I hope you’re right.

That ship sailed under Reagan, and it’s never getting back to port, sadly. Thanks to him, families now needed two incomes.

Then, Bush and Clinton came along, and you needed not only two incomes, but two college degrees. Now, with Dubya, Obama, and Trump, not even that’s enough, and they’re capping student loans instead of regulating student loan interest, so your only real shot at being a doctor now is being born in the right zip code.

America, baby. Dig it.

Also, not so fun fact, but this got me curious so I looked up the unemployment rate during The Great Depression: apparently then it was around 20% to 25% as well, so I feel like that reinforces the point I’m making a bit.

We’re already there. The only reason we aren’t calling this a depression is that the stock market hasn’t been affected much.

But when 25% of Americans are functionally unemployed, it’s hard to argue we aren’t already largely ‘crashed’.

Yes.

Which is odd because, since getting a keychain pedometer I actually don’t keep it in my pocket or take it most places.

I wish I’d married a Canadian in 2004 when the getting was good, haha.

I even speak some French.

In 2016 there were tens of million of Americans who couldn’t absorb a sudden $400 expense without going further into debt.

That number’s probably grown significantly since.

I’m glad you had the means to make it out.

The vast majority of Americans, sadly, do not.

They do indeed.

My parents are deeply religious, but have never figured out that it’s my siblings and I who actually answer their prayers.

Around 14 days out of the whole year they have a pretty good football team.

That’s it.

Yes.

Either they’ve been identified or it’s an animal with mange. For fun, go compare drawings of the Dover Demon with featherless owls, for instance.

Don’t go searching for hairless bears, though. They’re nightmare fuel.

Only when taken out of context.

I know it doesn’t matter, but after all I’ve read about Nintendo and the Switch 2 in the last year?

Fuck 'em. I’m going to get a Steam Deck or a Lenovo handheld, and I’ll just enjoy the Nintendo products I already have. I’m not spending a small fortune on a console that they can brick remotely, or force me to buy a $50 proprietary charger for, or a “virtual game cartridge”.

Fuck all of that bullshit.

Turn it off when you’re not using it. Save on energy.

This app sounds exceedingly useful to me.

Always appreciate when people offer their opinion with a YT video. I’m definitely going to watch it. Thank you.

Not sure if he pushed the original measure but he was definitely instrumental in the compromise they attempted to insert into it.

Apologies.

Every time I mention I had a run-in with a homeless person, some self-righteous SJW discounts my experience and infers that I must have been in the wrong, though I was just sitting on a bus minding my own business on the way to work. My city has fare-free buses, so we end up having a lot of close encounters with untreated homeless people. (Also why I carry a stun-gun instead of mace, so if I have to use it there’s no chance of friendly fire.)

So I figured you were another one here to cast aspersions, and I have a short fuse with it for sure. My mistake.

That vote tally, though.