https://lisep.org/mql

The linked report.

I live under the poverty line. It’s doable with a ‘nonstandard’ way of life (ie I don’t own a car and work online), a low CoL area (though even here rent eats up most of my income), and government subsidies from living in a Blue State (thank you, Medicaid), but otherwise I’d be screwed.

It’s also not great, in case that needs to be said.

Morrowind.

Miasmata.

Gothic 3.

Shadow of the Colossus. Just gorgeous scenery, even on PS2 emulation.

Red Dead Redemption 2.

LA Noire, if you like 1940s cities.

It takes $44,737 for a one-person household to maintain a “minimal quality of life”?

Stagnation of wages and increasing prices are causing a crisis, no doubt, but is that really the number we’re looking at for a minimum?

According to this, I’ve only ever personally known (at least well enough to know their income) two people affording a ‘minimal quality of life’.

Went through 5 different meds before finding one that worked, that’s how. Not a fun experience.

Mostly just talk to your doc, tell them your concerns about your current meds, all that jazz. They’ll generally set you on the right path.

Maybe Bigfoot pays his taxes?

I’d fight any gorilla dumb enough to say that to my face!

My grandfather served in Vietnam. He was always very proud of being a Marine veteran, but rarely mentioned the era or war when asked. I remember when I was a teen and going through a Cold Warrior phase, I asked him about his feelings on the war. I remember, at the time, being shocked by his answer - that he didn’t have strong feelings on the war itself or on Communism, and that the Vietnamese he fought were fighting for their country, and he didn’t blame them for doing that in the least.

At the time, I attributed it (not entirely incorrectly) to my grandfather’s general disinterest in politics; as I grew older, I appreciated the position much more. He opened up to me about his experiences in the war later in life, and, while by then I had already turned against the “THEY WERE REDS IT WAS JUSTIFIED” line of thinking, his retellings of just how pointless it all was really hammered in that we sent a generation of young American men to kill a generation of Vietnamese folk for no good fucking reason.

Feddit.uk gets defederated for not responding to a single user’s transphobia fast enough, while Lemmy.ml gets transphobic admins and no defederation.

Almost like it’s petty Church Study Group power politics instead of principles driving this.

I generally haven’t kept up with the military since I got out, but women in “combat arms” MOSs were strictly forbidden, like infantry and artillery. Are you asserting that is no longer the case for the US or other militaries?

… that hasn’t been the case since Obama’s second term.

You would need to rely on childhood cave paintings for Petain

‘Minilini’ is gold

I dunno, Ike just kind of has a blank “Is this photo day” expression

“What is this, a tank for ANTS?”

Not what secret police are.

Secret police are more like ICE.

If you like Rome and manga, might I suggest Ad Astra: Scipio and Hannibal?

Morrowind was amazing.

D&D mindset, never know when you might need a bit of rope.

Yes. Not sure whether that’s a mistake of the meme-maker, or whether they meant that in the voice of the Greek colonists.

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