Always try to remind people similar things. Had my first job in highschool during the 2006/7 inflation. Making 8.25/hr when gas was 4.25+ after cash discount.

When it was around $4/gallon recently I told people to just fuck right off, since I was making at least 3x what I was 18/20 years ago. Still a bit ass since “18/20 years ago” makes me a mid-age adult now. Got them bigger bills. At least gas prices have slowed down.

And republican states who turned down federal funding towards the ACA claimed that the options were so expensive because the ACA was just that bad. Will “states’ rights” ever not be used in cowardice for major talking points?

The common clay of the new west…

Always glad to have an opportunity to understand another country’s healthcare system and it’s inner-workings. Appreciate it 🤙🏻 I remember right-wing people in USA Air Traffic Control would bring up Canada’s ATC system and workers, and I would just always bring up retirement/benefits for the differences in pay and how we paid for them anyway - and less efficiently. Plus I’m quite certain their guaranteed workers’ protections were better than what we got from the union directly (not USA union bashing at all - just strictly the bennies in comparison).

Even if you build the infrastructure, there will still be Tariffs on the raw materials. The production stateside wouldn’t be significant enough to offset that in any way with how things have been built the past 30+ years. If that hypothesis would even be the end goal, they likely would’ve saved more by pumping out extra acquisitions in the handful of years tariffs have rammed the economy and USA society at its most basic levels *ETA realized I might’ve more/less double-talked on @YeahToast@aussie.zone

But it’s just a “request,” right?!

Hot take(?): If you’re willing to do extra, unpaid work for free - partisanship aside - should you be allowed to do this at all in any non-elected/appointed, bureaucratic job? Especially with a “request,” with the descriptor of “emergency,” before it? Breaks my heart. *Edited to correct grammar

Anecdotally, I know some folks who work under the UAW. Before/after a recent round of significant layoffs because of these big, beautiful tariffs, even the union leadership was spouting off how manufacturing would return to the US within years and it would be “worth it.” Some of the workers who already didn’t want to jump in bed with Trump ate it up. You would think at least leadership in a massive union overseeing any manufacturing/production would at least understand how this was a bad move for their whole organization, but here we are.

*and controlling women & minorities

I’m pretty much on the same page. The reporting has been oddly sub-par and absolutely has barely touched on privacy concerns. The handful of things I read and heard only focused on the kids claiming that losing the sites will tear away their social lives? I get it. I had more social media back in the day, but that argument for this situation is a weak one.

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Also, “quickly” in US can be 8+ months before you even get a basic assessment by a specialist. Things get worse? Might as well go straight to the ER. Urgent “Cares” were a band-aid for general/family practice groups not having space for sick visits. Word is a regional network now won’t even be doing stitches at urgent care. ER required.

Makes me get up at night!

…and they aren’t even calling it Vitamin B9. Big science words. Aren’t they the ones that want to ban any words in food that sound scary? I mean, it’s folic ACID! ACID!!!

Not to mention it can set a wild precedent. When the “outcry” occurs when (*if based on the current spinelessness) it happens to the people who currently support it? Eat a festering pustule. Forget going high; punch them in the face. Metaphorically.