It’s kind of adorable to think that the economic fuckery is going to be something on the scale of any kind of recession.

No, the economic fuckery that’s already happened is likely to cause another depression.

I wish they’d open source the name.

It should be called the “Linux Subsystem for Windows”.

Your neighbors pay your salary. The more money in your community the more there will be for your salary.

Sometimes you’re likely to want to get groceries.

Sometimes you’re likely to want to go to restaurants.

Sometimes you’re likely to need to get housewares.

Sometimes you’re likely to need services from plumbers or mechanics or electricians.

If you choose your local community, that money stays in your community, and it’s likely to make it back to you.

If you buy from a company headquartered in a different city, the money you spend goes to that other city.

So next time you’re buying a burger and fries, check out your local restaurants.

Bro.

A chihuahua on crystal meth would do a better job than Trump.

A coma patient who doesn’t wake up would do a better job than Trump.

I would say that The Devil would do a better job than Trump, but that’s kind of like trying to divide by zero.

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The US Military was a well-oiled machine before January 20, 2025. Now it’s a machine whose oil is driving more than all other machines and is about six months past its due date for an oil change. They’ve announced a bunch of plans for more trips, but nobody’s changing the oil anymore.

Google offered Workspace free to individuals. I set that up and used it for my family, and then BAM! After a lomg time using it, they removed the free plan, once we were using it for logins for a bunch of sites and for our emails. Went from free to $50 per month. It took a LOT of effort to get my family off of that. Never again.

For the entire time I have lived on this planet, I’ve been pretty confident that my daily activities would generally be considered legal, and that the Federal Government had literally zero reason to be interested in me or anything I did.

Now, though, I am aware that the government can disappear me and rendition me to a death camp, without trial and even without habeas corpus.

As far as I can tell, if I’m being arrested I no longer have anything to lose. I am aware of that, and should it come to that, I understand why people are saying to act accordingly.

That is as far as I am going to say in this conversation.

Fat shaming makes people feel hopeless and actually encourages depression which causes overeating.

People who fat shame KNOW they are causing people to be fat. They’re not fat shaming out of concern for others.

It is openly to damage those other people’s lives, because the people doing the shaming are looking for a way to make themselves feel good, and fat shaming gives them a positive feeling.

I’ve always thought it interesting that people say that porn leads to people being incapable of relationships.

It’s like, no, obviously plenty of people who watch porn are capable of being in relationships.

The reality is that people who ALREADY have trouble with relationships use porn a lot.

Similarly, drugs don’t tend to be step one in a person’s life being messed up. The drugs are usually the coping mechanism, not the cause.

And yet, they ban all drugs, rather than putting time and effort to making people’s lives better.

You want to reduce porn usage? Have mandatory comprehensive social interaction classes for EVERYONE, including dating, including concepts like consent and flirting and asking people out. It should be a class that EVERY student has, and it should be EVERY year. So no one gets left behind.

You want to reduce drug usage? Have those mandatory social interaction classes AND have classes to cover things that people typically struggle with in life. Connect psychologists, financial organizations, and other professions with educators so that people in those professions can anonymously give data about the issues that people struggle with in life, and work to make sure that classes to deal with those aspects of life happen BEFORE the times when those issues normally tend to pop up in people’s lives. Coping classes need to be mandatory.

Drug use will fall through the floor if people are taught coping strategies before they need them in as many areas of life as possible.

That’s not being fair to the new owners.

It’s the company buyer’s responsibility to make sure they know about and honor existing contracts with the existing company, and it’s the company’s responsibility to provide that information to the buyer.

It is not ANYONE else’s responsibility to make them follow that. If something like this happens, the company(whether before or after the purchase) was in the wrong.

Or it’s not actually the richest.

They can’t afford bread?

Let them eat cake.

I guarantee Starlink will be used to subvert other governments. It should not be allowed to function in ANY country, including the United States.

Which is exactly why they shouldn’t approve it.

I like how Tesla thinks replacing their CEO is going to bring those sales back.

This would be such a good username.

As Hemphill got to know the women, he convinced them to confide their past sexual traumas, which he then deliberately reenacted as he assaulted them, Curzer said. He took advantage of some victims’ inexperience, the prosecutor said, or crossed boundaries that victims had clearly articulated.

Interesting that you bring up Luigi…

When the world thinks “illegal immigration” we all think “Germans sneaking into Hawaii”.

This puts creative workers in the same boat as all other employees who do work once and don’t continue to get paid for it afterward.

And for anyone who would take this as an argument in favor of the wealthy exploiting people, no, it’s not. It’s just pointing out that it’s more typical for humans to be exploited, and the fact that there used to be legal protections to protect people who did creative work but there haven’t been protections to protect others is very interesting.