if you struggle to make the ends meet with a college degree it’s on you.

Counter example: teachers

Tax vacant homes.

I know this is a popular idea on Lemmy, but intentionally vacant homes are a very small minority next to homes that are not livable or not sellable. It’s mostly going to hurt people who can least afford it

Merry and Pippin are sneaks and eavesdroppers. They had to come along for their safety and to keep the mission secret

It’s got to be the latter. While I’m lucky that I don’t encounter people who worship at the altar of the orange weirdo, I’ve been wanting to ask them “have you ever listened to one of his speeches?” I don’t understand how you could listen to him and still support him, regardless of your political leaning

Im pretty sure it’s a lot more straightforward than that. There are already pipelines bringing water from the mountains down to Southern California. If there’s a lot of excess water in mountains farther north, how different can that be?

— someone with no concept of the distances, changes in elevation, complexity of engineering, ridiculous cost, impact on environment, etc

That would be one huge faucet to take water from Ontario to Southern California …. Plus it would be tough getting around the Great Lakes

If you don’t vote for the centrist candidate, you can’t object to the right extremist.

Actually this does track that a lot of what I see online is people who seem unwilling to compromise: neither are what I want so both the same. You need to be willing to vote for the one closest to what you want, and work toward moving that leftward over time.

We had a huge success with “The Squad” getting enough attention before Biden’s first nomination to influence the party platform. As a minority voter, this path is more likely to succeed than not voting

Well said!

When I was a teen, I was definitely fiscally conservative. Paying better attention to how you use money is easy to understand and a central pillar of politics. But it was a sheltered life in a town with all well-paying jobs, no diversity, and an excellent education system.

Now I keep floating left the more I realize how many people missed out of that picture.

But it was my kids that really did it. Fighting for better opportunities for them easily turns into wanting a better world for them to live in. I’m more worried than ever about my government’s poor money habits and when it will eventually come due, but we’re in the middle of a rolling disaster of short term and misplaced spending, our politicians more concerned with scapegoats and spite than actually benefitting their constituents

I became much more progressive after living in a “blue state” for much of my adult life. It’s hard to miss that the most successful economies in the us are also the ones who pay most attention to quality of life. We can look at the contrast in our neighboring states, and see the advantages brought by near universal healthcare, investments in an excellent education system, care about the environment, higher minimum wage, support for unions, and so much more

Where are those youth in the US? While they seem loud online, why hasn’t that translated into votes?

What if you start to become better off, but realize so many other parents are unable to provide for their kids like you can, and you can’t hope to provide for your kids like the wealthy can? What if paying exorbitant amounts of money for your kids education drives home the point that we need to make that investment for all kids futures? What if you are more often on the hiring side and realize your well being depends on the next generation having opportunities and the means to successfully achieve them?

What if my goals include family values, such as opportunity for my kids to earn a good living, live a long and healthy life, enjoy the environment, in a world better than the one I had?

Sure, but making them with the same socket, so they fit in the same place, despite having different beam shape and reflector requirements, is entirely wrong.

My car has LED headlights and they fantastic. They also have a very sharp cutoff meant to keep it from blinding others, assuming correct alignment. It also claims to have the hardware for active matrix and will turn that on as soon as they get approval

My older car that I keep for my team has noticeably dimmer lights. I’d really like to convert to LEDs and I know there are some that fit and are sold as replacements. But I know they’re not. Those manufacturers need to be fined for every kit sold like that

10’ webs …. That could stretch across a driveway. I hate walking into webs

That’s painful. I did that once: stepping down from the truck, I grabbed the handhold running up behind the door…. But it wasn’t a handhold. I got pretty lucky since I was actually holding onto it, so was in contact way too long. However I plunged my hand into a snow bank and was mostly ok

That’s a hilarious image!

I want to bring only one cable that does everything, and I don’t want to worry about plugging it in backwards

Both the ones on my keychain are

I usually make the last pot a bit stronger