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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • This is an overly simplified view and missing a lot of complexities, but think of it this way:

    The cost to bring something to market is passed to the consumer plus a percentage the Company adds for their profit margin.

    Item costs $1.00 to bring to market + 10% for corporate profits = retail price of $1.10 of which the Company makes $0.10.

    An increase of item costs to $1.20 to bring to market + the same 10% for corporate profits = retail price of $1.32 of which the Company makes $0.12 for the same thing.

    They make more money while passing the go-to-market increase onto you.



  • “The evil I saw in that White House was staggering. In 2020, I finally said ‘enough,’”

    Meanwhile millions of Americans were able to see the evil without having to be inside the White House. Even if she’s genuinely switching sides and changed her religious views or whatever she used to justify the Republicans repeated attacks on female body autonomy and LGBTQ+ equality and voter oppression and defending / prompting sexual abusers and spreading blatant lies about political opponents and diverting funds from social services to billionaires etc etc etc, she’s too oblivious to the suffering of the American people to be a public servant.




  • This right here.

    Annecdotal, but I have never worked for a company nor in a team that did not have a fair share of people that took the work experience route instead of the school route. It took them longer to get to the jobs fresh college grads were applying for and they had to work some shit jobs on the way, but that real-world experience gave them a perspective that college never could and it was a valued resource that provided immense benefits to the teams they worked with.




  • EndOfLine@lemmy.worldtoPolitical Memes@lemmy.worldimmigrants
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    Immigrants were never “taking” jobs. The American business owners, millionaires, and billionaires were giving the jobs away. No immigrant ever forced the head of any company to replace their American employees with foreign born workers.

    Same goes for any other country where this ridiculous claim is made.



  • On Halloween they were passing out candy AND ALCOHOL

    My sister and her husband pass out cotton candy for the kids and cocktails for the parents on Halloween. They are the favorite house on many people’s trick-or-treat route. They’ve done it for so long that kids that grew up in the area are grown and excited to bring their own children to their house.


  • I’ve been seeing these type of headlines of Republican “fear” of losing elections due to the horrible shit they do when they are in power. The money behind Republicans don’t care. It’s built into the plan. Republicans just hunker down, switch to obstructionsm to limit undoing the damage they caused and wait for the voters to get fed up with the lack of change and blame the party in power (not the party that created the situation and is preventing it from changing). Then they find themselves back in power and continue burning the world and push for every more oppression.