On Sunday morning, CBP Commander Greg Bovino said in a social media post that agents had arrested 81 people so far, “many” of whom have criminal histories.
So they are admitting they lied when they said they are only going after criminals?
Creating electricity is surprisingly easy. Copper and Zinc were widely available for centuries before electricity and the only other item you need is an acid. Nitric acid was being made back in the 13th century. Arrange a copper bar and a zinc bar separated from one another with an insulator (glass, ceramic, or even wood) in a glass or ceramic jar. Pour in the acid submerging most of the bars with some expose above the acid. You now have a battery with the anode and cathode (positive and negative terminals) being the top of the bars.
Barely slightly more sophisticated batteries than this powered telegraph offices for powering Morse code sending keys.
You gotta find a better way to present this other than making it sound like Torvalds is a baby taking a shit. “The one who makes” I’m dead.
Its capitalized “Makes” which I took to mean a proper name instead of the verb. So this is referring to the GNU compiler Make. Since this is posted in /c/linuxmemes, I think its a safe post for the audience to know the difference.
Going to a movie theater can be a pretty bad experience these days.
The good movie theater experience is dead for me, but I’ve learned that AMC is the worst.
Yep I fat fingered that. Thanks for the catch. Corrected.
Its even worse than that 10% number suggest. Widen the picture a bit more.
“And that gap is widening to a historic extent, Moody’s Analytics data shows. As of June 30, the top 20% of earners accounted for more than 63% of all spending, and the top 10% accounted for more than 49% — both the highest on record, according to data that goes back to 1989. In 2019, during the comparable period, those shares were 59.2% and 44.6%, respectively.”
If the bottom 80% of earners stopped spending entirely, only 47% 37% of spending would disappear.
I learned this statistic last week and it explained something that had been bother me for a long time. Don’t the mega-wealthy understand that if the bottom earners have no money they won’t be able to buy anything the mega-wealthy are selling? This statistic tells the tale. They don’t really need that bottom 80% of earners to spend. They aren’t really customers anymore. The mega-wealthy will sell to each other as it looks like they are doing so much of already.
Edit:fixed typo
One in three six-figure earners described themselves in the poll as financially distressed.
I know two different six-figure earning households that are also supporting their unemployed/underemployed adult children. I’m not calling the kids lazy either. Unemployment/underemployment is hitting GenZ really hard and that means many are not able finance their own households so they live with parents.
One of those two was also supporting an aging parent until she passed recently. So, sure, they earn six-figures, but they support 3 generations on that income.
Two in three said six-figure pay is not a sign of wealth.
Not a sign of wealth, but is still a sign of privilege. Lots of folks are suffering worse with far less than $100k annual household income.
If if was that one then it would have the .au TLD if we’re looking at the link so we can tell just by looking at the link its not the Australian one.
Felony Flats is one of the nicer nicknames that neighborhood has.
Please tell me there’s also a Misdemeanor Manor somewhere in your city.
Nothing is stopping you from moving to another Lemmy server and blocking .world entirely. You have to find some value here if you haven’t done that already. If you hate it so much why are you still here and posting instead of on another server with other non-Lemmy.world communities?
My point is that just because you are living paycheck to paycheck doesn’t mean you can’t still save.
For many, it does.
It’s a decision that you have to make but it is doable because no matter how bad you’re situation is
I think that is an extremely myopic view if you’re making that as a blanket statement. There are absolutely people that spend every last penny of their paycheck each week on absolute necessities and still go without other necessities. There are families that have some or all of the members skip meals because they don’t have enough money for food. There are people that can’t afford something as simple as basic underwear that isn’t worn out because they live with so few means. Some people have to skip taking life saving medicines because they simply can’t afford that. Suggesting folks in any of those type of situations aren’t deciding to cut back is a choice they are making is heartless.
Even people that aren’t in as extreme situations as those, they may be buried under mountains of debt. Sure, saving a small emergency fund is good, but if they are paying down debt with all of their with the remaining amount of their paycheck, then the idea of saving for a house, car, child’s education, or even retirement are likely out of reach for them.
there are other people getting by on 5%-10% less than you. By insisting that someone living paycheck to paycheck can’t also have savings is what’s doing a disservice to them.
I truly hope you never have to live in real poverty. I also hope that you have the good sense to never say what you said here to someone in poverty. I’m not saying you would. I’m not suggesting you did. I’m not strawmanning you here.
Are there people that aren’t in poverty simply living above their means and could cut 5%, 10%, or even more without negatively affecting their lives or health? Absolutely! I’m not going to sit here and claim that everyone exhausting every penny in their paycheck before getting their next one is spending it only on necessities. For those that are simply living above your means, you are giving good advice to them! I agree with you on that.
Edit: Removed my post explaining adult things because the I see the side bar says this is place for children.
Kids, have fun! Be silly! Your JOB is to be silly right now! :)
Edit: Removed my post explaining adult things because the I see the side bar says this is place for children.
Kids, have fun! Be silly! Your JOB is to be silly right now! :)
That joke took me way too long to get.
Of course having the savings made a difference when something major happened, that was the whole point.
And that is the monumental difference between what you are describing I would just call “sticking to a budget” vs living paycheck to paycheck. Those living paycheck to paycheck don’t have that option to pull from savings because they have no savings. You did. What you were doing, by any definition I’ve run across up until yours, wasn’t living paycheck to paycheck.
If you want to keep saying you’re living paycheck to paycheck, certainly you can. Its a free country, but you’re going to confuse people you talk to or misrepresent to them your situation. It may also be doing a disservice to those that are living paycheck to paycheck.
And yes, when I had unexpected bills, and later when I lost my job, I did dip into my savings because that’s why I had it, but that 10% want going to be the difference between me living paycheck to paycheck, or not.
I’m not sure I understand your logic. If you dipped into your savings, then you clearly thought it was needed in those extreme times and it made a material difference. If it wouldn’t have made a difference, then why did you even dip into your savings?
you…realize thats not only where this Lemmy Community is…but also your user account, right?
How would that work, even on paper? Not being a dick, just don’t understand. So it’s literally just, “you can never own this property fully?”
Yes. The tradeoff is you have a property that is in your name (with a bank note attached), and if the property increases in value during the time you own it, when you sell, you pocket the difference. If you have a fixed interest rate, it also caps the growth of your payment for housing for the entire time you live there. There’s quite a bit of value in that.
That depends. What kind of firearms training has the predator animal received and are they equally armed? Otherwise its bringing claws to a gun fight.