For the Zoomers, you wouldn't believe the weird, inexplicable things that Boomers did and said in reaction to 9/11.

The average age of retirement is 66. The average life span is 78.

The idea of doing all this for 12 years of elderly leisure is.... bleak. And it's so intensely obvious that they'll try to increase the age of retirement. PLUS the life expectancy is dropping. PLUS it's so clear that MOST people can't make ends meet on Social Security alone and that's IF you paid into it. PLUS you have to buy supplemental Medicare.

Wealth redistribution now. #PragerFORCE

We need to understand that shipping is such a purposefully complicated array of liability, insurance, laws, and responsibilities that it's likely no one is going to be rendered irreparably harmed by this directly.

Indirectly, however, working people of the world will suffer. The vessel itself, Container Ship, M/V Ever Given, is flagged under Panamanian jurisdiction for its favorable [read: minimal responsibilities] maritime laws.

The vessel itself is operated by Evergreen Line (Taiwan).

Please tell me more about how "complicated" and "not straight-forward" it is for Biden to fire this guy.

https://twitter.com/jacobbogage/status/1374171869969068035

Please link to me a Slate article telling me about the process.

I wonder if the recent anti-Chinese rhetoric coming from our Democrats and Republicans alike has anything to do with the fact that China has overtaken the USA by GDP in terms of Purchasing Power Parity. America cannot exist without an unbeatable foe.

China, USSR, Taliban, Al Qaeda, "radical Islamic terrorism," Communism in general, etc. etc. etc..

Absolute trillions wasted on these attempts to reign supreme have only enriched multinational conglomerates.

It's going to take years, maybe generations, for us to truly understand the devastating impact that COVID-19 has had on us even beyond the ~538,000 Americans that have died. Our social threads have frayed in ways that can't possibly be re-assembled back to he way it was before we were all fractured.

Distance, silence, isolation, and downright loneliness are in themselves risk factors that greatly impact our physical and mental health.

This "poll" only asked 805 registered voters in NY between March 8-12.

Potentially before popular calls for him to resign.

News outlets need to do better instead of circling the wagons around Cuomo.

https://twitter.com/WSJ/status/1371642398896484354

In the same poll, 52% of respondents reported they would prefer someone else in 2022.

Please explain to me why Joe Biden didn't immediately fire Postmaster DeJoy. DeJoy became US Postmaster General after GIVING DONALD TRUMP'S CAMPAIGN $1.2 MILLION. HE HAS ABSOLUTELY NO PRIOR EXPERIENCE.

What part about this is Biden ending the corruption of the Trump administration?!

It'd be a shame of people had a key to unlock their apartment's washer/dryer payment compartment to do their laundry without having to pay. Allegedly. Parody. Unactionable.

This does not make sense at all.

The first and second largest American milk producers have filed for bankruptcy in the last two months.

@deanfoods and @BordenDairy.

This may end up being a thread.

cnn.com/2020/01/06/bus… In the case of Borden Dairy, they have 3,300 employees. The company says it can't afford it's debt nor it's pension obligations. Filing for bankruptcy is a way to negotiate using the courts in order not to pay those pensions.

For those that don't know, shipping vessels run on a very very low grade form of fossil fuel called "bunker." Bunker fuel is the heavy, dirty remnants left over from the refining process. From crude oil they make gasoline, diesel, kerosene, etc. What's leftover is the cheaper fuel used for these ships.