If it wasn’t for Marketplace, I would be off Facebook entirely.

But I am not on threads at all, and only get punted over to Instagram with reels that appear on my Facebook account.

Okay, this… is hilarious.

“Trickle down economics only occurs when the wealthy bleed.”

Similar, and appropriate. The working class will only benefit once the wealthy are no longer wealthy.

Women are often delaying their first child well into their 30s or even 40s

Women who delay into their 40s are highly likely to never have children. Even waiting until the mid-30s dramatically reduces a woman’s chance of ever being able to have children naturally.

Pregnancies after the age of 35 are called “geriatric pregnancies”, because they occur at the very tail end of a woman’s fertile timespan.

Fertility itself starts going down some time between 28 and 32, and really starts plummeting by 40. The medical field considers nearly all women 45 and older to be “functionally sterile”, even though menopause itself may still be years or decades away.

I mean, can a woman get pregnant naturally after the age of 45? As in, without modern medical reproductive assistance in the many tens of thousands of dollars? Sure, but it is vanishingly rare.

Awww… are the violent genocidal colonizers feeling insecure and butthurt?

“The truth is paywalled, but the lies are free”

Considering that the majority of the GOP electorate is in the bottom-50% of incomes, this becomes very much a “leopards ate my face” moment.

Send him back. We don’t need no seditionists.

People who vote for the Leopards-eating-people’s-faces party are always shockedpikachu.gif when the leopard eats their face.

North America as a whole - America mostly, but also Canada being not that far behind - has been on a crazy rush to the bottom with cultivated ignorance.

Anything intellectual is mocked and degraded. Children who are smart try to hide it because it’s “not cool”. Adults who are competent and erudite get treated like freaks.

As of late, my longer-form content been frequently flagged as a product of AI because I use “big words” – and the language I use is no more sophisticated as something put together in first or second year university. It’s not sophisticated in the least, but the problem arises because a majority of adult Americans can’t read past a 5th grade level. So when I write at a completely bog-standard adult level, most adults simply cannot keep up.

And this intellectual decline in our culture is hella terrifying.

The “velocity of money” has absolutely nothing to do with assets.

The “velocity of money” has been very much proven. You take money out of a community, you deny it to that community. That’s why the existence of the wealthy is the presence of a parasite.

Crucial isn’t the most performant, but in terms of SSDs and RAM, they’ve become the new IBM. As in, the old saying “no-one ever got fired for buying IBM”. Crucial tends to be rock solid with great reliability. Samsung has the great performance and great reliability, but you pay through the nose for that.

I still have some PTSD from Seagate

SD15 firmware bug is what did it for me. Got hit with the holy trifecta: PW lock-down when attached to a mobo that had no capability to lock drives down behind passwords, BSY signal, and 0Pb (yes, petabyte) available drive space on a RAID-0 stripe of two 1.5Tb drives. I haven’t willingly touched another Seagate product in over a dozen years.

Education, too. With funding based on region and per student.

police are still searching for a motive as to why someone would kill Thompson.

Someone assassinates a legal serial killer, and cops are looking for a motive?

Wow, those hiring requirements that disqualify applicants if they have too high of an IQ is really working out well for the police force.

the phrase “deny, defend, depose” reportedly written on the shooter’s ammunition

This is likely in reference to a book that is highly critical of the medical insurance field called “Delay, Deny Defend”. Except here, the shooter actually did depose the CEO for his company’s actions.

Well, most of the fridge is already there. You just need to disassemble, sandblast the metal and paint (if the paint is in poor condition), replace the insulation with closed-cell spray foam, replace the refrigeration system with a modern Freon-free system, reassemble and put new seals on.

An old fridge can be quite simple, structurally speaking. It’s in the 70s and 80s when fridges started getting compact, difficult to repair, and disposable.

The fridge will likely operate far less efficiently than a modern fridge unless you have it rebuilt.

With that said, a rebuilt fridge - with a more efficient cooling system and better insulation and all seals redone, etc. - does not cost significantly more than a new midrange fridge.

My microwave is a 1977 Amanda Radarange. It can boil a cup of water in ⅕ of the time a modern microwave can.

Now granted, it has zero fancy settings and a simple number pad that does nothing but set how long you want the microwave to run.

But honestly, this simplicity is a large part of it’s charm. No connectivity needs, no features locked behind paywalls, no extraneous bullshit or never-used features. Just a tool that does only one thing, and does it exceptionally well.

I want to report him the second Trump’s militarized deportation starts.

Please do. These people desperately need to directly experience the problems they voted into office.