Demoniod was great!

You could look into volunteering at charity opshops, aged care, soup kitchens, firefighting, picking up trash in parks and cleaning up water ways, animal shelters, after school activities

I live in the bush and only go into town once a week, so I usually bulk buy and plan meals. I also get cut off during flooding, so if it’s the rainy season and a risk of flood I stock up.

I block all meme communities. It really cleans up the feed

Is your razor tipped with tungsten or diamond?

https://lemmy.world/c/reuse

Not entirely no.

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Scholars primarily use the term to refer to classical liberalism.

British liberalism is now organised between two schools;

• the social liberalism of the Liberal Democrats (member LI, ALDE) and their counterpart the Alliance Party of Northern Ireland (member LI, ALDE),
• and the classical liberalism of the Conservative Party which was adopted in the late 1970s by the late former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher " - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberalism_in_the_United_Kingdom

Neoliberalism is a more contemporary version of classical liberalism

Liberalism in America refers to social liberalism. IE: justice, government management of social services(health, education, welfare, infrastructure). In this scenario, the government looking after its citizens.

Liberalism in the rest of the world refers to Neoliberalism. IE: capitalism on a pedestal, privatization of public services, limited government intervention in all areas(business, labour, environment, health, education). In this scenario, private business and “the free market” determine what is and isn’t good(IE profit is the greatest good).

Depends on if the pension is pegged to CPI and increases accordingly.

From what I have read in the past, there are different models that different coops follow. Most have a limit on the number of dwellings, both from the government and coop planning, if they have hit the max number you would have to purchase from an existing member. From the coop properties I’ve looked at, they can be well below market rate but that’s because you are buying into a community and there are expectations and responsibilities not found in non-coop living. A little like American HOAs.

There are some coops that have strict requirements to join, like womens only coops or some that follow certain beliefs(environmental, political or spiritual and some can feel a bit cult-like). You can’t demand market rates when you have such heavy restrictions and demands of property owners.

There are alot of housing co-ops here in NSW, Australia.

Here’s the website of one with some good info: Goolawah Co-operative

Edit: Another good info website: https://www.ecovillages.au/

Alice Cooper used to be a raging alcoholic. He managed to turn things around though and helps others with their addictions.

An updated version of Clive Barkers Undying

Credit card doesn’t leave the wallet till I go in to pay. There’s no way for them to magic the charges onto the card.

Heres me living in Aus reading these comments saying this is normal, thinking its insane. We just pull up to the bowser, wave to the cashier and start pumping petrol. People would be livid if they saw a $150 auth charge. The petrol station would be getting dragged in the news.

The Sopranos final episode immediately springs to mind

Heres some studies if you want to do some reading:

Impact of Universal Health Care Coverage on patient demand for health care services in Thailand

The Economic and Social Impacts of Providing Universal Healthcare in the United States: A Rapid Scoping Review

The impact of public health insurance on health care utilisation, financial protection and health status in low- and middle-income countries: A systematic review

I dunno. Rip Taylor set a pretty high bar

Parenting? Caretaking? Guardianship?

I was sitting on a park bench with a giant bowl of grapes, slicing them in half with a butchers cleaver and eating them. I don’t really like or eat grapes…