I’m putting enough money away that I see myself retiring. At minimum, I would transition to a less stressful job about 10 years away from retirement and ride that out as I go to work less and less.

That said, I know I’ll kill myself if my health degrades too much. I haven’t decided what would happen if I run out of money.

Acts of God get companies out of a lot of financial burdens, so there is a financial incentive to continue labeling climate related natural disasters as Acts of God.

That said, insurance companies know the odds on events and are pricing in the risk of climate change even if they want to keep the worst instances as Acts of God.

And he did a great job getting nominated over the political machine.

Yeah. There was talk about using the 25th Amendment at the end of Trump’s first term. That won’t happen with this cabinet.

I’d just let it go. Why put so much effort into a group that doesn’t want your participation?

Lemmy is filled with political content. Voyager is probably just showing what is most popular if you are viewing all, which is going to show a lot of political content.

The best options is to curate a subscribed list or block political subs you don’t want to see.

This is the best you can do.

I’m talking more about stores.

There used to be a deeper ranking structure on where people shopped for groceries and home goods, with strip malls at the bottom. This is part of the reason why people dressed up going shopping; it was a display of economic class.

Retail has flattened significantly across a lot of sectors where there isn’t the levels of retail there used to be.

Yeah, but I feel like that is just retail in general. If a store isn’t actively selling an experience, it is just moving product.

There used to be economic levels to where people would shop. Now, most stores only completes on price or convenience.

We get that it is the design philosophy for Mastodon to not have an algorithm serving content, but it appears to be a non-starter for a lot of users of Twitter like services.

In theory, a third party could write that algorithm and implement it in some form. Truth Social functions like that, but without federating to the rest of Mastodon.

More like Miami with less booze and weed.

In the long run, yes.

In the short term, no.

And Trump lost 2020 with about the same number of voters.

Yeah. If you look at the overall votes between 2020 and 2024, Trump’s count barely moved. In contrast, Harris saw a collapse in votes compared to Biden.

Theme parks is really only an Orlando thing. A large chunk of tourist Florida is hotels by the beach.

Any reason why in particular?

What kind of tourist traps?

Egypt is the kind of country where I want to see things in it, but I kind of want to get the sanitized experience if I go there.

I feel like you need to be in a certain mindset to enjoy a theme park like Disney World. If you aren’t in that mindset, the place is a saccharine place of over-stimulation.

It is a good comparison. There is a lot to see in both cities and they have good transit systems, but it can be really disorienting if you aren’t used to city life and the grime of cities is harder to hide.