https://fortune.com/2016/09/08/unbanked-americans-fdic/ "last year" being 2015.But the survey also looked at “underbanked” households, which have a bank account but still elect to use services like check cashing, money transfers, payday loans, and pawnshops. Little has changed in those numbers, as the percentage of the underbanked was 19.9% last year compared to 20% in 2013, a modest 0.1% change.
It has been setting in an anthology on my "books to by" list for a while. I'm trying (failing) to read down what I already have before I aquire too much more though.
Alas, we've already had our entire unit heat treated once and sprayed twice. The exterminator that did it offers a 6 month "guarantee" so the subsequent callbacks have been free but he hasn't exactly been confidence inspiring to deal with. Our lease has a clause where the tenant is responsible for paying for treatment. And the guy they called out was more than a month's rent. So I wouldn't be too surprised if someone else in the building had them and was staying mum about it. ¯\_ (ツ)_/¯
We ended up with a 2015 Prius. It's funky inside, but not in a trying to be hip way. Just in a weird functional way. Our commute is low to mid 50s mpg now. I really like it.
They've been coming around this week and giving out these So hey, everything is OK I guess. Spared no expense. Less than a year into my working here one of the area supervisors put in a call to pull the wrong trailer. Driver took off right as I was walking in. One of the lifers came up afterwards and said "I hear you almost died." Took a long time to realize he hadn't been joking. I'm sorry about your neighbor.But hey - that pickle they're telling you to pack? They didn't have to do that.
They're the kind of thing that becomes normal and no longer terrifying and then things get harried and you look up and someone's dead.
Yarises? You are absolutely right on the Fit. So, the issue with the Fit is that this is the first time we've been in a financial position that we can be choosy with the car we end up with. The Solaris was sold to us at a heavy discount by a family friend when we were barely making ends meet. Now, I reckon that we can afford a Prius. But it still feels like a lot to spend. So we are inclined to cheap out. The Fit occupies an awkward price point where if we are gonna spend more, we might as well saddle up and get what we'd really like. We've broken into lower middle class purchasing decisions but we haven't really internalized it yet.
mk They've breached containment 😐
No spam posts on the falafel post. :thumbs up:
Watching Twin Peaks has been an... interesting... ride.
Extending booms are amazing when new, and terrifying after years of slipshod repairs.
Post election night confession: I've started using bing. Google's search quality has degraded to the point where I don't really notice a difference between the two. Anyways. Greetings from flyover country. The Dems should have gotten KS-2 too. My county tried to drag Davis across the line, but we couldn't quite de-snatch defeat from the jaws of victory. Not exactly a surprise. He ran for Governor in 2014. And lost to Brownback. Brownback. H e l o s t t o B r O w n B a C k That was a state wide race. KS-2 robs him of several bases of support that kinda sorta made him competitive. Doubling down on that was a choice. It isn't even pure gerrymandering. In all the counties I checked he under-delivered what Lara Kelly got by 2-5%. In the long run, though? They're gonna need to do another round of gerrymandering to keep KS-2 and KS-3 from becoming blue. KS-3 is back in democratic hands, and they did it without the eastern portion of Douglas county that Moore had when he got elected in 1998. And now all of Douglas is in KS-2. We had 59% turnout. Almost as many people voted as in 2012. Davis carried us by 71.5% (again, less than Kelly). We're up to a population of 120,000. Doesn't sound like much, but this is Kansas.
https://www.davidrevoy.com/article319/krita-brushkit-v8 I tend to use David Revoy's brushes more than the defaults. I think the defaults recently got reworked, tho?
"Biggles"
Hahahahah holy shit we voted down this shit contract proposal. Now we wait for them to ratify it anyways.
and there we go Relevant language: The best part is that the company was caught off guard by this. Had to walk back their initial statement about the contract failing.And as we saw in the 2016 U.S. Presidential election, winning the popular vote does not necessarily win the election when the Constitution requires you to win the Electoral College vote. As Teamsters, we too must abide by the rules in our Constitution. Thus, the National Master UPS Agreement has been ratified.
2) If less than half of the eligible members cast valid ballots, then a two-thirds (2/3) vote of those voting shall be required to reject such final offer and to authorize a strike. The failure of such membership to reject the final offer and to authorize a strike as herein provided shall require the negotiating committee to accept such final offer or such additional provisions as can be negotiated by it.
Oh dear I'm that person
oh hey, I'm in the market for a hoodie.
Almost 9.000.000 voting age people in Ohio. https://www.census.gov/library/visualizations/2016/comm/voting_age_population/cb16-tps44_voting_ohio-social.html Edit: I'm dumb
Crispy like bacon bits.
The one thing I'd add into that mix is 4) Voter supression. I've been scrubbed from the roles before, and found out about on election day. It sucks. If I had been on the edge about voting because of (2), that experience probably would have been enough to push me over.
That'd actually be a better logo for DSA.
Finally heard something about the contract! Pretty 'meh' so far. Could be worse, but could be better. On the 3d printer project front: I think my current one just shit the bed. Might have to grab a mono price mini... :(
I'm not sure what this says about me, this one has hit home for a while now. On the "better music" front:
I mean, who doesn't want a Chick-fil-a franchise?Well, he would know.
Give Pruitt time. At this rate, it'll come out he tried for some franchise opportunities in Ukraine too. He's nothing if not efficient at finding new fronts on which to be corrupt.
Link to the Washington Post bit from the second paragraph: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/posteverything/wp/2018/03/01/if-the-supreme-court-rules-against-unions-conservatives-wont-like-what-happens-next I can't decide if conservatives really want to destroy the current model of business unionism, or want to simply reduce it to a husk.
Burnt out on history and hot takes on history right now. Since the last thread, I've read: - Understanding Power, which is a curated collection of talks by Chomsky. Was fairly interesting, but is slowly fading away into the past. Worth it for the footnotes, and reads quickly. - From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, which was my first experience of reading about an event and going "wait, that happened how many years ago?" This one was probably my favorite out of the bunch this round. I actually checked it out along with Black Against Empire, but ended up shelving the that one a quarter of the way through once the history burn out set in. - Debt: The First 5,000 Years by David Graeber. I'm actually not quite done with this one yet, but will be before the night is over. Unless there is a magic finish to this one, it is solidly in the "over hyped" territory. - The War on Leakers: National Security and American Democracy, From Eugene V. Debs to Edward Snowden by Lloyd C. Gardner. Emphasis on Snowden, Debs is hardly featured. This was the most forgettable. By which I mean I forgot I about it until I was looking at my library checkout history to make sure I didn't miss anything. The writing is lack luster, and the facts it brings to the table are more or less along the lines you would suspect. I'm a shit book reviewer. But that's ok.
Kinda 'meh' about this. Github was always a business. I'd be down for an opensource federated alternative, and hopefully one will emerge, but the fact that a proprietary platform is changing hands isn't really an oh shit moment to me. There was always the chance that github could tell me to get stuffed at the drop of a hat anyways.
+1 Halo was basically Marathon, but you could jump and didn't have to read the story.