No need for /s because that’s exactly how it works.
“If you hate the right people and say the right things, you are Good People, and Good People can’t do no wrong. If you’re not one of the Good People, you can do no right. Laws and rationalizations are there to punish those that are not Good People.”
Funny how this is a Twitter post as half of all satellites orbiting earth (5581 out of 11300) are owned by Musk.
A new priest has to replace another priest who recently retired. As he’s taking confession, the woman on the other side says she sinned because she performed a blowjob. The priest had no idea of the correct penance for this. Just then a young acolyte passes so he leans out of his chair and asks the boy: “how much do they give around here for a blowjob?” The boy promptly answers: “One snicker bar, sir.”
Yeah, that’s the kinda stuff going around in the 80s.
“Make aristocracy great again” seems to sum it up.
The short answer is employee owned cooperatives. Every employee has voting power.
The limits are only your imagination.
"“engineering details” is usually code for “very expensive”.
Yeah, if you’re working it all just becomes decorations along your commute, interrupted by a few busy family days followed by more work.
“When elephants fight, it is the grass that suffers,”
Many died for the delusions of the rich and powerful.
Try dubbing for ruining native-language movies.
Classic schooled actors with theater experience are being replaced by young actors using basic conversational speech and volume. More natural but not that easy to understand.
If he texts girls with that phone they’ll go “green text? Don’t talk to that guy” anyway.
Most dystopian books are now used as a manual for some politicians and rich a**holes.
We already know how to create plastics from CO2 extracted from the air and hydrogen from water. There is no shortage of raw material for plastics. The main question for the industry is cheap plastics and the answer to that has always been cheap oil and gas.
Using proven reserves and current consumption you get to 47 years and things run out. That’s a “within my lifetime” number for many.
There is no karma system so no people shitposting and reposting as much to pump up their score. Without this kind of gamification there is less noise.
There is an inverse relation between the wage a job pays and the contribution to society that the job makes, with a few exceptions like doctors. The highest paying jobs are very often parasites on society. This seems to originate from the Calvinist work ethic where meaningful work is its own reward.
~ paraphrased from David Graeber, Bullshit Jobs
Originally Christmas celebrations were 12 days. It’s still accepted to keep an decorations up until the 12th day, so that means you can start taking things down on Epiphany