Asafum

Lol lunch breaks. I wonder how soon it takes for that to be on the chopping block too. :(

I'm more of a bone apple tea myself, but I hear liber tea keeps the bugs away!

"To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentations of their women."

Just kidding. I have no idea. Some would say love, I've been fortunate enough to have a caring family, but I've never known "true love" of another not from my family.

"Soldiers on the battlefield have reported seeing the robotic AI driven dogs charging enemy positions shouting "STOLEN ELECTION! VACCINES CAUSE RABIES! JEWISH SPACE LASERS!!" it has been considered a resounding success."

We need to think about using technology to help people work less. Not just fatten profits.

It's such a hard topic to deal with because you have to tackle the concept of ownership.

As it currently stands in capitalist economies the owner, as the title implies, owns the means to increase productivity that would enable people to work less, but since they are the owners they see it is morally repugnant to have other people who did "nothing extra" get "more" money as the math is essentially: less work, same pay = greater value, except you didn't provide any greater value to them, the machine/technology that they own did.

It's a shitty situation for sure :(

The downside to that is it is much harder to continue working as you age depending on the trade. Usually the "best" route there is to start early, learn what you can, and go independent eventually hiring other people to do the hard stuff you no longer can do.

Also need to be careful specializing.... I went super specific and well... Yeah... Ice cream refrigeration machines aren't exactly ubiquitous. I should have stuck with residential HVAC but I hated crawling under houses and being on call all night :/

I currently work in a factory (yeah I'm just chock full of bad decisions) and I can say from what I've gathered from my coworkers being a "machinist" isn't so much of a viable trade anymore. Everyone pays like shit now.

printing press fired up in 2020 and real estate investors seemed to get plenty of that cash.

Maybe I'm just ignorant, but in a just world that should have never been allowed to happen... I'm sure our politicians had nothingggg to do with that "oversight." :/

Thanks for the links!

Yeah that was me too... I FINALLY got to the point where I could realistically start looking, got the pre-approval and everything just after COVID started... People had already starting WFH and moving away from where they worked and investment companies kept buying and now I'm still living in someone else's garage because prices went through the roof pretty much as I was looking...

Of course once you mention WFH everyone gets defensive and claims this was a trend, but those charts are the same everywhere. Houses in 2018-19 were often less than half of what they cost now...

I absolutely love my adaptive cruise control, I use it all the time. I have a hybrid and it does a much better job of keeping the engine from kicking in than I do. Thankfully with Honda I can use it everywhere not just highways. It's been my absolute favorite "new" thing to have in a car!

Favorite Wikipedia article: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Getting_to_Philosophy

Almost links eventually lead to philosophy!

I'm going to have to agree with everyone here, we won't know anything Tuesday night and more than likely won't know anything for a week or more.

Pennsylvania is essential to both parties and they have an absolutely absurd law that prevents them from counting mailed ballots until election night so that state won't have results for quite some time. Tie that into the thousands of lawsuits the GOP is ready to file and the whole first half of November is going to be irritating.

If we are no longer able to, how healthy do you think our society will be?

Tech CEOs: Who the fuck cares? I got my ad revenue, I couldn't care less about society. The shareholders sure seem happy!