Walking where I live has an LD50 of like 40 minutes.

Good thing they removed most of us from the economy

That sucks, where I’m at I can just hit a delete key and take out the entire company.

Just start sabotaging

When I worked at a gas station, I always dedicated one register to lotto and one to regular customer. If you wanted lotto you had to wait in the lotto line.

Ended up making the lotto folks speed up because the regular people would just wait and get silently irritated, but other lotto people would get pissed when they had to wait so a sort of natural “buy, scratch, get back in line” system formed.

LMAO, I love that TEMU is just blasting their American users with push notifications and banner notifications that Trump tarrifs are why they have to pay 145% of the sale price for their cart.

Legit can’t think of a better way to get the treatlerites to actually pay attention.

I like that he fistbumps who I assume is the translator? With the same respect as the old men

Only Schindler’s Lifts are acceptable

6->7 required me to remove the eyes for some reason

Hey, they gotta pay for those warplanes and missiles somehow. Awesome how the roads and infrastructure around us is totally collapsing and taxes keep going up for poor people.

Am glad my boss got that PPP loan though. Him and his son got new houses and cars when they cashed it out then laid everyone off.

Yeah, State income tax is reduced in some places. My federal taxes are ~$250/wk while state taxes are ~$50/wk. That’s middle of the road for state tax. I know California and NY charge a lot more, but they also get a lot of that with higher property taxes. Which I wouldn’t have to pay because I don’t own property.

Also it’s not technically a tax, but health insurance is another $100/wk for a plan that requires me to spend $8000 out of pocket before they even consider paying for anything. If I don’t take that employer offered health insurance, I have to pay an additional tax penalty at the end of the year that goes to the health insurance companies, so it’s kinda a tax.

I pay about 1/3 of my paycheck in taxes every 2 weeks. Then another 1/3 for rent and the last 1/3 is groceries.

I was probably projecting a bit, I had a rebellious phase against my parents between the ages of 16 and 23. My parents were just conservative school teachers and a direct mail guy though. If they were a CIA director and a military contractor executive though, and I had the money in a trust to do it, joining an active war against the US is a reasonable course of action.

If that wasn’t a factor in his decision making that’s fair, but I’m just saying if it was me that definitely would have factored into it pretty heavily.

Didn’t know that was a slur, my bad

Even the more protected US companies have ~30% of their intermediate product imported from China. Corning manufactured ~50% of all fiber optic telecommunications equipment for the whole US and they get 50% of their input products domestically, but that 30% from China will wreck the whole industry

Didn’t mean it in a mocking way at all. Just that he had the same realization we all have had (at least here), but then also had parents that are directly part of the machine and his rebellion against them unified with his righteous rebellion against the state. His parents are America.

WNC and East Tennessee are legitimately the most beautiful places on the east coast. I’ve lived in the Asheville area my whole life. Coming back here after going to a city or any flat land is almost surreal.

Yeah, seems like a bad case of “I hate my parents” that turned into “I really fucking hate my parents” and they accidentally ended up with confused politics.

The issue with NASA was that they were the sole client for one industry until recently, and they choose to pick one or two companies to work with to simplify their own admin (as well as grease palms since it’s a political entity in a capitalist state).

That creates monopoly and immediately defeats any possible benefit from “natural selection” in the market. They also tend towards that because the most optimal configuration is a unified state run industry that is allowed to build up the institutional knowledge that their current private counterparts (Boeing and Lockheed) have, while also ignoring the drive for profits.

If there isn’t already an industry in place that can meet those knowledge requirements (as is China’s case), then allowing them to develop, then consuming them is the only really sustainable course of action.

Only the Soviets managed to build a new tech industry from scratch, and that took military development between 2 world wars and almost half a century, China managed to get there using a hybrid of those models in a decade.

Banning admins is funny because it will instigate a shitstorm where they get the users to brigade and I love threads

Other than that because