1st the minimum wage absolutely should be raised to a livable amount, but I have some questions and comments about your numbers.

Averages are bad to use as a measure, they are heavy skewed by the top outliers, median is a much better measure.

If you are trying to recover to a target average, the minimum wage would be below the average, that’s how averages work.

I’m trying to figure out where 72k comes from. 1k for rent (Yes I can find 1 bdrm in the city I live near that price), 150 gas/electric, 50 Water/trash, 100 internet, 250 food, 400 transportation, 500 health insurance all adds up to 29k a year.

The late 50s was still under 50% car ownership, a cheep car today is still around 20k.

For your gas, you have it at $5 a gallon for today, national average according to AAA is $3.132

In general a lot of the numbers you have don’t seem to make sense.

I think I’ve seen this with audio for both.

They bill after the fact now. wkms.org/…/south-fulton-adopts-new-fire-subscript…

You are saying some of that as if it is a bad thing.

I really want to know what this feels like.

I feel called out.

Digikey is my go-to. I hope they make it through.

Similar to nitro for a user, but for a server as a whole. At various levels it add features to servers. Bigger files, more sticker slots, Banners, animated server icons, higher quality streaming, more options for invite links and how they appear…

It was changed in the latest version of lemmy. lemmynsfw has their own patches that make things work better for their use. In general its just a mess right now. I was looking into this in a local community. The visual nsfw tag seems to be an issues on a community level, but I don’t mod or admin any so I can’t dig too deep into it other than observe the user behavior. Although the NSFW is sometimes present the posts are treated as NSFW. (blocked if NSFW is blocked in settings, blurred if NSFW is blurred in settings…)

lemmy has a new quirk where all posts are treated as NSFW in a nsfw community even if they are not tagged in the front end as such. In fact the ability to tag has been removed from the front end. This was a recent change, I don’t think its going like they planned.

I’ll comment outbound seems off too. I checked from lemmy.world and new stuff from here is missing.

no, not at a…hmmph.

umm, no. I use work chats for work, and personal chats for personal. I might accidentally add the wrong colleague to a work chat, or wrong friend to a personal chat, but I’m never going to accidentally add a friend to a work chat because I don’t mix work and personal chats.

pawb pictrs down?

https://pawb.social/post/21953795

I think I want one.

authoritarianism is another word that can mean different things to different people. It can be used to mean the government enforcing any rule that isn’t liked. civil rights protection? authoritarianism. job protections? authoritarianism. minimum wage? authoritarianism. etc…

Also related is “small government”. I think people who use it mean (at least when not in control) “small federal government”, the state however should control everything about peoples lives.

I almost think its the laws they support are black and white and unchanging. If something is wrong with a law, it doesn’t matter, that’s the law. The solution to an issue isn’t to change the law, its to enforce it harder, or make it more restrictive. The “rule of law” also applies to individuals and actions. Money crimes, fraud, “the state” are not subject to the same “rule of law” because those laws “don’t make sense” and if we look above are a result of “authoritarianism”.

Is there a solution to get people to use language that can be agreed upon? who knows, but it would certainly help clear things up. I hate trying to guess what someone thinks a word means to attempt to refute their points.

I don’t know I’ve though about “rule of law” quite that way before. I’ll have to add it to my list for when it comes up. There are several other terms that mean different things to different people (I wish I remembered a specific one to demonstrate). Its one of the reasons its hard to have political discussion online. You have to determine what the words your using mean, before you can start arguing the points.

Trump voter surprised trump is doing exactly what he said he would do

https://pawb.social/post/21307918

Well, like in any population, there are musk supporters in any cross section. (my local group has way too many for my liking). I also don’t know how bad it is in other parts of the world, I think the artist is Russian, but I’m not certain about that. There are also people that stick around because of network effects. I’ve gone from sometimes using the few nitter istances that still work, to trying to never go there. If its only on twitter, it doesn’t exist.

You forgot the important second bit, it has to annoy someone else enough that they tie you up and forcefully remove the shoes.