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FlashMobOfOne

@FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world

Artist, musical performer, and former derby skater from the Midwest.

I’m single, childless, and married to freedom and adventure.

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Private companies are why Flint still has lead water pipes, and why Texas doesn’t have a working power grid, and why you and I are facing a 30%-50% increase in our cost of living.

There needs to be MORE regulation. Not less.

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This fact is why, as much as random scooters being everywhere may annoy me, I see the value in having them around.

FlashMobOfOne,
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I don’t like them either but when Atlanta banned them pollution and traffic became significantly worse. They serve a purpose.

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Also, no need to invade when we’re content to destroy ourselves.

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No, it isn’t.

It’s the fact that the two shitty right-wing parties are essentially all powerful that we have two shitty right-wing parties.

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If you’re someone who is living paycheck-to-paycheck, you’re only voting for one party, because no matter who you elect the end result is still low wages and severely high cost of living.

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Your vote is wasted regardless if you’re a wage worker.

FlashMobOfOne,
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I was so ready to talk some trash, but this is pretty okay.

Leave Texas and other Draconian states and risk getting pulled over for driving pregnant? Nope, just have the pills mailed from California. (www.cbsnews.com)

California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a new law on Wednesday that aims to stop other states from prosecuting doctors and pharmacists who mail abortion pills to patients in places where the procedure is banned. California already has a law protecting doctors who provide abortions from out-of-state judgments.

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Yet another reason to stop expecting Democrats to protect you.

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FlashMobOfOne,
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I love visiting NYC, but you couldn’t pay me to live there. I have friends I stay with when I’m there, and they take 45-minute showers because that’s the only time they get any real privacy.

FlashMobOfOne,
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That’s good to hear.

My friends have a big four-bedroom in Brooklyn, but of course, there are four people in it. They love it, but I just couldn’t do it. I love having my nice big condo to myself.

FlashMobOfOne,
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Walkability is nice.

I’m fortunate to live in a part of Kansas City that’s eminently walkable, and when the streetcar expansion is finished in a year and a half, I’ll be a block away from it, but the regional transit here in this city has always been very good. We’ve had a high-speed bus line through the main corridor of the city for almost 20 years now.

The bigger plus is that public transit here is fare-free.

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Christ that headline is so depressing.

This can and should be a federal thing. You’d think indebting kids for basic nourishment would be worth threatening to block appropriations for war or something, but it’s not.

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ACAB

And I wish those ‘neighbors’ a lifetime of frustrated celibacy for being assholes. The classy thing to do would have been to give the kid $5 and wish him luck.

FlashMobOfOne,
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The 5% are just as bad, unless we’re talking about Serpico here.

FlashMobOfOne,
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I hate that they have to ask that too, but my understanding is the legal reasoning is to try and weed out money launderers or some shit like that.

As an aside, let me just encourage everyone here to use credit unions. I needed a very small loan once, only $500, to send to a sibling in another state who had lost his job and just needed short-term help. They wouldn’t approve the $500, but I was told they would approve $4000, which infuriated me as it was clearly a predatory tactic.

So I switched to a CU. My CU even taught me how to avoid overdraft fees in case I ever make a mistake. (Keep a line of credit open, that way if I accidentally overdraft the money would come from that and no fees.) I love banking with them.

FlashMobOfOne,
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Nice!

I have my investments spread a bit between oil, crypto, and VTI (an ETF). I’ve been lucky. The oil stock I bought at bargain prices in March 2020 paid off my student loans and my down payment on my condo.

FlashMobOfOne,
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It was a short-term investment. When the airline industry shut down, oil bottomed out, but I knew it was only a matter of time before COVID subsided and air travel came back, and when it did, I made a profit selling those stocks.

I’d also add that, if I had any real power to reverse climate change, I would. The people in my country are powerless to create real change because American corporations are the biggest polluters, and they also own all of our legislators.

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This is the way.

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