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The boomers were already in place. Think our finest weapon platform wasn’t already in range to hit Russia? But saying so out loud is a threat of Biblical proportions.

Meh, maybe you’re right, but flexing is equally in character.

Apparently none y’all have tried vegemite.

Come at me Australia!

Giant water bug? I love those things!

LOL, 80% of our home cooked meals either have tomatoes and/or fried Asian food. :)

JFC. The President of the United States has publicly announced where he’s moved the most powerful weapon platforms in all human history, whose whole raison d’etre is to be fucking covert, utterly hidden. Just so he could flex.

Of all the crazy shit the man has done, this one rustles my jimmies.

Excuse me? Hello? You appropriated my culture, and worse, you got it completely wrong.

Ignore the people saying 1 hour won’t cut it. You have to keep it to an hour or you lose your audience.

I did a security talk at my last job and realized all I was creating was a bunch of scary slides. Went back to focus on actionable responses; What can the user do to defend themselves?

Hah! You made me realize that Adventure was fancy pong where you got to drive the ball.

Decided to go with clover this summer. Fuck me it’s expensive! And now I learn it used to be filler?! Robbery.

The very least we can do it this. Make ICE unacceptable in society. They’re not down here yet, because we have guns. Bring. It.

Yeah, but you can’t splat the money out like paste.

Buddy of mine in the 90s was enraged when he found out we shredded worm bills. “They could give that to people like us!”

“Well, yeah. The government could also give us a million bucks each, today. Agreed?”

“Fuck yeah!”

“So, you know I mow lawns for a living, $20 a pop for most places? If I had a million bucks, why would I work for $20?! I’d hit ya for $20,000, at least!”

“Yeah, but I got $20,000! No problem!”

“How much you think a burger would cost?”

“McDonald’s got a sweet deal for $5! We could eat like kings!”

While I’m all about taxing the snot out of the rich… jesus, the simple mindedness of some folks. (Not baggin’ on you OP!)

And so much of that money isn’t real money. If we hit Musk with $300B in taxes, could he pay it? He cashes in stock, stock crashes, he’s got less, rinse and repeat. Not defending the parasite, just saying, much of these billionaires money is imaginary, would disappear faster than we could snatch it.

FFS, now I understand the Great Depression more and more. Guess we should have taxed them before they had economy crashing wealth. Live and learn!

Yep. Came to say, taxing the snot out of the rich isn’t a whole solution. Seems some people can’t work a calculator, let alone figure broader economic impacts. But talk to conservatives IRL, anything less than a 100% fix is a fail.

Few years back they bagged on solar. “Can’t possibly meet ALL our energy needs!” No, it can’t, not the goal. When Germany got to something like 23% solar, Fox News was like, “Yeah, but they have more sunshine. Can’t work here.” Really, they said that.

How would tariffs work in the shirt, mid, long term? Short-term seems like a disaster.

You are spot on. Being free of the clock for 5 years, then going back on was a shock to me. Forgot how limiting that was!

Liberating to accomplish your goals and spend free time working out other paths and projects. All I hear on lemmy is that salary is there to abuse the worker. Not in my limited experience. Salary allowed me to fly and truly contribute.

And we might notice, most salaried jobs are higher level. Can’t compare working a fry vat with working an Active Directory domain.

LOL, I’m a child of the Cold War. You can’t tell me about global thermonuclear war fears! :) Weirdly, us teens just accepted it was a thing that could happen any second. Whatever.

And don’t be so cynical! Educating people like that, showing them how things have changed for the worse in their experience has impact. But you gotta follow through with solutions they can work with! “And that’s why I don’t use pesticides or herbicides. Notice the frogs are back on our block? Seen all the dragonflies? Check out my ponds. They double as mosquito control!”

I think we’re missing the trees in this forest of doom. We’re powerless to fight the megacorps, and bitching about them only makes people feel more powerless. But we can teach people to chip away, give them actionable goals. Put the idea in their heads that, “This isn’t normal or right and you’ve experienced this!”, without being preachy. It’s hard.

I’ve seen massive social and environmental progress in my life. It all started with grass-roots talking points. Don’t say “fag”, don’t toss your cigarette fag (heh), pick up trash that’s not yours, and on and on.

Don’t lecture or lay blame, no guilt trips, talk about the problem in a personally, emotionally understandable way they’ll internalize, give them a solution they can act on right now, today.

Maybe I’m still an idealist. So it goes.

No! Don’t even hear the subtle shit anymore. Which is both weird and heartening. I get the feel that people who wish to speak like that don’t say it to me. I’m pretty redneck in certain contexts, maybe the long hair makes then shy? :)

OTOH hand, I rarely get the impression that I’m being “felt out”. Only time that happens is when someone wishes to express a liberal view. :)

And yeah, I get the medicine thing. And yeah, we need to talk genetic history! My first wife was a pale redhead, notorious folks for pain-killer resistance. OTOH, we got medical professionals who think black people don’t feel pain as whites do, stuff like that. What a mess.

Got me there! I was referring to the previous post saying we’re so genetically tight as to be scientifically indistinguishable as “races”. But yeah, a couple of base pairs coding for a misfolded protein is certainly a difference!

People use the word “race” in conversation? Hard to get my head around! Not doubting you, but we don’t talk like that. OTOH, we’re seriously race (heh) mixed in NW Florida. My block is a nearly perfect cross-section of black, white, Asian demographics for the area. LOL, my wife being the 1% Asian rep. :)

No Hispanic folk, but they were really rare before 2004. No joke, there were hardly any Mexican restaurants before they flooded in to save us from the destruction.

We’re not going extinct. Humans are the toughest beasts on the planet, the AR-15 of animals. Not the best at anything, not by a long shot, but we’re perfect multi-purpose lifeforms. Hell, we survive in every ecosystem on Earth. Insects can’t even claim that!

But yeah, I’ve commented enough in the past on what we’re taking out with us. Lived through seeing 73% of animals go POOF! since 1970, seen my local ecosphere crashing out over the last 5. I want to cry and scream! And no one is aware. When I talk about it IRL, people are captivated, “You’re right. Hadn’t noticed that. Wow.” You can see their gears turning, truly a new thought.