And warm:-).

Supposedly - and keep in mind I have no idea if this was ever true - there used to be “statesmen” who after living a long life of prosperity and success, would go and take their turn in Congress helping provide leadership for the nation as a whole.

These people were already retired, already rich, and just looking to see what they could give back to society. Or maybe they were bored and just wanted to get far away from their wives, who knows.:-D Probably they were doing it for the fame, who even cares.

Compare that nowadays though to the likes of MTG or Bohbert or Gaetz and such, whose sole goal in life seems to be to get theirs, and are willing and able to fuck over the entire country in the process.

No, they may do some things like us - eat and sleep and breathe - but it takes a special kind of dipshittery to be willing to turn a blind eye to people in need (like in Ukraine) and sell out your entire nation (inflation, Russian and Chinese aggression, etc.) in that manner. I can only hope that you wouldn’t allow people in your own country to starve to literal death bc of your actions.

They are playing power games, and they’d probably still play those even if their salaries were at stake too, more’s the pity:-(.

Some places are friendly. Some aren’t. Many that are, label themselves as such. Some don’t though.

Don’t you post on Facebook or I’ll shut the government down!

Don’t you post on Twitter or I’ll shut the government down!

Don’t you post on Reddit or I’ll shut the government down!

Don’t you post on Lemmy or I’ll shut the government down!

At some point, I start to wonder if they are just searching for an excuse to shut it down?

Also, there are laws about “obstructing the workings of the government”, but good luck enforcing them in the current environment, when the enforcers are themselves the ones doing it.

It took you 30 years to get to where you are today. Rome wasn’t built in a day. Be as kind to yourself as you possibly can?

Part of it was that the study, if you are thinking of the same one as me, referenced the concept that: would you work twice as hard for $100k as you would for $50k? Like if the latter was a 40hr/week job, would you work a 80hr/week one for twice the pay? At some point you start to dip into diminishing returns - like you’ll work a bit harder but not TWICE as hard, so after that point, each additional dollar is not worth as much as those before that point.

Which makes perfect sense - like if you could make 100k at 50hrs per week, what’s the point of making 200k at 100hrs per week, it’s just too stressful to try to keep up?! At some point, with your basic needs met, you are no longer as aggressive at chasing down additional funds, and people would generally prefer to relax a bit, and Quality of Life concerns rise to the foreground over money.

And there’s probably other considerations as well, e.g. working for yourself vs. others.

Laporfic? :-P

Thank you for the explanation.

Wait… so Trump’s tariffs WORKED!? Heavy-handed though they may have been in the application, Biden has continued them so they seem to have the blessing of the current administration. Wow… historians are going to have a hard time trying to separate stuff that was “good” (even a stopped watch is right twice a day) from the prior administration vs. all the rest.

It’s great for Mexico though.

“These three want to share…” specifically precludes murder.

Watch as chaotic evil don’t care, failing the test but having fun anyway:-P.

You had too much blood in your body anyway, let this cutie-pie “take care” of you:-).

You are obligated to fall into it regardless:-).

It seems like I’ve heard of the strategy of “appeasement” having been attempted before - how did that work out for them again?

Thank you!:-)

And oh wow, that doesn’t seem clickbait at all now that I can see it. Though also not as shocking as I at first guessed.

Who knew that implementing divisive policies would cause people to become so very much… divided?:-P

The hard kind too, it even persists at https://web.archive.org/web/20240126130159/https://www.ft.com/content/29fd9b5c-2f35-41bf-9d4c-994db4e12998.

I’m guessing it’s also clickbait once someone did end up getting past it anyway.

“Do you have a moment to hear how you could save money on your car insurance?”