Well I wish someone had told me that before I went through with the surgery.

unless government oversight finally becomes so corrupt and useless that this concept is forced through.

So next week, you’re saying?

Three words…

Cock finger puppet.

IMO, consumers aren’t necessarily stupid as much as corporations have very expertly learned to weaponize FOMO through advertising; allowing companies like apple to inflate their profit margin from something reasonable to “whatever the consumer is willing to pay.”

Is that “capitalism”? Yes…technically. But to me, it goes against the spirit of capitalism, which at its heart sums up as “Farmer has a cow that produces milk. Farmer sells the chicken farmer down the road his extra milk and charges enough to be reasonable but doesn’t get greedy because he needs eggs.”

Corporations don’t need our eggs. They don’t believe they need anything from us and so don’t care about being reasonable about profit.

Its “capitalism”, but in my opinion, a perverse, stilted form that should have been kicked to the curb the moment Reaganomics started making it popular.

Life tip: No matter where you are, always seek out the weirdos. You’ll have a much better time.

I’m assuming you mean that the kid that wasn’t vaccinated wouldn’t have antibodies in his system? But how do you tie that to “This is definitely the kid that gave the measles to my child”.

Could have been that kid in his class that is unvaccinated. It could have been a kid he hung out with on the playground, or a kid he walked past in a mall.

There’s no way to prove beyond reasonable doubt that just because the kid in his class wasn’t vaxxed, that he was necessarily the specific vector for your child to get measles. It’s impossible. To many variables.

I’m ready to move to a commune. But like… not a hippie Luddite commune that shirks all technology. Just one that isn’t fucking insane about the tech in their lives. basically one that rewinds a bit back towards maybe the early to mid 2000s. Where we had a of the tech in a still mostly uncorrupted form.

Its like “the village” for people who are utterly exhausted by corporate greed. Someone get M. Night Shammalamma or whatever on the phone.

Just remember folks…if it’s not open source, and you’re not paying for the product, then you ARE the product. Likely a tracking nightmare.

6.5 Drachma, can be converted to 6 sesterces or six ducats.

Obviously I’m kidding.

simple solution. Either he gives up his business interests or the election is declared null and void. Third option is that the people remind him what happens to tsars when soviets rise up.

Those are his only three options.

At first I thought “Goth Clowns”. But then I realized that would just be mimes.

The truest truism that ever did truism is that “power inevitably corrupts”

If it can be proven. Yes. But there are too many variables to be able to prove it usually.

Doubt I would ever do the VR headset. I simply don’t play the kind of games that work well with (or even need) VR. Although come to think of it, a VR Civilization VI game would be wild.

But the Steam Machine would be interesting to replace the old laptop I currently have running as my multimedia box on my television (streaming, retro gaming, steam mirroring, etc…) It would be more powerful than the well worn old dude I’m currently using.

There are some actors that you can just hear their voice as you read; they’re just memorable in that way. I guess what I’m saying is that I miss Alan Arkin.

It never occured to my stupid Canadian brain that Chicken Tikka was actually British. But it makes sense in the same way that a lot of foods are “Canadian” because they were invented by immigrants adapting a dish to their new home.

Trump is too stupid to even know what the Aryan Fist is. My guess is he thinks he’s being iconic by mimicking the gesture he made when he was “shot” during the campaign. Which makes me all the more convinced that the entire thing was an act since everything Conservatives do is completely performative.

“work as much as you can, use as much as you need.”

You don’t need technological advancement to be sustainable if your population remains relatively small and static. Hunter Gatherers actually follow pretty much exactly the formula you described above and ended up with far more leisure time than their agriculturally “advanced” counterparts.

It’s never existed. Not in it’s pure form anyway. But neither has capitalism, or socialism either for that matter.

A theoretical system is always in some way perverted and coopted by the people implementing it. Humans are the weak part of the equation because humans are greedy and focused only on themselves and their own small group of friends/family. So scaling any political system up from theoretical to an actual national policy always ends up with a perverted form where one group ends up over another group despite the original theoretical intent of the system in question. That goes for Communism, Capitalism, Socialism, as well as religion too.

Humans suck and can’t have nice things without fucking them up.

If Jabba the Huts mother was a member of the Bene Gesserit.