Hmm, by removing Piet and thus hiding the traditional racist representation of black people, or by whitewashing him?

“because he has to climb through Chimneys to deliver gifts for Sinterklaas”. “Has to”?! Is Piet a slave to Sinterklaas? /s /ragebait

Ending the conflict would end the attention.

I recently learned that Mikey Mouse’s classic look was derived from racist Vaudeville blackface dress:

Disney successfully evolved/hid/whitewashed Mickey away from his racist image roots, and few today would say Mickey is a reference to the racist past.

He will probably never fly again,

A trained pilot can’t find work flying in another country that may have far less worker scrutiny?

Supposedly when the mint decided to start pulling the 1943 steel cents from circulation years ago they ended up dumping a bunch of them in the ocean to get rid of them. Some people consider that an urban legend but perhaps that could happen.

Steel was still steel. It would likely take more work to pack those on a ship and unload them in the ocean than just dumping them in a giant crucible and turning them into sheet or bar stock for industrial consumption.

Welcome to trump’s America, GOP voters. This is what you voted for.

I guess I define support as “help from others for things that are difficult or impossible for you to do alone”. I would possibly even argue that someone that takes time out of their life to physically come to you to help you move a couch is being more supportive than someone that is on the other end of a txt message telling you “that must really suck” when you open up about an emotional/relationship problem you’re having.

I think there’s a core difference in “support” that they just started to touch on right at the end of the discussion. Support can take two forms:

• words
• actions

The thesis here seems almost entirely focused on “words”. As in, “Men do not reach out for words of support as often as women”. I would agree. However, when the support needed is “actions” I know myself and men are quick to ask and quick to respond to others asking.

• Can you come over and help me move this piece of furniture?
• My wife has been out of work taking care of our new child, just found out I lost my job. Can you put me in touch with that company that needed a worker for that thing?
• I don’t have a post hole digger, do you have one I can borrow?
• Can you show me how to fill out the tax form for that deduction?

Also frequently while these acts of support are happening words of support are also exchanged. Only at the end of the article did they talk about a fitness group that turned into a community service organization. The actions of support are present here. So I’d argue that men in western society have a high ratio of actions but lower ratio of words of support.

For women reading, how does this compare with relationships you have with other women in friendships? How much is words vs actions?

Wouldn’t that be better training because the creature can fight back?

That depends. What kind of firearms training has the predator animal received and are they equally armed? Otherwise its bringing claws to a gun fight.

On Sunday morning, CBP Commander Greg Bovino said in a social media post that agents had arrested 81 people so far, “many” of whom have criminal histories.

So they are admitting they lied when they said they are only going after criminals?

You gotta find a better way to present this other than making it sound like Torvalds is a baby taking a shit. “The one who makes” I’m dead.

Its capitalized “Makes” which I took to mean a proper name instead of the verb. So this is referring to the GNU compiler Make. Since this is posted in /c/linuxmemes, I think its a safe post for the audience to know the difference.

Going to a movie theater can be a pretty bad experience these days.

• High prices for tickets even during matinees
• Numbered seats requiring buying tickets online hours in advance (which I don’t have a problem with), but then being forced to pay 25%-40% more for “convenience fees” on top of the ticket price
• Other patrons unable to put their phones down so there’s bright white lights every 10 to 15 minutes during the show.
• People talking loudly during the movie
• Way WAY too many Commercials!!! I saw a movie in an AMC theater for the first time in probably a year. I arrived early to meet someone. We took our seats 15 minutes before showtime and they are playing endless commercials at full blast volume so had to yell at each other to be heard (the two of us where the only ones in the theater). The “start time” of the movie arrived. The lights dim and…MORE COMMERCIALS! Another ten minutes straight of JUST commercials back to back. Finally, the add for the theater itself, the cultural indicator that the previews are about to begin. NOPE! MORE COMMERCIALS! 7 more minutes of them. THEN FINALLY a movie preview, okay. Preview fades out, 3 more commercials! Repeat this cycle of one preview with 2 to 3 commercials until finally the AMC Nicole Kidman theater promo comes up, so now the move? Nope! One more commercial for coca cola! Then the movie begins.

The good movie theater experience is dead for me, but I’ve learned that AMC is the worst.

Yep I fat fingered that. Thanks for the catch. Corrected.

Its even worse than that 10% number suggest. Widen the picture a bit more.

“And that gap is widening to a historic extent, Moody’s Analytics data shows. As of June 30, the top 20% of earners accounted for more than 63% of all spending, and the top 10% accounted for more than 49% — both the highest on record, according to data that goes back to 1989. In 2019, during the comparable period, those shares were 59.2% and 44.6%, respectively.”

source

If the bottom 80% of earners stopped spending entirely, only 47% 37% of spending would disappear.

I learned this statistic last week and it explained something that had been bother me for a long time. Don’t the mega-wealthy understand that if the bottom earners have no money they won’t be able to buy anything the mega-wealthy are selling? This statistic tells the tale. They don’t really need that bottom 80% of earners to spend. They aren’t really customers anymore. The mega-wealthy will sell to each other as it looks like they are doing so much of already.

Edit:fixed typo

One in three six-figure earners described themselves in the poll as financially distressed.

I know two different six-figure earning households that are also supporting their unemployed/underemployed adult children. I’m not calling the kids lazy either. Unemployment/underemployment is hitting GenZ really hard and that means many are not able finance their own households so they live with parents.

One of those two was also supporting an aging parent until she passed recently. So, sure, they earn six-figures, but they support 3 generations on that income.

Two in three said six-figure pay is not a sign of wealth.

Not a sign of wealth, but is still a sign of privilege. Lots of folks are suffering worse with far less than $100k annual household income.

If if was that one then it would have the .au TLD if we’re looking at the link so we can tell just by looking at the link its not the Australian one.

Nothing is stopping you from moving to another Lemmy server and blocking .world entirely. You have to find some value here if you haven’t done that already. If you hate it so much why are you still here and posting instead of on another server with other non-Lemmy.world communities?

you…realize thats not only where this Lemmy Community is…but also your user account, right?

How would that work, even on paper? Not being a dick, just don’t understand. So it’s literally just, “you can never own this property fully?”

Yes. The tradeoff is you have a property that is in your name (with a bank note attached), and if the property increases in value during the time you own it, when you sell, you pocket the difference. If you have a fixed interest rate, it also caps the growth of your payment for housing for the entire time you live there. There’s quite a bit of value in that.

One weird thing we have is that part of the interest you pay is tax deductible.

This matches the USA system for mortgages.

for this reason there is a type of mortage where you first only pay the interest, and slowly start paying off more and more of the mortage, which means your net mortage fee slowly increases over time, which is nice if you expect your income to increase over those decades.

This sounds new to me. In the USA we do have amortized mortgages so a very high percentage of the monthly payment is interest with little going to principal. Over time that relationship flips where you’re paying more principal that interest. However, in our system the mortgage payment stays the same, only how much of that fixed payment goes to interest vs principal changes.

I think that title is reserved for the Oval Office.

Balloon mortgages would be good in only two situations:

• you’re not planning on living in the house very long, so you likely exit before the balloon payments hit.
• you believe interest rates will decline in the next few years and you can refinance to a fixed low rate

I don’t ever see myself using a Balloon mortgage. Worse, they are frequently sold via predetory lending methods. Unsavvy buyers are convinced to take a balloon mortgage not understanding the payments will rise dramatically in the years ahead. This can lead to eventual foreclosure when the owners can service the higher payments.