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Okay, so you’re saying would do evil for a big enough pile of money? If you had enough to get along in relative comfort would you still?

Lots of people who see no other options commit crimes to get money and ‘stuff’, but if we all had a guaranteed income, I wonder which people would be enticed to do evil just to get still more money. The evil wouldn’t be ‘torturing those you love’, but more like letting some company dump lead in the water supply. Personally, I couldn’t allow that for any monetary price.

That’s not the line. In KJV it goes:

For the love of money is the root of all evil

It’s not the money itself, it’s the love of money.

3 kids and stressed out mom.

For others. If I’m staying home, I dress like I’m homeless in whatever grungy dirty things that already need washing. If I’m going out, my hair is combed, my threads are fresh and I’m not getting denied entrance to the restaurant. The movie Blast from the Past was pretty stupid, but it did teach me (remind me?) that you dress nice as a courtesy to your friends.

Years ago a friend was in a horrible car wreck and came out mostly paralyzed and with no memory of the last few years. She didn’t remember her college friends and clung to her newly found relgious support group. She was never religious before. Her personality was completely different in numerous ways. She was effectively a different person and we no longer had anything in common. I don’t know what happened to her after that, but I mourned the loss of a friend.

The author understands their sources don’t know the shooter’s current thoughts on anything because he became isolated over the years. Older thoughts include:

Asked about the inscription on the bullet, the friend said: “Josh was an edgelord who wanted someone to get blamed. I think he tried his best to write something goofy … to rile people up.”

Another friend showed me a Facebook post describing how Jahn had flooded his friends’ comment sections with rape jokes — “playful shock humor,” the friend said.

More nuanced:

That said, one friend recalled that when Trump first came to power, Jahn “was not a fan” — though he had contempt for mainstream politicians in general. His friends say he had more of a libertarian bent, with one recalling an interest in the libertarian figure Ron Paul.

And finally:

“If you’re having trouble finding people besides immediate family who knew him, that’s part of the story,” one friend said. “Every mutual friend drifted away over that kind of edgelord behavior.”

You’re kidding, right?

We rode without seatbelts in the back of stations wagons. Worse: just ready to fly free in pickup beds. It was almost expected that people would drink and drive.

All that said, you can still eat, drink, and change stations in most places and it is far, far less distracting than phones.

Citizens United and dark money PACs. As you can see from any given time Trump opens his mouth, people will belive any crazy lie so fast that an sincere politician without massive funding will be smeared with whatever the moneyed interests can dream up. To make sure money wins, they do stuff like remove polling places from poor areas so the lines get so long voters have to choose between getting to work and casting a ballot – IF they can even get to the distant polling place. Texas just did that again a month or two ago.

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According to Datos Insights, in 1992 there were 88,000 households worth $20 million or more in 2022 dollars; by 2022, there were 644,000. Those who could pay almost anything for a vacation were becoming their own mass market.

Paired with:

In 2012 the My Disney Experience app gave guests an easy way to check wait times, show times, restaurant bookings and more. In return, Disney gained a trove of information on exactly where guests went, what they purchased and how much they spent in its complex.

So now that we’ve got a system where you get perks for spending cash.

Fourteen hours later, Ms. Cressel has experienced nine of the park’s attractions, three in the Tier 1 category, plus a parade and the fireworks show. She and her companions leave, exhausted, at 11 p.m., when the park closes.

Note that part of that time was messing with a mobility scooter, but regardless it was less than 1 attraction per hour.

In all, Mr. Conahan and his daughter are able to visit 16 attractions, including all five of the park’s Tier 1 rides plus its two most coveted attractions — Seven Dwarfs and Tron — that charge separately for passes. They do all that, plus the lunch stop and a Dole Whip snack break, in just seven hours.

More than 2 attractions per hour at more than twice the price to get that access. The article implies that big spenders get other rewards, but it doesn’t specify any except mentioning an invite-only club – but we don’t know if that invite is solely monetary or if it has frequent visits from, say, make-a-wish kids and other celebrities.

They’re all part of the fediverse so you see the same content. It is mostly a matter of how you want things to display.

Oh, I didn’t think of that. It depends on the server. I don’t think lemmy servers support tagging, but piefed servers do. Such tags are only displayed to the person making the tag. Piefed servers have issues with displaying post text from the main display and with previewing comments directly under a post, but they display image posts inline … in a buggy kinda way.

If I’m looking for news, I use my lemmy account. If I’m looking for tv/movie stuff, I use piefed … and also get to tag people :-)

I’m guessing that’s a genetic thing – like how some people are ‘super-tasters’ that can’t stand broccoli, I think some people can handle it better than others. For myself, I’d guess I only have 1/2 the trait because I love it roasted, but can’t take too much raw.

I’ve tagged you (with love) “onions and garlic!”

Don’t use a press – just smash with a big knife, pull off the paper, and chop a little. Jarred doesn’t taste the same. Jar-garlic is why I won’t buy Costco’s garlic ‘wings’ yet will buy the Rotisserie chicken right next to it: the ‘wings’ have an enormous excess of garlic, but it all tastes like ‘jar’ and only faintly like garlic.

Engineering. Engineers are famously conservative. There’s a paper that broke down how non-white and non-male engineers were less conservative, and which types of engineers tended to skew which way, but a reader must remember that most engineers are white men.

You are my spice hero! Perfect list. My only note is that Herbs de Provence is also a mix, just like curries.

But those are vegetables that have a flavor rather than spices. I mean: Brussle Sprouts and Asparagus both have unique flavors, too, but I wouldn’t count them as “spices”, either.

I buy dry in bulk so it ends up being maybe $0.38 for 100 or so. I put 4-7 in most any soup, stew or the like.

For me it is part of the base meal: smash and dice garlic, turn on the stovetop, dice an onion and start it frying, add garlic, figure out what else to put in the pan.

Young Brad Pitt? Absolutely.
Old Abe Vigoda? Probably not.

Mostly it would come down to the attitude of the guy, I’m imaging a pleated skirt above the knees and a sleeveless crop top to better hioghlight the shoulders. Worn proudly on a hot bod? That’d look awesome. Worn with the embarrassment of, say: losing a bet? That’d look lame on anyone.