Hildegarde

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Hildegarde ,

Good choice!

Hildegarde ,

Voting third party has the same effect on the outcome as not voting. From the last presidential election, there were 24 times more nonvoters than third part voters.

They blame third parties to suppress their ideas, not because of the negligible effect on the outcome.

The 33% of eligible voters who chose not to vote could have swung the 2020 election if they voted.

Hildegarde ,

That's a strange response when they claim they don't recognize the court.

Either sign on to the agreement and file a motion in opposition, or refuse to recognize the court and ignore it, like a responsible adult.

They are acting like a baby having a temper tantrum. Grow up.

Hildegarde ,

160,000 borrowers have earned $7.7 billion of loan forgiveness under a federal program put in place under the obama administration.

This headline is incredibly misleading. Biden had little to do with this.

Hildegarde ,

Because the US is not allowed to put boots on the ground in Palestine, they are relying on isreal to build the part of the aid pier that connects it to the land. This plan relies on having the people who are blocking the aid, build the pier that bypasses their attempts to block the aid.

It's not surprising that no aid trucks are able to enter despite the pier.

Hildegarde ,

I'm pretty sure the dutch government has laws making such an invasion illegal.

Hildegarde ,

It is not treason to question the results of an election. It is not sedition to contest an election. If there is evidence that an election not handled correctly in a way that is sufficient to change the outcome, those with a stake in the outcome should not accept it.

This idea that it is a high crime to question an election is genuinely dangerous. And it is especially bad coming from democrats, because tactics like voter suppression disproportionately benefit republicans.

No one should accept an unrepresentative election.

Hildegarde ,

Democracy relies on elections actually being fair. Questioning the process is the only way to make things fair, and the process being robust in the face of questions demonstrates it.

This idea that elections are unquestionabe is genuinely dangerous.

Hildegarde ,

This is another article that claimed a jet engine burst into flames, when all that happened was an engine surge. The engine didn't catch fire, the engine did the jet version of a backfire, and only once during the takeoff roll.

Hildegarde ,

Article below paywalls bad

Housing costs may have gotten out of control, but there’s another expense that now poses an even greater burden to many American families: child care.

Jessica Norwood, a working mother of two in North Carolina and host of the financial-literacy show “The Sugar Daddy Podcast,” said daycare costs when her two children were ages 3 and 4 added up to nearly $3,000 per month — almost twice her monthly mortgage payment of $1,580.

“We were spending easily 55% of our pretax household income on our mortgage and child care,” said Norwood, who grew up in Germany. Her family looked into getting a nanny or an au pair, but found disadvantages to both.

“It’s no wonder so many people (i.e. women) leave work to stay home with their children,” Norwood told MarketWatch in an email. “It’s all excruciatingly expensive.”

Norwood said her friends who work outside of the home and have young children all face this dilemma. “It’s a frequent topic of conversation in our group because there is no escaping it and, in most cases, there are no other viable options.”

The average cost of child care for two children is now greater than the average rent in all 50 states, and greater than the average mortgage payment in 45 states, according to a new report by the nonprofit Child Care Aware of America.

Child care is considered affordable if it costs no more than 7% of a household’s income, according to the Department of Health and Human Services. Yet the typical cost of care for one child, which was $11,582 on average in 2023, is 10% of income in married households and 32% of income for single parents, according to CCAoA. The actual expenditure is often higher, as the average American family has two children and most single-parent households also have more than one child, Census Bureau data show.

The financial challenges facing families have impacted some people’s decision to have children. In a 2021 Pew survey, finances were the third-most common reason people said they didn’t plan to have children, after not wanting children and medical reasons.

“The reality is that for most families, everywhere, child care is very expensive, and it is a very large part of families’ monthly and yearly budgets. That is true in every region,” said Anne Hedgepeth, chief of policy and practice at CCAoA. “There may be different extremes, but child-care prices outpace almost everything else.”

In the largest metro area, New York, the typical monthly cost of child care for two children is $2,634 while the typical monthly housing cost is $2,451, according to the Economic Policy Institute’s Family Budget Calculator, which estimates the typical costs for a modest standard of living around the country.

But the problem is not unique to large, pricey coastal cities. In a smaller metropolitan area like Scranton, Pa., child care for two typically costs $1,541 per month while housing costs $1,008 monthly, according to the EPI’s calculator.

Even in Danville, Ill. — one of the lowest-cost housing markets in the country, according to Realtor.com — the typical monthly cost of child care is $999, outstripping the monthly housing cost of $878, per the calculator. (Realtor.com is operated by News Corp subsidiary Move Inc.; MarketWatch publisher Dow Jones is also a subsidiary of News Corp.)

The American child-care system today is not only unaffordable for many families who need care, it also does not provide livable wages for many of those who work in the field. Workers in child-care centers earn an average of $30,360 per year, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

“If parents can’t contribute more, and educators are making so little in the child-care and early-learning system, I think that really tells us that our investments are going to need to come from elsewhere, from places like our federal government,” Hedgepeth said.

A Biden administration rule announced earlier this year reduced costs for families that receive child-care subsidies, limiting the amount they pay to 7% of their household income. It is estimated to impact 100,000 children.

“President Biden and I believe that every family in our nation should be able to access affordable child care,” Vice President Kamala Harris said in a statement.

CCAoA’s policy recommendation is for lawmakers in Congress and in state governments to expand funding for the system, so that states can “provide more families with subsidies, lower the price of child care, support and retain the child-care workforce, and increase access and supply.”

How has the cost of child care and housing affected you and your financial decisions? MarketWatch would like to hear from readers about their experiences. You can reach us at readerstories@marketwatch.com. A reporter may be in touch to learn more.

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Hildegarde ,

Paying for a product doesn't mean you are not the product. Corpos will double dip when they have the option.

Modern cars collect huge amounts of data on their drivers despite the company making money from selling the car. Stores will sell your purchase history to advertisers. You can't trust any one with data about you.

Hildegarde ,

Based on what?

Hildegarde ,

im trans and im voting third party fuck you

Hildegarde ,

You clearly don't know the rules.

Any choice on the ballot is counted.

Hildegarde ,

You can't even see far enough ahead to the current move.

Biden still can earn my vote if he wants it. If I were committed to vote for him regardless, I would have absolutely no leverage.

Hildegarde ,

They are literally counted. Go back to kindergarten.

Hildegarde ,

What has a bigger impact, the 7% who voted third party, or the 33% who didn't vote.

Hildegarde ,

You do know that the states elections are the ones that count the votes, right???

Hildegarde ,

Then earn those votes.

I do not vote for genocide.

Hildegarde ,

The passport card is a passport for domestic air travel. You can use it to drive to canada but nothing else.

Hildegarde ,

If you do that you will give even more incentive for the government to underreport inflation.

Also inflation usually measures consumer prices. Ever wonder how education, healthcare, housing, and most other major expenses can increase significantly faster than inflation? This is why.

If your rent goes up, its not inflation. If the cost of chips goes up it is. Tie it to a better metric.

Hildegarde ,

If I were a vandal, (im not) I would get an old pair of boots and dip them into some sort of lightly corrosive liquid or gel, then walk them across the hood by hand.

There is no more reasonable result of parking a cybertruck on a crosswalk than finding the indellable footprints of someone stubborn using the crosswalk despite their best efforts.

Hildegarde ,

Banning young people's favorite app and then doubling down on the genocide is not the sort of strategy that wins elections.

Hildegarde ,

The president can declassify documents. If biden cared about justice he should declassify all the documents at issue in this case.

You can't delay a case due to classification issues if the documents are no longer classified when the case goes to trial.

Simple solution. Make it happen.

Hildegarde ,

On the contrary, releasing the documents would demonstrate exactly why the documents were kept secret. However, doing so would not retroactively legalize mishandling the documents when they were classified.

Hildegarde ,

So wonderful that Joseph Allen is here to tell us what women think. This is the kind of investigative journalism the world needs more of!

Hildegarde ,

US air travel can be decarbonized by replacing it with electrified passenger rail. Trains with a pantograph don't need to store energy. Nearly all of the challenges of electrifying transportation are already solved and just require the infrastructure to be built.

Air travel should only be used for routes that cannot be serviced by electrified rail.

Hildegarde ,

America has many problems. A lack of corn isn't one of them.

What linguistic constructions do you hate that no one else seems to mind?

It bugs me when people say "the thing is is that" (if you listen for it, you'll start hearing it... or maybe that's something that people only do in my area.) ("What the thing is is that..." is fine. But "the thing is is that..." bugs me.)...

Hildegarde ,

I still don't know what a preposition even is. What are they even for?

Hildegarde ,

The cops are not students. They should not be attending student protests.

Hildegarde ,

Sounds like the solution is to increase the cost of gas until it costs more than 5 figures to continue using it.

Hildegarde ,

Yes, but my choice of distro is the correct choice of distro everyone else needs to switch for unification reasons.

Hildegarde ,

How dare you

Hildegarde ,

Why does this law not apply to healthcare? That is by far the largest source of hidden fees.

Hildegarde ,

When I said healthcare, I meant medical providers, to whom every single fee is hidden.

Restaurants cannot charge hidden fees because they say its for heath reasons in this law.

Emergency Slide Falls Off Plane, Winds Up At Home Of Lawyer Whose Firm Is Suing Boeing ( www.huffpost.com )

An emergency slide that fell off of a Delta passenger jet shortly after take-off last week reportedly turned up two days later outside the home of a lawyer whose firm is coincidently suing the Boeing plane manufacturer over safety issues....

Hildegarde ,

Why have they not grounded every car? Despite all the safety problems at boeing, they are still way safer than automobiles.

Hildegarde ,

Youtube will also put videos in your feed that you can't watch because they don't exist yet. And you can't hide the nonexistent video because doing so will hide the video when it eventually does exist.

If you think things couldn't possibly get any worse, you clearly don't work for google.

Hildegarde ,

Google copied the ability to download multiple apps at the same time from F-droid. They're scared.

Hildegarde ,

They notify normal videos sometimes.

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The World’s First Non-Polluting Combustion Engine: 440 Horsepower And Only Water Vapor Emissions ( www.wecb.fm )

The automotive industry is undergoing a significant transformation, driven by technological advances that prioritize environmental sustainability and energy efficiency. This shift reflects a growing trend towards alternatives designed to replace the traditional internal combustion engine, known for its high pollutant emissions...

Hildegarde ,

The most important thing is where the hydrogen comes from. Per the linked wiki:

At the end of 2021, almost 96% of the global hydrogen production was from natural gas (47%), coal (27%) and oil (22%) and only around 4% came from electrolysis. Emissions from burning hydrogen can be negligible but emissions from producing hydrogen are currently higher than direct combustion of the source.

Hydrogen cars may be carbon free, but the hydrogen fuel sure isn't.

Hildegarde ,

only hemipterans are bugs fight me

Hildegarde ,

ur a bug

Hildegarde ,

Google knew youtube shorts didn't stand a chance in a fair market.

Hildegarde ,

They are not supporting hamas. The US government is supporting the terrorist organization of the IDF. This is why they are protesting you dunce.

Hildegarde ,

This the goal of this bill.

Hildegarde ,

The international fixed calendar is basically what's described here. But it adds one day to bring it to 365, that day is called year day, and its an extra day, not a day of the week just a bonus day. Leap years get a second extra day 6 months later.

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