feeling it out based on vibes

21 May 1938 | A French Jewish girl, Jacqueline Fogielman, was born in Paris. On 30 March 1944, she was deported from Drancy to #Auschwitz. She was murdered in a gas chamber after the selection.

Worth noting that antisemites keep winning Democrat primaries and losing Republican ones.