A pension is something you pay into it through your career with deductions from your paycheck. Idk why people treat it like free money or something that is earned through merit. It's the money of the employee taken and invested

So basically the modern economy lol.

Gas peaked this year around $4.40 when minimum wage is still somehow 7.25. The lowest average rent I could find in any state was $983 a month in West Virginia. So that will take about 135 working hours (pre tax of course) to afford. That's about 3.4 working weeks at minimum wage just to pay rent. After taxes and other expenses that would be like 80 hours a week easy.

And yet our leaders say the country is doing just fine. There's no recession. God we are fucked

Don't forget his massive hog, allegedly

You wouldn't have to go septic, you can go into an ER before then. They'll treat you then write you a prescription you may not be able to afford. Then you have 2 paths. If you recover, even without the meds, you are still left with a massive medical debt that is then sold to a 3rd party. If you don't recover you go back to the hospital as septic, and you get even more medical debt to be sold.

Great system

Kinda ironic since these were people actively speaking out against the detainment of migrants workers

TIL, never heard of that recession before. It last about 8 months and seems to be the smallest labeled recession in the past 100 years

I don't think the rules of succession state he can't be speaker of the house. If it came to it he would be skipped over for the next in line

The trains are running normally again, the post is over 1 day old. Lemmy just doesn't have a lot of posts

So now citizens are being imprisoned based on political beliefs.

When can Americans begin claiming asylum?

Took me about 8 years to beat Legend of Zelda A Link to the Past because there was 1 dungeon that you had to pull on the front part of a statue to open the entrance. I tried every inventory item...

When we finally got internet I got answers.

I'm not fan of the guy, but taking the stance of "I'm descended from slave owners and think we should lynch the guy" is definitely a way to say you really do not like him

Nope communications failure, it was resolved before this morning thankfully

It is nighttime and sometimes even going a few towns over can lead to a long dark walk depending on where they live.

But also DB usually doesn't tell you how late they'll be, they just increase the delay 15 minutes at a time. Then you have a sunk cost fallacy.

Plus with the heatwave everyone is exhausted. An unplanned 5 km hike at night sounds less than appealing. Although so does sleeping at the station

Not to be pedantic, but even if he hasn't kept up with the licenses to practice medicine he still has a MD or Doctorate of Medicine. Dr. is still an applicable title

If your place is designed to retain heat that's all their is to it.

My place in Germany it was much cooler on hotter days earlier in the heatwave. Today is the coolest day of the heatwave so far, but the building has heated up too much over the previous days. So now it stays hot. By the end of the week I expect this room to be an oven

That's the thing I can't get my german roommates to understand they keep opening the windows in common areas when it's the peak heat of the day.

Sorry guys lüften can't fix everything

The issue is thermal mass. Buildings are designed to absorb heat in the winter. Obviously when you aren't using heat they'll absorb whatever the temperature is.

First 2 days of a heatwave the building holds a cooler temperature. After that the walls begin to heat and it is simply too hot at night to dissipate all the heat the building has absorbed

Sure I can do that, I grew up in a trailer and we had the AC go out one summer in the southern USA.

Mid day was hot as fuck. Once the sun went down and we opened the windows it cooled off very quickly to the outside temperature and it was easy to sleep.

I would usually shut my windows around 12 to 1 am. Then I could sleep comfortably until about 10 or 11.

Here when I shut my windows to sleep I'm hot again by about 7am and feel the walls radiating heat.

So overall the peak of the day is better, but nighttime is significantly worse. Honestly I'd rather be a few degrees warmer during the day and sleep well than being consistently hot all the time

On what authority can they do this? Has it always been a crime to touch the reflecting pool?

No, but that's okay you've picked your hill