Aren't we a lucky bunch lol

Woof lol, just layers deeper than mere "independent contractors", too, the strike threat is unbelievably funny.

These are people who are years downstream of even other downstream folks (the plastic-facade YouTuber hustlesphere influencer types who eventually <???> enough popularity to move these folks into actionable FOMO lol).

A "strike" 🤡

Them saying "I was squandering my inheritance, but then I wasn't and it was so easy, I was so smart!, and now they made it harder, so I'll have to suffer through just squandering it again and I'm mad that they did this to me!"

What's it called when you have to educate yourself the tiniest bit on a topic before you can meaningfully discuss it?

Dems doing the "let's uphold decorum, as the good guys", broader libs doing the "thank goodness nothing is seriously wrong, otherwise good guys would be really upset!"

And we plod foot after foot after foot...

Def get that frustration, Dems are not here to help us or anyone but the rich.

However - rather than not vote, go vote 3rd party. If voting is low effort for you (it isn't always...), that's a tiny but legible stamp of "nah fuck this".

Whereas non-voting in the US is only seen by the powers that be as "guess they're fine with either of us lmao, must not be too unhappy, hell yeah, may the great grift roll on!"

Send the signals ya mean, folks. Silence is not a signal.

Just went and read em, those rules suggest a "hardcore echo chamber" to you? And ya felt the need to announce that, and also announce that ya don't even have the basics under your belt to understand one of them? Kinda makes one wonder. Do you... understand any of them?

Idk what to say lmao. Kudos for the solid self-own.

The Epstein class is fundamentally transnational, this is the key problem. I welcome any organization trying to weed them out to any degree that is successful, but we must acknowledge - these people possess power (through money and influence) that utterly transcends states, and frankly governance of any kind.

If we don't deal with that fact, we will simply continue as we have.

Overton window creaks and shudders rightward on its tracks, with a distressing, audibly ratcheting under tension, click, click, cliiicckkk...

It weeds out the less complicit, too. Amp up the obviously heinous parts, see who shakes out, fill the gaps with the worst folks imaginable, rinse and repeat. Everyone remaining slides more in that direction. Win-win.

There are different people in charge this time around, compared with the first go. Way more capable (clearly evil) people.

Very true, and in a pretty surprising turn, most folks really only know how they respond once they get there.

But to the point, the biggest cause of variance between the two is just available resources. Responsibility spans the dial between powerful lived experience of wholesome capability and crippling mortal burden from which no escape but death is available. I'd say that dial is twisted more by support / resources / precarity than by individual characteristics, certainly more than an individual's willingness to "rise to the occasion" or similar.

Some species of termite can effectively molt backwards, meaning they can physically return their bodies to a juvenile stage, AND THEN re-mature from that juvenile stage into a different adult body plan!

So adult worker (medium sized head and mandibles, etc.) -> juvenile morphology -> adult soldier (huge head and mandibles). And other forms I don't remember, think they can go back and then become something with wings, etc. - big bug changes!

And what's crazier is this is done in response to pheromones secreted by the mound's queen. Termite Queen up in the mound playing Sid Meier's Civ lol, controlling her city through different stinks! Too few soldiers after the latest bird incursion? Got a buncha workers with nothing to do? No problem, stink-compel em to go back to goo and come back as what the mound needs!

I got all this from a fairly goofy podcast a buncha years ago - be kind, anonymous grumpy expert, if this is way wrong lol

And when they start hiring juniors again, insist on onboarding those motherfuckers like you're teaching a CS degree. The young'ns deserve to learn, this is some bullshit.

Either spell the word properly, or use something else, what the fuck are you doing? Don't just glibly strait-jacket language, you're part of the ongoing decline of the internet with this bullshit.

ID required for computer use in general has to be my line in the sand and that scares the fuck outta me. I have no idea how to make ends meet for the people who depend on me, if I have to walk away from computers, but there has to be a line somewhere.

It's okay, if Coldplay is a honeypot to lure execs onto camera to self-own

Adding to the chorus - you're a real piece of shit for taking an artist's work, REMOVING something the artist finds important, and then pretending like you've got some moral high ground here.

Go fuck yourself!

"zip ties near me", amazing, perfectly fitting for our era of unreality

The really stupid part is it probably actually COULD. Healthier, happier people are more productive and more willing to spend their time in the ways that make those people rich.

So, thereby grow the whole pie, they still take the majority of it, get even more. But they're so goddamn greedy and small-minded, they actually make it worse for themselves. To say nothing of the conditions for the rest of us, and also leaving out the way taking this too far tends to result in turmoil and (gasp) dead rich people.

Honestly by now it's becoming reasonable to assume "projection" as a baseline, to then change based on evidence, when someone has a take like this guy's.

I don't mean the political tactic, just the garden-variety kind of projection. "Probably ~everyone thinks the way I do, and boy, we better not give everyone the tools to act on that..."

Deeply wrong about how most folks think, because of how they themselves do, and believing they're therefore helping. Likewise a self-admission, because they don't realize they're admitting anything.

Maybe not the case with this guy, I'm not gonna dive in.

But I do sincerely believe that's a somewhat charitable take toward anyone making a claim like this today. Charitable in the sense of acknowledging a misunderstanding and desire to help.

The less charitable one being - just obviously complicit. Fuck this noise.

gasp

Where's your tolerance?! I thought progressives were nice!