The breaking point for me is when I am truly stuck with where I'm living. I do not currently mind where I live, I plan to maybe stay where I am for another 2 years at most. But, I do worry of there being a time where I will not find a place that is affordable and not in a dumpy spot with insane tenants. I feel like I'm not even really living my life, I just feel like I'm living a life because everything around me right now is just always picking and testing my patience. The tenants here suck ass with loud barking dogs, occasional thumping music, loud kids, idiots running through hallways. The apartment management is a fucking joke, I've gotten my vehicle towed once and was given absolutely no heads up by management over it so I could prevent it. Where I live, predatory towing is a thing and there's no protection against it, it just happens and you have to eat the costs.
I've already accepted the reality that I do not think I'll ever come back to my home state, where I do actually prefer to live, as I am locked out because their affordability rates is stupid high for no reason even in shit-hole towns.
As for other things...
The day I walk into the grocery store and I see even canned soups standard price become $1.50. Now I know in some grocery stores, this is a thing, but you avoid them because they are just idiots. You knew where else to shop with better prices. But imagine that affordability has been ripped away. All of the cheap meals we've been able to craft and make for years, unchallenged by capitalism, now become premium luxuries that decide whether we starve or become fed. Rice, Vegetables, Fruits .etc
I thrift, I pirate, I budget and I live modestly. I sink or swim that is decided by my own choices and I much rather prefer that, than knowing a system will make it unbearable for me to even rebuild a life should I decide to move one place to another. I don't indulge a lot in what people would consider luxurious living, because I find it all overrated.
I don't make it loud about everything I stand for because I don't wish to upset what is currently going for me. I need something bigger and greater that calls upon me to get involved and it has to be a collective group effort. Right now, nothing is worth it to do that because everyone I see around me, are shuttering away from negativity, ignoring the bad to focus on the personal goods going on and just bracing what's already happening. The day someone leads a group of people who are unified, strong, informed, are many and have a great resolve to fight and take back what is ours - you count me in. Until then, I am with my circle and looking out for myself.
To be honest, we know the ISPs will find a way to waste all of those billions again like they have time and time before. They dump most of the finances into marketing to try and hype people that there will be affordable internet in their area for years, they don't deliver and then when the funds dry up, they beg for more.
Well, it would really suck for the millions who are in customer service/retail. You've essentially made them homeless and struggling even more than they were before.
I wish anyone who has idealistic thoughts of protesting like this, would think things thoroughly. Seems like protesting in general, it's just about do action now, thinking almost never.
I would inform potential dates that there really isn't going to be a family for them to meet and that I am probably the last representative of that family. If they ask me if they're going to have a father-in-law or a mother-in-law, I would tell them it is probably in title only.
The goal is to spare your dates or would-be newlyweds from getting involved with what drama or dysfunctionality your family has gone through. You are doing your date a huge favor.
Yeah you guys can play the selective game all you want. It's hypocritcal that you're the same people who probably cancel others for years old twitter statuses, but because a black man said racial things, then it's a different outcome? Where's the consistency?
Oh so we're in an age where we shame people for 10+ year old twitter statuses and cancel them. But because a black guy said some things then you decide it's undated? Double standards, much?
Al Sharpton is a racist. Martin Luther King Jr and Malcolm X he is not.
You cannot advocate for the rights of your own race while turning around and taking opportunities to speak in public forums about how bad you think the white man is. Can't have it both ways.
In response to the executive orders, the activist and Baptist minister Rev Al Sharpton announced in January that a council with his organization, the National Action Network, would conduct a study on companies that are ending their DEI policies. By May, the council will select two companies to focus on. Sharpton and his organization will then publicly scrutinize the companies for backing away from their DEI goals.
“Donald Trump can’t make us buy your stuff. The Senate can’t make us buy your stuff,” Sharpton said at a speech last month. “In the name of Dr [Martin Luther King Jr], we’re going to do what King did.”
This is my huge takeaway from this entire article. Another opportunity has risen for Sharpton to run his big fat mouth and be the two-faced individual that he is. He's not here because he legitimately cares about the DEI programs, he's here because he knows he can be racist himself in a subtle matter against white people, as he has long been for years.
From just headphone use? No, disagreed. From loud music? I used it as an example, I don't listen to loud music constantly as much anymore. You can't avoid Tinnitus because even if you didn't listen to loud music all of the time, being surrounded by loud noise in general will eventually get you there. I work in a store where people slam pallets down (for no stupid reason), screech pallet jacks, have noisy pallet jacks in general, ladder carts squeal and screech. We're not allowed to protect our ears because "CONSOOMER FIRST" priority.
Plus, where I live, people slam their doors around, they holler, babies and kids throwing fits. Yeah, it doesn't matter if I listen to loud music or not, I will develop Tinnitus because of the environments. It's an environment thing.
If Trump was dead serious on immigration, he would've challenged and sent Musk packing. But Trump's idea of tackling the immigration issue is in the same vein as tackling anyone else he don't like. So he would delightfully target AOC and get rid of her at any chance.
I'm not buying it that it is headphone-related. I wear headphones nearly all of the time, I've listened to music loudly for years on end, I've had to deal with loud screeches, loud noise wherever I go, lived and worked.
It is totally an environmental thing. Plus, the article had already wrapped up what the problem was and a normal hearing test came back negative.
But they haaaaaad to find a reason in the next line. Just had to.
The breaking point for me is when I am truly stuck with where I'm living. I do not currently mind where I live, I plan to maybe stay where I am for another 2 years at most. But, I do worry of there being a time where I will not find a place that is affordable and not in a dumpy spot with insane tenants. I feel like I'm not even really living my life, I just feel like I'm living a life because everything around me right now is just always picking and testing my patience. The tenants here suck ass with loud barking dogs, occasional thumping music, loud kids, idiots running through hallways. The apartment management is a fucking joke, I've gotten my vehicle towed once and was given absolutely no heads up by management over it so I could prevent it. Where I live, predatory towing is a thing and there's no protection against it, it just happens and you have to eat the costs.
I've already accepted the reality that I do not think I'll ever come back to my home state, where I do actually prefer to live, as I am locked out because their affordability rates is stupid high for no reason even in shit-hole towns.
As for other things...
The day I walk into the grocery store and I see even canned soups standard price become $1.50. Now I know in some grocery stores, this is a thing, but you avoid them because they are just idiots. You knew where else to shop with better prices. But imagine that affordability has been ripped away. All of the cheap meals we've been able to craft and make for years, unchallenged by capitalism, now become premium luxuries that decide whether we starve or become fed. Rice, Vegetables, Fruits .etc
I thrift, I pirate, I budget and I live modestly. I sink or swim that is decided by my own choices and I much rather prefer that, than knowing a system will make it unbearable for me to even rebuild a life should I decide to move one place to another. I don't indulge a lot in what people would consider luxurious living, because I find it all overrated.
I don't make it loud about everything I stand for because I don't wish to upset what is currently going for me. I need something bigger and greater that calls upon me to get involved and it has to be a collective group effort. Right now, nothing is worth it to do that because everyone I see around me, are shuttering away from negativity, ignoring the bad to focus on the personal goods going on and just bracing what's already happening. The day someone leads a group of people who are unified, strong, informed, are many and have a great resolve to fight and take back what is ours - you count me in. Until then, I am with my circle and looking out for myself.