We let the NTs use that term because the real answer would terrify them. It’s all pattern recognition. I’m not “good” at any particular skill but the world is transparent to me. If I understand how something works I can recreate its function.
To them it looks like this is happening in real time. To me, the constantly spinning wheels in my mind grab traction for a fraction of a second giving the illusion of progress.
In the short term, yes. The money you’ve saved is now considered “disposable income” and will be absorbed by the next person in line.
If a paycheck could make you wealthy, no one would give you a paycheck. A retirement account CAN make you wealthy but only after the machine has squeezed 40+ years out of you. But one way or another that money is leaving your hands and flowing back into the system.
Ok, sure. There are theoretical and convoluted ways to disconnect from the electric grid. You’re still buying solar panels. Your out of pocket costs don’t change. The river of money still flows into and out of your life. It’s called currency for a reason. The whole system is designed to stop you from keeping your money.
The dark secret about money is that it only works when there’s isn’t enough for everyone. Despite what politicians want you to believe, you are SUPPOSED to live paycheck to paycheck- at least under a western capitalist economy. This is why poor people are both the most valuable citizens, and easiest to control. It’s slavery with more steps.
It never was
No they wouldn’t. Final consumer cost is based on what people WILL pay not what they WANT to pay. At the end of the day the overarching goal of capitalism is for 99% of the population to spend 100% of their earnings. You can’t funnel all wealth to the 1% if the 99% are holding on to it.
I hear you. I worry how deep this rabbit hole goes. Is the balkinzation of the United States possible? It terrifies me when I hear people casually talk about civil war.
I’m surprisingly ok with the US reducing our international influence but I just can’t wrap my head around the concept that some people think we should polarize ourselves to the point of redrawing maps… Again. I hate that I have contingency plans.
Op: Barron Trump
If we’ve learned anything in the last ten years it’s that everything has been made out of Popsicle sticks and chewing gum the whole time. The boomers created a fiction that no one questioned. Now their dying gasp is to tear it all down and lock the doors behind them.
I love how we’re teaching the rest of the world that the best weapons against the most powerful nation in the history of the human species is propaganda and viruses.
It’s all made out of fucking Popsicle sticks.
So is the message here that the government is investigating Sen Kelly because they disagree with what he said? Soldiers… Should?.. Follow illegal orders? Are we this deep into fascism already?
I had over 120k upvotes once… kid, you think you get to a point in your life where you’ve accomplished enough to keep yourself afloat but IT’S A LIE. You can never relax! You are ALWAYS being pursued by your lessers. Let me be a warning to you all… it can happen to you.
Lmafo @ smash test dummy
I’m sure when he installs Baron as his successor the numbers will improve.
If it’s got boobs someone will eventually fuck it.
I don’t make the targeting systems. I make the carbon fiberhousing for the targeting systems. Deep blue collar job in the bluest collar town you can imagine.
Make missiles hit.
So are we calling this a prison murder or a state sanctioned assassination?
Only bubba had good taste.
I know exactly what you mean. I got the musical talent version. I remember being in 10th grade in music class and the teacher passed out band instruments to everyone in the class so we could play with them and laugh at how bad we all sounded. I was late that day and got the only thing left over. A trombone. A week later barely a handful of the students could get a solid note or two out of their random trumpets or clarinets, etc. I was playing “When the Saints go Marching in” with flourishes like a New Orleans brass band.
I got an entry level job sanding military helmets a couple years ago. The kind of job that hires anyone to do the shit work. Two and a half years later I am in charge of the most complicated product the company makes. I’m now the only person in the world who makes the JHMCS helmet. (Google it)