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Cake day: July 25th, 2023

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  • “The Demonrats voted for Nazi Kamala so they don’t deserve food! We’re taking federal tax income from NY communist state and Calicommufornia and subsiding Fantastic Florida Patriots food! Oh, and they’re the party of hate not us! Fuck Democrats, hope they all die! Merry Christmas to all!”



  • That’s easy! Repeal child labor laws and massively increase prison populations for slave labor!

    …they did say private prisons were among the groups very happy to see a Trump victory. Wonder why…

    I will make sure to suicide by cop before I end up a literal corporate slave, I will force the guards to kill me.









  • 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.




  • 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’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.