I work in heavy industrial production and my company bought another.

Their plants were in a much worse state in regards to health and safety. Higher incident rates, worse safety practices, less maintained equipment and a worse culture about mistakes and criticism lead to people get hurt much more often.

Among all the corporate nonsense, I appreciated that they actually invested the money to make work safer. People get heavily injured or lose their lives when dealing with these large machines. Most of the workers there were grateful as the last owner was just interested in running the plant dry, no matter the cost of human lifes.

If you make or sell anything in the US, or really anywhere, you need stuff from China. Anything that contains any electronics (i.e almost everything important), many resources, plastic parts, anything the US has outsourced is ordered via sea freight from China.

Now it’s 64% less things over a single week. Your whole economy relies on cheap stuff from China and they made it not cheap anymore. So companies will not order anymore, because they can’t afford it, knowing that can’t just double their prices. Most companies probably hope, that this is temporary and want to delay their orders until they have some level of security, that shit is not two or three times as expensive as it was the month before.

If that doesn’t happen, everything down the supply chain will be affected. From food to cars to data centers and IT, consumer goods, cosmetics, healthcare. The shipping companies themselves. Logistics, ports, trucks. Building materials like steel and concrete. Everything. And most companies hold very little things in storage these days, they rely on just-in-time delivery because material on stock is expensive, so this impact will come very quick.

And nothing, outside of a gigantic national effort that would be comparable to the brutal industrialization of the Soviet Union or China, could compensate for this. The consequences are a massive economic crisis agaist which 2008 or Covid looks like peanuts.

Trump will bend. Or he might have to dodge a few more bullets.

I think it’s a bad rep, because people (ofc especially women) would like to have at least some body parts that aren’t immediately sexualized, but now you even have to think about the beach pic of your feet in the sand.

Bare feet are seen as very innocuous… Until the feet people show up, are horny on main, put them in a wiki, give them a rating and catalogue all the feet pics.

In bed it definitely falls for me under the “if it brings you joy, we’ll find a way” category.

I am not sure what negative effects my meds would have to have before I’d consider not taking them.

If they took away 10 years of my life I’d still take them because the 20 years without them were mostly pretty fucking miserable.

Cutscene at the end of Act 2:

Kim lies with a gunshot wound against a wall. Harry tried to stop the bleeding with a handkerchief he got from Joyce Messier, who is very reasonable and also young and hot now.

Kim takes off his pissf****t jacket and hands it to Harry.

“Guess you gotta be the pissf****t now, huh…”

“Goddamit, Kim, don’t say shit like that!”

“Take care of it… Can’t go on… Woke has gone …too…far…”

Kim closes his eyes and dies.

Harry gets up, puts on the jacket, tightens the horrific neck tie, who’s back as comic relief and has an incredibly annoying catch phrase, and looks into the sunset. A slowly rising mashup of Revacholiere/Won’t get fooled again plays.

I do have a mostly competent manager. I will apologize and say something to the likes you said. I will take my meds, breathe and find words and actions that will make this situation acceptable. I appreciate your words in any case.

But the dread of failure and rejection is so deep seated, it physically hurts. I stare at my problem and I know it’s transient, it’s solvable and it will be okay… And yet my body and soul react to it with a violence that is usually reserved for hearing about events in Gaza or a loved one dying. I have failed a thousend times on similar things and all my brain learned is shame and hiding. I am better now, but it’s still like a baseball bat to the gut. It’s full on fight or flight, and my body is going 100% flight and leaves the fighting for another day.

In a general sense. In the day to day business these ghouls can and will do things that will hurt their mid/long term interest because it fits their vibe or they don’t really get it/know the history.

Elon does want to lead a fascist empire, but the nonsense-ai-crypto-bazinga version in his ketamine-head, not the fairly boring but successful, actually existing empire.

Good, cheap wireless noise-cancelling headphones are one of the few legitimately wonderful technological advancements of the last 10 years. Very few things help my with my ADHD as much as these fuckers.

Annoying coworker breathing like a 400 m runner? Headphones. Loud, stressful supermarket? Headphones. The little kid downstairs throws it’s third tantrum of the day? You know it.

Cables can suck it. I will wrestle Bluetooth anyday before getting my head yanked back because I forgot my headset has a cable and i suddenly got up to get some water.

No, because that would be useful and increase safety and comfort at the cost of… basically nothing.

Volkswagen

Wait. I think some other fash was faster.

Never

“I guess, you could call it a dark soul, prepare to die edition”

“Ahhh, my eyes why is this lava so bright”

“Souls… Souls never change.”

By the way, I think the boys found an actual mermaid, let’s check it out. Hm, why can I hear bells tolling on the open sea?

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Post a slice! The crust looks

Welcome to the Jungle on permanent loop blasting in the background

Love me a good wetbulb room temperature.

Dexamphetamine.

Sleeping on time also helps. But that’s difficult.

The Grumbian decision to make all their engines run on cabbage and subsequently turn 92% of the countries agrarian production to cabbage did them honestly no favor. Even the polish thought they were a little obsessed with cabbage and the smell was practically unbearable for foreigners.

I thought Felix made enough money on Chapo, this seems a little unnecessary.