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Sorry, I could never be a capitalist, I suffer from “wanting humans to have their basic needs met” disorder, where I care about people who aren’t me.

chocolate-and-discourse

Someone once asked me if, assuming we got universal healthcare, I would be okay with the rise in “healthcare tourism” where people who are sick come to our country to get their medical bills taken care of and life-saving medical treatment cheaper than in their home countries. I was just like, yeah thats fine, I’d actually prefer it if 0 people died from preventable causes kept behind a paywall for no reason.

spoopy-valkyrie

“even the addicts?” yeah dude did i fucking stutter

charlikesalmon

cool biker guy // frog enjoyer

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eunzul

i traced over the tsum silhouette and got this

grandpa's drip is so difficult to draw 😔

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overpoweredoriginalposter

I submit: character takes off their glasses when shit gets real, patiently cleans them, puts them back on with a weary sigh, goes completely feral

janetm74

Brains.

variablejabberwocky

#gotta have crisp 20/20 for this assbeating i’m about to give you

charlikesalmon

lavendel081

Potential Seb Stickers?🤔

stonesense

i love alistair’s ostagar dialogue so much. in unrelated news next time i see someone say he isn’t smart i’m beginning the killings

stonesense

do “i’m sure the revered mother meant it as an insult—sending me as her messenger—and the mage picked right up on that” and “i think cailan is actually excited to ride into battle with us. maybe he thinks that’s what his father would have done?” and “you want the chantry’s version or the truth?” and “[seven full sentences of chantry history casually recited offhand and then followed with his alternate take because he didn’t take it at face value]” and “i’ll tell you, it’s teyrn loghain we should be looking to win [the battle], not the king. cailan just wants his place in history. the teyrn is planning the strategy. errrr, that’s my opinion, anyway. i guess i should be thankful the king favours us grey wardens, but i know who’s keeping the lid on the pot” and “ostagar itself is an excellent defensive position. the wilders were pushed back from here time and again in ancient days” mean NOTHING to some of you people

dragonswithjetpacks

Also the fact that he was emotionally intelligent enough to apologize when he was wrong. Like yeah he gets upset. But then he takes credibility for his actions and asks for your forgiveness because his anger was misplaced. Even though it was justified.

I know I call him a himbo a lot. And I know I see the word misused and it’s even an iffy term now because of how derogatory it can be. But I see a big beefy sweet man with a level of intelligence that far surpasses that of many of the men I’ve known. It’s the goofiness. Again, though, humor (especially sarcasm) is such a huge green flag for smarts.

My boyfriend, who is also a big beefy sweet man, is very quiet and I always wondered why others perceived him as being naive or maybe even a little dumb. It bothered me. He said he was an absent minded child and that’s how people view him (I call him aloof and he likes that much better). He said that he plays along with it (being ‘stupid’) because that way, it won’t draw too much attention to him. Because he doesn’t want attention. More attention means more responsibility, more drama, more obligations. Unfortunately, this also means they think little of his opinion. And I think that’s what we see in Alistair, too.

elierlick

I think about this a lot.

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requested by anonymous:

RATING: RELIABLE

Source: ‘The math checks out. In 2019, the median annual earning for women was $47,299. For men, it was $57,546. Averaged together, that’s about $52,423.The cost of the average home in the same time was $377,700. That is about 14 percent of the median salary.’

hamletthedane

As of Oct 2022, the median annual earnings for women in the United States was $50,492 (extrapolated by multiplying weekly earnings by 52 weeks). For men, it was $60,528. Average together, that’s about $55.640. The average purchase price of a home in the United States during Q3 of 2022 was $542,900.

The average salary in the US is now about 10.2% of the cost of a home.

hamletthedane

But that’s not even the whole story, because “income earned” means pre-tax income, and mortgage payments are not tax deductible unless you itemize (which people w/ average salaries do not do bc it’s usually less than the standard deduction).

In 1936, following FDR’s income tax hikes, the median annual salary for a single person was $830, taxed at 4% Income + 1% Social Security. The take-home median pay was therefore ~$790. The average home value was $4,766. So take-home pay was about 16.5% of home cost in 1936.

In Oct 2022, taxes are a bit more complicated. Assuming you take the standard deduction, file single, and only pay federal income tax, the take-home pay from a salary of $55,640 is about $51,584.

(Using H&R Block’s 2022 tax estimator)

So really, the average take-home pay is now 9.5% of the average home price.

Meanwhile, the person earning $2M/yr in 2022 would end up taking home at least $1,289,600. He is taxed at 35.3% of his earnings. The person earning the inflation-adjusted equivalent of in 1936 (~$95,000) would be taxed at 60% of his earnings.

Tl;dr: It’s an even more dire situation than that tweet suggests. Taxes on the middle class have skyrocketed, taxes on the ultra-rich have been slashed in half, and housing is nearly twice the ratio to income earned that it was in the middle of the Great Depression.

callmebliss

Trans Witches are Witches: 69 items for $60.00

Trans Witches are Witches (Apprentice Edition): 66 items for $10.00

The main bundle has 69 (heh) games for $60. The sister bundle has 66 games for $10.

The sale runs Feb 10-24, 2023

Edited to add: the three games discluded from the $10 bundle are:

YOU ARE A WIZARD

Our Minerva, and

TOMBS: Toot on my balls skeleton

merotwst

pov you visit ur boyfriend during basketball practice

historyarchaeologyartefacts

This 1000 year old Katana looks as good as it did the day it was made. [3746x3024]

Source: https://reddit.com/r/ArtefactPorn/comments/f72y5g/this_1000_year_old_katana_looks_as_good_as_it_did/

rannulfr

Oh man… This is no longer my lane but I can’t leave this at “1000 year old sword”.

This is Mikazuki. The Crescent Moon blade.

This sword was crafted by Sanj(y)o Munechika and is older than 1000 years. (The Smith’s oldest signed work is from 987).

There are only 5 of the smith’s pieces remaining and this one exhibits one of the first times in history that the Japanese sword takes on it’s utilitarian curved shape.

This sword was owned by a laundry list of important historical figures including Oda Nobunaga’s general Toyotomi Hideyoshi who unified Japan.

You are essentially looking at a Japanese Excalibur.

I am humbled to even be able to see a picture of this sword.

vicholas

Rika from Pokemon is trending in Japanese Twitter because she scored #1 in a poll asking women their current fictional crushes lmao

vicholas

List here. She fucking beat Gojo, the Golden Kamuy guys, Kento Nanami, Aki Chainsawman, a lot of rando ikemen game characters I've never heard of. She has only been in this world since November. Rikasweep.