lmao

We really need to kick this idea that rich people are smarter. The vast majority were born on third base and think they hit a home run.

The actual HMMWV is actually a pretty cool and reasonable vehicle for medium utility tasks and off roading. What the Hummer became and what passes for consumer light trucks is ridiculous.

Unless we really screw the pooch in 2028 we won’t get there any time soon. Another term for Maga could very well do it though, so possibly 2030?

Corruption. It just so happens that the GOP is so corrupt it’s ridiculous. The Democrats are not immune to bringing grifters into their party. The entire upper crust of society runs just like the aristocracies we tried to leave behind.

That way of putting it has always belied the sheer amount of propaganda the rich have poured into making people believe they can be the chosen one to get rich. From scam artists selling get rich quick schemes to syrupy news stories about the kid who dropped out and got rich. Financial news regularly runs stories meant to make people think they’re not budgeting hard enough if they can’t make ends meet. (spoiler alert there’s always a tertiary source of income involved, but it’s buried deep in the article.)

And when things are clearly enunciated, like plans to tax people over 400k, there’s suddenly tons of stories about how they’re just normal people who can barely make ends meet. They’re just like Mr. Fast food worker, they might even have to sell their house if you taxed their stocks! (Just never ask which vacation house that is or how many rooms it has)

Rather than “copping out” by pointing all this out, I want a counter narrative. Until we get a strong counter narrative people will continue to succumb to this propaganda.

I almost forgot, the numerous commercials where corporations swear they’re a good corporate citizen and you can trust them to have your best interests in mind. While they put all their wrong doing under legal secrecy so people can’t even see the problem we need to fix. For example did you know Walmart and Pepsi got caught in a massive price fixing scheme? One that likely extends across most Walmart grocery products and could be partially responsible for our high grocery prices? (Pepsi collaborated to make sure no other store could afford to sell Pepsi products for less than Wal-Mart by charging those stores more if they dropped their prices. This effectively let Wal-Mart set the price floor wherever they wanted.)

You don’t get this stuff on CNN. And it’s the stuff that actually impacts our daily lives.

I agree. And the Americans who need help the most do not have the time or energy to put into it. So it’s left to the people who do and very few of them actually care about the working poor.

Americans are reaching very high levels of political disengagement. Most Americans know it doesn’t matter who they vote for. They haven’t seen real reforms out of either party, except to make the rich a lot richer. Combine that with the hassle it is to vote in many places and people have just stopped caring unless their personal life gets too bad.

It’s exhausting voting for promises that never materialize or seem to always monkey paw into a way for corporations to suck up all the benefits. People are tired.

And yeah, it’s on purpose. The more disengaged people get, the more the elite can legally rob them.

Nah, then it just becomes a defacto situation of the content creation companies (Disney, Sony, etc) owning the telecom companies. So you will truly be a single content household, like a Disney Household or a Paramount Household.

Be the change you want to see…

Yes. Preservation that’s why it was taken. You see that statue was in imminent danger of being left there for the local people to preserve. The horror!

My favorite story about the British stealing shit is that time they stole a cultures entire written history. They had it all written on tablets and arranged in a specific order. It never occurred to them though that they should put page numbers because who would jumble them up? Who would destroy their history like that? Ah yes, the British, that’s who.

But that’s all in the past, and now it’s the only place on earth that can preserve these things. The only place. There is no other place. No possible other home for these artifacts.

Awww man I got got.

So did you ever find out?

If the aviation industry is anything like the Air Force than yes. So much yes.

Cyber Security Report somewhere -

We found malware operating the camera. But it looks like it just checks the user’s face against a single object called “jerkface”? And if it doesn’t match it doesn’t do anything. So anyways we tried to get rid of the code but for some reason the entire system collapses whenever we try. Everything from customer facing to back end storage just black holes itself.

If this hasn’t been posted to NCD, it needs to go there. Like right now.