Azal

Ehhhhhh... I don't have faith in it. The manufacturing sector has been in the process of getting worse back when I tried to get into it in 08, and finally gave up on actually finding work in the industry and moved to healthcare. I know people who've quit welding jobs because they hit the ceiling on pay and it's still not making living wages here in the midwest.

Yet that's an industry that has consistently anti-union my entire life. They just buy into the foreigners taking their jobs. I fear the programming sector will drink the same koolaid, just Indians instead of Mexicans.

Ugh... so many of these, and I look around. I know I'm at minimum 4th generation US on both sides of my family.

I have multiple of the bone conducting ones. The main ones. The backup ones for when I forget them. The backup backup ones that was two generations ago and the microphone crapped out on that lives in my desk at work in case I forgot the backup ones.

10 mm sockets

This is a lie. One will never suffice. That thing will disappear the second you look away.

I agree on the tricking them, but there's another part I look at. Basic fucking pattern recognition. The jobs have stopped being the in demand for a while now, and they're not so much on the negotiating power. But the idea of a union is still apparently more anathema and are shocked at these mass layoffs that keep happening.

And if you are american: fucking fix your government

I live in a red state where our last two Attorney Generals used the position as a ladder to go to the senate. The first one on the whole Jan 6 attack ran like a coward after fist pumping to the crowd of rioters. The state loved it so much they elected his clone.

Some states are just choke holded by a cult. This isn't a top down thing, no matter how much the President thinks he is. No, down to the grass roots we are fucked to a level that I don't see how we come back from.

The worst part, the state I'm in now is an improvement from the last one I escaped.

Crazy. I want to play a game with staying power.

I want the game that I look at and go "When did I get 1000 hours on the game?" Because I keep coming back to it.

But this is where we agree. I want to play games that are fun.

Seasons, dailies, battle passes, etc aren't the things that I see as "staying power", that's microtransactions to a sunk cost fallacy.

Staying power to me is like Terraria, where I go in, build a world. Run around. Then wander off to something else... to wander back and play more Terraria.

Don't worry, we won't get a Blade Runner-esc hellscape.

Because Blade Runner for a movie had to give us a fascinating world that was interesting that even as a hellscape there was a "Man, it'd be cool to be there."

No, our hellscape is going to be more like how fast food restaurants all look the same now, the corporate architecture version of taupe agreed to by committee.

Huh... it's always nice to see Texas do something right for once.

I'll believe MAGA is eating itself. They're very much at each others throats trying to figure out how to maneuver to be the next king.

But the people will still vote for the R after a name no matter what, so it doesn't really matter that MAGA is eating itself. Trump hasn't done a quarter of the damage to the country that the party has done for decades, he's just the newest phase of the cancer.

I have a friend in programming. He says it's baffling that the entire industry is anti-union and tends to be pretty pro-corporate.

Another thing that gets me is how many people will say voting doesn't matter when they maybe only vote on presidential elections.

Voting is not a 4 year thing, it's an absolute grind and locally can affect more of your day to day life, as well as keep building its way. higher up. I live in a state that so many people showed up and voted for bills that went against the state legislature, but they actually voted less for the people... now of course the state is overthrowing the things voted in.

So yes, SO VERY MUCH vote and be active in politics.