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Sometimes it doesn’t work that well tho, but the results are so bad that they’re hilariously good

shigeo, nine years old: look!! i drew you this!!

reigen: aw that’s nice let me see

the drawing: crayon kid-penmanship of reigen sitting at his desk with a massive Eldritch Horror of a spirit looming over his shoulder

reigen, white-knuckling it: oh! ……. how nice! Is that behind me, then?

shigeo, nodding: yeah!! it likes you!

reigen: o  h  ! that’s great mob!

ORC MEME: WHEN THE. WHEN THE STEW TASTES GOOD

These are your earned benefits. Those who make over $147k dont have to pay ss tax after that, not to mention capital gains arent taxed. The ss trust fund has trillions of dollars in it deadass

A lot of the time youll hear the program is going bankrupt- thats a lie! the program is paid for and deficit neutral. There is a projected shortfall where about 78% of benefits would be paid out in 2034/2035. The actuary has projected that making millionaires and billionaires pay their fair share in taxes would create enough revenue to continue the program through the rest of the century

We have close to hundred milkweed plants growing on our property. I noticed yesterday that a lot of the leaves have serious gnaw marks, telling me that the monarch caterpillar has been visiting. Then today, I saw three monarchs flitting around the yard near the milkweed. It takes steps like these, ordinary people doing ordinary things, to save species rather than waiting for the bureaucrats of the US Government to do their jobs.

Excerpt from this story from the Washington Post:

The migratory monarch butterfly, a North American icon with a continent-spanning annual journey, now faces the threat of extinction, according to a top wildlife monitoring group.

Thursday’s decision by the International Union for Conservation of Nature to declare the species endangered comes as years of habitat destruction and rising temperatures have decimated the fluttering orange itinerants’ population.

The species’ numbers have dropped between 22 and 72 percent over the past decade, according to the new assessment. Monarchs in the Western United States are in particular danger: The population declined by an estimated 99.9 percent, from as many as 10 million butterflies in the 1980s to fewer than 2,000 in 2021.

“It is difficult to watch monarch butterflies and their extraordinary migration teeter on the edge of collapse, but there are signs of hope,” said Anna Walker, an entomologist at the New Mexico BioPark Society who led the butterfly assessment.

The loss of monarchs underscores a looming extinction crisis worldwide, with profound implications for the humans who have caused it. One million species could disappear, according to the United Nations, a potential calamity not just for plants and animals but also for the people who depend on ecosystems for food and fresh water.

The IUCN is a network of governmental and nonprofit organizations that comprehensively tracks the status of species. Scientists from around the world work together to produce assessments.

masondenverr: Senator in Hell with Demon Receptionist!