Sure, it’s true that it’s often not a choice (although I don’t think that’s who this article is talking about).

There’s a lot I could say about this. I’m an accountant and see all of my clients personal / familial financial arrangements.

Very briefly, the law takes the view that any surplus wealth produced in the course of a romantic relationship belongs to both parties. Often / usually when a relationship ends both parties need to agree on how to split it up, but it’s quite common to be acting on that dynamic during the relationship and ensuring that the non-working spouse is building savings / investments in the same way that the working spouse is.

In Australia this means that if one spouse is not working and one spouse is, the working spouse might contribute to the non-working spouses pension fund (401k?)

They weren’t stupid they just didn’t know any better. There’s a difference, and it’s an important one in these troubled times.

Everyone needs a plan B I guess. Making yourself dependent on someone else is obviously not a path to independence.

They’re all idiots.

People that voted for Trump are idiots.

People who didn’t vote for anyone are idiots.

Dems who failed to read the room are idiots.

Republicans supporting Trump are idiots.

I think Musk is his own special class of idiot though.

I dislike the use of the term “cut”.

If I don’t buy food for my family this week can I really brag that I’ve cut my family budget?

this sounds great. thanks for the tip!

I think I already have pinchflat. Didn’t know sponsorblock worked for podcasts. Thanks!

It’s easy to make the mistake of overestimating Trump’s strategy when trying to understand his behavior.

Since getting elected he just doesn’t give a fuck. He’s got a decade to live at best and he get’s to ride it out in luxury with the entire world as his play thing.

He got elected by saying he would implement tariffs, gut government services, and be mean to poor people. He’s been doing exactly those things.

The tariff announcements just stoke angst. Imagine a narcissist being able to fire off a “truth” and the whole world descending in to chaos for a week. That’s it. Like a child poking an ants nest.

Yeah absolutely this.

This is the back down Trump has been hoping for really.

When everything goes to shit he can blame everyone else because he wasn’t allowed to roll out his dumb plan.

Honestly over the last few months I’ve been thinking a catastrophic financial crash might just dethrone trump. Not anymore.

Sadly this was inevitable.

I think it was in the skeptics guide to the universe book, they covered the history of eugenics.

It has a significant history in the US, and loads of ne’er-do-wells were sterilised before eugenics was adopted as a policy by the german nazi party.

They don’t need voters any more.

I don’t think there would be much actual measuring of IQ.

Yeah I don’t really understand the problem TBH.

It’s pretty obvious you’re just there as a prop. So what if you hurt his feelings by declining. Sucking up by throwing yourself under the bus won’t avoid tariffs or invasion or whatever else he decides to do.

I think it’s referring to this:

https://digitallibrary.un.org/record/1651317?ln=en&v=pdf

… but I don’t have time to dig any deeper

She refuses to use pipepipe. IDK why.

This is fucking awful.

I agree that his time at the white house has been a huge success for his personal interests.

However, I don’t think it all went according to plan. I think he really did expect that he could make some government services more efficient. I also think he thought that his actions would ingratiate himself to the right, all over the world. I also don’t think he expected the backlash against Tesla.

I like gogs. Automated backups and then deployment seemed super easy with gogs but not so with gitea.

Gitlab seemed like a heavy weight for my needs.

You do you regarding hosting for friends. I wouldn’t do it. I self host as much stuff as I can and I’m happy to bear the responsibility for my own stuff, but taking responsibility for someone elses stuff and access to that stuff is a whole other level.

One thing I’ve learned over the years, is that making something work today is only a small part of the job. Ensuring that it works every day for the next 5 years is the real challenge.

You might not have noticed my point.

I think the vaaast majority of voters just vote the way they always have. They’re just not engaged. There’s no consideration of who to vote for.

I honestly think it would take either a revolution, or several decades before any other party has a chance.

It would take many decades for a new party to get the recognition.

Most voters probably think Obama is still president.

My SO watches free tier youtube.

Edit: please stop with the alternative youtube client suggestions. I’ve tried. She likes the YT app and the ads. This hill is not worth dying on.