The original reply was great, I just want to make it dead simple: if bonds continue to be sold off in these numbers, it indicates investors no longer believe in a future where the US dollar is the international reserve currency. This is very bad if you’re an American.

I don’t agree in this particular instance, but in general I think you’re right - all this shit is really getting to me. And I always appreciate a good call out. Going to touch some grass, hope everyone has a great day ✌️

I’m more concerned with the bond sell-off, that’s a very bad sign.

I’m happy to elicit a guilt trip response: name two countries you would concede to Russia.

You’re the joke, got it, moving on.

The comments here make me very disappointed in our little corner of the internet. If anyone wants this but doesn’t know how, neither do I but I’d be happy help.

Not funny, not ok. Women are just as welcome here as anyone else and your comment is exactly why they are asking. “It’s a joke” - nope don’t even. Be better than this.

I personally estimate 85% is from the troughs at Fenway.

I hope this person realizes this is just another metric that people are scared shitless, not some economic downturn because they didn’t hit the dollar spot at Target last week.

These universities should be offering shelter and refuge to every last possible student who could have been and still will be threatened by this administration. God knows they can fucking afford it. Our kids deserve to know their schools aren’t going to throw them under the bus at the first sign of trouble.

I’m just now realizing the 19th is the day before Easter and orthodox Easter (happy belated Passover too!) - I can’t decide if that’s going to help, hurt, or nada.

Wow.

Quite literally, yes. But not everyone sees the 13 colonies as a good thing - and they have a point. Still, I think we can celebrate our shared ideals - as you said: federation, liberty, and justice for all. Not liberty for some, but libre for all. Sorry if this comes off a little hot, I do completely agree with you and I’m here for it.

Wow I do not need yet another hobby but I know a couple dudes who will go nuts for this with their rigs.

Same, I need to repair the fan on mine asap though. The ifixit parts don’t look too bad but it does not look like a fun operation haha.

When I lived in a similar tourist town our line of thinking was, well surely they’ll have to finally provide housing once the cost of living within commuting distance of servants becomes impossible (ignorant, I know now). They cracked down on the unhoused a lot and really no space for them to go anyway.

Then I started to see old neighbors of mine in the parking lot of our apartment complex. One woman in particular, retirement age, former nurse. She was living inside her car, with no job, nothing. No family. Notably someone who wanted a job but just couldn’t get one. Some people in our complex would rotate taking her in, but without services in the area to help her it was just unsustainable. And management. Fucking landlords. They’d make us pay a fee for having her stay if they found out. This was ten years ago even.

I had to finally move my family out, I was fortunate enough to do so. But I’ll never forget her, and I’m sure she’s either in that car or on the streets now and it just breaks my fucking heart. I can’t stop fighting now when people like her are just trying to fucking survive.

It undoubtedly represents some horrific times in our history. But the beauty of it, imo, is that we can make it stand for anything we want. We do not have to let them define that for us, nor do we have to let the weight of the past make it unusable now. So yeah, I would very much like seeing people carry the flag, and the flag alone, alongside the protest signs.

Agreed. Don’t let the door hit you on the way out, cowards.

MAGA has their own symbols now, conveniently leaving everything American without being accompanied by Trump on it bizarrely open for reclamation. One of the biggest opportunities I see for our moment is reclaiming American iconography, including the flag.

Darn, I already had one. I might consider handing them off to a more intelligent species though, if you have a recommendation? Bonobo maybe?