Into the wild when he discovers that human existence isn’t meant to be lived in isolation and then dies a few days later in total isolation.

The end of Saving Private Ryan always gets me as well.

Yet if there is any discussion on increasing taxes on these fucks all of a sudden it’s government overreach on the “job creators”

Digital license plates are a solution to a problem that doesn’t exist -

But it is a money maker for the manufacturer at a subscription price of $29.99 / month

Giving special treatment to the CEOs should really help cool down this growing call for more violence against CEOs

It was said below but I really think that there needs to be more people that are willing to run for office with a more progressive message.

I know it’s not as sexy as revolution or CEO-cide but it really is a better way to make changes without fucking the country up completely.

So how the fuck do you run for office ? I don’t know but there are resources that can help. If you don’t want to run that’s fair but as you mentioned the time to just sit around and bitch online in an echo chamber is done. Progressives are going to have to find a way to make their voices heard and in a way that isn’t talking down to people.

Note: I get the anger and the desire to want to scare the fuck out of the ruling class. But murder isn’t the only thing that the ruling class is scared of, they also don’t want people to vote for their own self-interest. They don’t want the people to demand billionaires pay more in taxes. And a significant group of progressive politicians would scare the shit out of the established ruling class.

Well the good news (/s) is that they won’t be sitting in a warehouse - they will instead be sold to one of many conflicts around the world to “test” their product.

“never let a disagreement go unarmed”

• weapons manufactures (probably)

For the last 50,000 years or more we had to walk and move constantly to survive as a species so it makes sense that our bodies would have evolved to reward us for moving.

While I don’t think the lack of quality journalism is all due to OP not paying for it (I have no clue if they do or don’t) but there is a lot of complaining on Lemmy and Reddit about paywalls which is annoying. The idea that people want quality journalism but get pissed off when those journalist and news organizations asked to get paid for it is ridiculous.

The rich throughout history have always been afraid of the working class it just usually just shows up in less obvious ways.

The way the wealthy talk about the working class

The way the wealthy always look to divide the working class into camps to fight amongst themselves

The way the wealthy demonize labor unions

The way the wealthy keep education limited and expensive

The way the wealthy use religion and media to drive their idea of goodness and justice

The way the wealthy try to make the working class envious of their wealth so the working class spends their money and time trying to replicate it.

Are all examples of an underlying fear of the significantly larger working class population getting control.

And it is such a winning strategy that it works on them in reverse. The wealthy will do whatever they can to keep their wealth and always try to pile more on because of the fear of being one of them (the working class) that they have demonized for generations.

EDIT: added more examples

hunger.

I don’t mean starvation I mean there are people that cannot sit with a slight uncomfortable feeling of hunger. If you have eaten enough to fuel your body in a healthy way then being slightly hungry will not harm you.

The Secret IRS Files from ProPublica does an amazing job at outlining why this is

Well if every vehicle becomes autonomous then isn’t that just a large scaled high speed train?

so we learned

It sounds like you were like most people in the western world - uneducated on nutrition, cooking and basic life skills. This isn’t a jab at you this is just the world that we live in. Most people don’t have a good understanding of these things so the go with what is easy, fast and feels inexpensive. This drives obesity.

It’s great that you took the initiative to learn home economics and it sounds like it has helped you and your family. Many others have not gotten to the “so we learned” stage yet for whatever reason.

Neighbor’s kid named Issac Cox

I’m hoping for a removal of putin from power and the Russian people get a chance to create a more democratic system where they actually have people in power that are genuinely want to help the population.

This would be an interesting behind the scenes fight because I can’t see other billionaires just letting musk dictate to them what they will and won’t do.

Most open to making money at the expense of security.

"“What they were telling me was counterintuitive to everything I’d heard at Microsoft about ‘customer first,’” Harris said. “Now they’re telling me it’s not ‘customer first,’ it’s actually ‘business first.’”

DiCola, Harris’ then-supervisor, told ProPublica the race to dominate the market for new and high-growth areas like the cloud drove the decisions of Microsoft’s product teams. “That is always like, ‘Do whatever it frickin’ takes to win because you have to win.’ Because if you don’t win, it’s much harder to win it back in the future. Customers tend to buy that product forever.”

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Humans are animals that navigate life through the lens of emotions with logic being something that we have to work towards - so you may be closer to the truth than you think.

Yep. Lost a good and very smart friend to the anti vax conspiracies and maybe others by now.

I’ve also had to really pay attention and tell myself that I live in a liberal bubble and need to balance that bias against what is truth.