brianbarwinski.bsky.social
@brianbarwinski.bsky.social
85 year olds are likely in senior living/assisted living homes. 7k per year out of pocket, but 60k per year paid by young, healthy members funding the rest.

The amount of wealth transfer from the young to the boomers is disgusting.
October 8, 2025 at 12:59 AM
Subsidies are usually a form of compensation for burdensome regulations.

"You cant allow water to run-off into streams." Well, capturing the water costs so much money that farmers would go bankrupt doing it. ~ therefore, subsidies.
October 7, 2025 at 2:15 PM
We need to recognize that it is a fascist government whether they are importing or exporting communities.

A government does not have a mandate to socially engineer its constituency. Both are in the wrong.
October 7, 2025 at 10:20 AM
I'm not familiar with the host or his guest.

What i saw from the guest on the right discussing the nuances of balkanization vs integration within communities.

The host didnt contribute to the discussion, only offered moral condemnation. I would have liked to see more probing questions.
October 7, 2025 at 10:12 AM
It always brought a smile to my face whenever i saw white liberals telling young black men to start fist fights with police during summer 2021.

I know you are trying to get them killed, you know you are trying to get them killed, but the black youth think you have their best interests in mind.
October 5, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Unfortunately with the big push toward A.I. innovation as a national security policy (mechantilism), these tech companies will continue to fail upward for the next 25 years.

They became too big to fail in 2021 with the passage of the Infrastructure and Jobs Act 2021.
October 5, 2025 at 8:40 PM
I think that both the left and the right agree that both k-12 education and higher education dont need to take up 16 years of our lives.

I would have figured that the left would be doubling down on technocratic solutions and A.I. driven education instead of the status quo.
October 5, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Stealing money from the Syrian people only has value if he plans on purchasing things that they create and export to Russia.

All the real wealth was tied up in oil and mineral rights contracts. Guess who is holding those now?
October 5, 2025 at 8:32 PM
I am a truck driver that routinely gets underpaid/shorted and exposed to unnecessary financial risks (no breakdown pay)

I'm guessing that Walmart is selective and has some special conditions for working there, but would you recommend for a 40yr old driver of 5 yrs accident free?
October 5, 2025 at 8:21 PM
I am a little bit necrophobic. I like the costume and theme, but it only has value in-so-far as it is used to dove-tail with some movie or event. Is she promoting something here?

I've seen dead bodies before. There is something about the congealed blood around the eyes and lips that turns me off.
October 5, 2025 at 7:56 PM
I bet she is also the lady whose car breaks down on the side of the highway and gets annoyed that dozens of men stop to help. "Like, i already have a boyfriend, ok?"
October 4, 2025 at 12:05 PM
I dont know why men go out of their way to be nice to women who look a mess. There is no reason.
October 4, 2025 at 12:03 PM
You are right. It is difficult to be reasonable with people who choose to be unreasonable. Sometimes it is best to walk away.
October 4, 2025 at 1:22 AM
The UN and EU have been pushing a 30 km/h system for about a decade. It equals about 24 mi/h, about the same speed as a bicycle.

I'm convinced that it is a NIMBY protocol to reduce tourism and protect land value for the wealthy.
October 4, 2025 at 1:09 AM
The effectiveness of these rules is inversely proportional to the development level of the city.

If a new township is created with these rules in mind, everything is structured to accomadate. But try regulating the flow of traffic after it has been developed, and you get chaos.
October 4, 2025 at 1:04 AM
Conflict resolution practices are necessary if it is your boss or coworker that does it.

Eventually everyone needs to learn how to communicate and draw reasonable boundaries amongst each other. We cant all just take our ball and leave.
October 4, 2025 at 12:58 AM
Shame/guilt only affect those who subscribe to a moral code that they apply inconsistantly.

You are advocating for normativity, persecuting those who stray from acceptable opinion.
October 3, 2025 at 11:22 PM
Outside of America, every place on earth identifies with their ethnicity above their nationality.

Go to India and ask them about their caste system.
October 3, 2025 at 7:02 PM
When you open your mind to the possibilies, you start to see all sorts of things. That is why i am still scared of watching psychological thrillers.

The world is bigger (and deeper) than we know.
October 3, 2025 at 12:48 PM