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Rent prices 📈

The top 1% have more wealth than the bottom 90% of Americans, and the median individual wage is about $50k, which puts the average American in the top 10% (or higher) of wealth holders in the entire world.

The richest 1% having more wealth than everyone else is especially crazy if you consider that most Americans are incredibly well off by global comparison

Its even more ridiculous if you consider that within the 1% the majority of that wealth is held by like 0.01% of them. To fix the vast majority of wealth inequality in the world we just need to effectively tax about 10 people.

The entire world, 8 billion people, are fucked solely for the benefit of like 10 people. This planet is garbage

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Number of annual U.S. Pedestrian Fatalties

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Early 2000s big vehicles are tiny compared to modern SUVs and trucks. I work somewhere with a garage that sees mostly SUVs, and one day someone had brought in a Hummer H2. The classic monstrosity of its time. That thing parked next to a brand new Escalade or Yukon is absolutely dwarfed. Its about the same size as the average modern SUV. But compared to the average size of a 2000s sedan its huge, so people remember it as being bigger than it was

Up until recently I drove a nice early 2000s passat. That was a family car in its day, but its easily dwarfed by any modern sedan.

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Movie idea

16-year-old seduces adult nazi to shoot him in the woods during military occupation is slightly less family friendly than Spiderman, at least from what I remember about Spiderman

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'I've Never Seen Anything Like It': Trump Policies Leave US Farmers in Dire Straits

“So much of what has happened and what’s going on here is totally out of our control,” Meadows said. “We just want a free, fair, and open market where we can sell our goods... as competitively as anybody else around the world. And we do feel that we produce a superior product here in the United States, and we just need to have the markets.”

The Republican small government, everyone

Why do I feel like these same people would say Biden’s economy was worse for them?

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Delta moves toward eliminating set prices in favor of AI that determines how much you personally will pay for a ticket

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I was thinking the same thing, considering that I have less money to pay to fly my price should be lower, no? But the article ends on this note:

Early research on personalized pricing isn’t favorable for the consumer. Consumer Watchdog found that the best deals were offered to the wealthiest customers—with the worst deals given to the poorest people, who are least likely to have other options.

So basically the opposite of what it should be. I wouldnt mind individualized pricing if it meant Delta was robinhooding with their pricing model, but instead they are effectively using their pricing model to force out poorer consumers. Which makes sense from their perspective I suppose considering they can upsell more shit to people with more money.

As someone who lives in a top-wealth zipcode (as a working class person) I assume by next year this means I will no longer be able to afford to fly out of town…

Its starting to make sense why the GOP was working to ban regulation on AI use. This shit is blatantly unethical

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Top House Democrats demand release of Epstein files that mention Trump

The justice department also released video surveillance of the hallway outside of Epstein’s cell, although the digital clock on the tape skipped from 11:58:58pm to 12:00am. Officials did not address the jump and added that no further materials would be made public.

Ah yes, the hallway footage with a minute cut out of it. The only footage we have because the camera in his cell was coincidentally not operational. And the only account we have of the events because both of the guards who were assigned to watching the most high-profile dude in the prison, while he was on suicide watch, in a camera-less cell, happened to both be asleep.

Surely this guy totally killed himself