AA5B

u/AA5B@lemmy.world
78 posts · 12.5k comments

Recent posts

Recent comments

Debt is going into completely uncontrollable territory - you think if aoc wins presidency she can do anything?

In a lawful world, she can’t. The president can only propose. The budget, including taxes, is the responsibility of Congress. Blame republican congressmen for the extra trillions in tax cuts to the wealthy. Blame both parties for decades of kicking the can down the road

We are broke because of a couple decades tax cuts for the wealthy

Sending equipment to Ukraine was a bargain, much cheaper than this fiasco in Iran

  • might actually be noble
  • no costs for aircraft or navy
  • no risk to American servicemen
  • improved military readiness. We were giving them older stock and restocking ourselves the latest and greatest
  • opportunity to learn how to fight a modern war
  • opportunity to develop drone warfare

It’s a strange thing to think about: traditionally the us military is so highly budgetted that we could afford to lose an excessive amount of high priced equipment and ordinance compared to anyone else. If we spend ten times a potential opponent, no problem

But now in a world with low priced drone swarms and almost as low priced third world missiles, the multiplier is thousands, tens of thousands ….. I believe there were aircraft losses so the multiplier might be millions. Even the us military can’t afford a war with those multipliers. And that’s assuming we could build the ordinance fast enough

Even stranger that I haven’t seen this discussed in news media

on Boys will be boys · c/lemmyshitpost · 1 pts · 4h

I’m surprised I haven’t heard this happening from my teens. They’re not especially into junk or fast food, but do like lean proteins: eating an entire rotisserie chicken each would be entirely consistent, and cheaper.

The only unrealistic thing here is that I almost never see that many chickens out on the warming shelves at one time

I’ve never heard of anyone playing like that. My understanding was inline with the rules.

  • reverse just reverses order
  • but that means I can now attack you next time around
  • you can no longer attack me (assuming more than two people playing)

So if you hit me with “draw 2”, I can hit you with “reverse”, then next turn can make you “draw 2”

on Doesn't add up · c/workreform · 2 pts · 5h

So true. When we had our second kid, we found the cost of daycare for two younger ones was approaching her salary as a teacher. That’s ridiculous. Luckily I made enough to support us and she always said she didn’t mind staying home to care for them, but most people probably can’t afford that

on Doesn't add up · c/workreform · 2 pts · 6h

Supposedly “The Villages” in Florida has phased life care where you can live in a setting for the care you need, then move up to more care as needed.

This is directly from a friend, so I don’t know the facts behind it, but also the claim that it makes in-home care much cheaper. You not only have appropriate settings for the care you need but there’s a lot of them in one spot, and of course it’s Florida so the caregivers are probably exploited to hell and back, so it’s all cheaply available.

While there’s a lot of negativity to that specific retirement area, I really think they have something by doing it at scale