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Because once you need two incomes, you also need childcare for two kids at $32k/yr ($600/wk), rent for a 2 bedroom is another $20k/yr so it's already $52k before food, transportation, taxes... all necessities, not luxuries.
Because once you need two incomes, you also need childcare for two kids at $32k/yr ($600/wk), rent for a 2 bedroom is another $20k/yr so it's already $52k before food, transportation, taxes... all necessities, not luxuries.
An investor called $140,000 the new poverty line. Experts disagreed but said he had a point.
Michael Green’s tally of the costs of raising a family in the U.S. today is going viral, even if some economists scoff at his math.
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December 1, 2025 at 3:26 AM
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Because once you need two incomes, you also need childcare for two kids at $32k/yr ($600/wk), rent for a 2 bedroom is another $20k/yr so it's already $52k before food, transportation, taxes... all necessities, not luxuries.
Because once you need two incomes, you also need childcare for two kids at $32k/yr ($600/wk), rent for a 2 bedroom is another $20k/yr so it's already $52k before food, transportation, taxes... all necessities, not luxuries.
Wow...
youtube.com/watch?v=jJN9...
youtube.com/watch?v=jJN9...
Norm McDonald - Moth Joke [napisy PL]
YouTube video by StandUpy PoPolskuPowróciły
youtube.com
November 21, 2025 at 3:52 AM
Wow...
youtube.com/watch?v=jJN9...
youtube.com/watch?v=jJN9...
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Oh darn! I was hoping I could just do fun research and just stop doing paperwork, inventory, training and the other things I don't like. But apparently you can't just stop doing the parts of your job you don't like? Maybe he can still edit the points criteria for TdA and send CFPB to El Salvador.
Judge orders CFPB to reinstate fired employees, preserve records and get back to work
Judge Amy Berman Jackson sided with the CFPB employee union that sued acting CFPB director Russell Vought last month.
www.cnbc.com
April 1, 2025 at 11:40 AM
Oh darn! I was hoping I could just do fun research and just stop doing paperwork, inventory, training and the other things I don't like. But apparently you can't just stop doing the parts of your job you don't like? Maybe he can still edit the points criteria for TdA and send CFPB to El Salvador.
The Situation: How to Get Away With Violating Court Orders www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-...
The Situation: How to Get Away With Violating Court Orders
A guide for the lawless.
www.lawfaremedia.org
March 21, 2025 at 1:05 AM
The Situation: How to Get Away With Violating Court Orders www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-...
Was last year peak homo sapiens? Let's hope not.
Opinion | The World Is a Mess, and It’s Still the Best Time to Be Alive (Gift Article)
What matters isn’t so much a Trump rant as that children are less likely to die now than at any other time in the history of the world.
www.nytimes.com
January 20, 2025 at 12:28 AM
Was last year peak homo sapiens? Let's hope not.
Ugh here we go...
www.nytimes.com/2024/12/03/w...
www.nytimes.com/2024/12/03/w...
China Announces a Ban on Rare Minerals to the U.S.
The move comes a day after the Biden administration expanded curbs on the sale of advanced American technology to China.
www.nytimes.com
December 3, 2024 at 1:05 PM
Ugh here we go...
www.nytimes.com/2024/12/03/w...
www.nytimes.com/2024/12/03/w...
An EUV lithography LEGO. It's less than one millionth the price or a real one.
www.tomshardware.com/tech-industr...
www.tomshardware.com/tech-industr...
December 2, 2024 at 3:02 PM
An EUV lithography LEGO. It's less than one millionth the price or a real one.
www.tomshardware.com/tech-industr...
www.tomshardware.com/tech-industr...
So this real banana has to be replaced weekly, as does the duct tape, so... but then what... $6M for ..?
November 23, 2024 at 9:58 PM
So this real banana has to be replaced weekly, as does the duct tape, so... but then what... $6M for ..?
Reposted by Enrique Cobas
African Sacred Ibis taking flight pre-dawn at Riserva Naturale Regionale Foce dell'Isonzo, Italy.
A lifer for me. An introduced bird in Italy but there is now a sustained breeding population.
(an exclusive bird picture for my Bluesky people 😁 - please repost if you like it)
A lifer for me. An introduced bird in Italy but there is now a sustained breeding population.
(an exclusive bird picture for my Bluesky people 😁 - please repost if you like it)
November 19, 2024 at 7:11 AM
African Sacred Ibis taking flight pre-dawn at Riserva Naturale Regionale Foce dell'Isonzo, Italy.
A lifer for me. An introduced bird in Italy but there is now a sustained breeding population.
(an exclusive bird picture for my Bluesky people 😁 - please repost if you like it)
A lifer for me. An introduced bird in Italy but there is now a sustained breeding population.
(an exclusive bird picture for my Bluesky people 😁 - please repost if you like it)
This week we have a shot at both a comet (C/2023 A3) and northern lights from an X-class solar flare (probably won't manage to see either).
Here's a STEM song (lyrics start later):
open.spotify.com/track/0168rI...
Here's a STEM song (lyrics start later):
open.spotify.com/track/0168rI...
Truth
NERO · Into the Unknown · Song · 2024
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October 10, 2024 at 3:43 PM
This week we have a shot at both a comet (C/2023 A3) and northern lights from an X-class solar flare (probably won't manage to see either).
Here's a STEM song (lyrics start later):
open.spotify.com/track/0168rI...
Here's a STEM song (lyrics start later):
open.spotify.com/track/0168rI...
Reposted by Enrique Cobas
McConnell Retiring To Spend More Time Eroding The Rights of His Family wapo.st/48CnXDI
Opinion | McConnell retiring to spend more time eroding the rights of his family
The Senate GOP leader looks forward to standing in the middle of pickleball courts while people try to play around him.
wapo.st
February 28, 2024 at 9:26 PM
McConnell Retiring To Spend More Time Eroding The Rights of His Family wapo.st/48CnXDI
February 23, 2024 at 1:41 PM
"The White House is directing the Energy Department to expand its evaluation of the project to consider its impact on climate change, as well as the economy and national security"
White House Said to Delay Decision on Enormous Natural Gas Export Terminal
Before deciding whether to approve it, the Energy Department will analyze the climate impacts of CP2, one of 17 proposed LNG export terminals.
www.nytimes.com
January 27, 2024 at 3:23 AM
"The White House is directing the Energy Department to expand its evaluation of the project to consider its impact on climate change, as well as the economy and national security"
Milo insisted on reviewing his mineral collection first thing this morning.
January 27, 2024 at 2:53 AM
Milo insisted on reviewing his mineral collection first thing this morning.
Seriously? I had it open for like 10 seconds...
January 4, 2024 at 5:59 PM
Seriously? I had it open for like 10 seconds...
Happy perihelion everyone
January 2, 2024 at 11:54 AM
Happy perihelion everyone
The Guardian has no paywall. If you like that, reward it. Also, the Indian Lunar Lander cost $75 million? Nice
www.theguardian.com/science/2023...
www.theguardian.com/science/2023...
The 10 biggest science stories of 2023 – chosen by scientists
From insight into our human ancestry and breakthroughs on the moon to a flourishing of AI and terrifying new developments in the climate, it was a year of scientific drama
www.theguardian.com
December 24, 2023 at 12:43 AM
The Guardian has no paywall. If you like that, reward it. Also, the Indian Lunar Lander cost $75 million? Nice
www.theguardian.com/science/2023...
www.theguardian.com/science/2023...
Yeah well just because you're used to it doesn't mean you understand it or that it isn't really weird and neat.
xkcd.com/2856/
xkcd.com/2856/
November 26, 2023 at 6:32 PM
Yeah well just because you're used to it doesn't mean you understand it or that it isn't really weird and neat.
xkcd.com/2856/
xkcd.com/2856/