“Welp…” Slaps both knees at the same time

“Fiscal Conservatism”

Petty revenge and siphoning off taxpayer money. Two birds, one stone.

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Snitches without health insurance get butterfly bandages and some nasty scarring.

Yes. I rarely have any sync issues.

Personal finance software is tough. It’s costly to develop, even with a very limited feature set. Automatic transaction downloads are a must if you want widespread adoption and that has its own set of complications.

I still use Quicken – which doesn’t get anyone excited since it’s still a Windows (and Mac) desktop app built on an ancient codebase – but I’m a power user and have yet to find an adequate replacement. It’s not sexy but it does the job. I’m more the exception than the rule. The average user probably doesn’t need or care about the same features that I do.

Oddly enough, one of its redeeming qualities is that it runs quite well on Linux through Wine.

That’s why it’s not surprising at all that a bank didn’t bother to do that. Banks have some of the most egregious security issues.

And really shitty auditors apparently. A good one would have at least spot checked for unsecured ports.

People censoring sh*t like we’re all incapable of figuring out what the missing letter is.

Like, “What word is that guys? Oohh it must be one of those naughty words. I guess we’ll never know.”

Seeing “Sue” the tyrannasaur’s skeleton at the Chicago Field Museum is pretty impressive. Last time I was there, she was still in the main hall. You walk in and this thing is towering over you, making you just a little glad you didn’t exist 67 million years ago because you are a perfectly sized snack for a 12 meter long T-Rex.

I alternate back and forth all day long.

I’m going to guess the battery. It’s also the easiest place to start investigating. Everything else can still come on even if it doesn’t have enough power to start the car.

How long are you leaving your jumper cables attached before trying to start it? Jumping can take at least a few minutes to build up enough charge.

How old is the battery? There’s usually a month/year of manufacture sticker on it. If it’s 5+ years old, there’s a good chance it’s due for replacement.

Is the negative post connection tight? There isn’t any good reason the cable should be slipping off the post. Loose connection could also cause the car not to start.

Jerome Powell might be a corporate banker but he’s not an idiot. He and the rest of the Federal Reserve Board know that arbitrarily lowering the federal funds rate might be “good” at first, but disaster will follow quickly.

$10 says this is just Trump wanting to refinance some of his enormous debts at lower rates and thinking this is an easy way to make that happen.

Corporate: Spends millions working frantically to whip together a software project over two years.

Also Corporate: Kills the project and lays off the entire team two days after release when customers don’t magically flock to the new platform overnight.

The longer I do this, the more I’m convinced the “M” in MBA actually stands for “Moron”.

Let’s be real. There’s a lot of really fucking stupid people out there but that’s not the root issue. Especially since not everyone responsible for this clusterfuck – gestures broadly at American society – is stupid. Some of them are very smart, just morally bankrupt.

Even the dumbest of the dumbest Americans realize that things have gone rather poorly for them over a long period of time. They’re not wrong about that and they’re justifiably upset.

Are a lot of them stupid for electing a pathologically lying, serial raping, failed businessman twice? Absolutely. But that’s still not the real problem. The problem is the motive behind the action.

The motive that instead of recognizing that a rising tide lifts all ships and working towards the collective good says, “I want things to be worse for someone else than they are for me.”

That level of selfishness and lack of empathy has successfully made things worse for everyone. The US’s cardinal sin is the falacy of the “rugged individual.” John Donne rightly wrote, “No man is an island entire of itself. Every one is a piece of the continent; a part of the main.” Every lgbt+ person who faces discrimination, every immigrant who is whisked away by thugs in masks, every person who remains unfed or unclothed while the ultra rich get richer is an assault on humanity at large.

What’s truly frustrating is being deeply angered by the repeated, blatant moral failures and yet feeling like you are powerless to stop it.

Edit: I realize that there are lot of stupid things going on in the world and lots of people on Lemmy who are not American. So please take this comment as just one man’s reflection on his own surroundings.

Easy. Mine is the cute but stupid one who keeps walking into walls and barking at his own shadow. And no, he’s not blind. Just dumb.

OP is entitled to be wrong.

Coffee and Jim Beam were my go to self-medications. Not exactly a healthy lifestyle.

It is just her humble bragging about being rich by cosplaying as a regular person.

Pretending to be rich yet grounded while actually being neither.

I’ll have you know I drive a Toyota minivan and shop at Sam’s Club because we don’t have a Costco. Much to my disappointment.