I’m really smart and beautiful and sometimes I don’t believe that but that doesn’t stop it from being true

Say it with me folks:

My uncle was one of the top surgeons in the country. He was upper middle class definitely. When he got cancer, his insurance didn’t cover all the treatments he would need and after 5 years he drained his savings on cancer treatments (while still working most of that time) and eventually died because he couldn’t afford the expensive treatments that might have saved him.

If you are upper middle class and you get sick, it will likely bankrupt your family. It’s fucked.

For all of the idiots in the notes ^

Honest to god - even if you make 6 figures a year? you're closer to poverty than true wealth. Check your shit and remember who your real allies and enemies are guys.

A 6 figure income is a lot right? That’s say: 223,000 dollars a year Which is 112 dollars an hour. Most people would consider that upper middle class. That’s enough money to have a nice house, go on fun vacations. That’s slight more than the average doctor makes.

223,000 dollars is what Jeff Bezo makes in a minute

the well-off and the rich are not the same. 

There was a wonderful study done about 15 years ago I think, that shows that people cannot accurately identify their income bracket. Most people who own a home think they are upper middle class when in fact they are closer to the poverty line. Even people living well below poverty often identify as middle class. The wealth gap is even worse now. I wonder if anyone actually knows their financial standing.

This post is from 2020. Things did not improve.

It's funny this crossed my dash again today, because I just saw someone do the math, and it ain't pretty.

The poverty line is being miscalculated based on what things cost in 1963. Cost burdens have shifted so much since then, that the US poverty line isn't really $31k.

It's closer to $140k.

Because of how subsidies fall off (medicare eligibility, childcare subsidies, etc.) being between those numbers can be just as hard as or harder than being on the lower end of it.

I'm saying this as someone from Canada who has had no income for ten years, but nevertheless: you should do the math for wherever you're from, if you can look up things like the local cost of childcare and whatever other metrics are relevant like government programs. You should do that, and you should think about the numbers you come up with, and where you sit in relation to them, and who you're picking on in the upper range. Or, frankly, the middle range where they really are in the same boat as you after all the costs of participation in society.

The point isn't "but they can still afford this thing I can't". The point is ALL OF US SHOULD BE POINTING OUR KNIVES AND FORKS AT THE BILLIONAIRES AND NOT EACH OTHER!

i love becoming fond of characters through someone else's love of them . they were kinda mid to me before but seeing how Normal you are about them made me like them more

kids these days don’t know how lethal stagnant water is

If you’re exploring an abandoned building and find stagnant water your next sentence should be either “I am equipping my respirator” or “I am leaving”

It’s the 19th anniversary of Katrina and therefore also the 19th anniversary of me and my family getting Katrina cough

Mold spores and airborne bacteria and algae are not a joke. They kill people. Don’t play in them

> THE JESTER

sup upon your dinner, break your fast upon a luncheon. late as fuck to everything including what you're munchin. foes observe my eating habits, now their brows are scrunchin. wish a fucker would so i could hit em with my truncheon

i love the level of friendship that is "would you like early access to the porn that i'm writing"

I want to be very clear on this. You can be out drinking with your friends on Friday night and dead on Sunday because of meningitis. Does that sound a little specific? Guess why I have such a specific scenario in mind.

And getting vaccinated is an easy way to prevent that. There is no medical reason to stop recommending that vaccine. There's no new study that shows that it's unsafe, there's no replacement that's better. This is literally the government making its citizenry less safe for no reason.

bastard sounds great in an irish accent. if an irish person calls you a 'daft bastard' it just feels right

the welsh have the monopoly on things ending in hell. fuckin hell and bloody hell hit different in a welsh accent. its like music to my ears

the scots have piss and shite for sure. "its pishin it doon out there" "this is a load of shite" absolute poetry

if i may speak for the english i think we do penis related words very well. dickhead, knobhead, bellend, etc.

and for all the shit we give them, you gotta admit that no one can deliver a 'goddamn' quite like an american. theres a certain weight to it that you just cant achieve in other accents. when an american says goddamn you know shit just got real

(after the jigsaw tape finishes explaining the trap) alright!! I promise I'll do my best! =^.^=

'why did you block the last person you did? were they a bigot? or a bot?' well no. they posted a lot of ai generated art in a fetish tag i peruse.

the funniest thing is this could literally be about any fetish because ive seen ai art in every. single. fetish tag i peruse.

I respect handmade porn by real perverts more every day

me too. long live the perverts

I'd say this is an anomaly but seriously roos are sometimes nosy and just need to be in your business, OR they will fight you if you look at them funny. I love them, they're great, but they make little sense.

The fucking horror I felt in my soul of the 3 seconds it took to try to and work out what the fuck this animal was

*through gritted teeth* when i do something wrong and am politely asked to change my behavior its just a simple request to fix a problem and not an indictment of my character. when i do something wrong and am politely asked to change my behavior its just a simple request to fix a problem and not an indictment of my worth as a human being

*gripping the sink and staring into the mirror* i can regulate my emotions and move on from well-intentioned polite criticism by resolving to change my behavior in the future without dwelling on the shame and guilt. i can regulate my emotions in a healthy way and move on and not get stuck scrolling tumblr for an hour and a half to just blast my brain w stimulation to avoid my negative feelings. oh wait its too late for that last one

Winning worst mother of the year award because I got all the way home from work and didn’t realize I forgot to bring Bessie home until I tried to call her into my bedroom for dinner

If she asks everyone tell her I totally didn’t forget her and I was just in the bathroom the whole time

been thinking about fantasy/scifi rule systems and free will

Autism Powers