MrVilliam

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Well, he thinks that Mattel is a country and that Abrego Garcia literally has "MS13" tattooed onto his knuckles, so yeah, probably.

When he dies, I hope there's a full autopsy because I really wanna know wtf is going on with his brain. Frontal cortex must have been chewed up and spit out or something.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago (4 children)

False. Pigs get qualified immunity.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

She just heard her mermaid singing this and thought she'd help out:

I wanna be where the people are
I wanna see, wanna see 'em dancin'
Walking around on those, what do you call 'em?
Oh, feet

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (2 children)

That depends. For pizza and Asian cuisine, Sriracha. Special shout-out to Underwood Ranch specifically, because that shit is top tier. For everything else, chipotle Tabasco. When that goes on sale, I buy a few bottles because I know I'll go through it lol.

[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 month ago

If you're decent at math and physics and are even remotely handy, you can probably get into a data center or power plant. Both industries are growing like crazy while boomers and older Gen x are retiring.

It took a long while as a contractor, but I eventually got a job as an operator in a power plant. The rotating shift work can be rough, and some days are really demanding, but it's overall not too bad usually and it pays well. Outside operators here start at like $40/hour. My water treatment specialty has gotten me a promotion and raises so now I'm at like $53.50/hour. If I can continue training and pass the test and board for it, I could make over $60/hour as a control room operator. With built-in OT and scheduled maintenance outages demanding even more OT, it's impossible to not break $100k/year here. With bonus, I might break $150k this year.

Brush up on chiller loops, chemistry 101, physics 101, NATO phonetic alphabet, get 15k steps in a day, and change the oil in your car. If that's pretty easy for you, there's a career waiting for you lol.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 month ago

But at least he isn't using autopen! /s

That dumb motherfucker is the autopen.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

You're right, I guess it's the entire story itself, and not just the source, that is trash. Great point.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 month ago

Yep. "Now that you don't pay taxes, your boss can pay you less and you'll still have higher net pay."

It's all for the oligarchs. They don't give a shit about the people.

[–] [email protected] 74 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Mask off moment. Their purpose is to protect capital. The only crimes that cops prevent are through deterrence because they are crime punishers, not crime preventers.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (13 children)

Not OP, but probably price gouging? Especially regarding things where you aren't afforded the reasonable opportunity to make an informed decision (healthcare, baby formula plus necessary clean water). Also maybe regional monopolies (internet service) or pretty much anything involving an event or venue (ticket pricing or cost of a slice of pizza or a can of beer at a festival).

In all of these examples, you likely don't have a heads-up or the chance to choose something else. Admittedly, most of the examples off the top of my head were unnecessary luxury spending, but how in the blue fuck is it okay that any of them are literally a situation of "pay me whatever price I decide or else a person will die"?

Pretty fucked up if you ask me.

[–] [email protected] 80 points 1 month ago (9 children)

Okay, but now do housing and groceries and you'll see why people don't have extra money laying around for another Nintendo and its Mario kart.

Economics is significantly more complicated than a bar graph of inflation-adjusted video game price tags lol. Hell, even just value of each game in their respective release time period is more complicated than that. I doubt there's anything unique to this new game (other racing games have done the open world thing several times starting like 15 years ago), but the kart racer genre itself was new back in the 90s.

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