kryptonianCodeMonkey

Hey TSA guy. You back the fuck up. Stay in your lane.

Ownership is capital. The definition of capitalism is leveraging ownership for profit. When people own things, they are competition. You can avoid purchasing their goods or services, devalue their goods or services by offering your own at a reasonable price, or kick them out of the market entirely. A sale for them now could always turn into a lost sale later when you resale your property to someone else. A company wanting to buy that property from you will have to spend more to pay you enough profit to make it worth it for you to sale. If you leverage equipment to provide a service and a livelihood, they compete with you day after day and get no piece of that pie.

But what if you had to pay a license to use that equipment? Or you had to go to them to get it fixed? Or you only rented that property in the first place. They could start taking a cut of your profits for themselves.

What if you couldn't afford to own essentials like a home or your transportation. What if you had to lease to meet your essential needs. What if the pool of property owners was so small and so overwhelmingly made up of mega corporation that have the resources to outbid every prospective home buyer and turn that property into a rental, or better yet, a hotel room through air bnb where the resnt pays for even a massively inflated buying price in a matter of months? What if in paying over asking repeatedly, you artificially inflate the value of your own properties and those around them making homes even less affordable for non-corporate entities, and make your competition pool even smaller. Now you and you alone can buy more homes and have more streams of rental money to fund more purchasing. Meanwhile it is taking 2+ adult incomes to make your rent prices, which rise every time you artificially raise property values by over spending on new properties in a massive feedback loop until people are spending every spare dollar on a basic necessity that barely meets their needs anymore.

They feed on dependency, forcing out competition, injecting themselves between you and your livelihood, and maximally extracting every single ounce of resources they can from you. Yay capitalism.

I have an LG smart tv that I've had for a few years now. It is easily the worst TV I've ever bought. The interface sucks, the remote sucks, it doesn't have the Dropout app, it is bright as the sun when the screen is on in the dark even with adaptive brightness on, slow to register button presses and load apps, etc. Even if it weren't a privacy nightmare, I wouldn't recommend it to anyone.

Kumail literally had a stand up bit when he was much less well known about being called "Kumar" and how he dreams of the day that he is the goto point of reference that racists use to stereotype other brown people and himself. So Kal should proud of that, at least.

Also, I work with a lot of Middle Eastern and Indian people with a wide variety of names. It is weird that these three celebrities talking about being mistaken for each other all have names starting with K, containing an A, and ending with L. Kumail, Kunal, and Kal. Maybe it's not so much about them being mistaken for each other but switching similar names around, like white guys called Kayden, Brayden, and Layden.

For simple, tedious tasks, by all means. Let's sit in a circle around a pot snapping green beans, shucking corn husks, shelling peas/hard-boiled eggs, wrapping dumplings/tomales. Spread the work load, share in the quality time and conversation and contribute to a shared meal. Great.

If you want to get another cutting board and knife and help me peel, chop, and shred to prep some ingredients before the cooking has actually begun, I wouldn't be mad either... provided you can follow simple directions like how big your chopped potatoes should be... and provided you are not a threat to yourself and others with a knife like my wife.

But when I have 3 pots and pans on the stove, two sheets of roasting veggies in the oven that need tossed regularly and I'm trying to keep my eye on everything, time the cooking, prevent burning, etc., or I'm running in and out of the house between the counter, the grill and the sink... Get the hell out of my way. I love my wife, but she is no help in the kitchen.

Cool. Condemn me, my wife and my 2 year old daughter as being below the worth of concern. Go fuck yourself then, hypocrite. I hope for everyone else's sake that this right wing extremism spreading across the world doesn't hit Europe as bad, but I wouldn't hold my breath. AfD looking to repeat some history in Germany, as far as I can see. Don't expect my sympathy if it does.

The irony of proudly boasting that you only look out for yourself and your own, echoing the same mentality of the fascists in charge of this mess and thinking you are somehow different. Glad you're gone before you got turned into another MAGA voter reactionary.

So just to be clear, you left and are holding everyone who remains accountable? So you did nothing for anyone but yourself, but you expect others to do more than you and judge them for failing to do so? Please shut the fuck up then.

Words are wind. Your ideas are flaccid and unrealistic, and you don't have skin in the game to execute on them anyway. I'm not saying that I wish this wasn't happening here (though I don't wish it on anyone else either), and that I am not tempted to leave with my family, myself. But I sure as shit wouldn't have the gall to walk out of a building with smoke coming out of it, then stand and watch from across the street until it is engulfed in flames, and then say "Man, those people in that burning building should really do something about it. Pretty irresponsible of them to let it get this far out of control." I definitely wouldn't suggest some dumb shit like "You should separate your part of the building from the burning parts before it catches them on fire too!"

Yeah, I had tbe same thought, but my knowledge of the character is too shallow to come up with something clever.

The idiots that believe and/or spout that shit are the same ones who are in support of this fascism. It was, at best, bullshit from the beginning. A) the 2nd amendment is not and never was meant to be an allowance for insurrection. If you think insurrection was ever constitutionally protected, as in the framers were carving out a legal pathway to destroy what they built, you're deluded. And, particularly, if you think that that would hold true under the tyrannical government that would be in control in this hypothetical... you're a moron. B) Also you have pistols, rifles, and shotguns. They have those things as well as tanks, jets, drones, missles, and nukes. The idea of your uprising is a fantasy.

At worst, it was an excuse to keep your toys and your paranoid delusions of standing your ground if a brown guy ever tried to enter your home and minimize the tens of thousands of gun deaths each year as unimportant in comparison.

And even if an uprising were to happen today, the unfortunate truth is that it wouldn't be the whole of America against its government. It would have, at most, half of its people's support, a subset of that half actually ready, willing, and able to take up arms, and they wouldn't just be beseiging government buildings in DC. They would be fighting an army of MAGA and their allies and most of the military. And those in power would be in secret bunkers all over the globe well out of harms way.

Modern day insurrection in a technologically advanced and politically divided country would not be the American Revolution 2.0. Politics has changed. Warfare has changed. There will be a successful revolution again in a western country at some point in the future. It is an inevitability. But I don't think anyone even knows what such a thing would look like right now. My thought is that it would have to either be an extremely fast, secret, targeted, and totally destructive action over a matter of days to prevent time to mobilize against it, a joint war effort with the backing of another state power that can stand toe to toe with the regime, or the regime would have to be so repugnant in enough ways that it has nearly no popular domestic support and its own military would side against it. Given the amount of surveillance in aspects of modern life, the relative military power levels between the US and nearly all other nations and lack of willingness to start another world war, and the complete brainwashing and reality warping of a large portion of the population and the military to continue supporting the Trump Administration no matter what they do... I don't see such things happening successfully anytime soon. Call me a cynic.

Plus probably about $50-80 in gold leaf and glue.

What is it? Stupidly designed, massively overly elaborate jars and dishes. What's it's purpose? To be a tacky person's idea of wealth status.