Could just say charisma. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Or a smart phone and just lock everything you don’t want them to use out.

When capitalism is no longer propped up by the government, masquerading as democracy, so that they, too, can greedily profiteer on the short term gains of a quality product that has been ran into the ground for the sake of a bigger personal estate.

I’m in the same boat, single income just under $200k, but my savings has stagnated the past three years due to medical bills (wife was hospitalized and is now disabled).

Debt is beginning to pile up and it seems like the only real option is to start cherry picking the more important medical expenses to keep up on and letting the others slide (like the $26k hospital bill).

At the current rate things are going, I’ll have no savings and no college fund for my kid along with a stack of unpaid medical bills and needing to downsize to a cheaper home in a worse neighborhood. At least our only car is paid off end of the year and should hold up as long as the last one (made it 12 years, 220k miles).

Living that American dream.

And Santa Fe. And Virginia Tech. And El Paso. And Parkland. And UT Austin.

I canceled my account… but yes, sad trombone noises all around.

How can you not tell? Man’s hand is clipping into things, no tshirt is that low cut, his magic cigarette isn’t lit and that is certainly not how you spell Coca Cola.

All of those things are immediately noticeable, they jump out at you, but there’s probably a billion other tells that it’s AI once you stop to process it.

Also see Win+E and ctrl+w

The Win+X menu is the bomb.

He wasn’t joking though. Capitalism go brrrrrrrr.

Oh… so close, you almost had it. Trump is the far greater evil masquerading as a lesser evil.

Proud of you for trying though.

So would God, if there were one.

To be fair, the article said MOST, not all, and you’ve pointed out one of the only examples I can find of the price rising at one location in the last month… though prices were already low in KC it seems.

Yeah, that’s just not how cults work. Especially when the idol is supposedly “counter culture” due to the “deep state” having it out for them.

The more you (deservedly) vilify him, the harder the zealots chant.

Sealions gotta sealion ya know.

Some people get off on shocking others with dehumanizing gore etc. when they thought they were in for a dick pick at worst.

Because you’re not a mentally deficient grifter?

I’m a nearly 40 year old who decided to have a kid at 30 because my career trajectory looked promising and none of my siblings had kids/my wife and I wanted kids. We’re those silly optimists who think if we can raise someone who loves this world and is part of the solution, we can make a difference.

I make roughly 3x the average salary and with just one kid… I feel like I’m killing myself, doing permanent, irreversible harm to my body and mind with how much I work and how little down time I have.

I feel like life is passing me by while I’m trapped in a dark room churning out investor gains I’ll only ever see a fraction of while the execs in my company pull down record profits and eye watering bonuses year after year, but I dare not stop, because like everyone else, I’m one moderate catastrophe away from destitution.

Even Genie have standards.

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