That sounds nice but what unarmed crisis worker would want to deal with an unhinged lunatic waving a knife around without armed backup?

Radical anarchists like her are not supposed to care about money, certainly not enough to attempt to deprive the victims of an oppressive society the fruits of her labor. She sounds like she was a big fat hypocrite.

The problem is that a lot of these "tech" companies are not making much (if any) money at all, particularly those companies that went public in the last couple of years. Many tech companies are wildly overvalued (i.e., Salesforce at a P/E of 600). Now that the cheap funding is gone they have to reverse the massive hiring spree that they went on if they want to survive and there's plenty of deadwood to cut.

Portugal decriminalized drug use but dealers and distributors are sent to prison there, contrary to popular opinion. They also don’t tolerate open air drug markets.

You are not "throwing away rent", you are renting a place to live in. When you buy a property you are making a mortgage payment in order to have a place to live in. In the first ~10 years of a mortgage nearly all of the payment consists of interest (sort of like paying rent to a bank for the use of its money) with a small portion of the payment going to principal (equity).

When deciding whether or not to buy you should determine if renting is less or more expensive than buying a roughly equivalent house with a mortgage payment (taking into account higher maintenance and insurance costs for owners). Also consider the increased flexibility that renting offers for relocating if necessary.

The standard deduction in 2022 for single filers is $12,950 and $25,900 for joint filers. Getting a house for the interest rate deduction is one of the dumbest reasons to buy.

Particularly since the needle used for the vaccine is tiny and I barely have even felt the shots. My arm was a bit sore several hours later but the shot itself is nothing.

He’s in his mid forties, which is a little late for schizophrenia to emerge. Whatever his problem is he picked a creative way to ruin his life.