Ænima

Policies make up the bottom rung of their IDGAF ideological beliefs pillar. Above that are laws and above that is the Constitution.

Corporations have always hated labor because it’s always their highest cost. It’s why layoffs are the first to be used, and usually the largest way, to cover up bad profits for shareholders. Anything that allows a corporation to cut labor costs, even at the expense of their entire service offering was bound to be adopted as thoroughly as possible, regardless of public sentiment. They keep hoping more data will be the key to get AI to replace the cost of having to pay workers!

Thing is, last I read, humans have not produced enough written works (in all of human history) to make AI good enough to replace labor.

Thank you! I was so confused initially by these time traveling pollsters.

One way, pre-recorded beeper, more like it.

Get out of here you rich fucker!

Just like COVID testing in 2020!

So let me get this straight. A dude with no record and a judge order to prevent deportation, who didn’t resist law enforcement during his kidnapping, gets whisked away to a torture prison without pause, but a dude breaks a pig’s nose and gets to remain in the States? What incentive is there NOT to go down with the most violence you can against the abductors? When tRump is finally removed from power, hopefully with a hanging for treason, I hope the next president pardons people like Hector Villegas-Alvarez.

Why do people forget the lessons of the past?

All the people that would normally slap them upside their head die off.

Right? Like who the fuck cares? If I could call tRump a fascist dickhead to his face, I wouldn’t fear shit. Fuck this dude. Fucking Republican cowards.

They’d have to start caring about someone other than themselves to do that. Most have been programmed to avoid people and isolate to be safe.

Just switch to Linux already!

I always signal in roads but rarely in parking lots or driveways unless I’m trying to let others know I’m waiting for a parking spot.

Or maybe you just want an excuse to eat shoes.

I’m so glad we couldn’t fund all those aid programs with the money already set aside under the guise of cOsT sAvInGs so they still ended up increasing spending. Can we start asking them when they’ll start hiring all the people back since we can now see how inefficient this administration is. I know the answer to that but one can only dream.

My issue anymore is not with paying taxes, it’s how disproportionately they are applied across income brackets. In IL, we have some of the highest property taxes in the States, yet our schools are still needing to cut back on music and art programs I grew up experiencing because they don’t have enough funding and test scores didn’t care if you can play the cello. The roads and their platforms of potholes are a minefield, public places are rusting and falling apart, and we’re being told that there’s just no money and that austerity is the only way to make anything work, now.

No, austerity is not the only way if the rich paid their taxes. Righting this ship, this far after Reagan gutted most social safety nets and hamstrung a lot of programs aimed at helping anyone but the rich, is going to be extremely difficult until the geriatric boomers, who refuse to leave positions of power, left or are removed. Until (and if it’s even possible now) we get back to that level of taxation of wealth, we will never have the life they tell us we get to live nor the world we want to raise a family in.

It’s like they can’t come to terms with the way life is and that they might not be the center of everyone’s world. My 5yo has the same problem. Tomorrow doesn’t seem to exist for him, he thinks anything he wants to have he should have because he wants it, doesn’t believe in giving, even to kids he calls “friends” at school, some of something he has and needs it all himself, and getting him to be quiet for a few min while having a conversation with anyone but him will result in him relentlessly trying to get our attention. Oh, and a lot of the stuff he wants to do makes no sense and sometimes goes completely against the laws that govern matter.

Our society is being driven off a cliff by people who have the same mentality as a child who hasn’t learned to share. Grown ass mother fuckers, with no empathy or understanding of their insignificance in the universe, so they go scorched-Earth to get their way. It would be fucking pathetic if there wasn’t so much on the line.

Your toilets would suck at flushing too if you attempted to flush a fuck ton of classified documents down them!

I’ve seen M.A.S.H.. You can just crank the handle a few times to charge it!

“play Outer Wilds”

-god, probably

Two words for you: restocking fees!