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Another unpopular opinion: The $110,000/yr salaried worker with the 9-5 job goes home without a worry and complains constantly about how his life sucks from working that job. While The 70 hour per week $65,000 a year business owner who puts other people to work, supplies a service, goes home at night thinking about the next day's work, never complains and loves that he is the owner providing for his family and society.

Unpopular opinion: The $110,000/yr salaried worker with a good 9–5 job is better off than the 70 hour per week business owner barely earning $65,000/yr. And it’s not even close.

@ronsterd89 Pickle juice.

I woke up to leg cramps in both legs I drink 2 liters of water a day. What can I add more of so no cramps?

Age yourself with a Toy from your childhood that today's kids wouldn't know.. 🤔

There are always work arounds. Multi million dollar book deals and paid speaking engagements. Both work well together, Corporations and Universities sponsor high paid speaking engagements where oddly enough they give each audience member a copy of the new book, driving it onto the best seller list. And board appointments are limited to just a short time after they leave office.

@bondcliff @WallStreetApes "political donations and board appointments", In the vast majority of democratic countries, this type of lobbying practice that the US engages in is considered corruption. The most common and well-known type of corruption. There's even a university course on it at Harvard.

American has Cigna health insurance Her daughter was sick, she takes her to the doctor thinking it would likely be at most a couple hundred bucks with insurance All they did was a nose swab for the flu She just got the bill It’s $984 “What the f*ck is going on, what do you mean by a thousand dollars for a Q-tip up a nostril” The American healthcare system is legalized robbery

@FurkanGozukara There are no "truth Bombs" coming out of MSNBC, Only selective and tightly controlled left wing narratives.

Former RNC Chairman Michael Steele drops a brutal reality check on the GOP. He cites conservative data proving voter fraud is a myth and tells Republicans to get unstuck off stupid for blindly following Trump's lies about mail in voting.

We just started watching the old Bewitched shows and it appears I missed a lot on the adult stuff when I was a child. Sam and Darren talking about getting to the bedroom a lot, married men hitting on Sam and Endora, lots of cocktails consumed, Mrs Kravitz, always being fed some kind bottled sedative by her husband.

I'm starting to think that, perhaps, people may not have really watched the movies they've labeled "family friendly." Bridge on the River Kwai? Ghostbusters? I mean, they're good movies, just...maybe you weren't really paying attention.

@X is by far the best source of truthful news and information. But it is also the best source to spread untruthful news and misinformation. The problem is determining which is which. Community notes is not useful and Grok is somewhat of a help, but too many people take a post at face value.

And here is where the formula fails. Grandma's house "is" today's downsized home. Three bedroom, two bath 1500 square feet. Grandma's house is being purchased for the land at inflated prices and torn down to be replaced with a 3000 square foot, 5 bedroom, 5 bath, three car garage home with great room and two offices. Grandma cannot afford to stay and cannot afford to move. "Soylent Green" is the only viable solution.

"Property taxes will push grandma out her house!" The way the suburban model was supposed to work is that retirees sell their houses to downsize, and younger working professionals buy their house This was supposed to help drive support for the development of smaller houses

@ick_real Gas and parking. You're a jerk if you don't.

If a coworker has a car and lives near my house, and drives me to work every day, am I obligated to chip in for gas?

Name an outdated technology.

@RandyGoat I was 15! Wasn't thinking about taxes or politics or pretty much anything other than having some spending money of my own. And the supermarket also hired teenage girls to work the registers. It was a dream job from my point of view.

@bondcliff I got my work permit at 15 just to pay taxes. If I only knew!

I was 13 when I got my first job doing new construction landscaping. I don't understand 30 year olds that have never had a job. How old were you when you got your first job?

@RetroCoast I graduated High School in 1975. There was zero parking for students. If you had a car, you had to find off grounds parking.

High school parking lot in the #1980s Who remembers?

@ronsterd89 Baskin Robbins Ice Cream. 31 flavors!

For those who didn't grow up privileged, name something you thought was a luxury when you were a kid

@ThrillaRilla369 Chances are, your Uncle's stories where watered down to not tell you how bad it really was. Millions of Vietnamese dead. over 50,000 French dead before the US took over and lost another 50,000 Americans

Does anyone actually remember the Vietnam War? Was it as bad as the stories my uncle used to tell us

No you didn't. Congress gets five credit years of pension after they turn Age 62 with 5 years of service. Age 50 with 20 years of service. For example, after 30 years of congressional service and a high-3 average salary of $174,000, the initial annual CSRS pension for a Member who retired in December 2014 at the end of the 113th Congress at the age of 60 or later would be25 $174,000 × 30 × .025 = $130,500 Federal law limits the maximum CSRS pension that may be paid at the start of retirement to 80% of the Member's final annual salary. (See 5 U.S.C. §8339(f).) To receive an initial pension equal to 80% of final salary, a Member must complete 32 years of congressional service covered by CSRS (32 × .025 = .80). The smallest starting pension under CSRS is 12.5% of high-3 salary for a Member with five years of service. (Pensions based on less than 10 years of service cannot begin before the age of 62.) Most Members who entered Congress before 1984 and who chose to stay in the CSRS elected the CSRS offset plan. When a Member who has retired under the offset plan first becomes eligible for Social Security (usually age 62 or older), the CSRS pension is reduced by the amount of Social Security benefits that he or she is entitled to as a result of congressional service. This offset is applied even if the Member does not apply for a Social Security retirement benefit. In the example above, the offset would be approximately $25,900 annually.26 congress.gov/crs-product/RL…

@MetamateDaz Imagine telling anyone a pretzel is worth $7.29.

The minimum wage in Pennsylvania is $7.25 an hour. A regular Auntie Anne’s soft pretzel at the mall is $7.29. Imagine telling someone an hour of their time is worth less than a pretzel.

@Geniustechw This is used to infect your eyes with rusty water after you have already gotten chemicals in them.

Quiz time! Do you know what this is? 🤔

Keep it in your personal account. There is nothing wrong with having a stash of just in case money. If everything works out and you need the money for an emergency situation then you can decide to use it. Or not. My wife has an inherited IRA from her Mother that is invested din her name. We have been happily married for 40 years and I don't have any problem with this as it comforts her. Even though all are other assets including my inheritance from my mother are in a joint account.

I’m about to get married, and my fiancé knows I have an inheritance that was left to me by my grandparents. It’s in my name only, and I’ve been saving it for years. Now he’s saying that before we get married, I should put the entire inheritance into a joint account so we can “start fresh together,” or he doesn’t think we should go through with the wedding. I’m 36 already and this is something my family worked hard to leave me. I’m torn between wanting to build a life together and feeling like I’m being pressured to give up something important to me. What do you think I should do? By isitmeaitah