…what?

I live around a lot of these people and I’m always confused by where the attitude is even coming from. We rarely even encounter immigrants around here and when we do they’re usually working in some kind of service industry job just trying to live their life, maybe harder to communicate with due to language barriers, but to hear these people talk you’d think they’re rampaging through the streets. Like I can think of one instance where an illegal immigrant that worked at a Mexican restaurant here raped a woman. That’s as far as I’m aware the only one that’s been an issue and it was over a decade ago.

A few minutes pain vs. a week of itching. Violence is still the answer.

I mean yea, but god doesn’t exist so wtf am I supposed to do other than figure it out on my own?

That’s crazy to me. I only use my local bank at their physical location. I feel like the fact that they exist in close proximity to their customers who can put hands on them gives them a little extra incentive to not do corrupt bullshit.

Yeah, I’m renting 1/4th of a basement in a shitty housing development. I’d kill for that guys trailer.

I use a password manager in my personal life but my job doesn’t allow it so I have to keep the 10 or so passwords I have for various vendor sites in my notes. All my passwords are the same thing with slight variations to meet the different asinine password policies the different sites use. It’s fucking stupid but I don’t care if they’re not going to give me a good way to keep all this shit straight.

My last job had entire switches that looked like this.

He started way before that.

Also, only the main screen time and date button actually pulls the calendar up. That works on all screens in Win 10. It’s incredibly annoying

Will I be fed and cared for on this ranch or is it more like a concentration camp thing?

They aren’t going to provide for people’s basic needs after the robots take their jobs. They’re going to keep the excess productivity for themselves. Just as they’ve always done. The only way that changes is by force, and by the time people get desperate enough for that they’ll have an army of robots at their disposal. We need to tackle that capitalist problem before we get to the point automation taking all the jobs.

Elon’s bullshit isn’t going to be that point though.

Okay, but can we execute these people for putting this concept into the world anyway?

Community is what you make, sometimes it’s no more complicated than talking to the same people every evening when you take a walk or getting to know your neighbor. Your brother’s family is your community. Your family is your community.

I mean, great, I have family and some good friends too, but none of us have anything to spare and we’re all struggling to hold our shit together constantly. We get together and hang out a lot but we’re not able to actually fulfill any of our goals or grow as people. I want to do more with my life than just fucking consume bullshit and worry about if I’m going to have enough money to handle the next emergency.

As one of those that carried that feeling throughout my life. It’s not that I haven’t worked to make things better. I’ve worked my ass off and all I’ve been able to achieve is barely treading water. I can’t invest in my community because I don’t have any spare resources to do so. I’m almost 40 and I’m still renting a room out of someone’s basement ffs and there’s no indication that anything is going to get better any time soon. If I wasn’t on the hook to act as a (shitty) safety net for my brother’s family when our parents are gone I’d have probably domed myself by now.

Being able to see their faces increases accountability.

My friends compliment me on my physique and being well dressed pretty often. Sometimes they give me shit for it to but that’s just banter. I don’t compliment them much on their appearance but that’s because they usually dress pretty schlubby and don’t take care of themselves.

Who’s bewildered? Of course this was going to happen. Everything enjoyable about life is being ruined. It’s not surprising at all.

It’s a texture thing. I don’t like when foods are like that.

No Kings didn’t achieve anything and the US is hardly the only country that’s backsliding.