Lurker > BUMPED2002

So I keep getting past due notices via email for a credit card from Chase bank and I have never had any accounts with Chase bank so I assume this is some sort of a scam.

Wow just wow! He was testifying about the funds he allegedly took from the state of Mississippi.

I like North By Northwest, Rear Window, Vertigo, The Birds, Dial M For Murder and Psycho!

My favorite is The Birds!

kind9 posted...

My dad had an Atari that I played a lot as a little baby. My first system that was mine was NES.

I never owned one but I have played an Atari 2600, 5200 and 7800.

I loved the earlier THPS games but I haven't played one for a long time. I also loved EA's SSX games as well.

I've dated women with kids and that's not an issue for me because I actually like kids.

I like Rao's and Progresso!

SNES was my first ever gaming console!

I have a salary job but the downside is I get the same exact pay regardless if I work 40hrs or 80hrs and when I work past 40hrs, I actually lose money because it's like you working for free.

In my experience, it's more important to like someone versus loving them because we all have things we "love" but in relationships, it more important to like someone versus loving them.

I think it's a good idea but I also think employers should have access to drug rehab for employees who may be having issues.

But we also need to understand how we got here and that all began with one Richard Nixon and his 1971 phony launching of his "War On Drugs" which was never about getting drugs off the street. Nixon decided to heavily penalize anybody (namely people of color) with tough jail sentences and stripping them of their voting privileges which was really what it was about to begin with.

Now since 1971 and some nearly $2T spent on the war on drugs and all America has to show for hat is the world's worst addiction problem so I have no idea why this war is still being waged.

https://www.marijuanamoment.net/home-depot-will-stop-testing-workers-for-marijuana-and-limit-drug-screening-for-most-employees-internal-memo-shows/

I was looking at this guy's annual pay and it breaks down as follows.

$30M per year

$11M in Fed Income Tax

$904,000 Agent fee

$894,000 Local tax ( and they pay taxes in every state they play road games in)

$703,000 FICA/Medicare

$637,000 MI tax

total take home pay $15.7m

Geez they hit these guys hard on income taxes.

Click the link and read how Amazon tried to destroy one of their employees.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Seattle/comments/1838cm0/my_name_is_amy_nelson_amazon_has_spent_years_tens/?rdt=57314

If P2025 is so great why are the architects of it so mum about releasing information to let people see what their plans are if they aren't sinister.

What's in it that they're trying to hide.

Maybe it they paid taxes period, that would help but also keep in from a percentage standpoint, working people pay more of their pay percentage-wise than someone who gets income from investments and I think the tax paid on income from investments is less than 15% and they want it even lower.

The reason billionaires "give away" money is because they know they haven't paid their fair share in taxes so they compensate via philanthropy.

Also keep in mind when tax cuts are issued they usually go to people who make in excess of $250,000 a year and up so that excludes most working class people. Example the 2017 tax cut mostly went to the wealthiest. By 2027 it's estimated by leading economists, that the richest 1 percent will have received 83 percent of the Trump tax cut and the richest 0.1 percent, 60 percent of it. But more than half (53%) of all Americans will pay more in taxes.

Stop voting for politicians who give tax cuts to people who least need it.

Sadly it's quite necessary based on our economic system that debt exists. The bankruptcy system currently doesn't favor those mired in personal debt but it does favor wealthy people who protect their assets when filing bankruptcy.

Many people aren't aware that bankruptcy is the busiest federal court in America. In theory, bankruptcy in America exists to cancel or restructure debts for people and companies that have way too manya safety valve designed to provide a mechanism for restarting lives and businesses when things go wrong financially.

But now bankruptcy thanks to some legislative magic has been designed as an escape hatch for powerful individuals, corporations, and governments contributing in unseen and poorly understood ways to race, gender, and class inequality in America.

When cities go bankrupt as an example, police unions enjoy added leverage while police brutality victims are denied a seat at the negotiating table; the system is more is more forgiving of civil rights abuses than the parking tickets disproportionately distributed to African-American neighborhoods.

Hands down I'd go with Wells as the worst bank followed closely by Bank Of America.

So I remember when Trump was bragging about Taiwanese electronics manufacturer FoxConn was supposedly going to invest something like $10B dollar investment in Wisconsin to build a manufacturing plant which was suppose to create 12,000 jobs and then it was crickets and nothing else was heard about it so what happened.

I assume the billions they make from administering the EBT i.e. Food stamp program isn't lucrative enough.

https://www.newsweek.com/americas-biggest-bank-chase-issues-new-warning-1921640

They run that program in 18 states and that nets them roughly $560,492,596.02

Florida has been contracted to pay JP Morgan $90,351,202.22

Pennsylvanias seven-year contract totaled $112,541,823.27. New Yorks seven-year contract totaled $126,394,917.

Who says poverty doesn't pay!

I didn't think people still used personal checks to pay for purchases anymore.

https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/target-to-stop-accepting-personal-checks-as-form-of-payment/3481773/

I've had 2 jobs in my life.

Uh given what we now know, I would not knowingly board a Boeing made airplane.

BUMPED2002 posted...

Nope I meant people are free to do as they please is all I meant so I have no idea where you got this passive aggressive angle from but the bottom line is I've been paying attention to the foods I eat and some of it to me is very sketchy and who knows what we're consuming.

Making things at home when i can means I know what goes in it unlike buying prepackaged/processed foods.

40% of meat we buy in the US is not processed in the US so who knows what we're getting. The fact that 160 countries around the world have banned US beef and pork should alarm all Americans.

Melody_JR posted...

I love the passive aggressive to each their own tc keeps using to look down upon people when they have no idea the reasons people might not choose to make all their food from scratch.

Nope I meant people are free to do as they please is all I meant so I have no idea where you got this passive aggressive angle from but the bottom line is I've been paying attention to the foods I eat and some of it to me is very sketchy and who knows what we're consuming.

Making things at home when i can means I know what goes in it unlike buying prepackaged/processed foods.

dfwQuerns posted...

i tried some a couple times when i was in puerto rico and it was good but its not something id go out of my way for. the guys i work with also hyped it up a crazy amount so maybe my expectations were too high

I make my own simply because I know what's in it because I added it and that's some salt, some brown sugar and some spices and that's it. I also make my own ground hamburger meat, tomato sauce, pasta, pizza dough etc because I'm trying to get away from store bought stuff since I have no idea what's in it.

People may not know this but American produced beef and pork is banned in 160 countries because American meat producers use something called "ractopamine" to speed up animal growth and it has been linked to rapid heartbeat, increased aggression and hyperactivity so that's when I stopped buying pork and beef products when I learned about that. But to each their own!

CassandraCroft posted...

Nope never have. Never will.

If I want bacon I will just get it from the supermarket.

I started reading the labels on bacon I got from the store and I couldn't pronounce half the words nor did I know what they meant until I looked them up and some of the additives in some of our food is some pretty rotten stuff so I just decided to make my own bacon and it's simple not hard at all but to each their own.

Melody_JR posted...

There isnt a valid answer for me: I like bacon. I have no interest in making my own.

I like bacon as well but I started reading labels on store bought bacon and I wasn't comfortable with what they were adding. There were words on the label I couldn't even pronounce nor did I know what they meant until I looked them up and some of those additives are pretty rotten for human consumption but to each their own.

So the far right billionaires who despise democracy are putting their wealth might and power behind Trump and MAGA to carry out their very far far right agenda known as Project 2025 which advocates hate and anti everything that they do not like i.e. diversity, LBGTQ etc etc. P2025 is the most legitimate attempt at dismantling democracy that the US has ever faced in our country's 248 year history.

The goal is: Doing away with 3 letter government agencies

Dismantling public education in favor or privatized education for well off people who can afford and for those who cannot afford to pay for their child's education, Project 2025 proposes stripping away all child labor laws so that kids (most of whom will be kids of color) can immediately begin working as 12/13 year old in what would essentially be slave like conditions.

They want to pass an Insurrection Act which would authorize US Military personnel to act as policing agents who can detain anyone without probably cause for as long as they deem fit.

Project 2025: A Blueprint for Authoritarianism and they will abolish, outlaw and quell any civil liberties that they deem a threat.

Elections and political parties as we have come to know them will no longer exist if this far right extreme agenda is allowed to be carried out.

This is scary stuff regardless of which side you fall on.

Why would the Smithsonian cover up an ancient Egyptian site in the Grand Canyon?

On the walls inside the structure is writing that isn't English or Native American writing because it's Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphs.

How can ancient Hieroglyphs be in the Grand Canyon and who left it behind.

Hmm looks like they may be bringing the draft back.

https://usmilitary.com/automate-military-draft-passed-by-congress/

Lokarin posted...

It's all exchange rates, the medium doesn't really matter

Uh it's more deeper than that. Right now the GDP of America is roughly $2T and for China it's about $6T annually so clearly America's empire is in decline and now more and more countries are now siding with China and Russia versus siding with the US and this is all bad news going forward.

captpackrat posted...

The last country that tried to do that was Iraq, and you know how well that turned out for them...

Well yeah because they (US) assassinated Hussein under the guise he had WMDs but Hussein had decided to sell Iraqi oil on the world market taking the Euro instead of the dollar.

They also did the same to Muammar Gaddafi in Libya because Gaddafi was using Libyan oil profits to prop up his citizens with free healthcare, medicine, free electricity, oil profit stipends for citizens monthly or annually and Libya before Gaddafi died had virtually zero homeless people and he was moving Libya away from dependence on the West. He was also trying to form the African Union putting all African nations together to began extracting and using their resources to earn money to build up their countries and their people and the West didn't like that so they took him out and painted him as a ruthless dictator.

Cruddy_horse posted...

Does this really mean anything important?

Uh yes because since the end of WW2 the world economy/market bought and sold goods and services with the US Dollar so once the dollar is no longer the world's reserve currency, that'll be devastating for this country, the economy, the working class etc and the only ones who'll be left standing are the corporate billionaires and super wealthy.

Hmm well that's the first blow in the US Dollar being the world's reserve currency and it's the first sign that America's Empire is in steep decline and we have people who will deny that to no end.

https://watcher.guru/news/saudi-arabia-ditches-us-dollar-will-settle-oil-payments-in-yuan-euro

Geez McDs is catching backlash for selling $15 dollar Big Mac meals and now Red Lobster is closing dozens of stores. I guess people are starting to fight back.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/05/13/business/red-lobster-is-abruptly-closing-dozens-of-restaurants/index.html

Little did I know, I have over 200 games combined between the 3 systems and I do not want to even calculate how much I have spent on these games. Geez! I could have invested that money or made better use of it at the very least.

All of my games are physical copies because I do not like digital games.

Nope because I believe people have a right to their political views good, bad, right or wrong and I'm afraid we're moving towards censorship because I have had posts removed here and over at yahoo that were not bad at all but somebody who didn't agree reported it and it was taken down so people need to be aware of what's going on.

We don't have to agree with anything post but I think people have the right to post their opinion as long as it doesn't border on personal attacks etc.

I think you have a problem called commitment.

I had no favorite part of the pandemic because in the very beginning people lost their lives who shouldn't have had we had a leader in the WH who did their due diligence and I also lost friends and relatives to the pandemic so for me nothing good came fro that time.

I did that with the Mario games and boy did I have a blast. It brought back all of my childhood memories of the NES, SNES, and N64 games I had as a kid.