chris
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@SonnyDayCreates No. This is a far better option than 20 year olds financing a vehicle.
Reliable transportation with no car payment is the goal. 🤷♀️
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Absolutely no one “needs” a car payment. I bought my first 4 cars cash by saving. Buy a used beater. I did this as a 15 year old. The insurance and maintenance is also much cheaper. I didn’t have a car payment until I was in my 30’s!
Derek@Justin860886805
@LibertyJen It is not a lie. People have student loans, they need a car payment so they can get to work, then have to pay 1800 in rent of a 1 bedroom apartment. You can budget all you want “libertyj” what a stupid name
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If you're looking at "starter homes" that don't require a significant amount of work to be livable, you're not looking at starter homes.
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@anarchomaybenot @CarolinaLion2 I’m not the one bitching about the cost of a Whopper in 2026 while saying “wElL i uSe tO gEt tHeM fOr 0.99 bACk iN tHe dAy, iNfLaTiOn iS oUt oF cOnTrOl, wAhHhH!”
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Yeah, I used to get $0.99 Whoppers from Burger King all the time in high school and college prior to 2008. Now I got a bunch of mendacious cultists trying to convince me that didn't happen.
Rich 🐺@heywildrich
in 2007 Arby's had a "5 for $5" deal, you could pick five items between a drink, fries, cherry turnover, roast beef sandwich, milkshake, etc. me and a buddy would go there and get this, each got a sandwich, drink, we split a fry. under $3 each for lunch. USA used to be great.
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@jestermaxxing I had never thought to include ingredients in food before
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Ohhh… because of the ingredients
vika hutama@vikhutama
This is the reason why the hotpot soup you eat is so delicious.
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@isaiah_bb @officerbill Then why do you need government assistance? I'm a father to three young children, wife stays home to take care of them and at no point in my life have I tried to get government assistance.
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Hasn't even been a year and Zohran's governance is having a massive impact on my family. Our daycare was able to open a 15-seat 3K program because of the 2,000 extra seats the admin funded. Everyone we know got in somewhere they wanted. This is gonna save us almost 50 grand.
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This is why sympathy is drying up. You want what we never had at a way younger age and act incredulous when we say what we had to do to make it.
Ok… don’t listen. Just keep crying and complaining and learn nothing. I give up.
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“I must have a $400,000 house”
Meanwhile the house my boomer parents raised us in for 25 years & had a 16% mortgage is under $250,000 right now in 2026.
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@RobProvince @Docquistador "well fuck you too" has been the entirity of your generation though?
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And? It’s $230,000 in the year of our lord 2026. That’s affordable. People keep telling me they have to have a $400,000 house when this is what we had. Can you see how this might be a “well fuck you too” situation when someone sneers at the idea of living the same as you did growing up?
It being $125,000 in 2020 drives my point home even more. We had a cheap starter home until they retired and bought the house they have now. But people want to look at what they have now and cry BOOMER at them while being too good for the house that got them there.
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@lukeisamazing It was incredibly hot in los angeles and they couldn't stop wearing over coats.
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one of the sweatiest movies of all time, absolute classic
John Watches Horror@Y2John84
Let's talk about Predator 2.
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I had a diet like this whilst commuting for over 2 hours every day during my first job. The only thing that kept me from killing myself was the hope that I could kill someone else first.
Joel Berry@JoelWBerry
A little-known hack: 2 slices of Aldi wheat bread: $0.17 3 oz of Aldi deli turkey: $0.86 1 slices Aldi cheddar: $0.15 1 condiment of your choice: $0.02 1 apple: $0.53 1 hard boiled egg: $0.14 5 carrot sticks: $0.17 Cold water from the tap: $0.01 Total: $2.05 You can do this.
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"Big budget" movies used to make you believe in the impossible. Now all that money just goes into hiding the bodies of overworked VFX artists
Best of Kubrick@KubrickPoint
In 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) the rotating “centrifuge” set let the camera film walking/jogging in real gravity-like motion.
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@cptdankkk these freaks should be trotted out and forced into a price is right scenario and then regardless of the winner into... a much more grim scenario.
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Kevin O'Leary says most people waste $15,000 a year on stupid stuff like $5 coffees
"Stop buying coffee for five dollars and fifty cents"
"You go to work and you spend $15 bucks on a sandwich, what are you an idiot. It costs you 99 cents to make a sandwich at home and bring it with you"
"Bring your own water, your own drink or your own coffee mug. You start to add that up every day it's a ton of money"
"Most people starting on their job making their first $60,000 piss away about $15,000 a year"
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@panderson1988 Choices have consequences. I moved. Others can choose not to. Their choice.
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@treeaston @DrewSav Joe Biden was the most economically progressive president we've ever had and he got destroyed for it
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So potential Dem voters want the party to be:
🔵 economically progressive
🔵 socially reasonable
🔵 anti-war
This is not an argument for moving left or center, but rather a secret third thing: heterodoxy.
nytimes.com/2026/05/21/us/…
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Why are you, as a man, taking a lunch break?
Ben Klayer@the_satellite23
Here's my lunch for today. Just as it has been for many, many days during my life. I'm 31yo. Happier and healthier than I've ever been.
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Here's my lunch for today.
Just as it has been for many, many days during my life.
I'm 31yo. Happier and healthier than I've ever been.
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@shannonrwatts @RelativeDep you just said you'd be a leftist if not for leftist?
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@RelativeDep I’m a liberal progressive, not a leftist.
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I would be a leftist if it wasn’t for the leftists.
mindy🌷@mindyisser
i am begging the left, as we continue to build power, to try to be more normal. i know people don’t like to hear stuff like this but it’s true. people like you when you are pleasant and polite interpersonally!
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Interesting: #Titans HC Robert Saleh said one of the first moves the team made in its nutrition overhaul was removing all seed oils from the building.
He says players have appreciated it.
Ari Meirov@MySportsUpdate
#Titans HC Robert Saleh was asked about opening the season against his former #Jets team: “I’m appreciative of the Jets and everything I had there. ... It’s to be expected with the NFL, but I didn’t think anything of it.”
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@charybdeez Marxism is a doctrine not a philosophy
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don't make me quote Sartre
Comrade File Deletor@george_delv
Is anyone doing work on theorizing communism without Marx or the insuperable baggage of the 20th century
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