Wooster

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[–] Wooster@startrek.website 36 points 1 year ago (8 children)

Second, Biden recently started to blame inflation on corporations that hiked prices when they saw an opportunity to improve their profits, bringing more prominence to an argument first used when gasoline prices spiked. The president's argument is suspicious to many economists, yet the intended message to voters is that Biden is fighting for them against those he blames for fueling inflation.

“Let me be clear: Any corporation that is not passing these savings on to the consumers needs to stop their price gouging,” Biden said recently in Pueblo, Colorado. “The American people are tired of being played for suckers.”

Wow. There's no question who's side the reporter is on.

[–] Wooster@startrek.website 53 points 1 year ago

Utilities have also been on the rise, and this year Ortigoza isn’t planning on turning on the home’s heater, even with temperatures dipping into the 30s at night. Instead, she plans to wear extra clothes around the house and bundle her daughter in blankets.

I just want to say… Don't do that.

If you want burst water pipes, then that is how you do it.

Instead, let your house drop to uncomfortably cold temperatures, but with still a buffer above freezing. The thermostat is only accurate for wherever it's placed in the house. It's not able to tell you what temperature your pipes are at the distant ends of the house.

If you're going to turn the heat off at below freezing, then you need to empty your pipes first, and no one is going to do that.

But yeah… I felt I needed to get that out of the way first.

Anyway, wages and unemployment are getting 'better', but that means very little if it's still not a living wage.

[–] Wooster@startrek.website 60 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Covid vaccination is at an all time low since roll out, we have new strains, and everyone is back from sharing bugs with relatives at Thanksgiving.

Christmas is up soon.

[–] Wooster@startrek.website 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The comic series is on Webtoons, and also here on Lemmy.

https://lemmy.world/post/9252029

https://www.webtoons.com/en/canvas/litterbox-comics/list?title_no=196742

I don’t have a link to the original comic, but yeah, it’s obviously been edited here.

[–] Wooster@startrek.website 13 points 1 year ago

Article title is “Renting alone in Miami is too expensive for Gen Z”.

That aside, it does have some interesting statistics about Gen Z moving back home and Boomers moving to apartments.

[–] Wooster@startrek.website 10 points 1 year ago

Hmm… the issue with a smaller Switch invariably means a smaller battery. Also, the Joycons are quite small as it is.

It’ll probably sell, as Switches are wont to do, but I wouldn’t see myself in the market for one, were I in the market for a new Switch,

[–] Wooster@startrek.website 185 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Reminds me of cigarette companies burying research on lung disease.

[–] Wooster@startrek.website 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Serious question:

Would anything short of that lead to reform? I’m not eager for a second Great Depression, but considering we can’t even pretend to get climate change under control, I can’t see the 1% changing their policies until it hurts them, and bad.

[–] Wooster@startrek.website 49 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Gotta love those distant goals that allow the current administration to say they've done something… and allowing the next to undo it.

[–] Wooster@startrek.website 46 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I mean, everyone’s back from Thanksgiving with family. Next up is Christmas.

[–] Wooster@startrek.website 37 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Luthor in Flash’s Body: I have no idea who this is.

[–] Wooster@startrek.website 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I’ve never heard of this guy, but the description sounds right up my ally. I feel like I have a hard time finding humorous fiction. It either ends up being humorous non-fiction or the author is under the misconception that a protagonist being inconvenienced by an in-law counts as humor.

Is this guy’s series any good, and do you guys have any other authors I might want to look into with a preferred emphasis on humor and mystery.

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