Please. Elaborate.

People that work at microsoft could stop this. With means gentler than “Crack open the CEO’s skull with a hammer”, too.

It’s too bad there’s not a strong religious left that was into, like, flipping over their tables and beating these guys with whips.

Zuckerberg put in his will “Anyone who kills me gets a billion dollars”. Bold move, but apparently legal!

We should get rid of the republicans. We know who they are and where they live.

That person is stupid. Like, profoundly. They cannot escape their self constructed cage of emotions.

I’m so tired of emotionally stunted, intellectually incurious, fools ruining the world for everyone.

If those two shitheads said we should drink more water I’d check with other sources first.

Fuck them. I hope they both die for what they’ve done

This is true. People are bad at crisis and it’s not something a set of skills you can easily practice. I do think some hobbies probably help- some stressful video games, some sports and sporting-like things like paintball- but on the whole a lot of people live pretty simple lives where the most surprising, stressful, thing to happen is they almost burned their microwave popcorn. Nothing wrong with that, but sometimes it leads to disappointing behavior

Eventually someone is going to shoot some DOGE agents dead and I won’t be mad.

I don’t think retail theft is as big as retailers claim ( https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/18/business/retail-shoplifting-shrink-walgreens/index.html ) , but even if it was it’s still not even close

In 2012, there were 292,074 robberies of all kinds, including bank robberies, residential robberies, convenience store and gas station robberies, and street robberies. The total value of the property taken in those crimes was $340,850,358. By contrast, the total amount recovered for the victims of wage theft who retained private lawyers or complained to federal or state agencies was at least $933 million in 2012. This is almost three times greater than all the money stolen in robberies that year. Further, the nearly $1 billion successfully reclaimed by workers is only the tip of the wage-theft iceberg, since most victims never sue and never complain to the government.

https://www.epi.org/publication/wage-theft-bigger-problem-forms-theft-workers/

If you need help visualizing scale, revisit https://dbkrupp.github.io/1-pixel-wealth/

In another thread someone was saying that conservatives follow a worldview of “whatever works for me right now”. There’s no internal consistency or facts. This explains a lot. It looks a lot like being stupid, but i think is something slightly different

Pay people more work and have them do dignified jobs (ie: not making them pee in a bottle) and you’d have more people working.

Treat people like shit and crash the global economy, not so much.

But it’s not like conservatives care about making sense of being consistent. Hang mike johnson.

You shouldn’t do the George W Bush “Believe the same thing on Monday as Wednesday, no matter what happens Tuesday” thing, no. But you should ideally have some underlying belief system that’s more sophisticated than “What is best for me right now?”

The whole “the only moral abortion is my abortion” thing is understandable but also kind of reprehensible. People will make a big stink about how abortion is murder, only horrible people do it because they suck at life. And then they have a pregnancy, and they’re like “oh well this is different.” If you’re not going to reconcile those, you’re shit. You can say “I was wrong, and the people I was shitting on were in positions like I am now. I didn’t understand, and now I do. I was wrong.”

You’re not required by cosmic forces to defend past beliefs, but a decent person can acknowledge where and why they changed.

Wage theft is bigger than all other theft combined, but your coworkers probably aren’t nearly so upset about that.

Someone elsewhere on lemmy made the argument that conservatives essentially live in the eternal now. Any position is at that moment evaluated on if it’s good for them/their-group or not. Past responses don’t matter. Internal consistency doesn’t matter. It’s just “is this good for me right now?”

They’re trash people, essentially.

That’s excessive for typical people. The flowers and chocolate are going to look like you’re expressing romantic interest, which is inappropriate to do to a child.

I still remember being really mad I missed the “added effect” materia in the original FF7. You can never ever go back to that cave, so if you don’t turn around to pick it up you never get it. Pain.

Everyone involved in this decision should be shot.

What happened to all the republicans crying about “government shouldn’t be picking winners and losers”? Oh right, they’re hypocritical little shits that should be in the ground.

So tired of everything trash because like a third of the country has less emotional maturity than a toddler.

Conservatism isn’t rational. It is fear and hate. It’s a child slamming their head into the floor sobbing because their teddy bear is wearing the wrong shirt.

They should not be allowed to make decisions of any import.

You all see that article that said there’s a study saying at least a third of Americans are okay with musk being murdered? Shit like this is going to goose those numbers.