@downrangegun@TrpstrLeonOG In the U.S. in 1976 and my dad was able to acquire that downpayment from simply working a blue collar job for a couple years. They had a pricey muscle car and never had roommates either. Lecturing the young that they need to live like paupers until they reach old age is insane.
@downrangegun@TrpstrLeonOG My parents were able to buy a house at age 23 with one income. The median age of a first time home buyer has now reached 40. Telling young people who should by all accounts be raising families in homes that they own to "quit bitching" and get some more roommates is unhinged.
@KlausIezzi@StatisticUrban 15 years of living on or near Lake Superior and I think I probably only experience an average of 4 or 5 uncomfortably hot days a year.
@HunterBiden@Kenneth_Belkin Yes. Had your daddy been anyone else; you would have been dishonorably discharged from the military, spent years in prison from narcotics convictions and not been able to to sell your art to people trying to gain access to the White House. You were very much an elite oligarch.
@mollywidstrom@saddymayo Sometimes there aren't alternate routes or other options and ebike riders shouldn't have to be run over by motorists traveling on high-speed roads because of people's antiquated ideas about who should control the sidewalks. I understand your position and respect your views.
@mollywidstrom@saddymayo Mandating that ebike riders going 12mph travel on roads with 50mph speed limits seems much more dangerous to public safety than having them utilize sidewalks. On streets that have 20 or 30mph speed limits, that would probably work just fine.
@mollywidstrom@saddymayo Depends on the speed limit of the road. If it's 50mph; the ebikes should be on the sidewalk. In closer proximity to objects traveling at their own speed.
@mollywidstrom I live on a fairly busy road with a sidewalk that gets minimal pedestrian use. I think ebikes and pedestrians can absolutely share the sidewalk in many (not all) instances. Ebikes should have to yield to pedestrians but making them operate next to cars going 50+ mph is insane.
@Tommers71@TornadoNate 60 years ago those communities received all of the value generated by those lands. Now, you want them to be grateful for getting 'some' of the remaining value that hasn't been diverted?
@Tommers71@TornadoNate Most of the active farmland in Iowa is on rented acreage. Much of those acres are owned by wealthy people who live no where near where those communities are located. Much of the profits generated by these crops get siphoned away from these impoverished areas to distant cities.
@baumgaji@TornadoNate@TennisonEddie Very few Iowans are engaged in farming or in ethanol production. The vast majority of voters in the state do not benefit from ethanol in any way. If anything, they suffer because of it.
@wilding_gyres Democrats will try to quell that righteous anger as best they can in order to give themselves an excuse for not doing anything useful to help. They are in no way, an opposition party.