Re: inflation, growth in pure gross/intake has to increase to match the currency devaluation, and that can mostly be done by adjusting your prices in line with inflation. Employee count, market shares etc. can all hold steady, all else being equal.

Is she related to Princess Peach?

Honestly, because I take most things as both serious and facetious until I can properly de ide which it was intended as, and I tend to imagine at least a subset people also do that and might decide I wasn’t joking. And I had a little hesitation about being unclear.

Oh, I thought it was a kind of lingerie my mom used to wear.

I HAVE to say this is a joke.

That’s a fun way to get out of answering a legitimate question: ad hominem attacks.

Survivor of crime becomes crime-fighter, survivor of catastrophe saves people from disasters.

“Be the person you needed when you were younger” feels applicable.

Not sure it’s even possible to achieve being “completely free of corruption from moneyed lobbying”, but at least getting to a system where the legislature or whoever has the power and the will (if not absolute mandate) to continually evaluate the situation and combat corruption (sanctioning, suspending, or expelling violators; penalizing lobbyists who don’t follow the rules; amending the rules as needed to keep ahead of the problems).

There’s just not enough real consequences for any of these people failing to live up to the standards we should expect of them.

*all one breath* AMERICA IS NOT AND HAS NEVER BEEN AN EXPLICITLY CHRISTIAN NATION, YOU CAN’T JUST COME IN HERE AND ACT LIKE ANYONE NOT CHRISTIAN ISN’T JUST DOING IT WRONG (like you’ve always done) BUT NOW IS ESSENTIALLY GUILTY OF TREASON, THAT IS NOT OKAY! *giant Kirby-level breath*

*Clarification: Directed at MAGA, of course, not this commenter

Well, usually. Sometimes they prey on their own, when the mood strikes.

I love the one response I saw, “wouldn’t that make Katie Miller a sexual bull?” Because there are so many different ways to take it from there, and many don’t paint Stephen Miller in the lights he’d rather be seen publicly.

A fool and his money aren’t necessarily parted soon enough.

It’s one thing for people to be willing to go along with all the bad politicking. It’s just another entirely if Trump’s participation in child rape is publicly proved. That’s a REAL hard pill for most people to swallow.

This article cites the information as being provided by the Epstein estate to the congressional folks.

There is a suggestion floated that neurodivergent people tend to group together socially, presumably for the same reasons other people with things in common do.

Budweiser is “The King of Beers”. RFK Jr. is a Kennedy.

And this is my point - it’s not about what any one person on Lemmy thinks is what gets you to hell, it’s just what some folks with certain views end up thinking, and sometimes yelling.

Nobody thinks you’re going to hell for having a new idea about quantum gravity. Nobody has set up car bombs over whether or not plucked chickens are human. Political differences do have a very different history with violence, of course.

But when there is a large number of people who are happy to make me feel profoundly wrong for not accepting their deity, or thinking the wrong day is the day God wants us to rest, or who think plenary indulgences are or aren’t a good idea, or if Jesus abolished or fulfilled the old law, or if God thinks we should kill all trans people… we have hit a different territory.

These are not the same thing, and sometimes it is a VERY big deal. Literally life and death.

Look, the list of corrections and amendments we could make to what I said could fill out a book of their own. The Bible of Why The Bible Is Fallible, or whatever.

The Democrats of the Civil War era do not hold the same values as the Democrats of today, same as the Republicans of each era. It is pointless for anyone to act like the name of a party a given politician belonged to 160 years ago means anything in 2025 terms.