Sure, for the low price of a lifetime pension I’ll benevolently dismantle the oligarchy; ban guns; make cars luxury items; massively expand mass transit; and bring in universal health and education!

Just ignore the claims that I’ve actually jailed or killed my opposition; held the families of so called “freedom fighters” so they’ll turn themselves and their buddies in; made travel outside your area and healthcare impossible without government approval; and completely changed the history everyone learns.

Okay that’s obviously pretty extreme. Just a reminder that if you’re not careful even well intentioned dictatorships can be very oppressive. And every dictatorship is on a timer to a coup or revolution. And resetting that timer is not pretty. The only way off the treadmill is to have elections again.

The sheer amount of money being removed by the 1 percent is regoddamndiculous. It’s something like 45 trillion dollars since wages diverged from productivity in 1975.

It would require Apple to accept a dollar less in profit.

In this case there was no real issue. He was trying to get free advertising out of the court. But also, we’ve had animated avatars and text to voice for over a decade now. This isn’t an AI use case.

Nope, participation in a system that’s forced on you isn’t consent. But you can choose to do something to change the system. Get active, march, vote, organize.

Oh no. No. No. No. The players make the rules. Shifting focus to the game being bad is a deflection as old as time.

Right, so you just chose to be offended at something you knew wasn’t about you.

That’s usually a house. But yeah if they have a million in a 401k then they’re part of the problem. Those funds are sitting in investment companies like Blackrock fueling the primacy of Wall Street over everything.

Sure because “buying the dip” in regards to a recession is totally about someone buying half a share and not corporations vacuuming assets out of the economy.

Nobody is worried about your penny stocks and you know that.

In the US 1984 was the nadir in births. So a similar experience.

I accidentally ended up with a semi trailer full of blue corn tortilla chips?

Wait are you serious?

We should be spending public money though. The public debt has literally never been an actual issue for the US.

We never really recovered from COVID.

If you have the money to do that then you are the problem.

There is training of course. But that is the stress part.

Oh good. So you’re willing to eat off the soles of your shoes?

If the dogs are spreading them with their feet then your shoes are picking them up. They may not survive that long but they are getting transported. Everything dogs walk on, so do we.

The same bacteria on everyone’s shoes…