US still pay better than a lot of other countries relatively speaking and despite Republicans our level of open corruption is still lower than many others at least for now.

AlphaFold still a big deal, was big part of reason behind recent Nobel Prizes. Used (and misused) by a lot of scientists.

People do crossstitch and make unique outfits all the time. Everyone not in rich consumer countries (and the poorer people in those countries) all learn at least basic stiching.

All the services are doing the same AI bs except maybe actual local business (and even some of them) if they still exist.

These people are the “peasants” or close enough the distinction doesn’t matter. We were all told the way to move up was to go to college pay all that tuition and you’ll more than make it up longterm. If you end up working min wage stuff anyway it’s better to just do it out of high-school. The warehouse guy probably makes decent but is also working shit hours and slowly destroying his body, again something college is supposed to help you avoid.

Don’t think any of our reps voted on him getting a new air force one much less one from Qatar.

Those come after the new tenant.

I mean they probably are on their own media but why would they care to help save us while generating more antagonism for themselves and reducing the show of economic power they hold over us. They are very obviously winning the trade war by a lot. Make us feel some pain and they’re going to get a very favorable deal to make it stop.

Maybe empty shelves can wake up the apathetic or even some of the cult, the most dangerous thing will be whatever he does to try and distract from that.

Both. He knows it made him richer and he’s enough of an egomaniac to believe it does what he says it would do just because he said it. Now he’s richer and he’ll believe this was his plan all along because a narcissist is never wrong to themselves, hes already been blaming Biden about any negative economic news.

Yeah, FL not just removed it, they stated no local areas could implement their own and that contractors were banned from implementing anything of the sort for their employees. Not sure if anyone has checked on hospitalization/ death from heart exhaustion or heat stroke since that was signed in to law.

I mean the dude basically developed protein shakes and Jeet-kun do which is considered the precursor to modern MMA and jkd students have historically done well in professional fighting. He won a boxing tournament in Hong Kong before his US emigration. Obviously we don’t know how he’d fare in further professional fighting, but I think it is a reach to say he didn’t do it because he wouldn’t do well. He simply wanted to be an actor not a professional fighter.

Yeah, he’s overhyped but he was still a cool dude.

Honestly all the holidays were a bit muted for 45 so it makes sense they’re even quieter for 47. There’s even more fear, anxiety, anger, etc. Not the things that really drive a party atmosphere.

A mortgage gets you a place to live with increasing amount of property ownership as time goes on. It isn’t at 25% interest for one evening. You never get the money back from going to a concert, you do get at least some back on a mortgage.

No, I don’t believe you should do it if it is going to make you struggle more long-term. At what point do we just agree a given amount of money you don’t have is stupid to spend. If someone spent $1,000+ that they can’t actually pay on a t swift concert at 25% interest, yeah, maybe you’d be in a better situation for 2y if you avoided that extra few hundred in interest for like 4y. Preventing my own struggle certainly better than a few hours of entertainment and hearing loss.

I do believe people should be paid enough to afford joys in life without struggling so much but that’s not the system we have.

I love how easily people are strawmanning this into something I didn’t say.

It’s a picture of my daughter being cute (note: she’s always cute).

I mean even if the show had happened it sounds like you shouldn’t have spent money you didn’t have.

Alaska and Maine have managed to get it so I think there’s still hope on that front so long as we continue to have free and fair elections…and that law doesn’t pass/is struck down.

Most Dems and independents would support RCV because it increases their chances of continued power.

They don’t know how else to be, their greed demands it.

The rest of the world will be fine like when mao had the birds shot or when USSR relied on Lysenko instead of Vavilov. The US…people are going to have to get ok with shitty living real fast. Ironically, this giant reduction in the ability to consume will likely be great for the average carbon footprint.

Better question of who’s not?