Then the motherfucker who did it was reelected in the biggest landslide in modern American history. Sad stuff.

It’s a bummer that we can’t get work stoppages at every airport this week.

Ask them if they know what udm=14 means.

Honestly, I had to read that headline twice and check the article to make sure it wasn’t some kind of satire. I’m legitimately shocked this is even happening. In a country where any company can donate half a million bucks and get a meeting with a presidential nominee (ie, buy a favor or two) any meaningful accountability is impossible.

Yeah, I was talking about the US.

It’s not inertia, though. The Dems have had the power to make meaningful change several times in the past four decades. Their failure to do so is a choice they’ve made repeatedly.

I think it’s objectively absurd to look at a 40-year old policy and try not to acknowledge that it’s been adopted by the Democratic Party.

That the elderly and children have to work at all represents a total failure of our culture here in America.

My dad is 80 years old and is developing dementia, and I was helping him fill out job applications earlier this year. This is a man who worked since age 11 (my grandfather died when my dad was a kid) and had his own business, in America, for 50 years. (Killed by Goldman Sachs and the 2008 economic crisis)

People love to call ours a Christian country, and they’re making a very strong case for atheism in the process.

When a policy has lasted forty years across both parties’ having periods of absolute governing power, one can’t really pin a policy on a single party anymore.

HP bricked my printer after about 100 pages in 2020. I bought one when my office went remoted, and even then their subscription service was clearly predatory.

Hated having to do it, but I threw it out. I just use the library printer now.

SOAK 'EM FOR CRUTCHIE!

Good for him.

People’s boundaries should be respected, especially if they’ve been communicated clearly and concisely.

In many ways the USA does not care for it’s people.

Not only that, we’ll allocate 800 billion a year for eight wars, then tack on another 100 billion for a war that isn’t even ours, and 98% of voters are still going to vote for the ruling parties next year. This is despite the fact that we’re all paying 30-50% more to live, college is unaffordable, health care is likewise unaffordable, the right to housing is evaporating before our eyes, and in a few years we will have to fight for water.

Accurate.

Agreed.

The minimum wage should be tied to inflation so it goes up automatically AND serves as a means of controlling inflation, as it is in several countries. Unlikely though, with both ruling parties being completely pro-corporate.

Respectfully, it doesn’t seem like we need a ton of data to support the fact that most American workers are wildly underpaid. The minimum wage has been stuck at seven bucks an hour going on 15 years now, and both ruling parties have no intention of changing that.

I quit Twitter after the infantile incident with Elon Musk carrying a sink around his own office. From all that we’ve seen in recent years it’s pretty clear he’s lucky to have been born rich, because he definitely isn’t the visionary we thought he was.

I was lucky.

The law firm I work for spent half a million dollars in a week to get our entire service center ready for remote work, and then a month later bought us all monitors the size of crib mattresses. In fall 2021 they polled us to see what kind of schedules we wanted when we returned to work, and now we’re on a hybrid schedule that has most teams in one or two days a week tops.