Honestly alligators rarely attack full grown adults. If you’ve ever swam in freshwater in the South you’ve swam with gators. I’m not saying I would take the risk, but the odds of being able to get out of there are not terrible.
But the point wasn’t about it being effective. The point was the implication and the cruelty
Nope because farmers will typically destroy produce to avoid crashing the price.
Expect large portions of the crops to be burned this year.
The American experiment in democracy failed and unfortunately history only shows a handful of ways to restore it
I hope there’s a hell for him to roast in
I personally grew up quite impoverished and me and my wife did manage to get our home in medium COL area. We don’t have exceptionally high paying jobs nor did we have any help from our families. We just made a lot of effort to build our credit. We’re also not old at all under 30 to not dox myself too much.
A lot of people simply have some wrong assumptions about the amount needed to get a loan. We put down 3%, sure we didn’t get the most competitive rate and our payment is higher, but it worked out to the cost of our then comparable rent. There’s quite a few federal programs that ensure the opportunity for a low downpayment mortgage for first time homeowners.
But that was just slightly before interest rates went insane, kinda on the way up
I always find this to be such a poor argument.
Yes unexpected maintenance can sometimes be a huge problem, especially in the first couple of years, but after that you can tap into home equity and repair say a roof. Everything else while expensive is still cheaper than renting. Using the OP’s example 1k vs 500, I can assure you you will never have consistent 500 repairs per month.
As for the taxes the people in my city nearly went ballistic when the city increased the rate by 5%. At the end of the year it costed me $200. Per month that’s about $16. I’ve never lived in any apartment anywhere where rent didn’t increase by at least $50 per month each year. Even if someone had a home twice as valuable that’s still a very small monthly cost.
Additional once you get past the first 3ish years rent prices have greatly outpaced your mortgage and you will be saving a lot of money compared to of you were renting.
I’d like to wrap up with a question. If owning a home was such a sink of resources why do people become landlords?
I worked at a pet store back in college and this old lady would sometimes come in and load 2 carts top to bottom with temptations. She said it was the only “food” her cat would eat. I tried to tell her it wasn’t food, but no luck.
I wonder if her situation started in a similar way to your story.
At least for school assignments this is easily fixed by just opening it yourself in the school library and adjusting format. It’s usually pretty minor.
Honestly most of my professors accepted papers saved as pdfs which was helpful too
I understand what you mean by this but I’d like to disagree a little.
Yes a generation is an arbitrary categorization that will have exceptions, but a group of peers born without a 15 year window will have similar expirences. We are shaped by our environments. The struggles, the media, and even the economy is going to have an impact on how these people interact with the world.
Looking at the Baby boomers they are or were a statistically significant generation. Their numbers were huge due to the post war rise in birth rates. Even if you disagree with the arbitrary grouping, you can’t dismiss the sharp increase in number of births.
Now on to politics. These large group of people born in the years following world war 2 keep electing individuals near their age. Out of the last 5 presidents all were born within 5 years of each other. Hell 3 of them were born the same year. Except for the Obama years every president for the past 30 years was born in the 1940s that’s insane.
Why? It’s not like you get smarter in your 20s if you have a higher life expectancy. Potentially living to 85 doesn’t give you more expirence. Im your 20s you have about 20-29 years of life expirence and knowledge regardless of how old you live.
Nope, 65% of what I make now is barely subsistence. It would be nice for a few months, but quickly become boring
Each new state would get 2 senators added to the senate. You are right about the house of Representatives though
That’s cool and all but still irrelevant to the original point. You can be authoritarian to your own citizens domestically without invading other nations.
The US is both imperialist and authoritarian.
Look up the definition of authoritarianism. Bombing other countries is not the defining feature of an authoritarian government.
West coast gets 6 senators.
The 4 least populous states on the east coast are Maine, Rhode Island, Delaware, and New Hampshire. They get 8 senators with a fraction of the population.
These states have about 5 million people. California alone has nearly 40 million people
To be fair if California were to join that would nearly double the Canadian population and that’s not even counting the other west coast states.
Assuming equal representation rights those would be some huge changes
Lmao, immediately explains how banks work. Also I pay no account fees btw.
Keep everything under your mattress eh?
What are you talking about?
I send someone $25 on zelle, $25 is deducted from my account, and that person receives $25.
How am I paying a fee in that scenario?
Yes I know how banks work so please don’t explain how they make money using my money.
It’s true the only reason the US didn’t go full Nazi in the 30s and 40s was we didn’t like how Germany was invading France and Britain.
Otherwise there was a lot of support for a domestic Nazi party leading to and ethnostate. Perhaps even over all of North America.