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New Site Software / Theme
I just now started the previous reply on dark mode, had to stop mid reply, and when I unlocked my phone I am in light mode. Did I die and go to heaven? This place won't be the same without the debauchery.
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New Site Software / Theme
On the Ukraine thread, some of the tweets only had the top half loaded. On the previous site, when it did this, it would allow you to scroll through the tweet to read/see it. Just now it wouldn't let me do that. Not sure if it is related to the upgreyd or not. Otherwise everything looks good.
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Kim Jong-Unghhh may be Illin
Caterpillars.
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So this is interestin'... Births are lower than they've been since the late 1970s
The kids lifestyle is watching their mom waste money? That's certainly an opinion.
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So this is interestin'... Births are lower than they've been since the late 1970s
I work in the chemical industry, and the number of men who have worked an extraordinary amount of overtime to afford their wife's desired lifestyle, only for her to file for divorce and get child support based on them pretty much working themselves to death is not insignificant. And then they are trapped into having to continue to work as much overtime as possible just to be able to pay child support. When the market invetitably goes to shit and overtime gets cut out they still have to somehow come up with the money to pay for the lifestyle that they provided when times were good. If our legal system was fair and balanced and weighed things equally, then I'd be right there with you, but the way it is currently set up isn't the ideal way that it exists in your mind.
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So this is interestin'... Births are lower than they've been since the late 1970s
Yeah, that whole scheme was poorly thought out. It's just another example of the previous generations kicking the can down the road. It should be pretty clear to anybody who has a working brain that populations cannot expand indefinitely without running out of resources. I understand that the concept of conservation was still in its infancy when a lot of programs like social security were established, but it's kind of a basic concept that resources are limited, and that was pretty well established economic theory by the time. Our whole idea of how to run social programs needs a massive overhaul, and relying on immigration (don't get the idea that I'm not pro immigration) to fill that stop gap is just further kicking the can down the road. And that's not to mention the fact that the countries immigrants come from are facing the same problem, so we are just exasperating their own issues with birthrates.
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Twelve killed in shooting targeting Jewish community at Australia's Bondi Beach
To your first point, you are absolutely correct. It doesn't at all resemble fascism, merely regressivism. To your second point, you can console yourself that you are technically correct at best. But that assessment comes with either gross incompetence on the part of the Democratic Party or wilful conspiracy. Possibly a mixture of both. There is no scenario where either the leaders of the party were unaware of Biden's health condition or knew and didn't care because they thought they had an Ace in their pocket. To act like party leaders have no power to influence things, or at least offer up an alternative during elections is about as intelligent as the postings of fattyflattie on this thread.
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So this is interestin'... Births are lower than they've been since the late 1970s
I read the context of the comment you quoted as saying nobody has the money to afford childcare. Did you read it differently? Because in my experience just being able to find any kind of daycare that has openings is almost next to impossible, and of course the prices reflect the scarcity. I seem to recall that there was some sort of change with the ACA that increased insurance requirements or something along those lines for providers to the point that a lot of churches that offered childcare services had to get out of the business. Whether it was a real or percieved change in policy, there was a definite exit of churches and other religious institutions from the childcare marketplace, which has left us with a demand rich and supply poor marketplace to the detriment of young parents.
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So this is interestin'... Births are lower than they've been since the late 1970s
Our oldest is nine, and our youngest is four, and childcare for all of them was hard enough and expensive enough to come by that it initially made more sense for one parent to just stay home.
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Roofman
I started it a couple of nights ago and enjoyed the first half or so before I turned it off to go to bed. I'll probably get around to finishing it eventually, but when I tried to restart it the next night I just wasn't feeling it anymore.
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Fallout (TV Show) - Amazon prime
Art.
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Twelve killed in shooting targeting Jewish community at Australia's Bondi Beach
Meh, it's a legitimate criticism. Progressives spent about 100 years trying to force the parties to allow popular representation of some sort on who their nominee would be, only for the Democrats to basically lie about their preferred candidate's (real or percieved) fitness for office and then turn around and nominate the candidate who basically came in at last place during the previous election. They basically told the average electorate that they believe in democracy until they don't. That is a huge betrayal of trust for the party and was likely a significant driver to get us to the place we are at now. You can cry (and probably rightfully) that voters should have known what the alternative was and should have voted democratic anyways because of the stakes, but that very attitude is counterproductive itself. You create an us vs them dichotomy and tell people that there are only two choices and they for the most part believe you after a while. And then when you make them feel like you betrayed their trust, well you've pretty much unintentionally written your own tragedy.
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Papers, please. Surly thread of deportation cruelty dominance
The ATF, FBI, and TSA can all EABOD. I the less info government agencies share with each other, the safer Americans are from blatant civil rights abuses. They've shown what colors they fly, and they aren't red white and blue.
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Twelve killed in shooting targeting Jewish community at Australia's Bondi Beach
That's literally the story of America for the last four hundred years, you idiot. America was built by those people you despise. You were built by them. If you want to see the best argument about how it doesn't work, go wander off into your bathroom and take a good long look in the mirror.
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Twelve killed in shooting targeting Jewish community at Australia's Bondi Beach
My inlaws came from Mexico in the late 70's or so. Early enough to be granted amnesty under Reagan. All three of their kids graduated from college and have normal everyday careers. Our kids go to private school with kids who's family names every Texan on this board would immediately recognize. Your grandkids will be hanging out with the kids and grandkids of many of these people, regardless of the contempt you display towards them.
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