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Cake day: March 6th, 2025

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  • There was an article with a pretty compelling argument a while ago that basically said the true poverty line in the US is over 100.000$/year family income (when you look at what that number was originally supposed to measure). Below that you’re getting fucked left and right.

    Every dollar a family earns between 40k and 100k makes them poorer, because it triggers benefit losses (like health care & child care) that exceed income gains.

    So what the US reports as “the middle class” are actually the working poor




  • The most interesting thing to me is: there has to be a whole subgenre of market research about which syllables sound “sciency”/“medical”/“effective” to certain target audiences of a drug…

    I imagine this is somewhat like in my childhood as a non-native English speaker in the 90’s where most my exposure was through music and then we would make up these words from English sounding syllables that sounded “cool” to us 😄