[-] nickhammes@lemmy.world 25 points 12 hours ago

Yeah don't listen to Dave Ramsey. I remember hearing him speak on TV as a kid and something just felt off about him, but not quite as bad as Suze Orman.

I don't think he's a scammer, and some of the stuff he says is perfectly sensible and useful, but he (a boomer) also gives advice that isn't how he got rich, to millennials and co, who will never ever get rich following it. Structurally that makes him pretty out of touch, and suggests anyone who listens to him should do so critically.

That's putting aside that he's also kind of just telling people to do capitalism harder, and everything that comes with that.

[-] nickhammes@lemmy.world 20 points 17 hours ago

You think JD Vance is the kind of guy who would do something that brings pleasure to neither him, nor the couch?

[-] nickhammes@lemmy.world 49 points 2 days ago

more like "it isn't true, but it feels like the kind of thing that would be true about the people I don't like"

[-] nickhammes@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

The 3% is a reason to be skeptical, but doesn't necessarily refute the 99% claim. A person can be a Native American, part of their community, and have a grandparent who was an immigrant. 2/3 of them at minimum would need to have a similar situation at minimum, but it's less than the percent who live outside reservations (78%) so it doesn't seem totally far-fetched. It seems high though to be sure

[-] nickhammes@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Harris winning Texas is a very unlikely event, as much as I'd like to see it. I'd be happy if exit polling is ~Trump +1, and they can't call the state before midnight. A narrow Trump victory would still change the national conversation around Texas significantly

[-] nickhammes@lemmy.world 17 points 1 week ago

Et tu, Pence?

[-] nickhammes@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

That's true, bigots will always offer a road deeper into their beliefs, and you can't stop them. But I think here the road out is a bit more visible than usual. It feels like a seed of doubt could be planted in some heads, which is something.

[-] nickhammes@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago

All because the school was afraid of some trans girl, who statistically speaking, probably wasn't even one of their best players. The school's transphobia did presumably hurt the trans student they targeted, but I'm guessing they hurt a lot more cis female athletes, on their own team especially. I hope any of those students who may have been transphobic see how it hurt them more than the trans student, and it gets them thinking...

[-] nickhammes@lemmy.world 22 points 1 week ago

Trump bucks are so 2023, they should start accepting Trump Steaks futures contracts and other derivatives

[-] nickhammes@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago

Dedicated hardware still has benefits, having your phone notifications separate from gaming, if your phone breaks having your console break would suck, and imo a touchscreen will never surpass physical buttons on controllers so you'd still want those.

I personally hope the future looks more like a steam deck than a gaming phone.

[-] nickhammes@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

Experience which we all know is the backbone of a good presidency, just look at James Buchanan

[-] nickhammes@lemmy.world 17 points 2 weeks ago

You mean Donald Trump, who once said on tape that he was famous enough to get away with grabbing women by their genitalia? Seems like a pretty bad guy to trust, unless the thing you're trusting him to do is sexual assault

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