The livonian crusade brought serfdom god and good morals to my people, I’m sure they were happy!

Nah seriously, we still had tribes with pretty loose organization some thousand years ago. Then 800 years ago some lovely people decided the pagans needed God and of course that meant God’s order: feudalism.

That’s actually… not nearly as bad as people make it out to be. Bad yes, but once population growth reverses, rent will stop rising and basically everything else has increased less than incomes. Just need more old people to die, the young are already not reproducing much so that’s all that’s needed.

God forbid people have entertainment not designed to make them feel like they could be unemployed tomorrow.

Android is so fragmented as an ecosystem, any time you read about new feature X in Android version Y, assume it only applies to Pixel and AOSP based custom ROMs. Sometimes you’ll be wrong but generally it’s just pointless to assume other people have the same features as you unfortunately.

Reddit itself if doing their best to make sure I don’t vist even accidentally

I disagree on 3 out of the 4 being particularly clear signs back then.

#1 and #3 always seemed like critiques of slavery and discrimination to me as a teen when reading those. I recall Hermione being the voice of reason that wizards ignored because slavery was convenient and the people who wanted “mudbloods” gone were shown as bad, with Voldemort in particular having no redeeming qualities.

#2 was pretty inexcusable back then but surprisingly enough is going to be found increasingly acceptable now that Israel has shown its true colours

#4 I don’t know the context but maybe she just didn’t want a bunch of Americans? Because the guy who played Krum is Bulgarian and Fleur’s actress was French. There was an actress from Bangladesh. To me that would make sense because the film industry is very America-centric.

Also before the entire TERFdom and now literal nazism saga, she said shit like “nowhere does it say Hermione has to be white” (which her own book disagreed with but this is an example of how she used to be more tolerant). She’s changed a lot and it can only be the money and the company people with money tend to keep (other people with money). Wealth cap starting to seem better by the day.

I have no idea why she never uses her full name: Joanne Kowling Rowling

Ah ignore the main characters. It’s time for Lucille Malfoy and… I was gonna say Snape but I wouldn’t want to do that to the memory of Alan Rickman.

If you want to be able to take off whatever day you want, surely you should also expect to be paid less because there has to be an extra employee on payroll that comes in with near-zero notice whenever you text “not coming in” in the morning?

On average, they’re millionaires. That’s why they’re doing their best to pull the ladder up after themselves. Majority of them benefit when you’re paid less.

Do check what community this post is in

Also because people whine when things take too long to turn on but yes this too

That doesn’t get rid of the filing process, only simplifies it. IRS can’t know all the details of your finances. The 0 interest loan only goes that way if you overpaid. Some people underpay so IRS gave them a loan instead. Etc. Flat taxes are stupid too, rich people should pay more.

I don’t disagree on it being overly complex but you can’t get rid of the whole thing altogether. EVERY country has some sort of equivalent.

That’s not the issue though? Running out of workers to support the retired people is.

A few do that, but mostly old people just own the entire world and complain how nobody wants to work anymore. But surely if we kick out all the immigrants (the hardest workers), things will be better.

Corporate profits ARE old people’s retirement. Over 55s own 52% of the entire US economy. Boomers own 8 times more than billionaires. It’s similar in all western countries though perhaps not all are as bad. Billionaires are leeches but old people in general are the bigger drain on an aging society.

Replying from my other account because I’m too lazy to relog into sopuli on my phone but:

It’s not that simple. Take the US. Billionaires collectively own about 10 trillion. Boomers collectively over 80 trillion. You take every single cent away from billionaires and you barely make a difference in people’s ability to retire. I mean you should still do that. But money that isn’t backed by labor or goods moving around in the economy is kinda useless and you need people to produce said goods and provide services. All that billionaire moolah is mostly predicated on everyone holding all their stock because stock values fall apart when people sell. You could sell a few million worth of stock and cause that company’s value to go down a billion. It’s smokes and mirrors.

Other age groups don’t entire half the damn economy. Boomers are a class unto themselves.

Billionaires collectively own about 10 trillion in the US, Boomers collectively over 80 trillion.

Just going with the US because it’s the best known example. It’s not very dissimilar in other western countries but the US is the worst I believe.

Hmm perhaps I’m just not genetically predisposed to big glutes. My quads and calves are massive and my upper body is ridiculous, but neither cycling nor squats ever gave me a big ass lol

My ex once got a fracture in her forearm trying to spank it though, that’s what I mean by glutes of steel.

Somewhat surprising, they’ve managed to keep everything consistent and performant enough that I couldn’t even tell.