Why are you so opposed to it?

Yes, I get the impression most people are worse off lately. Devil take the hindmost seems to be turning into devil take the entire bottom half.

I wonder what conclusions they will come to about what to do about it…

I’m familiar with it; I think it’s a really great illustration! I guess some of the low income parenting examples like boots would be things like dentistry.

I agree, the whole thing makes no sense.

Saving up for you kid, doesn’t equal not living at all; because the kid is also living the same life.

Well yes but “being poor is expensive” and in my experience some low-income people try to cushion children from that by saving up so that there are always funds for things like emergency healthcare or even big ticket items like braces, rather than letting them do all the middle class stuff and have no safety net.

Edit, but thinking about it, that doesn’t make any sense given her emergency fund thing (which as you say is weirdly low).

I do wish journalists didn’t do this.

I remember an article a while back with a beneficiary complaining about not getting to buy much icecream.

It makes it sound like spoilt people whining over nothing, whereas plenty of people’s wish list is mostly just nutritious food, medicine, or being warm enough.

It’s all relative!

I saw her salary and immediately went to check how to become a teacher if we ever get a cure (it would be hard to get my old career back, so I’m always thinking up ideas).

Maybe car maintenance and fuel costs?

Back when I was working every time someone on the same income as me was in financial trouble it turned out to be car-related or involve alcohol.

Either that or she’s actually socking a huge amount into managed funds. She did say she is saving up for her kid.

Yeah, it was sad how that whole thing went down. Ernest was visionary, but protective and had health issues, and a couple of the people who wanted to help were kind of being dicks to him imo.

I feel like with the fediverse we are in the early stages of something that could be really powerful and amazing. Thanks for all you do with this corner of it!

Report from today: they successfully hatched!!

So did another one from a chrysalis I hadn’t even noticed as it’s on a very scruffy tree that I thought had no caterpillars. I didn’t get a photo because they must have hatched this morning and now won’t keep still.

Hopefully they will get the memo that it’s cold and not a lot to eat, and go and hibernate somewhere.

Oh that’s a pity, I loved being able to follow mastodons via kbin. Kbin was written in php so probably just as niche as Lemmy but for the opposite reason?

I think the topics was why I thought Piefed was going to be more like kbin.

I… do not know. I will go out there and report back.

True!

So there are.

Mbin forked before a lot of kbin’s cooler features got implemented, I wonder if they ended up developing them too. Piefed seems closer but I haven’t really explored it yet.

Exactly! There is truth in some of them, though I can’t remember which ones!

Yum! Probably the wrong time of year for it now, but in tomato season you could do some big jars!

So one of the crysalis is getting near hatching time and I can see his/her wings. It wasn’t attached to anything very solid (I think it was on a leaf that someone else ate) so I went and tied on a lifeline for in case it breaks off when they are trying to hatch.

Very cold tonight though so I am a bit worried.

Feedback I forgot the other day is that kbin no longer exists.

Tomatoes? Idk you just covered the main bases.

My worry was that it’s some military sub messing around in their habitat.

Maybe both!