The GDP per capita of the US is 85,373 USD

The median income is 37,585 USD.

The price of a ps5 is 499.99 USD

37,585/12 = 3132.08 USD

A ps5 costs 15.9% of the Median Americans monthly income and is a once in 7 years purchase.

The iphone 15 pro max costs 1,199 USD

That's 38.28% of an American's median monthly income. An Iphone's lifespan is 4 years.

The average home price in the US is 495,100 USD

That's 13.17 times more than the median income of the average American today. The average American can obviously not afford to buy a home today.

The average hospital stay in the US costs 13,262 USD.

That is high enough to take away from a large chunk of the years savings for the average American.

The average food cost for an American is 779 USD. He can obviously afford the food.

The average rental cost is 1,518 per month. Again affordable.

It appears pretty clear that the average American can afford everything except for being able to buy a house and getting medical care.

So are things really as bad in the US as the average American complains?

Because it seems like the only two things actually worth complaining when it comes to pricing are a house to own and a good hospital stay.

A user on /r/SweatyPalms recently posted a video of a woman encountering a wild bear on a trail, then running back to her man at the end:

https://old.reddit.com/r/SweatyPalms/comments/1d2fock/woman_encounters_mother_black_bear_and_cubs_on_a/

Previously, there had been a trend among moid-hating legbeard femcels on social media to say that they would rather encounter a bear in the woods than a man. The trend very much pissed off large numbers of MRA neckbeard incels.

Well, this Reddit thread provoked exactly the kind of comments that you would expect.

...and so on and so on and so on, endlessly.

Eventually, the entire thread was, of course, nuked by the jannies.

Protip: if you don't want discussions about completely unrelated subjects to turn into neckbeard circlejerks of infantile political shit-flinging, then definitely don't post them on Reddit.

Hello @TheBoysTV and @SonyPictures. Your writer Jessica Chou on Season 4 Episode 2 of The Boys stole my joke from a very popular and widely circulated tweet. I want payment for my work you commercialized and from which you’re profiting, plus writing credit next to Jessica’s name. pic.twitter.com/JmmLKqaUms

— Uju Anya (@UjuAnya) June 19, 2024

https://twitter.com/UjuAnya/status/1803546352733004021

https://twitter.com/DoctaE1/status/1803528324141994427

!metashit

Maybe someone posted this already but I didn't search for it.

I'm going to do sneedman style by adding foids intermittently. Today I'll go with Denise Milani.

Tard Squad ELI5 reporting for duty:

https://old.reddit.com/r/explainlikeimfive/comments/1deeu1d/eli5_likes_are_private_now_on_twitterx_why_is/

By making them private, a user might get a good deal of likes for a publically heinous opinion because the awful people who like it are free from being exposed as supporting that heinous opinion by having their likes be public.

Now imagine politicians, companies, religious leaders, etc... liking any sort of account and you having no idea. Epstien p-do accounts? No problem! Racism, bigotry, support for Putin? All aboard!

Elon can just promote topics he agrees with and demote and outright censor anything he doesn't agree with. Because he's a petty daddy's money wannabe tyrant with a shitty diaper and a mother who doesn't love him even with all his money.

NoStupidQuestions asking Badthinks:

Why are users of Reddit, which has private likes, upset that Twitter/X now has private likes?

>[Bottom Text of OP]: Just browsing through the posts announcing Twitter/X will hide which users liked what and Redditors seem to be frothing at the mouth with rage about this new change. But why, when Reddit itself doesn't show you who upvoted or downvoted what?

People who matter don't use reddit. Being able to see if a public figure is into fascist shit is pretty handy.

/r/Technology geniuses:

https://old.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/1dfsw7d/what_xs_move_to_hide_our_likes_means_for/?sort=controversial

$8Chan in its final form. A pseudo NatC bar hiding behind a fig leaf. One man's attempt to control the narrative for his own ends whilst giving plausible deniability to those who wish to sow dissent and stir shiat on a colossal scale

It means they can sell your likes now that they aren't giving them away for free.

Some White Knight on /r/Twitter wants to fall on his sword and make his votes public again

!alligatorfrickhouse !fhqwhgads !chuds

have fun, guys

!forumposters confirmed endangered

https://old.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/1dj1xkv/internet_forums_are_disappearing_because_now_its/

pic.twitter.com/veESKCSudp

— Pink 🍚 (@PinkWug) June 22, 2023

Can he run it up again or is it finally over?

Bottom text

The responses in this thread are heartbreaking, some men are ev!l💔
How do people sleep after inflicting pains on others?🤦🏼‍♀️👇🏽 pic.twitter.com/v5Zv4JLMY4

— Veektorhia (@Vboss_13) June 19, 2024

Ok so the thread is from 2021 but showed up cause the person above retweeted it. Here is the original:

Anyway here are a few selections: