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Wanted to share a couple (non-membership/non-paid) price-comparison sites I've used.

No account required, no fees. They make money from affiliate/commission links, presumably.

Cell phone and ISP plan comparison: whistleout.com Can choose many details about phone and plan & compare.

Textbook/regular book price comparison: gettextbooks.com Can search by author, ISBN, etc. Sorted by price, including new and used on many sites. Shows shipping cost. I always use this when buying books.

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The map that reveals the American dream is over? >$76k/yr salary needed to buy median home, avg family can't afford home in 35/50 large cities - DailyMail

Yet, if we had communism - or even used to have communism at one point - here, most people would be able to own their own home. I bet the US statistics include mortgagees as "owners" or the numbers would be even lower.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_home_ownership_rate

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I hate the "autopay" discount (really a fee if you don't have it) and paperless BS.

It's ridiculous. If I don't have "Autopay" on my cell bill, they charge me an additional $20 a month (nearly doubling it). I think they charge an additional fee if you want a paper bill actually mailed to you, but you are free to print it at your own expense (how kind of them /s).

Oh, and now telecoms are thinking of bringing back data limits when they roll out 6G. https://www.lightreading.com/climate-change/could-6g-mark-return-to-usage-based-pricing-/a/d-id/777099?

Credit cards also hassling me whenever I login to tell me to sign up for autopay and paperless billing. I know they DGAF about the environment, the motivation for the paperless is to eliminate any actual employees and raise the profit margin. Legally, banks have to send you a paper statement and bill if you request it, and my guess is that if they get enough people to do the "paperless" option they will lobby the government to get rid of this requirement, then they can do whatever they want to customers with no paper trail.

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Would you update the widely recognized Communist symbol of hammer & sickle for the 21st century? What would you update it to?

In the developed world (esp. the US), the hammer and sickle, symbols of labor, are not actually used that widely anymore. Industrial monocrop mechanised agriculture and assembly-line manufacturing processes, as well as the use of robotics means most workers are no longer swinging a hammer or sickle as they produce goods, such as food, for the society. tl;dr: As manual labor has changed in the US & developed countries, does this well-recognized Communist symbol need updating?

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