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Also, in my area I see a lot of beautiful old pre-1950s houses get torn down to be replaced by a dozen shoebox condominiums stacked three high.
Also, in my area I see a lot of beautiful old pre-1950s houses get torn down to be replaced by a dozen shoebox condominiums stacked three high.
I like to post that in 1960, we had a minimum wage of $1.00/hour and the average US home cost $11,000.00
Whenever I do, someone will point out that houses today are, on average, bigger.
They never mention tiny homes and six people sharing a two bedroom apartment…
A while back, someone suggested that only women should be allowed to own handguns, and that the guns should all be painted baby pink.
That’s why I stick with real world examples.
For example, the minimum wage in 1960 was $1.00/hour. The cost of the average home was $11,000.00
The strain was too much, man.
Stop looking at those ‘inflation adjustors’ and look at what you could actually buy.
Average rent per month in Los Angeles in 1990 was under $600.00/month
Today it’s over $2,000.00
If he paid her five months rent today, it would be $10,000.00, not $7,000.00
As always, Trump’s people manage to outdo everyone.
“Anti-woke” water is a thing, and it doesn’t need no stinking vodka to make people stupid.
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Mike Hammer was immensely popular for years. “My Gun Is Quick” and “I, the Jury” were full of anti-gay slurs.
Currently there are Pride Month flags flying from Mickey Spillane’s bar in NYC.
It’s heroin, without the ‘e.’
Not heroin, but Holmes did go undercover at least once in an opium den. “The Man With The Twisted Lip” iirc.
In the US there are gold colored $1 coins available.
Get a drawstring purse [think Robin Hood / Conan] and fill it with ‘gold’ coins.
If anyone you know is into fantasy, they will go nuts.
Showing up naked is always a good way to get a party started.
Back in the 1940s, there was a Captain Marvel story where a scientist tells the Big Red Cheese that the entire universe is actually a dream and the sleeper is getting ready to wake up…
I heard it from 1920s movie star W. C. Fields.
I like the old line, “If at first you don’t succeed, try again, and again…Then give up. There’s no point in making a fool of yourself.”
Didn’t he arrest his opponents?
The famous Wally Wood Mickey Mouse orgy poster.
Back in the day, Wally Wood was as big as Jack Kirby. According to legend, he created Power Girl’s bosom window.
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Before Hudson Yards went up that space was mostly empty. I’ve also seen lines of buses parked under the FDR downtown.
It’s been a while since I read the story, but as I recall mutual understanding wasn’t the main problem.
I worked in Manhattan and had coworkers who lived in Pennsylvania. Two hours each way. A story I heard was that a bus company recruited drivers who would get up at 4am, pick up passengers, drive to the city, and then go to another job. 6 pm they get in the bush and drive home.
So, explain how not voting assures us that we don’t get Trump again.