If they call people terrorists just for being against this, then wouldn’t that encourage people to take terrorist actions in their protests? If you’re a terrorist either way, may as well get some bang for your buck, right?

“removed”? Is there a slur for an M&M-fucker?

The deeper cost is that there are way fewer white collar do-nothings tampering with frivolities to justify their paychecks. That and subsidizing tech and infrastructure (including EVs) like any responsible country would and should do. It’s the sort of investment that any dipshit who’s played a Civilization game should be able to comprehend.

Capitalism trusts corporations to invest in the right things for the future, but they’re not thinking about 10-50 years from now. Their goal is short term profits. Show growth for the next couple of quarters. But really they’re just trying to not get eaten by a bear, and you don’t need to run faster than a bear to achieve that; you just need to run faster than the guy next to you. Chevy and Ford have done a decent job competing with each other, but they’d be blown out of the fucking water by BYD, and that’s why they’re tariffed to hell and back in the US.

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.

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

That dumb motherfucker is the autopen.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Because people continue to accept that price by agreeing to pay it. The price of a product is dictated by what people are willing to pay for it. If the price is so low that the seller isn’t happy with it, they don’t sell it and stop making it.

In other words, if you think Nintendo prices are bullshit price gouging, then vote with your wallet. With enough votes, the prices come down or the company goes under. You don’t have that luxury of choice when it comes to groceries or shelter, but you absolutely do when it comes to luxury entertainment expenses. Make them earn your money.

$2.13/hour. In 2025. Fucking insane.

My job is 12 hour shifts plus an hour commute each way. This is a big part of why we haven’t already gotten a dog. Well that, and also until a few months ago we were in a pretty small apartment. My wife is home more than me, so we’re considering it, but I want to try to time it so that I’m off and there more early on for adjustment period and training.

Humans don’t deserve dogs. I want to be the kind of human who can almost disprove that fact.

It makes perfect sense once you realize that their media literacy is through the basement. Regular literacy too, I’d wager. 54% of adults (in America) read below the sixth-grade level. Source.

Thankfully, nobody ever becomes homeless due to losing their job and struggling to find a new one. Robust social safety nets have ensured that the only people who find themselves homeless are lazy pieces of shit who are actively trying to be in their situation. They prey upon people’s generosity by begging in the streets and raking in 6 figures.

Big fat fucking /s because holy shit, I’ve actually encountered people who believe bullshit like that. I lived in my car for a little while, but thankfully I still had a job and there was a shower I could use at work. Only an absolute fucking ghoul would prey upon the unhoused.

Ahead of its time, predicting the consequences of tariffs like that.

“you can’t read it properly”?

I’m not gonna kink shame. They can enjoy what they enjoy, but it’s bullshit to force us to be a part of it.

I did. Months ago. I like eggs, but these people are fucking silly. I don’t know how anybody could care so much about egg prices that they helped this criminal idiot be a dictator, and they’re still whining instead of just refusing to buy eggs. How do these losers care this much about eggs but they don’t breathe a word about the cost of healthcare and prescription drugs?

I might be close to this upset if it were cheese that this were happening to. But eggs? Get a life.