These are first world problems. Personally, I work for a few years before taking a a couple years off. I’ve did the math, and I need like 20-30 hours to maintain my standard of living. As long as I buy a house and save a few decades of taxes, I don’t need much for a reasonable retirement. I’ll probably buy a house big enough to turn part of it into an apartment.

I see myself as Benjamin Button. I might as well take my retirement when I’m young. I’ll probably get killed in a car accident or something.

…I am the son that is both able and willing to serve as a care taker. I’m sure my parents get that I’m self-serving, but it beats the hell out of a retirement home. Having one kid without a family doesn’t hurt.

It sounds like he’s using bipartisan rhetoric to justify funding a reasonable strategy. Knowing how many people are taking which psychoactives is important for making policy decisions.

… An accurate monitoring system is needed to prove the effectiveness of different harm-reduction strategies. People lie on self-surveys.

…I’m fairly certain monitoring waste waters to determine the rate of drug use is a common and widely used procedure. Like, it is happening and it has been happening for a while now.

Here’s what I don’t understand about the Boomer hate: If all Boomers are lucky and rich-and all of our parents or grandparents are Boomers-should’nt we love boomers? If the stereotype is true, we will eventually inherit their generational wealth.

Why for Boomer not share money with me?

I can’t tell if your joking. The average Republican is pretty much the same as the average Democrat. I believe shifting blame onto a stereotype of the other party is some sort of Freudian transferance.

I’m in the same boat. I even tried emailing them my license. There is nothing I can do to delete my account from highschool.

Something involving Israel. In my country at least, people who hyper focus on Israel tend to have a lot going on. Expressing any opinion on the issue always leads to controversy and drama. It’s best just not to have an opinion.

…I wouldn’t be too worried about it. PCBs are made from copper and plastic. I’m not particularly concerned about the economic impact of increased plastic prices.

It’s not particularly plausible. If you want to stage a shooting, you’d either kill the “shooter” or avoid capturing them.

… regardless, another theory is that this is hate spamming. Alot of these poorly implemented misinformation campaigns serve no purpose other than to torment a person or organization. The lemmy administrators did recently get into a spat with someone who seems…motivated and unique.

There seems to be a coordinated effort to push this theory. I don’t know if it’s strictly Lemmy or if it’s also on Facebook and Reddit as well.

It’s hard to say exactly what they are trying to accomplish. Do they want to actually convince other people that it’s a conspiracy, or do they want to give the impression that lots of people believe in a conspiracy? I couldn’t say.

Canada has aboot 40 million people, the UK has about 70 million, Australia has 30 million, and New Zealand (5 million) is basically a rounding error. Since the US has over 300 million people, other English speakers tend to migrate to primarily US platforms.

What I find most interesting about these statistics is the difference in population density between the UK and the USA. Although the US is ~40 times larger, it only contains 7x more people.

While you’re correct, the cumulative effect of lower class and middle class Americans on 3rd world peoples dwarfs that of the upper class. It takes a lot of time and resources to maintain the lifestyle of a single person working 40 hours at McDonald’s.

His consumer products were made in 3rd world factories polluting their local environments and the coffee he’s drinking was bought for less than a dollar a kilogram from a farmer destroying a priceless rainforest. When this impact is multiplied by three-hundred million, the effects are as dramatic as they are unsustainable.

…I try not to think about it. It’s a conflict between guilt and gratitude.

From a global perspective, lower class Americans fit the criteria for being rich. The true conflict is between 1st world countries and the global poor.

It’s controlled by a government. A government that has trillions of dollars worth of real assets isn’t nearly as safe or secure as digital currency backed by the block chain. It has been scientifically proven that human imagination is infinite. Bitcoin going to the moon isn’t an assumption, it’s a fact.

I might be in the local minority, but I feel as though there are going to be major job shortages due to AI obsolescence. Since it will be a global phenomenon, this trend will lead to an influx in illegal immigration. Two new citizens will turn into ten new citizens in a few decades, and the quality of our universal basic income will be inversely proportional to the number of unskilled laborers.

… with all this being said, I don’t understand why the people on the internet are against immigration enforcement. The majority-both Republicans and Democrats-oppose having an open border. I don’t understand why this is perceived as a Bipartisan issue.

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…Jesus. The bots are overwhelming this post.

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