Yes, but that’s semantics. Clearly the observation has some effect, but it’s not from any force we recognize.

My friend thinks the jobs don’t exist, and they’re just posted so the company looks good.

They definitely did that at college job fairs. They wanted to keep their spot, but weren’t hiring that year.

First time home buyer with 2 months of on time rent payments is not that much of a qualifier. And yeah, it has to be actual rent, and not just saying “I paid my uncle in cash.”

Yeah, it doesn’t help you buy your second home. Yeah, you can’t do it at 18 if you haven’t moved out of your parents house.

That’s about it.

Wow, that’s very different from the “must live in government housing” and “only immigrants” that you started with. How many times does your bullshit need to be called out before you tell the truth?

This plan will significantly simplify and expand the reach of down-payment assistance, allowing over 1 million first time-buyers per year – including first-generation home buyers – to get the funds they need to buy a house when they are ready to buy it," the Harris campaign said.

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You keep making shit up. One million > 400,000.

provide working families who have paid their rent on time for two years and are buying their first home up to $25,000 in down-payment assistance, with more generous support for first-generation homeowners – or homebuyers whose parents don’t own a home.

Nothing at all about “immigrants”. Where did you hear that bullshit?

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So I’ve been going on and on about how “democrats bad” is a huge narrative being pushed hard on Lemmy. Always with the caveat that criticism is warranted, when it’s specific and targeted.

This is specific and targeted. This is how you properly criticize Dems. But that wouldn’t jive with the people seeding that other narrative. They don’t want to be helpful. They’re not interested in how to get other people to vote. Their objective is the opposite.

Maybe the Dems should switch their incremental improvement to the fact that they need billionaires to buy them votes before their dollars turn into rubles. Yeah, the number is bigger. Look how much good that does the Russians.

They should be supporting both Elon-style directly, and indirectly through accepting tax policy to allow us to do big things. Find smart policies to support medical school so that we can push for more doctors/nurses the way we did for Software Devs from 1995-2015. Create actual medicare for all to finally get rid of the odd tie between your employer and your healthcare. Support real freight so we can have fewer semis destroying our roads and creating traffic. Support mass transit so we need fewer roads and can have more walkable spaces with more available housing. (Mass transit enables realistic high density housing.) Change Trump’s stupid ass tariffs to be a response to climate change, now that we’ve developed better tech to see where the CO2 is coming from.

Raise the federal minimum wage. Reduce the work week to 36 hours, with real teeth in overtime requirements and salary exemptions. Recreate the Civilian Conservation Corps to make sure everyone who’s willing to put in real work can find a job, even if AI doesn’t like their resume.

Healthcare, traffic, and work are the biggest things everyone in the country has to deal with. Address the things that actually affect people’s lives. This is how your dollars stay dollars instead of turning into rubles. The billionaires might have less of them, but they’re worth more. When people are less desperate, everyone’s lives are better.

Straight up cash to help buy your first house. I wasn’t thrilled about it.

Well, yes, but also.

I’d recommend wiping your phone before going. And some of our busiest airports have gotten more dangerous lately.

Other than that, you’ll be fine.

Man, I told Bob not to fuck that panda.

This doesn’t say anything about DMARC and DKIM. Ni should probably go figure that out.

Yeah, at this rate we’ll be just fine. (As long as this is still the Reagan administration.)

Some tea bag brands are really proud that they’ve moved from petroleum based plastic on their bags to PLA.

What the fuck. It’s still plastic, guys. There are a few brands that don’t have any plastic. You have to look them up brand by brand though.

I’m not super paranoid about plastic, but I have been trying to avoid it a little more. And the biggest place to avoid it is soaking it in near boiling water that I’m about to drink.

At least until 72 or so. After that it’s iffy.

Trying to avoid fake tweets while also not sending traffic to Twitter.

I phone screened for a game dev position. The ad said about half my salary. It was going to be a big sacrifice. Then on the phone screen they said 10k less than that.

When I sounded concerned about money, I think that killed my chances. “Tell me more about this profit sharing” was almost certainly the end. It was for the best.

It’s always easier to completely rewrite code from scratch than to make small modifications to an existing project.

They absolutely, 1000% need Democrats to win. Maybe not their respective districts, but if they want to get anything done on a national level, they need about half the country on their side, and that includes Democrats.

Now, they can certainly eat the party whole, the way the tea party and MAGA ate the GOP. That involves being more specific than “Democrats bad”. In fact, how did they do it? Did you ever see them telling people to abandon the Republican party?