Notices by 🎓 Doc Freemo :jpf: 🇳🇱 (freemo@qoto.org), page 9

Interesting fact of the day: There is absolutely no legal check on a presidents ability to launch a nuclear missile.

That means for 4 years trump literally could have launched one at any moment on a whim and there was absolutely nothing stopping him other than his own choice not to do so.

Honestly as scary as that sounds, and just as scary that Biden, a senile old coot, has the same access... it amazes me neither of these guys did just for the fuck of it. I guess thank god they have some sense of self preservation cause neither of these twits are holding back for our sake....

@moffintosh

While your right, the whole buying in bulk could be a potential trap of poverty.. its not really a good excuse... I dont know too many who got out of poverty by buying in bulk.. i mean yea sure once your able it might be an ok move to save a few pennies... but its not nearly as important as just penny pinching.

@thor

@thor

By itself it will only get you so far...

But thats the problem.. usually the people who dont take advice from people who got out of poverty because "they dont believe it" are the people who stay in poverty. But iu wont judge you for choosing what you feel is right for you.

@moffintosh

@thor

I can certainly understand that... I dont know your particular circumstances and im not saying its as simple as following advice either... its very circumstantial.

When ive helped people it was never just some one time adivce and then i come back and their doing grerat.... It was always a pretty large and somewhat personal commitment... well not always, but often.

Most of the people helped were at rock bottom after a lifetime of poverty. I usually offer very strict rules designed around their success and ont he condition that they get free room and board (and free education in some cases) should they stick to the rules. Since the alternative was literally homelessnes it usually was a strong enough deterrant they would take the offer.

All these people needed to trust me to do that though, and while oddly enough some of these people were new friends (in two cases I took them in after only knowing them a month or two).. it doesnt really play out too well with strangers considering the dynamic being asked of.

But a great many of them in the end moved out and to this day have a very successful career, their own home, and in some cases families.

@moffintosh

@AmpBenzScientist

I wish more people did... Sadly with the whole anti-rich people movement we have lately this is farther away as a common practice not closer. When people with money are constantly treated as evil, unfortunately, it makes people far less willing to want to help or care about eachother.

@thor @moffintosh

@moffintosh

> That's just false. The "anti-rich people movement" is as old as civilization, look no futher than pesant revolts against the nobility and worker strikes of the past 200 years.

As a concept it certainly isnt new, I agree... but as of late it has been an idea that has far more support than it has in the recent past.... I really could care less about how much it was adopted historically.

> Rich people specifically rarely partecipated in the whole "taking care of each other" thing when it involved common people anyway.

Spoken as someone just making shit up with little expiernce or evidence to back it up.

First off objectively rich people donate a far larger **percentage** of their income to charity works than middle class or the poor... we arent just talking dollars and cents but actual percentage of income. And the difference is huge.

As one of the only objective measures i can really think of this alone shows fairly well you statement to be false.

Moreover, anyone who has been around rich people in a social and personal way (rich family, through work, whatever) would plainly see that these people often care a great deal about charitable work and doing more with their money.. Most rich people I know have 20 or 30 things I personally know of they went out of their way and sacraficed to help communities.

Dont get me wrong there are selfish evil rich people too... probably in the same perportion as non-rich really. But the idea that as a crowd they are inherently more evil than those with less money... thats just jealousy and pettyness blinding you, little more.

@AmpBenzScientist @thor

@thor

I disagree, I dont think everyone tries their best... I know myself at least (who is the only person i have access to my own mentality internally)... for me I most certainly do not always try my best.

@thatguyoverthere

@thor Every rich person I have ever known has been frugal with small day to day expenses both before they got rich and after.

While you can of course be successful without the need for that, it is a mentality and approach that, more often than not, is necessary to see success.

@thor Not in the least... it really adds up and is quite vital to getting out of poverty... I speak as someone who started life in the welfare system and found my way out.

@thor Very true, but as someone who has played the game and won, and who have helped many people do the same (I tutor others to be successful, and many times given homeless people a place to live along with that to get them to a place of success)... with that expiernce I'd say I have a pretty good knowledge base to judge what isnt and isnt effective.

@thor you certainly arent wrong that spending on things that make you mentally healthy and happy are neccesary too.. Im not claiming you shouldnt be spending on anything... My only point is, cutting back on those small every day expenses absolutely is a mentality and practice needed to get out of poverty.

@thor

Thats perfectly fine.. there is nothing wrong making the conscious choice to sacrafice a better future for a short-term immediate pleasure... I think its just important we dont frame that as a choice that has no effect on our future financial success when it does.

@georgetakei

I have no love for the GOP my friend, but you are criticizing them for doing the one thing the democrats arent doing and should.... Vote their conscious rather than just agreeing with the group.

We **want** politicians who are there to vote whats right, not what their party tells them to vote.

@thatguyoverthere

The pronouns i fill in on the form at work

"Jeff gets a 10% raise, this is a verbal contract"... now every time my boss addresses me he has to give me a raise :)

@kroner What if i am dead there too?

@Moon I think there was a typo in your post, or i misunderstood…

Isnt this:

human decency recognizes the absolute right of people to have private conversations without government eavesdropping.

An example of this

rights organizations making pragmatic appeals against internet surveillance

@Moon ahhh I see.. that doesnt sound like a very pragmatic approach to me. But I understand now.

@Moon

Wait, what exactly do people use "women won't be able to keep abortion plans secret from the government" to aruge?

@lonelyowl

@Moon

It probably isnt the best of arguments, but I dont think its as bad as you do.. like #1 I agree on (and partly why its a bad argument).. #2 obviously using that particular case is questionable at best, and the mother was in the wrong. But I think saying it has nothing to do with abortion is not entierly fair. It is related to abortion int he sense that it never would have happened if abortions were legal. So clearly there is some relationship there. #3 is half valid... like year they do, but no need to make it easier.

@lonelyowl

@stux Right-wing a few years back felt like it was dying off. Then left-wing went to super extremist mode and then the right-wing saw a resurgance in response.. now i cant tolerate either side anymore.