@mart49799@CroweCChelsey@PessimistPossum@BarackObama Yes the stock market as a whole goes up over time, more breaking news at 11.
Now balance those increases against the cost of healthcare, food, gas, living expenses (electricity, rent/mortgage, property taxes) and the quality of product (shrinkflation, cheap Chinese shit, etc)
@slurpstick2@LeaveHeardAlone@TheWaltonWisdom@factpostnews Oh c’mon bro. It’s cost of paper. It’s cost of ink. It’s printing. It’s shipping from the printer. It’s warehouse storage. It’s postage. It’s employee overhead.
ALL of those things have increased and I’d bet I know a lot more about every one of those items than you.
@SocialmediaSvge@LeaveHeardAlone@TheWaltonWisdom@factpostnews And? That reads correct to me. The program supports literacy in young children, giving them books to call their own. What’s wrong with that?
Splitting 50/50 with local funders just increases the reach.
@LeaveHeardAlone@TheWaltonWisdom@factpostnews Exactly. And with the costs increasing, it’s not as simple as it sounds sending out that many FREE items each month. It’s an impressive - and expensive - logistical operation.
Fund-matching at the community level allows more people to receive books.
@Bernadette99797@EricLDaugh Ephesians 4:31: "Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamor and evil speaking be put away from you, along with all malice."
A man of God would understand that, right? Instead of stooping to petty name-calling?
@StillinChicago@AmericanVikin@MHTruthUltra Right? My hatred of Trump isn’t formed by MSM, it’s formed by his own words and actions. I watch the full speeches, I see the Truth Social posts, and I see how he navigates complex geopolitics. That’s more than enough.
@owl_and_flowers@KatWitchStudio@paul9639@madsssagascar Exactly. He uses wet-on-wet technique and it’s very forgiving. A person listening and watching could reproduce all of his techniques in their own individual and unique work.
@Candace21437099@RobertMSterling I had a redeye coast-to-coast that lost electrical during takeoff. We braked so aggressively people thought we hit something with the clunks we heard.
Watched mechs in the dark cabin for a couple hours. Still flew in that plane.
I trust flying but I didn’t sleep that night.
@Funky_ones@raefejenkins@realDonaldTrump Maybe. We’ll never know. What we have in front of us now though isn’t it, though. Comparing to Biden, to Kamala, to Obama isn’t worth it as much (IMHO) as taking a look at how things are going right now.
Which isn’t great. GOP has the 3 branches of gov and here we are.
@smith_will88855@micah_erfan If you’re negligently handling a firearm and break ALL the rules of ownership (don’t point, assume always loaded, drinking,…) and end up killing someone…shouldn’t there be punishment? People are jailed for negligent accidents all the time.
Context IS everything.
@GREGWINSKI2@JoJoFromJerz@atrupar Do you really think Trump is out there suing individuals over opposition with profanity?
Aren’t you all about free speech?
@Caligurlkim@2000Nostalgia95@ksorbs Earnestly ask that friend and your sister if they were always gay or if they were made gay. I bet I know the answer. You adding in ‘gay’ with the other descriptors certainly implies college did that to him, no?
@akinfermo@mhp_guy The height of being in a plane feels so much different than the height on a bridge/building - something about the latter feels more personal. Totally different experiences. I’d go for a flight over standing on the edge of a tall building for sure.
@Zudans@PalmerLuckey The USPS is required - by law - to deliver mail to everyone. The private companies are not. Rural far-out addresses aren’t profitable. USPS does last-mile delivery in many areas for those private companies.