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  • I’d like to point out that even when this isn’t true, the “major public improvement” tends to border one, close enough that it gets cut off from the surroundings and goes into financial ruin causing others to look at the neighborhood a few years later and THEN decide its property that needs to be “improved” (gentrified)… To the point that the original inhabitants are priced out of their own family homes.

    One of those “whew, they dodged a bullet… Of wait, they didn’t” times that happens quite a lot.



  • ellieficent@reddthat.comtoMicroblog Memes@lemmy.worldtrickle not
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    5 days ago

    60B over 9 months is about 80B over the year which is about 3% of 2.5T

    Does anyone else think 3% return isn’t that spectacular? Reminder, Inflation alone in 2025 was 2.7%. They only slightly did better than breaking even.

    Not going to comment on his riches, we all know Billionaires are bad for the world. Just thought those numbers were kinda bad.








  • ellieficent@reddthat.comtoMicroblog Memes@lemmy.worldPBS is "the propaganda"?
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    2 months ago

    Its such an insignificant amount of money to fund PBS. It’s mostly paid by donations and sponsors anyway. If they really wanted to save taxpayers money they should look elsewhere first… but thats a harder question that might rustle a few of their own feathers. Not only do they try to take the easiest route that doesn’t involve their side, but they want to make people think it’s a win. PBS isnt greasing their palms, so out it goes.





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    4 months ago

    You had me until the last paragraph… The Orange man and MAGA in general don’t care about communism anymore. The government owns part of Intel now, his best friends are Putin and Xi, he’s pushing changes like the government controls all the means of production. Communism is hip now it seems.

    Maybe if you call them socialists? But only because their base doesn’t really understand what it means, they just hate it but secretly want it when it benefits them.



  • “Replacing high fructose corn syrup with cane sugar doesn’t make sense,” said Corn Refiners Association President and CEO John Bode. "Replacing high fructose corn syrup with cane sugar would cost thousands of American food manufacturing jobs, depress farm income, and boost imports of foreign sugar, all with no nutritional benefit.”

    Corn farmers heavily voted for Trump, but according to them they’re weak and stupid anyway, so now we just wait for the cost of Coke to jump due to importing sugar. ‘Course, he never said anything about Pepsi, so people just flock to the much cheaper Pepsi products and Coke goes under! Brilliant!