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Don't think I have many Brits reading this anymore, but looks like you're going to be having a 4th July party, too. Good luck! (Also: isn't it nice not to have years of political advertising at a time?)
Meanwhile, I'm trying to explain to obliviates on TikTok why "vote for Jill Stein" (with the person promoting it claiming that she can fix the country) is not, in fact, going to fix the country.
Sheesh.
I bet I know more about the American electoral process than at least 50% of American citizens.
Also, if you've never heard of Gina Rinehart before this week, lucky you. (Ironically, the portrait style is just the way the artist does portraits; it's not a commentary on her - or it didn't need to be.) But I do hope someone has since explained "the Streisand Effect" to Gina.
Finally, no, building more houses is not the answer (making the component of home ownership that promotes rental income less attractive is one part of the answer), and the problem is not social media technology being used by kids but the way the adults programming the SM tech know too much about how to use it against kids while the parents trying to manage their children don't know enough about how it can be used against their kids.
Meanwhile, I'm trying to explain to obliviates on TikTok why "vote for Jill Stein" (with the person promoting it claiming that she can fix the country) is not, in fact, going to fix the country.
Sheesh.
I bet I know more about the American electoral process than at least 50% of American citizens.
Also, if you've never heard of Gina Rinehart before this week, lucky you. (Ironically, the portrait style is just the way the artist does portraits; it's not a commentary on her - or it didn't need to be.) But I do hope someone has since explained "the Streisand Effect" to Gina.
Finally, no, building more houses is not the answer (making the component of home ownership that promotes rental income less attractive is one part of the answer), and the problem is not social media technology being used by kids but the way the adults programming the SM tech know too much about how to use it against kids while the parents trying to manage their children don't know enough about how it can be used against their kids.
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I knew that guy just did portraits Like That because the Guardian did this full photo spread on all his portraits. Originally I thought it was by the guy who did Temporarily King George as some kind of lost soul in hell with a sad butterfly representing karma, or Diana, or the environment, or something.
Finally, no building more houses is not the answer (making the component of home ownership that promotes rental income is one part of the answer)
We've lived in this same apartment for like 20 years now and I don't even want to think about how much we'd paid in rent with absolutely no equity or whatever it's called building up. But Seattle, having rejected low-income housing (the waitlist is now FIVE YEARS LONG), and also rent control (landlord lobby is like the fucking Mob here), AND tiny houses, has now seized upon -- those giant dorm-like ten-story buildings that are all studios with a shared kitchen and bath and you have a microwave in your room and a great view that blocks everyone else's! They're for, like, tech bros and aging single guys who drink out of flasks at nine in the morning (there's one next to us and I have seen this happen enough times, it's like the ground is cursed because that was a halfway house before they renovated it). Eight hundred dollars a month and up (and up), for one room. This will fix EVERYTHING.
Anyway rn I'm hypomanic because I apparently convinced myself I was taking my mood stabilizer, antidepressant and anti-OCD med while not taking them, the way I would stay up all night in college trying to study and would start dreaming I was studying as my brain desperately tried to fix the twin problems of extreme sleep deprivation and no midterm paper. Ideas fizzing and popping! Jokes abounding! Literary ambitions rising!....oh. Whoops.
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Americans should be BLOODY GRATEFUL that the rest of the world doesnt' demand a say in US elections given that the US has a say in just about every financial and trade governance in the damn world. All we want is for, oh, 3/4 of you to understand how your government and political system works, and to vote in every election down to the damn city/county level.
My comment about housing was garbled, but I'm pretty sure most people reading this know what I mean. Houses should be seen primarily as "a roof over a head" not "an income into my bank account". The way the Australian government has set it up (for the last two decades) is something around not taxing housing that's an investment, which means all the rich fucking Boomers with little soul and less compassion and zero concept of how modern economics screws their kids and grandkids over went out and bought a DOZEN HOUSES which are 'funding their retirement'. Oh, and because they borrowed back when various politicians and banking moghuls said "oh, the rates won't rise for another three years", now they're jacking up rents because they can't cover the mortgage.
And they want people to feel sorry for them.
AHAHAHA. No, fuckers.
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Good work on the Jill Stein thing, you'll probably manage to educate *someone*. It's depressing to see how much we non-Americans know about their system, really.
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