Yugoslav communism

I’m sure all that agriculture is going to go really well with no source of water.

Unless you’re a real computer whiz probably not very much. If the HDDs are SATA you could use them but they’ll be really slow and not offer much storage. Everything else will either be incompatible with modern tech or significantly slower/smaller/weaker than what you would need for even basic tasks.

Edit: some scrap parts might be useful like the cases, fans, screws, mounts, etc.

The problem is that all the money gets dumped into elections that really won’t change anything. If even a tenth of the money unions and left wing organizations spend on elections went into actually organizing workers and building permanent institutions for them it would far exceed what is being spent on organizing now and would drastically change the political playing field (including making elections easier for progressives).

We need a serious labor movement. If workers are not willing and able to hinder production then the left will never accomplish anything. Union density is much lower now than it was when the left was effective and union density in the largest employers is even lower than it was back then (and the unions are even worse too).

If the left ever wants to be effective it needs workers to leverage their economic power. Nothing else (maybe with the exception of armed struggle) will work.

I mean joining the US military either by enlisting or being drafted.

If these kids are willing to do this in Israel despite the propaganda, legal, and social ramifications then there are zero excuses for Americans to not do the same.

M -> C -> M that’s how you get rich

You might be able to file an unemployment insurance claim depending on your state rules. That probably would reflect poorly on your manager.

If you have a lease he probably cannot evict you just for having an AC (unless the lease says something about that). It’s possible he could just not renew your lease though. Doing anything else is going to depend heavily on your local/state laws. Most places don’t have robust tenant rights laws but some do and some also have anti-retaliation laws that are pretty broad.

Organizing the building would be cool and it might actually be your only way to fight back but it also might be really hard and might not work. Regardless you should get a thorough understanding of your rights as a renter based on your local/state laws. Look for local tenants organizations or law firms that help tenants for resources.

Doctors in the US do not treat young people. Idk if it’s care rationing or insurance or arrogance or what but if you’re under 30 they will just tell you that you’re too young to have certain issues even if all the symptoms are present. Someone under 30 probably can’t even get in to see a cardiologist without having a heart attack in an ER first.

Jewelers are still charging a ridiculous markup for manufactured diamonds but nowhere near as bad as mined diamonds. What I love the most though is that De Beers has pushed this narrative that mined diamonds hold value better which isn’t true because even though manufactured diamonds are basically worthless they’re sold so cheap they don’t lose that much value whereas the value of mined diamonds has collapsed in recent years and will probably only go further down.

I kinda think the commercialization of it isn’t great but it has gotten us a lot closer to decriminalization so that’s good. I think if the legal regime was more like how states handle liquor it’d be better.

It’s so crazy to me that everyone is deciding he’s bad now. I figured he SAd someone all the way back when his Reddit comments about it in the military came out because obviously a guy who’s complaining about being falsely accused of SA has done it. Then this stuff basically came out a month ago and everyone pretended it was fake for some reason? It took one of his victims coming forward and describing in explicit detail what happened for people to be like “oh that’s bad”.

Not to mention that however long the differentiation in human skin tones took, it took place in the context of small relatively isolated tribal groups that probably had significantly less genetic diversity and intermingling than the modern US. Therefore any distinctive mutations like noticable change in skin color would probably become prolific much quicker than they would in the modern US.

My partner and I are open to having kids (I think she really wants to) but it’s not financially viable right now and it won’t be for a while. This is not acceptable to much of my family who insist they want kids now. Maybe if the family chipped in a bit it would be more viable but if I mention that suddenly I’m greedy. Like sorry grandpa, I would have much preferred to be settled in with children at my age too but you ruined the housing market so now you’ll be lucky if you ever meet my children.

You need to go onto the website or call the managing company to see what funds you can invest in. Usually there’s a limited number of funds on offer and they are usually pretty conservative so i wouldn’t worry too much.

If you have options to shift to bond indices those might be safer but probably not much safer. If there’s a cash or money market fund those will be mostly safe but I don’t think they’re usually available.

I’ve dealt with some shitty gen-x/millennial customers too but boomers are the only ones that I’ve ever genuinely questioned the sanity of. Like a younger person might be rude, imposing, or upset but a boomer will do genuinely unhinged shit.

Retail is a really fascinating concept to me because it does produce value in the sense that the retailer is connecting the consumer with a product that they wouldn’t otherwise have access to. Retail is probably the oldest trade and has been essential to the development of civilization. It’s an incredibly fine line between that and rent seeking though. Ideally the surplus created by socialized production and industrialization should do away with retail and to a limited extent it has, but instead private ownership has flipped it totally on its head so the whole thing is marketing and rent seeking now.

He appears to have won about 70% of the votes in a race that was basically uncontested. I’m not sure if that signals a huge victory.