I love this story, thanks for sharing it.

Every dollar we spend making sure kids in poverty and their families have food and shelter and security is going to pay off hundreds of times over in adulthood. It’s still a hard sell, politicians tend to operate in the timeframe of “next election”.

I don’t think it’s all that slippery a slope. Not many deep sea private submarine rescue operations going on amidst the working class.

Bank of Canada trying desperately to convince everyone that nothing is actually up?

To heck with you for your stupid opinion, everyone is obviously always positive here

Subs=subscriptions.

Was wild logging in this morning to see it and thinking “yep this is going to be a hit” and coming back to see the highest voted Lemmy post ever

Oh I’m sure they don’t. I just don’t know how they imagine the next few years looking. Are they all just assuming they’ll be out of the line of sight when things come to a head?

Compared to account growth that’s low but a 33% growth in four days is hard to call “low”

There’s no way to prevent it entirely. A larger community will slide that way.

I do think that it can be less encouraged though.

I don’t really want to miss my family for that long. Maybe I’d go back to when my kids were babies and become a live-in nannydad? I could see that getting weird though.

If I didn’t have that level of control but I absolutely had to go somewhen, I guess I’d either go a few decades in the future to see how it shapes up, or to the neolithic era so I could finally find out a bunch of things we’d never otherwise have known. That era seems like it was pretty cool, and I happen to know enough baseline science to actually recreate some of my favourite amenities.

I’m in quite a high income bracket and by sheer luck bought my house right before the most recent price explosion. My small, poorly built, seventy year old home in a lower middle class neighbourhood is now worth four or five times what I paid. If I was renting, there’s no way I could buy it even though I’m making much more than I did when I got it. I can’t realistically look into upgrading, because the jump in cost to anything nicer is just absurd.

I have no idea how all this is sustainable and even less idea how our politicians think they can keep ignoring it. I know why they’re ignoring it, but they must be aware how this is going to end if they continue to shrug and look the other way.

They’re not slaves. They’re rubes, but not slaves.

Yes, they apparently are going to remove me from the private subreddit I had set up a few years back for bot testing.

They’re a joke.

Somewhat. In different cultures they can still mean different things but smiling and laughing from happiness and humour are universal afaik.

No idea, maybe people don’t know the sub and assume it’s Mra? Menslib was an excellent subreddit and I really want to see it back.

This still adds another moving part to duping people. It’s much, much easier to independently verify the software if it’s open source.

My only complaint is that subbing to new communities seems to be a huge chore in jerboa

Yeah I have a cork-leather wallet, it’s awesome. Lasting better than my prior two supposedly leather ones. Not sure it would work as a belt though, idk

You’re right about using “suspected” too often, but this type of denialism isn’t caused by that. Strengthened perhaps, but these types would always find excuses to deny