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  • Six-figure earners “are concentrated in the largest and most expensive metropolitan areas in the United States, where the living costs are higher,” Adams said.

    That and student loans are a big part of it.

    To make 100k you likely have a bunch of student loans and need to live in an expensive area.

    There’s way too much variation in America to act like numbers mean the same anywhere.

    The more people unite against billionaires, the more we’re going to see rage bait where the goal is to draw the line anywhere else.

    America is fucked, and it’s fucked for some people even tho they make over 100k, they’re nowhere close to the problem.



  • Dayen mentions in passing that “the source of Epstein’s wealth” comes from obtaining power of attorney over the estate of Les Wexner, “from which he appropriated bunches of money” — but this is easy to misread as a euphemism for theft. In fact, Epstein was Wexner’s personal money manager, and his “appropriation” of Wexner’s funds is perfectly ordinary in the WMI — even expected.

    Article makes it sound like “business as usual”…

    But Epstein lived and ran his business out of a house Wexner owned and let him live in…

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_Wexner

    Like, we’re supposed to believe your first client is a billionaire who lets you work and live out of his home?

    Epstein didn’t create the ring, he just took over management. It existed before him and people owed it favors already. It’s the most likely explanation how someone with no experience or even really a business could land such a huge client that comes with a fucking house.







  • Well, yeah…

    If the people in charge of security were honest, they’d be fired. Anyone that doesn’t say what trump wants to hear get fired.

    So when it comes to stuff like this, no real actions are taken to prevent it from happening again. Because you won’t acknowledge why it happened.

    As the right fractures more and more, this will keep happening. Maga has always been a loose coalition of different groups with different goals. And trumps not even trying to keep them all happy anymore. They all thought they’d be the priority, and now they’re pissed and feel used.


  • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldtoDIY@lemmy.worldCold room flooring help
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    the house is on a septic system that we know not to be located anywhere near this cold room as well if that means anything.

    Do you not have a well anywhere?

    If there’s no well and OG owners had to have septic…

    They had to get water somewhere too, and that’s a cistern. And it would be away from septic deliberately

    It can’t all be rotted wood, but a cistern filled with dirt would make the room “cold” and the high moisture content would make the wood rot.

    I guess one thing to do is just see how deep it goes? Like, there is absolutely no way that’s just raw earth and you can dig a tunnel to the surface. Check if downspouts have a weird tunnel/pipe thing by them, or ask neighbors with similar age homes if they have one.

    But in my uneducated opinion, you got a giant concrete waterproof room down there filled with dirt.



  • Sometimes inexplicable stuff has a reason everyone forgot decades ago…

    It’s real fucking weird to have poured walls and a dirt floor, there has to be some type of reason for it, and it’s worth it to have a plumber look at the tie in and what’s going on.

    You might have a giant cistern down there that was back filled with dirt. The age of the house would help narrow down possibilities