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Which is why good, decent people struggle in this world.

Air America lasted about 5 years in the 2000s, and it was exactly this. The Republicans would never let their stations die like Air America did.

I was just thinking, my peanut butter doesn’t have nearly enough microplastics and forever chemicals

They want to win a lot more than we do. War is just business to us, no one is hyped up about this. For them tho, this is an opportunity decades in the making.

I doubt Amazon had any liabiliy here - the contract they make you sign probably says “we’ll try really hard but if we lose your data, it’s your fault.” Microsoft does that with Azure.

I do miss my mom, but then I remember her doubling down on being a conservative despite her gay son having nearly been killed in 1999 for coming out in HS. You can’t argue with stupid, and you can’t indulge it either.

The article briefly mentions this, but having lived in states with plastic bag bans, and states without - well drive through the countryside and count all the plastic bags in ditches, trees, streams. Paper might be more intensive to produce, but the lingering effects of plastic bags are being underestimated I think.

CounterpointL people getting their news from social media and memes is 99% of the reason we’re in this hellhole

I had a friend tell me - you don’t get to pick your place in history, but there’s always something worthwhile to observe. Most people don’t live through the end of an empire, social decay, and ultimately… well, we know this won’t end well. But there’s something deeply romantic about being part of the resistance - I mean hell look at how much art is made about that.

Now obviously you have to ignore some things like how you can’t afford groceries and your life expectancy is going down (you’re already unable to afford rich people medical care, which is now diverging from the rest of us). But it’s really nothing compared to any historical turbulence like this. We aren’t in famine. Our life expectancy is way UP since then.

I can’t change any of this (beyond the serious community organizing I’m doing anyway) so looking at different perspectives is the only way to stay sane.

Do you know how credit cards work by chance

Article references his manager

Dropping sick beats with 6% commission

DiCaprio who has no sexual allegations against him, surprises you - but a billionaire who buys prostitutes in a spa suspected of human trafficking gets the benefit of the doubt?

Even better than an orange logo for telling you it came from Home Depot

Like you can afford that after you borrow money for groceries and pills

You weren’t paying attention to the alt media igniting and fanning the flames as the pandemic unfolded, it was like Covid itself started broadcasting and posting on forums. Unbelievable shit. Felt like one of those “wacky wednesday” books but with, you know, more people choking to death on their own blood.

I believe they’re all earmarked for the crushing machine

It’s crazy how Apple out there all “hey come spend $2k on a phone” right as I’m nervously looking for the door. How much do I really use the ecosystem?

No one will ever forget the world’s hippiest tech company bribing Trump with gold.

Amazon is genuinely hard because I am very poor and there’s often a big price difference on Amazon. I am working on it. I’m a millennial and frugality is a core requirement of survival.

I worked at a factory in the rural south the year (2022) they quietly did away with marijuana testing, even for spot violations. Turns out the standard reasoning, “the insurance company says,” doesn’t really matter… they didn’t care and allowed a 9-panel to be used in all testing matters.

The unofficial reason I heard is, they go through the same workers on rotation, the good employees get hired back and forth. Drunks are chaotic, tweakers introduce drugs and are chaotic. Stoners are quiet and show up on time, and cause 0% of the fights, and tend to come with less of a rap sheet for terroristic threats and domestics.

They almost tripped over themselves to look the other way on my stonership…

Dems embracing Christianity rather than rejecting it is how we’re going to get back in the game. You don’t have to believe, you just need to let someone who does believe go have that spiritual argument for you. And you have to just acknowledge that separation of church and state doesn’t exist and never truly has.