I did, but I don’t care anymore.

…I’ll see myself out. :P

In all seriousness I just don’t know if I have it in me to keep paying attention to a trainwreck that I have no control over. I can only help my local community in some limited manner, anything outside of that all I can do is vote and yell at a “representative” that is bribed to not listen.

That in pretty much every single sense of the word I’m an absolutely pathetic loser.

I didn’t think I’d ever be anything special, but I also didn’t think I’d be 38 and single for going on a decade, living in someone else’s garage, working in a factory in a dead end position with no degree and not an ounce of self worth to even presume to choose a direction.

10 year old me couldn’t wait to be an adult, but after seeing me I think 10 year old me would never want to grow up knowing what I’d eventually become lol

Lol lunch breaks. I wonder how soon it takes for that to be on the chopping block too. :(

I’m more of a bone apple tea myself, but I hear liber tea keeps the bugs away!

Trump on election night: “MASSIVE FRAUD IN PENNSYLVANIA, POLICE INCOMING!”

He wins big: “teehee, what fraud? I never said that.”

for some reason lots of folks like to vote for the dogshit with ground glass mixed into it because they think its funny to watch other people eat it.

The majority of the political videos showing up on my YouTube feed after the election was just right wingers laughing at “the left.”

Their whole identity is hating others.

Good, these poor poor billionaires need more. I mean it’s a goddamn travesty they aren’t trillionares!

Geez people how fucking greedy do you need to be to accept a paycheck from these people when working for them? Can’t you just be charitable for once and help them become decillionares?

I swear we’re so greedy.

“To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentations of their women.”

Just kidding. I have no idea. Some would say love, I’ve been fortunate enough to have a caring family, but I’ve never known “true love” of another not from my family.

We need to think about using technology to help people work less. Not just fatten profits.

It’s such a hard topic to deal with because you have to tackle the concept of ownership.

As it currently stands in capitalist economies the owner, as the title implies, owns the means to increase productivity that would enable people to work less, but since they are the owners they see it is morally repugnant to have other people who did “nothing extra” get “more” money as the math is essentially: less work, same pay = greater value, except you didn’t provide any greater value to them, the machine/technology that they own did.

It’s a shitty situation for sure :(

The downside to that is it is much harder to continue working as you age depending on the trade. Usually the “best” route there is to start early, learn what you can, and go independent eventually hiring other people to do the hard stuff you no longer can do.

Also need to be careful specializing… I went super specific and well… Yeah… Ice cream refrigeration machines aren’t exactly ubiquitous. I should have stuck with residential HVAC but I hated crawling under houses and being on call all night :/

I currently work in a factory (yeah I’m just chock full of bad decisions) and I can say from what I’ve gathered from my coworkers being a “machinist” isn’t so much of a viable trade anymore. Everyone pays like shit now.

If we filled that with groceries at these prices they’d bankrupt even Bezos lol

Favorite Wikipedia article: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Getting_to_Philosophy

Almost links eventually lead to philosophy!

I’m going to have to agree with everyone here, we won’t know anything Tuesday night and more than likely won’t know anything for a week or more.

Pennsylvania is essential to both parties and they have an absolutely absurd law that prevents them from counting mailed ballots until election night so that state won’t have results for quite some time. Tie that into the thousands of lawsuits the GOP is ready to file and the whole first half of November is going to be irritating.

I’ve literally been registered as “independent” since his first win because I could see the bloodlust even then. I’d rather not have myself on a registered “enemies list”… :(

I work in a factory supervising and working in a department of a company that is making accessories for yachts and oddly enough the military. Luxury and military equipment is definitely an odd combination.

I don’t want to be too specific as there aren’t many companies that do this, but some of our orders are 2-4 items, that are a very small part of a yacht and they sell for my whole salary and then some… It’s gross.

Exactly.

I didn’t delete my account, but I’ve never logged back in after they killed 3rd party apps last year and don’t visit unless it’s a direct result from a search.

Housing prices and incomes… Absolute insanity

I don’t even like to be asked because then I have to say no and I feel bad about it or I give in because it’s the “right thing to do” and I end up cursing myself for saying yes lol

“That’s the Internet there, right? A series of tubes?”