NGL, I’ve family in the corn belt and hear that an awful lot of the local farmers there were 1,000% MAGA and voted for Trump even though they got fucked during his first term.

It’s the culture war that they are hooked on. The notion of gay people and women having a voice scares the shit out of them and they react to that, more than the threat of being forced out of business. Information silos are fiercely defended if you even attempt to point out alternative sources for information… Their stock reply - it’s all “fake” this or that.

Didn’t we go around with this same dance back in 2017?

You’d have thought the farm sector would have learned the first time.

Uhhh, Hillary is a grasping attention-seeker… and corrupt.

Am not on tiktok, am not a kid and even I see what is happening in Gaza.

She needs to fuck off and STFU like her husband.

Bwahahahah! Oh, I think Beeple’s gonna give Banksy a run for his money!

"…there’s no difference between NFT’s and dog shit "

That’s perfect!

Yup. Kinda why I’ve been using my gmail account as image storage for the last 19 years, and nothing else, since I made it.

That was stated from the get-go, that Google reserved the right to scan for potential ad-words in order to advertise a product you might have written about in a correspondence.

I think that the folks in the town of Jaba might beg to disagree with you.

I have a PC that was originally built as a hackintosh, so if I just pull the main Windows drive and install a new SSD in it’s place, and boot to an installer USB, it should work, yeah?

Am ready to try Bazzite as I only game on the PC at this point and my OS (Win10 Pro) is constantly nagging me to update the hardware as my current kit doesn’t have the TPM 2.0 that the newer OS needs…

Ha! I’m not going anywhere this year! First time in decades and I love it!

More to the point, what will the consequences be of that much carbon being repatriated into the atmosphere? I hear that Siberia has had some awfully hot, miserable summers recently. It’s likely not going to go over well with the climate problems Russia is having.

Hmmmm.

…a healthy neighbourhood with embedded nurses, social workers, and active mental health services could have caught this kind of shit…

Oh, absolutely, it could have. Here’s the rub… If the child was so bad as to be almost non-verbal, the parents could have accessed support. From someone that’s got handicaped family getting support (and it’s shit, TBH, but it’s there), the reality is there ARE systems in place to help - regardless of how mediocre they are - they can help. OR they could have put the child into foster care or just left the kid at a hospital.

This was criminal negligence and raging indifference to the suffering of a child.

I’d love for a social support structure to be fully funded and everyone is vested in making it work, alas the drive to create such a thing is one that the USA has been pushing aside for decades in pursuit of the next quarterly report on earnings.

The economics of America has to change first. That we are at the end stage of capitalism where it is starting to eat itself, may be the leverage point on which change is built, but I do not know. I think it’s going to take a few more decades as those sitting atop the corporate capitalist machine won’t go down without a fight.

How many decades does this restitution take to actually make criminally vile behavior stop? I’m no spring chicken and I’ve been waiting for a long time for a train, it seems, that is just not coming.

Fundamentally the issue is that those wretched parents did not care for the child because the girl was handicapped. That’s the kind of spiritual malaise that isn’t going to be easily or ethically changed. It’s hard-wired animal behavior.

The jungle is still where H. Sapeins lives, for all of the lofty proclamations otherwise. Digital watches, indoor plumbing and microwave ovens are only proof of knowledge, not wisdom.

Not saying don’t try… It’s a noble as a grape to do so, but let’s not pretend that we are more than we are at this point in our moral development.

So yeah, throw the goddamned book at them.

…An eye for an eye and the whole world goes blind…

Or, the one-eyed becme the object lessons in what not do so as to get that eye popped out in the first place.

Examples should be made of those who’d eat themselves into near immobile obesity while their mentally handicapped child is starved to death.

There is no touchy-feelying this one into anything remotely civilized. Which is honestly beside the point…

Regardless of whatever internet arguments we may have out here, once the general population in whatever jail they land in learns what they did, a lost eye may be the least of it.

People that abuse children - don’t have a good time in jail.

From the article: Melissa Goodman and Lefever “were extremely obese to the point of being nearly bed-bound, and rarely left the residence.” While the 14 year old nearly starved.

If I was a judge, I’d make sure in jail, they’d all get a similar diet as the one they gave that child.

Until they were almost as small.

That won’t be just you paying hundreds of cents extra… but tens of thousands - possibly millions and then it adds up!

…numismatist…

Bless you!

I guess. It all depends on whether or not you can afford to igonore pennies.

If I can not have to break down a dollar bill by fishing 54 cents - two quarters and 4 pennies out of my change purse, I’ll do it.

I’ve found that it’s when people break bigger bills down, that smaller notes tend to disappear faster.

This is what the term “nickel and diming” is about… It’s getting you to give up more money in total by taking smaller amounts more often.

It is a thing that’s real.

The flip-side of that is what happens with getting paid daily, weekly, bi-weekly and monthly. It’s the day labor that ends up constantly skint, because they weren’t dealing with large whole number balances. Even getting paid weekly, I was saving less than when I went to every two weeks. Now that I’m self-employed, I choose when to bill, and I do so monthly. Get BIG checks and sink it all straight into savings. Because I am paid every 4 weeks, I have to change how I spend and spend less and save more. LOTS more.

Pennies count at that point. Critically.

I’ve yet to earn more than 35k in a year - (and that was years ago) - and the biggest thing is havng a balance and seeing that numnber in the savings account rise. I have found that sticking to large lump sums - psychologicaly, you want to hold onto it more and it does change how you aproach savings and money in general.

I can take a couple hundred dollar bills and slip them into a book on the shelf and they’ll sit there for months before I dig them out. I can try the same thing with 5 20 dollar bills and they’re usually gone within a week.

More to the point, it isn’t sensible.

A penny lasts decades as a tangible item of currency. I have pennies in my change purse right now that were struck in the 1960’s.

The value isn’t in how much it costs to make it but in how long it lasts as usable token of trade.

Oh look… Little ManBaby is trying to buy friends.

Well… I suppose the public could give them back the food they ate, after they ate it… but it would be smelly…

Oooo, that’s gonna tank the value of the stock.