What at-home stuff can you do to maintain your teeth? Brushing and flossing twice a day just doesn’t cut it. Brown stuff still eventually builds up around the edges and right above the gum line (although it does take quite a few years). Being obsessive about dental hygiene only delays the buildup and is not sustainable on its own. I may be able to afford dentist appointments now but by the way society is headed, that may not be the case 10 years from now or even next month.
I’m so sorry to hear what you’re dealing with. I think the most important thing we can try to take from the pains, is to try treating others better than we were treated, despite how difficult it might be.
Your parents almost certainly voted to restrict the supply of housing so they could artificially inflate their houses value and retire off of their house.
The causes of the housing shortage are known. We can change it.
You were lucky. We lived for three months in a paper bag in a septic tank. We used to have to get up at six in the morning, clean the paper bag, eat a crust of stale bread, go to work down t’ mill, fourteen hours a day, week-in week-out, for sixpence a week, and when we got home our Dad would thrash us to sleep wi’ his belt.
It a little hard to blame them since they were sold the end of pensions and rise of the 401k. Which the bottom 60% of the country has close to zero of and then they can’t make a living wage because the shareholders demand a greater return every year.
Don’t sleep on the VA home loan. Lots of Americans are in the position to afford the month-to-month costs of a house, just can’t afford the down payment get approved on the mortgage. VA home loan is means you only have to put like… $2-4k down, instead of $30k.
The US has a massive racialized prison industrial complex. 25% of the world’s prison population. It’s The New Jim Crow. And that’s all before Guantanamo.
Oh please, you had to shit left and right about Stalin or Lenin or communism in general, for months at a time, to be even sent to prison, let alone the Gulag. Gulag was for political prisoners, not some shmuk with a bottle of vodka shouting that Stalin is a pussy.
On the other hand, if you so much as whispered that you’re a US communist during the cold war, you’re on the CIA watch list, that’s for sure.
Good luck. The USSR collapsed 30+ years ago and was in decline since 50+ years ago. The odds of that person having actually lived through anything other than shock therapy or revisionism are small.
I like Communism, but stalinist communism isn’t a utopia just because it’s communism
I do wish people would respect the ideals of communism more however, it’s ridiculous to think that letting the people with all the money, land, and resources (i.e capital) should also have all the power
You are not logged in. However you can subscribe from another Fediverse account, for example Lemmy or Mastodon. To do this, paste the following into the search field of your instance: [email protected]
Rules:
Be civil and nice.
Try not to excessively repost, as a rule of thumb, wait at least 2 months to do it if you have to.
Yeah but your parents suck and trauma makes you cool
I didn’t know it’s cool that I’m incapable of crying for the last twenty years due to cPTSD. Finally, some pay off.
I’m actually surprised this memes instance is actually funny. Yeah i come from red**t
removed by mod
Ah yes, I love living in the world where the only thing that could be worse than reality is literal fascist dystopia
😅
🥲
😟
removed by mod
Wait until 2024…
It could be even worse than that, Martians could have invaded, turning us all into slave labor and food stock.
SOYLENT GREEN IS PEOPLE!!!
What at-home stuff can you do to maintain your teeth? Brushing and flossing twice a day just doesn’t cut it. Brown stuff still eventually builds up around the edges and right above the gum line (although it does take quite a few years). Being obsessive about dental hygiene only delays the buildup and is not sustainable on its own. I may be able to afford dentist appointments now but by the way society is headed, that may not be the case 10 years from now or even next month.
You mean your luxury bones?
deleted by creator
I’m so sorry to hear what you’re dealing with. I think the most important thing we can try to take from the pains, is to try treating others better than we were treated, despite how difficult it might be.
deleted by creator
So nice of insurance companies to decide that our teeth, eyes, and minds aren’t part of our bodies.
They have to keep profits up and shareholders happy, so they have to see how much more blood they can get from us turnips.
Feels like we’re already nearing Mad Max with a dash of Blade Runner for an appetizer.
Don’t forget trying to figure out how much you can eat daily! A second meal is a treat!
I’ve noticed I’m eating cheap ramen again, feels like a step backwards and doesn’t sit as easily.
Your parents almost certainly voted to restrict the supply of housing so they could artificially inflate their houses value and retire off of their house.
The causes of the housing shortage are known. We can change it.
Son, one of these days, this will all be yours!
< gestures at crumbling 1985 tract home in car-dependent community >
Check out the guy with the brand new house!
Luxury. Some day, you’ll have 13 zoomers living in a shoebox in the middle of the road…
You were lucky. We lived for three months in a paper bag in a septic tank. We used to have to get up at six in the morning, clean the paper bag, eat a crust of stale bread, go to work down t’ mill, fourteen hours a day, week-in week-out, for sixpence a week, and when we got home our Dad would thrash us to sleep wi’ his belt.
We were evicted from our paper bag in a septic tank. We had to go live in a lake!
Sounds like it could be a Dylan Moran bit.
A bit older - it’s from the Monty Python “4 Yorkshiremen” sketch.
Ahhh. Thanks. I love Monty Python but haven’t seen all their work.
It a little hard to blame them since they were sold the end of pensions and rise of the 401k. Which the bottom 60% of the country has close to zero of and then they can’t make a living wage because the shareholders demand a greater return every year.
You’re right. It’s basically every Americans dream to buy a house, and sell it for a massive profit.
Solution: enlist in the military! /s
Then you can be poor with ✨HEALTHCARE✨
Don’t forget PTSD and other depressive disorders.
At least until you get out.
Or climb the cuttthroat bureaucratic ladder until you can retire at 20 years for healthcare and half pay!
Don’t sleep on the VA home loan. Lots of Americans are in the position to afford the month-to-month costs of a house, just can’t afford the down payment get approved on the mortgage. VA home loan is means you only have to put like… $2-4k down, instead of $30k.
I want to laugh but man this hits close to home.
I know what you mean, these days all we can do is try to laugh everything off.
Pretty damn far from a home as well
I know. I wish we lived in a communist dystopia.
Or just a classic socialist democracy would do fine. Doesn’t even need to be dystopian just you know like what they have in Norway and shit.
I lived in USSR. No you do not.
I was being sarcastic. I don’t want to live in ANY dystopian system.
Could you please elaborate what was so bad back then?
Gulag
The US have Guantanamo, you don’t see them shitting on ther country for it.
Anyone with half a brain shits on Guantanamo
And what exactly have you done about that?
What exactly do you expect us to do? Storm Cuba ourselves? The US government doesn’t have a habit of doing what I tell it to.
What does that have to do with what you originally said?
The US has a massive racialized prison industrial complex. 25% of the world’s prison population. It’s The New Jim Crow. And that’s all before Guantanamo.
EVERYONE shits on them for it, including US citizens.
And shitting about it didn’t actually close it down, did it 😒.
Are you from the former ussr? Straight talk for a second.
How many US citizens who simply orally disagreed with US policy are jailed in Guantanamo?
Oh please, you had to shit left and right about Stalin or Lenin or communism in general, for months at a time, to be even sent to prison, let alone the Gulag. Gulag was for political prisoners, not some shmuk with a bottle of vodka shouting that Stalin is a pussy.
On the other hand, if you so much as whispered that you’re a US communist during the cold war, you’re on the CIA watch list, that’s for sure.
You could be a communist in US (and in many other parties). You could not be in any party other than communist in USSR and be free.
And under Stalin, if you shout that Stalin is a pussy, yes you were going to be arrested.
Good luck. The USSR collapsed 30+ years ago and was in decline since 50+ years ago. The odds of that person having actually lived through anything other than shock therapy or revisionism are small.
Wow that must have been so cool, everyone working together for the common good, no more greed or selfishness.
I like Communism, but stalinist communism isn’t a utopia just because it’s communism
I do wish people would respect the ideals of communism more however, it’s ridiculous to think that letting the people with all the money, land, and resources (i.e capital) should also have all the power
If only there exist a country that could balance the incentives of capitalism and the socialist good of communism hmm.
It’s ok. You didn’t. You lived in red fascism.
That would be the “dystopia” part.
This hurts almost as much as my teeth.
“Kids these days are all gum, no gumption”
Thank you for bringing humor to an otherwise bleak post!
-Abraham Lincoln (for real)
John Wilkes Booth was a real dick. I’m glad he enjoyed some absurdist escape during his life.