“I wanted to be outraged and lose sleep daily. I need to yell at my computer and throw things at my TV in order to feel alive”

Because reasons.

Bottom line: That entirely depends on what you look like.

And for many, just as importantly, what you want need to look like.

Fuckers. I was about to renew. Fucking fuckers. Fucking fuckety fuck fuck fuckers.

This does not appear to be well known: kale really needs colder temperatures in order to taste best. It’s sweetest when it has been through a frost or two. Unfortunately that’s not always maximally profitable for Huge Giant Corporate farms and so your kale is grown in warmer temperatures and tends to be bitter.

On the plus side, it’s incredibly easy to grow yourself.

All part of the plan… er sorry 都是计划的一部分

when Nancy pelosi sets herself up as a defacto leader using insider trading

Dude. You should put down the bong long enough to read up on what was covered in the high school civics class you slept through.

To “descend” you’d have to have not been there in the first place.

Damn you for beating me to this.

Pick me! Pick me! oh oh oh!

I merely meant that type of plane is important since they have different roles.

In fact the air resources on the LA fires are significantly greater than you outlined. I haven’t been following it at that level but for the Palisades fire alone Watchduty says there are 5123 Personnel, 540 engines, 66 dozers, 60 water tenders and 44 helicopters. I haven’t seen a list for fixed wing but it’s way more than 3 tankers - they’ve been drawing S2s, LATs and VLATs from all over the state. And there are of course more aircraft from other states.

BTW if you are interested the Watchduty app is great for this info. I also use FlightAware and/or FlightRadar24 to see aircraft in the sky. And yes I nerd out on this stuff - I used to do fire reporting for my community.

“of this type”

Even many poor, working class people of that age own their homes after all.

It’s not JUST that houses were cheaper. It’s also that they’ve had the >= 30 years of working to pay off their mortgage.

So I’m gonna push back on this notion that quality boots that last a long time are even close to this price.

Red Wings are typically $180-270. I have a friend who does resoles and charges around $100-120. I’ve heard folks get their boots resoled every 2-3 years or so. Don’t know if that’s typical. So assuming a “lifetime” is 20 years and you resole 5 times in that period, you are looking at around $200+$500 minimum, not even accounting for inflation. Big difference.

I’ve never owned Red Wings - I will check them out but I note they do not make chelsea/chukka steel toe work boots in appropriate sizes. I wear Blundstone 990s because they are unisex, not too expensive and are pretty bomb proof.

They cannot be resoled but I find since I wear them for work I wear the sole and leather at about the same rate anyway and they typically will last me 3-4 years.

tl;dr I don’t think $100 “lifetime” boots exist, even behind magical mirrors.

Where can I get these lifetime boots for $100?

Indeed. And worse, wealthy get a discount on everything - an obvious example being that f you have lots of money you don’t need to get a car loan or even a mortgage. More likely you are the one, indirectly, making the loans and earning interest for the huge effort you expended being wealthy.

Low prices AND low value. The cheap ass shit they sell is intended to break and be replaced as quickly as possible. E.g. cheap clothes that wear out quickly. Those who can’t afford better are thus trapped in a cycle of repeat buying.

Is that drool on his chin?

Most average residential streets probably dont have enough power to charge an EV on every address simultaneously.

[citation needed]

I’m not saying you are wrong, but this sounds very much like a statement made definitively because it sounds like it might be true but has no particular basis in fact. I’d like to know if you have those facts.

It wasn’t in the article or anything the article referenced. I had to dig for it. And yeah, not surprising at all.