Don’t forget that they lied about the cancer it causes to the entirety of America in front of Congress and nothing happened to them. Just like the Business plot. And the Civil war.

We have a long tradition in America of letting Wealthy White men get away will literally everything, up to and including high treason.

Maxwell is living it up at what amounts to a college dorm room instead of where she should be, which is front and center on the gallows.

Its true that most people don’t know how the debt works, but that is by design.

We have 39 trillion in debt, but what did we use it for? Do we have nicer roads, better schools, or more hospitals? No.

A huge part of the debt came from the bad bets of companies being offloaded onto the government via the treasury. People don’t understand just how cheap it was (we’ve just about hit the point where inflation is unavoidable) for the Epstein class to borrow government money.

That borrowing was against our future and we won’t have the growth or infrastructure to justify that debt load. My reasoning is that the bow will break somewhere, and it will bring everything else down with it because the system isn’t sustainable as it exists today.

Complete collapse of the financial system brought about by a debt fueled meltdown

Yeah Scott Adams was a dumb bastard that tried to treat his prostate cancer (I think) with Ivermectin. Then tried to get actual help when it was too late.

I got a feeling stocks aren’t going too matter much here soon.

I work on the uninterruptible power supplies in many of these monstrosities. I heard from someone who works in one of them while I was on a job saying that they literally pay themselves off in 7 months. That’s how much money is flying around in this space, and all that money is just more explosive power for the bomb its going to be at the heart of our economy.

Our team is being run ragged out here in the PNW because of the absolute mass of Data Centers being built on cheap land in eastern WA.

The interesting pattern I have seen with this type of parent, is that they often behave more like a cruel older sibling, bullying their child. They have a teenager’s mentality and often a child’s fear of accountability.

The unfortunate children that have to struggle with this kind of “support structure” grow up to be hyper independent, to the point that it becomes a socialization problem, or become a wreck just like their parent.

It always baffled me how people could become their child’s first bully. Like, how are you going to bring someone into existence itself just to fuckin torture them?

S+ tier pun

Funnily enough, I’m one of the few Americans that gets socialized healthcare because I served in the Navy.

I’ve been pushing for everyone to get it over here

“It’s because you are fat”

“That will be $5900”.

I already know that if I die and go to hell, my punishment will be IT helpdesk for hangry boomers.

Best of luck, you are gonna need it.

I guess we are just going to have to fight about it then

My digital life has gotten noticeably better since switching to Linux and other FOSS

Me. Now digging through init=/bin/bash/ to fix my non booting zimaboard. All because I lost my root password and proceeded to continue to fuck up my media server

Not so fun fact: corporations can vote in Delaware.

It will definitely not be a walk in the park, but the newest ships and landers as well as the tech is so much more than I had on the USS Ohio. The longest we went underwater was 3 months. It definitely wears on you, but you work so much that exhaustion keeps you from any serious cabin fever. This is also helped along by the fact that we keep the oxygen percentage on the sub a little lower than surface air to lower the risk of fires.

To me, the biggest challenge won’t be comfort, necessarily, but zero Gs and being able to hold off the deterioration of the body in hypotension. Humans can live in some pretty shitty conditions and space will necessitate them for now, but having the best view money can buy probably helps morale some.

I think that humanity is on the cusp of its next big jump into a new era. The old ways of doing things are no longer working, and new paths to the future will have to be charted. We are still very much in the veery early days of space colonization, kind of like the build up to the mercury program back in the 50s.

Tech is advancing so rapidly that even at 30, I’ve seen some technology I couldn’t even dream of being real is now just in everyday use, so I remain hopeful about humans in space. Our drive to discover is so ingrained in to what we are that I see it as inevitable (if we don’t destroy ourselves first) It is a compulsion that spread our species to the farthest reaches of our world and I have no reason to believe our world would be the last boundary.

Its a matter of abundance and where the government decides that abundance can go. Desal is expensive, but you have all the energy you need to power it flowing out of the ground, the cost is somewhat defrayed.

The Gulf states chose to hoard the wealth at the top and build major hubs without reliable public transit. Which is reflective of a policy decision. Its also a matter of what refineries are where and what grade of oil they will process.