The minimum wage was not established to decide who is poor and who is not, but rather to eliminate poverty as a concept.

I sure don’t see no black sheriff.

I’m holding no stocks or crypto. I’ve got a few hundred of bonds I probably ought to sell. I liquidated my 401k and IRA a couple months back. Big penalty, no regrets.

Lots of people are having their stuff repaired instead of disposing and buying new. Those tailors custom size your clothes, do embroidery and patching, in addition to repairs. Shoe repair shops will restore leather, resole boots, and give them all a good shine. I’ve never had a vacuum repaired, but they’re pricey enough that I’d definitely try that first. Check out your local repair shops. They probably do good work, because they get a lot more practice than you might think.

I dream of humans one day building a Dyson swarm around the Sun and becoming a Kardashev type 2 civilization. It’s a magnificent dream that we probably must one day accomplish or accept extinction.

But that is one serious problem with it. Unless it’s managed democratically, if one psycho gets to control all of it, yeah, they could literally block out the Sun for anyone who won’t pay for protection.

I’m sorry, that really sucks.

Yeah, I’ve been expecting this shit since childhood. Weird now how the people who raised me to see it coming consistently voted to make it happen.

Same here. Grew up deep in the South. Kids got in trouble for racist talk in public school.

It’s time to leave the Bible Belt.

Still doesn’t preclude an infinite cycle, so long as Nothing is unstable.

How does this manage to bypass the need for a center to the Universe?

Damn. Wish I could not buy his shit even harder.

Or corner the Russian market with on that runs on Mazut.

But you guys, Henry Ford liked Hitler toooooo!

One thing that might help is to stop carrying around that human shield. Just a matter of time after that.

I’ve never imagined I’d survive a fascist regime.

100%

Not if we reuse it.

Because there are 10s of millions of gun owners in this country, if not more. Very, very few of them commit crimes with guns.

Oh yeah, totally joking lol.