Don’t mind me, just thinking about how peaceful Americans were between 1949 and 1965

Haha. Yeah. Stupid Republican voters.

shuffles feet through the tattered remains of all the liberal broken promises

Only in the US

https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/obesity-and-overweight

Not actually true.

Yeah, Trump’s making America great by killing white collar industries

True(ish).

and offering factory jobs

Flatly false.

I started my own company because I was sick of it.

I’m genuinely curious to hear how you’ve found it easier to land clients than employers. In my experience, you really need a good in with a bigger firm if you’re going to have any hope of launching a business. Unless your old employer is jettisoning their contracts as quickly as they jettison their staff, that can be tricky.

Comic is more right than it lets on.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/ask-smithsonian-are-cats-domesticated-180955111/

There is little genetic difference between a tabby and a wild cat, so scientists think the house cat is only domestic when it wants to be

Can humans make a similar claim?

If not for the battery with a disturbing history of exploding, it would be the vehicle’s worst feature.

Welcome to the Marketplace of Ideas!

That’s a great idea you’ve got there. Would be a shame if something happened to it.

“Zero Emissions” has never sounded so sinister.

I gotta say, there’s a sentiment that nobody has ever said anything on the internet that’s ever changed anyone’s opinion about anything. And it is not a damning indictment of the internet nearly as much as folks who live by the theory.

But maybe they’re right enough that it doesn’t matter. A thousand hours of posting could be spent doing something more productive in swaying public opinion. Maybe “Ender’s Game” is a lie and you cannot actually post your way to the Presidency. I mean, I certainly can’t think of anyone who went so ham on social media that they reshaped an entire nation’s political philosophy.

But also, maybe there’s a negative valiance to posting. Perhaps it’s just harder to post your way into people’s hearts and fill them with love. But its comparatively easy to post your way into their amygdalas and drive them insane.

Literally just finished watching it. Incredibly series from the GOAT Satoshi Kon. But… I will admit when I first saw it, my brain went to

Most likely, their in-house AI saw the Unalive-Word and auto-flagged it. Then another AI that has been inserted to replace some data sweat shop worker picked it up and auto-approved the ban notice. Very possible that no human ever saw what you posted before you were ejected for Word Crimes.

The Reddit interface is so fucking obnoxious when you’re not logged in, I’ve just given up on the community entirely. Days of casually browsing have been ruined by the constant gating and engagement baiting and GUI hell they’ve injected into the site.

Angry Labour Value Fundamentalist Noises

I’m forced to say that some of the wraps and textures added to the vehicles do make them look cool again.

But I feel like that’s equivalent to saying “Once you drown the turd in whipped cream and cherries, it looks edible.” I mean, fuck, I suppose so. But I know what’s underneath so I’m not touching that spoon.

I would pay $15,000 for one.

I would pay $15k for a better vehicle. I’m not getting in The Truck That Kills You Instantly.

Strip out the bad stuff

What’s left after that?

The key to the penny auction was intimidating speculators and outside interests from scooping up property being auctioned away.

Good luck intimating a Blackrock agent at a sheriff’s auction in the modern United States. You’re not going to scare off a trillion dollar oligarch and a paramilitary police state with pitchforks

“Imagine how dumb the average person is. Now considers half the people are dumber than that.”

is a line I never hear from people who think they’re in the bottom half.

People can work for less, under the table or via wage theft. Very common in the lowest tiers of sex work, in house cleaning services, and in the agricultural sector where human trafficking is common place