They’re forced to work 12+ hours a day, every day, if they want to get anywhere. I wonder where the time to find a partner and have children is supposed to come from?

We are quite certainly in the beginning-ish of WW3.

Nah, California is pretty great. I’d say it would be the place I’d move to if money weren’t an issue. As long as you can afford it, CA is an amazing place to live with widely varied culture, fantastic weather, and an incredible number of things to explore and experience.

You can find every biome across the state, and you can literally go surfing in the morning, drive up the Pacific Coast Highway and through beautiful, lush valleys, in perfect 72 and sunny weather, on your way to snowboard in the mountains for the afternoon, into a nice chilly overnight at the lodge, and back down the coast the next day, because the weather is perfect again.

That’s just one of the countless things to do in California. You’ll also get clean air, a comprehensive interstate highway system, better public services, a near infinite variety of food, and generally better quality of life than many other places.

CA isn’t perfect, but I can’t think of anywhere else that could ever match it for me.

The staggering irony of them doing the very same thing the Nazis did to them to them less than 100 years ago, and then calling an allied country holding them to account for it Nazis, is mind blowing. There are still people alive today who were hunted by Nazis, what do they think, I wonder?

Based on his actions, not his empty words, he has made it quite clear there is no distinction between Hamas and women + children, they’re effectively the same at this point.

with a smokescreen

I wouldn’t say it’s a smokescreen, they’re pretty open about genocide, e.g. Netanyahu’s call to “finish the job”. I’d say that’s everything short of a direct call for literal genocide, given the context.

Man, if they’re admonishing us… Hoo boy.

by a different name

It’s literally just genocide, cut and dry. (I do understand your point, just emphasizing my view).

You’re making passive income from disability, a pension system that no longer exists, and owning 3 houses you didn’t pay for based off of programs no longer available to anyone starting out now. While collecting “market rate” rent (which conveniently always increases).

The disability, I’m fine with. My buddy had the same thing from the Marines and he more than earned the 100% rating, as I’m sure you and your wife did.

However, this whole thing where you’re talking about with retiring off of passive income… that was a LOT of words to say:

I’m a landlord

I really wish you would have said this first, because your long winded story about houses and “passive income streams” gives me the impression that you know the house-related part all boils down to being a landlord, and I get the impression you buried that fact to obfuscate it. You’re making money from other people’s work, in the form of the rent they pay to you (minus a small fee to the property managers), while doing literally no work yourself, as you explicitly explained.