Historical fact: In the distant past, guys like this belonged to a Union, and the union told them how to vote.

The union was led by ruthless people whose power was entirely dependent on the support of the union.

The union leaders kept their people happy by negotiating better prices for their labor, and the happy people did what the leaders said. Their tribe was the union, and the tribe stuck together.

At some point the owner class realized it was easy to redefine what happiness meant for idiots: Lying. A lot. Tricking absolute idiots is easy, so they started whittling away at unions with promises of prosperity a union leader could never fulfil, until we get to today where unions and union membership is lower than it’s ever been.

And idiots like that still vote for who their handler tells them to, only their handler now has zero investment in keeping them happy. Lying to them is sufficient as long as the rest of the tribe reinforces the lies. The tribe is now everyone too stupid to not vote for Hitler, and the tribe sticks together.

Read!?

Ha!

Ah yes, the Chimpambidextrous Fling.

If you’re reading this and have never tried this, get some, it’s a religious experience. You might find god. God might be a very sick cat.

I wanted one back before we knew what they looked like.

I still wanted it after based on specs and price once it was announced.

When it came out smaller, less range, twice the price, and slathered in the stink of everything musk has done since 2019, I can’t help but shake my head in disappointment every time I see one. Absolute disaster compared to what could have been.

Start at 100% and work down from there?

I was once heard of a team where two equally, incredibly talented candidates were options. One of them had the same name as two other people on the team so they picked the other guy. Can’t have three John’s ya know?

(The name wasn’t John, it was a fairly uncommon name, which made it waaaaay funnier)

In the most technical sense, that was DEI hire.

1. Tax them enough that they don’t have the cash to just up and build their own personal-use nuclear powered, nation spanning infrastructure.

2. Use those taxes to build a nation spanning nuclear infrastructure that everyone can use.

Exactly. This asshole wants people to stop yelling at them for “just wanting a fiscal conservative” in office.

Try contracting in your spare time to get some variety.

Try contracting full time If you want to fast forward to that next life.

Because then the fraudsters end up with all the money, buy an e-news paper, or get a game show, and end up running for president. It’s not an excellent idea to let fraud run rampant on your society.

I can’t find the source, but at some point there were reports of a fridge with a WiFi module that would overheat and die if you blocked it at the router.

twice as many concepts of plans.

That “kinda” is bearing a load the size of the Earth. It’s a galaxy of presumptions rolled up into five letters. If it had a name, it would be “Atlas”.

Chargebacks are a huge pain in the ass and everyone involved hates doing them. The chargeback fees are supposed to be a disincentive to curb the behavior. It’s mostly automated now, but there’s a whole “accusation/response/appeal” process that businesses need to actively participate in or risk just getting money clawed back Everytime a chargeback happens, regardless of reason. This causes friction between merchants and payment processors that sometimes leads to one dropping the other. Being in a business where chargebacks happen a lot requires a commensurate amount of work. They suck. (Yes, I’ve worked in this realm. Even when it’s all automated and works well, it still sucks).

They mostly hate them because people tend to do chargebacks when other people find out they made those purchases.

Or they do chargebacks in the wake of post nut clarity when they regret giving money to an OF.

Arguably twitch should do some kind of Twitch+ that’s basically OF. Given how much money it brings in though, it might be easier to convince them to do a “TwitchKids” and leave “Twitch” as the OF.

It’s not so much the lack of profits, more like the lack of kickbacks.

Worse punishments. For far less.

Society needs a yeeting tree.