Never. The line must keep moving upwards. If it doesn’t come from productivity it comes from enshittification, layoffs, offshoring, etc.

And profitably shitty.

Hold it. Crypto is senseless. It’ll climb again.

What victory? The selfish one that nobody cared about except the worst of the republicans that actually harmed many republican constituents?

The US is in decline. Hastened by Republican ideology, accelerationists, and general willful stupidity and ignorance to varying degrees across the board. The “economy” revolves more and more around the stock market which only serves to enrich the already well off and wealthy while the rest of the ~90% flounder.

Having opinions that all culminate in wrecking things while not bothering to understand any of it, particularly because of personal prejudices or ideology, is a proud Republican tradition.

Nope. Once on a while I might listen to it out of nostalgia’s sake. Otherwise it’s churning through a bunch of garbage on spotify trying to find something decent. My other half otoh is constantly listening to our high school year’s music. It’s all the same, it’s the same top songs from the charts from the same top bands, over and over… I can’t handle the repetition.

If they’re that addicted to reddit’s way of doing things they can stay.

Lol, lemmy theorists will not be far behind. Lucky he didn’t work for Boeing, too.

It doesn’t. But in true bully fashion, they only feel better about themselves by making someone else’s life worse and they don’t have to expend any effort or sacrifice making their own life objectively better.

They’re fake? I mean, he’ll just have some sycophant doc like that tool that pronounced him fully fit for his first presidency write down a bunch of BS to be released.

No, but it’s certainly a big draw. People looking to the collection plate to buy absolution, buy better health, a better life, whatever…that already believe in magic are far more easily manipulated. Religion has always been attractive to charlatans, grifters, and even warmongers and hatreds. You an far more easily get people to hand you power and money with religion.

I like coconut water that bits of coconut in it. I do not like boba tea.

Texture preferences and dislikes are really weird differences between ASD peeps.

This is some juvenile grade deepfake revenge porn.

Wait until we get to the “Yeah, we’re fascists…” part and they get rid of any pretenses at all.

Meh. There’s by far more mediocre bands with some fame than Coldplay. At least Coldplay isn’t one of the “hype” entertainers like Bieber that need constant press coverage to stay relevant or a band that will play anything and have no real sound of their own like OneRepublic.

That does suck, and I have never been with a union where that isn’t a possibility. That’s one of the downsides whether or not they’re management’s tools. Top leadership tends to take care of itself first.

My union dues are 1.5%.

But, my union:

Makes sure I don’t have to take my work home with me.

Says when it’s ok to be contacted by work at home.

Got us a nice pay raise that more than covers any dues.

Makes sure any training events are monitored, correctly administered and can’t be used to get rid of employees.

Provides additional insurance that make up for shortfalls in employer coverage - particularly disability.

Substance abuse and mental health help so that you can get help and not lose your job.

And plenty more.

All of it worth more to the entire group than any pain from the dues I pay. Love being in a union shop, worth it even with the few downsides.

~30% of the country really wanted to hurt other people because their lives were messed up, they weren’t rich, or they wanted to be richer.

Do you have any evidence that I won’t win a $60 million dollar lottery prize next week? I play the lottery occasionally…