That's not a shadow government, that's just government. They weren't even trying to be subtle about it.

Yes that is how you get to modern US pre-Trump. There's still corruption, it's more hidden, and managed enough that the less marginalized middle/upper class have relative safety/stability. Compare that to the other large economies, it was doing retty well for its size, and certainly much better than centuries past.

But you don't have aluminum foil over there. You only have aluminium, it's a completely different situation, you wouldn't understand.

The best part is, there no easy way to tell if this masked man in camo in a regular grey jeep wildly pointing his weapon is an official lunatic or not. Someone should call the police on the potential shooter. See something say something amirite?

Someone wants to buy US soy farms for cheap.

So... Now we put Mexican stickers on every Republican's car, mailbox, and window sill right?

You go back in time to when you're living paycheck to paycheck and zero financial literacy. You convince yourself to invest $100/month in Amazon no matter what, because it will be worth it. You eat nothing but instant ramen, forego preventative care, get sick from malnutrition. Your quality of life is horrible because you forego basic necessities to invest in Amazon. The dot com bubble wipes out 90% of Amazon's value but you continue to invest because your past self told you about this, but if you just endure, Amazon will recover and you will be a millionaire.

In this timeline, Amazon never recovers and goes bankrupt. On Twitter, you read a post about George Shaheen's wedding, and how he's entitled to his billions, despite predatory and exploitative practices, because his wealth could have been yours. If you had only invested $100/month since 1996 into WebVan, you'd be a millionaire.

Investing is, at the end of the day, a gamble.

Cute, but no. The definition of shining is not limited to emitting light.

They're invested in PC gaming as social capital where the performance of your rig contributes to your social value. They're mad because you're not invested in the same way. People often get defensive when others don't care about the hobbies they care about because there's a false perception that the not caring implies what they care about is somehow less than, which feels insulting.

Don't yuck others' yum, but also don't expect everyone to yum the same thing.

They've moved onto Ciri now for Witcher 4. Mad that the character doesn't look like a teenager now that she's aged into her 30s.

EV never has to be recharged... Because it recharges on the way downhill.

"World's largest EV never has to be plugged in" is sufficiently click-baity without being so dumbly self contradicting

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