Igor Forgor

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Cake day: January 6th, 2025

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  • The average person just doesnt care about things as long as they are placated and their most base needs are met. Many people actively avoid or are angered by having to think for themselves (see the “its not that deep” crowd).

    You end up with

    1. a large non voting population that just listens and passively supports whatever the most popular ideas are
    2. a small but vocal, fervent minority that drowns out everyone else and is backed by corporate interests. Typically these corporate interests are able to pay people to advocate for whatever they want, bribe politicians, whatever.
    3. A minority of people who tend to actually think for themselves, have more empathy / be less individualistic but have their voices, ideas and causes suppressed by the people in 2.

    In the US, republicans are 2. and Democrats try to appeal to 2 since theyre paid by those same corporate interests when their voting base is actually 1. This leads to people in 1 who would otherwise have voted for them feeling like theyre unheard since the democratic rhetoric either appeals to 2 or denies the realities and actual popular ideas

    Add on top of that capitalistic pressures on the average working person and people tend to become more selfish and individualistic, which causes ppl in 1. to just not vote if the democrats dont give them what they want, 2. to always vote republican because they fall for the propaganda, and 3. to either vote Democrat anyways as harm reduction or not vote because the Dems dont listen.

    Really, it is the apathy of the more “left” party to what people actually want that pushes people towards anyone who will listen, which tends to be the more “right” party that will try to activate any fear they can and promise people the moon just to get a vote, even if they never have an intention on delivering.



  • Hallmark movies have cookie cutter plots usually involving one of the characters reuniting with someone while visiting their home town and then falling in or rekindling love. The characters tend to be divorced or in an unhappy relationship, and one of the driving forces of tension is the push for them to get with each other before the visiting party has to leave






  • Craigslist/fb marketplace can be a good way to find garage sales so you dont have to negotiate a meet up time / place or anything. Also look for estate / moving sales. Check along local roads for signs on upcoming garage sales.

    Thrift stores can be ok but can be expensive or not have great stuff if its in an expensive area. Consider going to smaller shops / delis and looking for if they have a section for local business cards; some places will have a section where people will leave a stack of business cards, so you might be able to find smaller thrift/antique shops that way, or find an ad someone has left for upcoming sales.

    Also check: local facebook groups, local library in person / website

    Not sure about other online sites or specific items though.








  • Most of the discourse was about Omarchy/DHH, not just Hyprland, though that was a part of it. It is not purity testing to block people who don’t work well with others or are hateful like DHH from a community. If you want to bring people who want us dead into a community then everyone else is going to leave

    The main problem is

    1. Np contributed to and glazes Omarchy
    2. People wonder why DHH was sponsored with hardware
    3. Generic response about “big tent” ideology to include everyone - including racists and transphobes like DHH
    4. People are upset because they don’t want to be in a Nazi Bar
    5. NP makes twitter post about how people want to ascribe values to him he doesn’t hold, that he’s pro immigrant and pro lgbt
    6. Np responds in forum thread that they reviewed hyprland and determined that theyd improved their moderation and were ok to sponsor (monetarily)
    7. Framework responds they’ll make a blog post clarifying their sponsorships
    8. Blog post coincidentally excludes omarchy
    9. People question it and basically just get a “we will get that updated” response
    10. I still dont see it there

    You cant claim to be pro immigrant and pro lgbt when you actively invite white supremacists and transphobes into the community and then try to avoid responsibility for that by not commenting or not retracting support or not clarifying how you’d avoid it going forward

    The project may not be political (it is) but the people who use and support the project definitely are. If you want to kick out the community by inviting Nazis, then all that will be left once those people leave will be nazis. And if you knowingly collaborate with Nazis, you are a nazi.





  • jjagaimo@sh.itjust.workstoMemes@lemmy.mlMe Living In the US
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    7 months ago

    Then after retirement and benefits it’s anywhere from 20% to 50%. I’m at about 25% just with tax, 36% with benefits and retirement.

    Depending on if your deductions are calculated correctly (you have to negotiate that with your job) you might end up getting a refund layer or have to pay, so in reality my rate is more like 30% overall. People with more expensive insurance or less tax credits and or other things on top of that are going to have it worse off.

    I make half what I would need to be able to afford buying a home in my area and be able to make mortgage payments and still have money left