🎓 Dr. Freemo 🇳🇱 @freemo@social.cleverlibre.org

@guardeddon I 9am EST

A reminder #QOTO, tomorrow QOTO will be down for migration. ITs the first step in the new upgrades.

@tatzelbrumm Income inequality isnt a bad thing when your poorest live well.

The poor pump in the USA is quite a bit farther ahead than the poor bump in most of the world, and thats what matters, not the dispersion.

I grew up back when all resteraunts had smotking sections. As if smoking on the other side of the room made it safe.

@AmpBenzScientist With those handles youd have to pull out like fuse ball handles.

@worldsendless History has no relevanve. You provide aide to people becsuse they are suffering. No other factors matter, full stop

@timo21 If thats the bad take hill ya wanna die on so be it.

@kilroy_was_here below 30 feet even the worst performing coax will have negligable losses. Just make sure it can handle the power rating. You need over 3x that length before it starts to matter, even then youd need high swr.

@timo21 You absolutely did make a negative blanket statement about all rich people in the USA:

> The USA rich have dissociated themselves from the common good. A country is a shared endeavor of which they are have withdrawn themselves.

Trades people still can afford a boat, assuming its a skilled trade. highly trained welders for example make 6 figures in the USA, more than enough for a boat.

> The current environment is because the rich have dissociated themselves from the USA, are no longer interested in the common good. They want to get rid of social security, for instance.

Some rich want to get rid of social security, some dont, there you go making blanked statements again about the rich.

No the problem arent "the rich", the problem is trying to lump everyone into a group that isnt you and blame them.

No matter how much you want to reduce the world to us vs them it just isnt the reality and the world is far more nuanced than the picture your trying to paint, and its not a healthy perspective IMO.

To be clear I have nothing against you personally, I think you mean well. But this is a harmful take, and a bad one.

@GeriatricGardener

Horrible take. Humanitarian support for civilians should never be conditional on the events of a war. It is based on if they are suffering or not, full stop.

@LALegault

@lowqualityfacts I bet by the end of the week Dems will actually be reciting this one as fact. Lol the shit they say sometimes.

@timo21

Thats an awefully big blanket statement that is just simply not true of all of the rich, and frankly quite rude to a group of people many of whom have given back in ways that are far more generous than most.

As with any group there will be selfish assholes, as well as very generous people. To paint everyone with the same brush simply for having been successful, with no care for what they did or didnt give back is.. well, hyperbolic and short sighted to say the least.

That said, againit was largely meant to be a joke with a hint of truth. But yea if you want to discuss it seriously I dont mind. But villanizing someone **only** for being successful is a bad look to say the least.

Interesting fact of the day. USA isnt just the wealthiest country in the world. it is the wealthiest by a huge margin.

Here are the numbers:

Total household wealth by country:
United States (30.8%)
China (18.6%)
Japan (5.0%)
Germany (3.8%)
United Kingdom (3.5%)
France (3.5%)
India (3.4%)
Canada (2.5%)

That puts the USA well ahead of even China, the second largest.

For comparison USA has 50% more total household wealth than all of Europe combined.

@timo21

That was the joke, obviously. They were stupid on purpose, for comedic effect.

@timo21 So what your saying is we are the richest country, and the reason is our tax code.. Though im sure you imply it isnt a good thing.

Reminder, mroe than half of the top richest people in america were not born rich. They come from middle class and below homes.

@lovelylovely

The far-left needs to do better. They are probably the biggest driving force pushing Biden/Democrat supporters away to third-parties and even to Trump...

We (the left) need to stop with the internal toxicity against every criticism. Our Toxicity is going to be our downfall and is the only reason Trump is on the radar at all right now IMO.

@ambihelical

In the bedknobs and broomsticks it is called "Star of Astoroth" and is as pictured int he attachement.

The "seal of astaroth" (different spelling) is the center part of the image in the OP. It is one of the seals of solomon from the grimour the keys of solomon.

What is interesting is the seal is intended to cast real magic,much as is the theme of bedknobs and broomsticks.

@unabomber As if i couldnt hate this president any more already... lets hope he makes the right decision here.