And they're gonna pivot from "no it isn't" to "and what's wrong with that" within a few weeks.

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.

What's crazier is that you think that legal residents don't deserve a first amendment right despite doing so much more to have earned rights than any person who just happened to have been born here did. Fuck outta here with that shitty-ass take. All rights for all Americans, full stop.

Easy. By intentionally bankrupting it through a Russian money laundering scheme and passing the debts on to your investors. And it's easy to get investors for a casino because the only way a casino doesn't make money is if you intentionally bankrupt it. QED.

And they're terrified of all the childless cat ladies opting to not produce their next generation of laborer/consumer brood to be said replacement. Hence the crackdown on abortions and contraception and people who pair up in ways that cannot yield children. You can't have the infinite growth that capitalism demands if the number of producers and consumers goes down.

I'm gonna guess that this would amount to like $100 per person per year? And in exchange my planet will be less inhabitable, prices on everything will go up, quality will go down, safety will plummet, rights will vanish, our place on the international stage will be forever revoked, and unemployment will skyrocket which will increase crime out of desperation to survive.

I don't think I'd take that deal for $10k. They need to fire themselves. They're not the department of government efficiency, they're the department of stripping the government for parts. They're cutting shit that pays dividends.

This, starlink regarding Russia invading Ukraine, and I'm gonna guess spacex regarding government contracts? Idk about that 3rd one being investigated but it's definitely one of the many conflicts of interest.

Spotify is not the home of all podcasts, and it's actually a really shitty way to get your podcasts imo. Other people pointed me toward AntennaPod (which is free and open source) and it's just straight up better. There are several advantages, but the only one I needed to hear about was not needing to connect to a server to be able to listen to a podcast I had already downloaded to my phone. If I didn't listen to a podcast for a couple seconds from my home wifi before getting in the car, I'd just be driving for a few minutes in silence until Spotify could verify that I was a paying customer before they'd let me listen to free content already downloaded to my device. Ridiculous.

Not shitting on you, btw. Just shitting on Spotify and hopefully introducing some people to a thing that's made my life better.

$90k is absolutely life changing for most people. That's a down payment on a house plus moving costs and upgrading appliances and furniture. That's the difference between poverty and living comfortably. If that's not life changing for you, then I'm not sure you're familiar with the struggle, in which case I strangely both pity you and envy you.

Sure you're not gonna buy a mansion with $90k, but you could go from renting a shithole apartment in a shithole town to owning a home in a decent area with access to better employment to sustain a much higher quality of life. $90k is a ticket to escaping geographical and financial shackles.

Motherfucker, communication to your constituents is a big part of your fucking job. Even if I were to accept your bullshit blame game, whose fault is it that working families weren't aware of what you were accomplishing? There are probably fewer than 10 Democrats in all of Congress who are good communicators, and the party tends to try to suppress them. But that's not as big a problem as the party insisting on attempting to court conservatives. Instead of swinging right to achieve literally 0% more Republicans than in 2020, maybe try swinging left to court some of the 33.4% of voters who didn't vote at all in 2020, which rose to 36.1% in 2024.

But what the fuck do I know. I'm just a regular working class American who's pissed off at out of touch politicians letting capitalists fuck us all over, not some think tank guru or poli sci staffer. But if you try to run Liz Cheney as a Democrat in 2028, I'm leaving the country before the Vance-Desantis ticket wins the presidency.

This. Conservatives have poor media literacy. They don't understand that they're the punchline in stuff like that. They miss the point of stuff like RoboCop and Starship Troopers and unironically like those movies for the action and don't even recognize the social commentary. They watched Team America and guffawed into their 24 packs of light beer at every shallow joke without recognizing that the jokes were intentionally shallow to point out what an idiot would think is a good joke. It's like the TV show in Idiocracy. The real joke is below the surface.

Why is CNN's CEO Sir Mark John Thompson looking to draw attention to himself? Could he be hoping for a new trend to develop where people surprise CEOs named Thompson in the streets? Seems weird, but maybe he's optimistically hoping that his surprise might be cake or something.