Sure, I did make a couple comments between today and yesterday, including this one, so I’m not sure where the “gotcha” is here.

I signed in yesterday to check how a deletion script of mine would work and decided to scroll around. Yesterday I saw a social security thread that was some news I didn’t come across yet, and today I saw this thread in my list of active threads as I tabbed back and it piqued my interest.

If you’re curious about my future activity:

• In a day or two I’ll be making an announcement post in an announcements community saying I have a tool to help purge user posts
• In about a week-10 days I’ll make a final “hey! this instance is shutting down real soon!”

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To add on,

Go look at some of the downvoters (link me any thread, I’ll pull the list of votes since I’m an instance admin). Some of the folks doing some of the downvoting spend an enormous amount of time on Lemmy.

It’s probably why Lemmy’s activity has been dying off except for the hyper-active power-users.

This is an endemic problem on Lemmy and is part of why I’m mostly done with it (I’m just lurking around right now to keep an eye on my instance I’m decommissioning).

There’s no point in trying to build a community with a very hostile environment for anything that doesn’t align with the very odd hostile-against-everything-not-OSS zeitgeist.

Take a look at [email protected]. The folks downvoting don’t even own EVs and just spam bad takes on News and Politics communities.

Ironically Reddit is a healthier place.

Have fun being mad at the world. It isn’t good for your blood pressure.

If you haven’t made an effort to get ahead of the potential nonsense around social security with 40-50 years of notice, that’s on you. The Republicans have made it no secret they’ve been wanting to tear it down, especially through the 90s.

I’m not a fan of raising it but you’re just incorrect and ought to look into how this works.

You can start pulling benefits out at 62 but you can collect more per month the longer you wait.

There is nothing stopping you from deciding at age 62 to start collecting if you’re fine with the lower amount.

Next, the amount provided is never promised. You pay into Social Security for current benefit recipients and Social Security gives you an estimated amount of benefits you may see. This is called out many times, and I implore you to utilize the information on its site effectively.

Here’s the disclaimer:

We can’t provide your actual benefit amount until you apply for benefits. And that amount may differ from the retirement estimates because:  …

• Your estimated benefits are based on current law. The law governing benefits amounts may change. Congress has made changes to the law in the past and can do so at any time.

Or there’s your take.

Life after high school is going to open your mind up.

Yeah I completely derped on who this backfired on… That explains my confusion 😂 the rest of my comment remains relevant after the first sentence

Edit: I’m an idiot and can’t read: I thought this was referring to backfiring on the reps, not TikTok. Original comment remains below:

The BBC should settle down lol, it didn’t backfire. Some group of aides took 900 calls, probably tallied it up on a few sticky notes, and passed them to a rep who tossed it in a bin.

1. it unanimously passed committee (!!!)

2. it’s practically certain to pass the house

3. it’s practically certain to pass the senate

4. it’s guaranteed to be signed by biden

To also add: in a call with the WSJ, Farley suggested that Ford may be switching the charge port location because they want to go full-in on interoperability with Tesla Supercharging stations.

Preventing corporations is one piece of the puzzle, the next is finding a way to not incentivize people using their owner-occupied houses as the retirement investment vehicle.

We won’t be able to build more houses if people keep justifying their votes for bad planning over this fear their house value will drop to zero.

I genuinely am curious where you’re living that everyone’s having a hard time putting a roof over their head. The stats simply don’t match this narrative in the overwhelming majority of areas in the US.

This outrageous hyperbole that you repeat day-in and day-out is just unproductive and, quite frankly, insulting to anyone wanting meaningful political discussion here.

Commenting the same things over and over on a political forum isn’t going to change anything.

This intentionally ignores real-world context.

This article is from 2022. It’s practically ancient in terms of very-short-term economic analysis.

I highly encourage you to look at more recent data.

Anyone else watching CSPAN just for the unhinged call-in comments?

Considering the literal hundreds of other poorly reasoned comments you make on here…

Biden was never a progressive president. He wasn’t running on anything close to a progressive platform. I’m not sure why in this, or literally a hundred of your other comments here that get responded to by others, is still a surprise.

I disagree with the logic of complaining about inflation then suggesting all of the money should’ve been distributed to individuals.

This is more of an emotional argument than logical…

The Verge is a site focusing on tech products and services.

I cannot believe anyone would find it surprising that they talk about tech products and services.

Welp, I have nothing to say to that kind of attitude. It’s a fairly decent day across much of the US and Europe for an uplifting walk outside.

Is it only news if it invokes strictly trite and sorrowful commentary?