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That is really not true.

That’s also pretty true for people, unfortunately. People are deeply incapable of differentiating fact from fiction.

Things that have been improving:

• Global poverty rate (going down)
• Global average lifespan (going up)
• Global literacy rate (going up)
• Global internet access (going up)
• Global infant mortality and maternal mortality (going down)

The reality is, most of the world by many metrics is getting better over time. There are things that threaten this (climate change and increasing authorititarianism) and it has slowed, but overall we are still generally positive trajectory wise. In fact, I would say that in most metrics that matter, we are improving.

Limited visibility, limited comprehension, limited attention, and limited risk aversion.

My guess is that the vending machine is not owned by whoever put this up and the operator indicated they will be by to empty it.

The poles actually do swap every few hundred thousand years.

… Sodium Ion are already being sold in EVs.

I’d actually go with something like microfiche or nanofiche. Human readable (with some support from a microscope), lasts and incredible amount of time, and can be used as a very safe backup.

No, most of us are broke because we insist on ensuring that suburban mcmansions are the only places to really live. When you spend 30% on driving and 40% on housing, suddenly you are broke.

Attempting a coup is much harder with an opponent on the executive branch. The only reason the last one was close was because Trump was sandbagging the response. The only way one succeeds now is if the military facilitates the coup, aggressively, IMO.

This thread demonstrates the idealogical purism and lack of pragmatic political expectations from leftists and progressives. There is literally nothing the Biden admin can do that will ever be enough because it doesn’t match some rosy fucking dreamland that only lives in your heads. Descheduling is huge, and signals the end of 100 years of madness with cannabis laws. If you want more, then we need to have more legislative power to implement it.

This is a fucking win, dumbasses.

What you are suggesting is a legislative action. The nation needs to provide enough legislative power to happen.

“hacker”

73% of Americans are overweight. They’ll be just fine if they eat out less.

I mean, you can say the same about every form of entertainment. Music? Majority is crap. Movies? Crap. Sports? Crap. Books? Crap. Video games? Crap.

That’s not close to average life expectancy in the US.

Welp, civil war, escalating to nuclear war, starting 2026? See you all there.

Just to be clear, I am not on the side of absolutely free market, but we have to recognize when certain policies are causing harm than good. For example, part of the increase is due to increased code regulations, but this is a good thing because it insulates (heh) consumers from from a number of hidden risks that the average consumer won’t self-mitigate.

It really is not. I’m not saying there are no other economic challenges, but the vast majority of housing costs are effectively caused by this.

Here:

The median home price in 1960 was around 20,000. In inflation adjusted 2020 dollars that would have been close to 200,000.

This puts the price per square foot prices within the $100-150 range.

In 2020, the price per square foot was in the same range.

Wages have remained largely static. To be clear, this is NOT a good thing as productivity has skyrocketed, but is beside the point for now.

Effectively, the reason why people cannot afford a mortgage is massively influenced by the average size of home.

Cars make this fact even worse. On the mid to low income side of the economic spectrum, car ownership can easily cost 30% of household spending. A two car garage easily adds 10%+ to home costs.

Average new home in 1960: 1300 sq/ft. (without garage)

Average new home in 2020: 2600 sq/ft (+ 2-3 car garage)

Average household size in 1960: 3.4

Average household size: 2.5

Number of households with 2 or more vehicles in 1960: 22%

Number of house holds with 2 or more vehicles in 2020: 59%

Ya’ll, I don’t know how else to explain this - the reason home ownership and cost of living is expensive is very straightforward. We don’t build or accept smaller homes, we don’t build enough of them, and we spend far more on vehicles.

Edit: if you want affordable housing, advocate (aka vote, canvas, donate) for candidates in your local government that support -

• Zoning and regulations that benefits smaller home sizes.
• Zoning that permits denser and missing middle development (for less need for vehicles)
• Zoning that permits mixed use development.
• Land Value Tax
• Reduced or eliminated parking minimums
• Bike infrastructure.