Not everything is shit, we’re just in a massive downturn, so all the things that suck are growing while all the things that rule are being downplayed.

There is still beauty in the world, and there is still hope. We just have to work together to make sure it isn’t buried under all the shit we see day in and day out.

I’m kinda done with giving nuance to Americans.

Exactly the kind of sentiment the people in power making these batshit decisions want. They want people making vapid generalizations, they want people reacting instead of thinking. Acting out against each other instead of working together.

You’re sick of this shit? We have to fucking live it. You want to give up? Fine. But don’t blame others when things don’t get better, while you sit on your high horse and the world burns around you. Cause it sure as fuck isn’t limited to the US, it’s just easier to ignore everything but because the US when they’re falling so far from where most people there thought they were.

I haven’t gotten what I voted for in twenty years.

Midterms.

Governance is a thing of the past, it’s all campaigning all the time now. Why do you think they fail so hard to accomplish anything? If they actually fix things they have to find something new to run on. It’s like studios who focus on sequels and reboots, it’s a known quantity. They know people will show up for those platform positions, so they don’t want to remove them as an option.

They’re not quite sure if they want to rock us yet.

Might be a lot of people on H-1B visas, wasn’t that mostly who was left over after he bought twitter?

You seem to have a contradiction there.

What phone unlocks with biometric on startup? I have to input my password any time I restart.

It is from Generall Milf.

Gotta watch out for those 180 STDs though.

I feel another resurrection in his future…

Use the cistern if you’re squeamish.

Maybe one day you’ll decide to have one with someone else instead of the voices in your head :)

You’re right! The man can say he works hard for years and you dismiss it as entirely as just luck instead of mostly luck.

No one is saying luck isn’t the deciding factor here, we’re just saying there’s also a limited measure of hard work. It’s not all just one thing. There is a very precious few who just keep falling into luck over and over again, but they’re in the extreme minority of even the successful. The majority of them put in some hard work.

No, it’s definitely both. Luck is going to be the larger factor on that level of success, but there’s still a large portion of hard work that went into it.

We want to dismiss the successful as just being born under the right star, but a large portion of it is still hard work. They get disproportionately rewarded for that hard work, and often they have to do less and less hard work as time goes on… but there was hard work involved, whether we want to admit it or not.

What does homelessness have to do with anything? Gentrification isn’t specifically about homelessness, I don’t see anyone else mentioning it before now… where did you pull that from?

Gentrification seems to mean the rapid renovation of an area to appeal to a wealthier crowd, which this could easily cover.

Depends on whether Joe Quesada is writing him or not.

employees calling out

Why would the employee have to look up a publicly listed number to call their employers to call out? That’s something a private line could easily take care of.

Why even have a phone number if it is useless?

Really? Are reservations the only use for a phone?

A publicly shared phone number for the restaurant? Pretty much. It has limited uses for checking hours and holidays and such, but the primary use is going to be checking availability to eat at the restaurant. If that’s not something you can get over the phone, 99% of the reason to have a public facing phone number is negated.

Some millennial have been playing WoW for over twenty years at this point.

In what world isn’t Canada fighting back?

Which isn’t to say they shouldn’t, but they are pushing back to all the shit Trump is throwing at them. Just because they’re not launching missiles doesn’t mean they’re not fighting back.