iamanoldguy

joined 1 year ago
[–] iamanoldguy 3 points 2 weeks ago

A pride of hungry lions

[–] iamanoldguy 1 points 1 month ago

We need enough representatives and senators in the house and senate who will pass it then Harris can just sign it when it crosses her desk. She’s not the one that has to push it. The down ballot candidates need to win their elections and get MFA through congress.

[–] iamanoldguy 1 points 2 months ago

My point is you don’t hit the tanks, you hit the support infrastructure. Maintenance, fuel depots, Supply lines. Tanks (or planes, or whatever) don't run in a vacuum. You create a vacuum and stuff doesn’t go. See Ukraine.

[–] iamanoldguy 12 points 2 months ago (10 children)

Tanks need support personnel.

[–] iamanoldguy 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I’ve seen that graph before. One of the ways I interpret it is that as one ages we contribute less (money) to the system, mainly in taxes, SS, Medicare taxes. When we become old and retire we become a burden on the system that we’ve contributed for decades. The “system “ whoever that may be no longer cares about our health and longevity because they already have their money and the lower our life expectancy the less they have to pay out. Collect for decades only to pay out for a few years and we die up to a decade earlier than other countries on average.

[–] iamanoldguy 12 points 6 months ago

Fuck Spez. I left Reddit and I’m here now and happier for it.

[–] iamanoldguy 7 points 9 months ago

Same, using Proton mail and I am now blissfully Google free. Something else I found the holidays good for is finding out all the old accounts I have floating out there from sites that I interacted with over the years so I can cancel them or change the email if i decide to keep them. But, no more Google! Next on my list is Amazon.