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Until it's time to dispose of the old fridge, and then your idiot neighbor just opens it up and releases it in to the air, because proper disposal requires a fee he doesn't want to pay, and then breaks down the fridge to tiny pieces to throw in the regular trash.

This has happened, a lot.

All my friends are child free and dead set on remaining that way. None of look out at the state of affairs and think "oh yeah, let's bring more life in to this"

The future of the population is in the hands of religious nuts breeding like rabbits...good luck with that.

Wage theft by employers costs people more than actual theft by criminals.

And yet the news will cover some poor schmucks boosting cosmetics from a drug store like that's the biggest crime around...and not the drug store robbing their employees of rightfully earned wages.

As a poor person, 100% of money goes back in to the market, not an investment/retirement account, because rent and food are a bit of a priority.

A simulated conversation with IT:

"Hey, IT department...I was wondering..."

"No."

I'm glad to see they're allowing the inmates to actually become firefighters after getting out, looks like up until very very recently you could have spent a bunch of time fighting fires as a prisoner and been shit out of luck after you got out. Shit was gross and exploitative.

https://www.npr.org/2020/09/11/912193742/california-bill-cle...

Bingo. 50% of us are paycheck to paycheck, ain't much to invest when 70% of your income goes to the landlord...you know, to further invest.

The poor's, like me.

Police are like hammers that see everything as nails.

It's just not working.

Psychopaths run the world and they don't get punched in the throat nearly often enough.

Even on vibrate it's too much for me. I have had my phone on "do not disturb" for 2 years now. Every time I see someone calling me I have an anxiety attack.

Careful with burn out kids, it can fuck you up in such a bad way it feels irreparable and hopeless.

...did something big happen that I missed?

Probably because it's a lot easier to recruit women in to a body positivity project than men.

That's my guess.

How was life for the nanny/cleaning/cooking people?

A submission can also just disappear completely.

HN didn't disappear this story...

But this one: https://news.antiwar.com/2021/08/29/us-drone-strike-in-kabul...

Disappeared right before my eyes.

I'd say I'm shocked, but I'd be lying.

That ain't a silver lining, at best it's polished aluminum.

We only have one water cycle.

I upvoted it, it's a really neat project!

It's good that our tech giants are competing, and not colluding.

I don't know about the Egyptian pillows, but in Chinese art it seems like there was another thin layer on top, I presume something soft, and it just hasn't survived after 1000 years, unlike the ceramic base.

It ain't quite history yet.

https://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2021/08/26/sundown-towns-bla...

They do a good job protecting the property of the wealthy by harassing the "undesirables" to move to designated areas, and that's why certain parts of town are "ghetto". It's a bit of an unspoken rule that as long as the dirty peasants stay in the ghetto they'll be less likely to be harassed. You generally won't be asked where you're going or why in the sketchy part of town, but looking the wrong way and straying in to a nicer part of town... you'll have 3 cruisers on you in 5 minutes.

As long as the police have the support of the upper class, it doesn't matter that the majority of us have lost all faith in the police.

Why not a clean slate and improvements/checks and balances together, because the current crop of cops have lost the faith of a lot of people.

Google LAPD gangs.

My favorite is the golf courses in the middle of a desert. Boggles the mind, especially when one realizes that we haven't even managed to provide clean drinking water to all the people on this planet yet, but we'll pump it in to the middle of Arizona for a golf course for rich pricks.

Even with body cams and cell phone videos, these boys are still lying. You can't reform this, clean slate.

I'm personally of the opinion that the amount of harm this will do will never outweigh the good one could do. In the same vein, I could also start a toxic chemical disposal company and just dump the stuff in the ocean, and then use the profits to support cleaning up the ocean. Burning cycles to maintain the blockchain for... pixel art is not something that I consider ethical behavior.

But you do you, perhaps you can design a Blockchain solution for water rights, it will greatly reduce friction for nestle to buy up more water rights for the billions of plastic water bottles they need to fill up for rich suburbanites, they like the flavor better.

The US is in decline for some of us.

The wealthy folks are raking it in like never before.

I don't know why the poor's keep complaining, everything is great.

Median income statistic as proof

I am very smart.

If the police will shoot you for simply possessing a firearm...do we really have the right to bare arms?

I guess we have the right to store an unloaded firearm in a gun safe.

...I'm disappointed in the human race