Austin is pretty much just tech bros that decided California was too woke at the this point. All the locals have been pushed out.

I found it very telling that HBO re-wrote the entire Butlerian jihad because the robots were evil, rather than the actual point where using machines to replace humans was wicked and evil

Have you ever actually worked in a factory? Things are way less automated than you would believe. I worked at a plastic injection molding company 5 years ago and we had exactly one press that would automatically apply stickers to the product once it came out, and it would break down constantly. Another factory i was hand sealing fiberglass sheets together for use in washing machines. Or when i worked at a tire factory, i was weighing out curing chemicals by hand into a scale, monitoring rubber coming out, and even handcutting rubber to recycle. The inly factories that have heavy automation are brand new, because management takes one look at the eyewatering price to repair automated equipment and find that it’s cheaper to oay someone $20/ hour to do it by hand.

Yeah, this is pretty much intend to destroy St. Louis as a city and remove Missouri’s last relevance on the national stage.

“Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.” Letting tthe Republicans shoot themselves in the foot is very different than giving them everything they want on a silver platter.

Idk how you can blame the Democrats for a shutdown when Republicans control all three bodies that can avert it

Literally the only power the courts have ever had is the executive’s decision to abide by it. “John Marshall has made his decision, now let him enforce it.” so even 200 years ago there was never anything actually stopping a president to expand his power. De Tocqueville pretty said the same when he did his deep dive into American politics.

We use to flip the light gray flap all shift in computer lab in middle school. When we got bored with that, we figured out how to pop out the Dell logo and flip it upside down

I applied to a very specific group of white men. That’s it

It takes 24-72 hours to confirm if an animal has rabies. That’s just not time that organ donations have.

George Carlin said “It’s called the American Dream because you have to be asleep to believe it” 20 years ago. This is how America has always been, people are only now starting to wake up to that.

Easiest way to dothat is stop supporting Israel’s genocide in Palestine. Seems like all upsides to me

And the Democrats, at the behest of their corporate donors, will do nothing about it, and will refuse to run any ads saying that Trump and the Republicans are to blame

By purchasing Monsanto, Bayer is far and away the largest agriculture company in the world.

I have been getting into with neoliberals on Lemmy who are adamant that the economy under Biden has never been better. Survey anyone who has to do actual work for a living and they can tell you it’s a shit show. I was week nigh bartending this summer and fall and my good shifts i would take home $20, where as the same shift 2 years ago my bad nights i was still taking home $80 in cash tips, and it wasn’t just my bar. All the restaurants in my area are struggling because peopme have zero disposable income anymore.

But stocks had never been higher and “everyone is hiring!” (despite it actually being impossible to get a new job) back in November, so obviously everything was just fine.

Damn, if only someone could have seen this all coming 200 years ago as industrialization started to take off

I haven’t tried them with a cheesecake, but kroger has powdered egg substitutes that cost $6 a bag and are the equivalent of about 50 eggs for something like brownies, cakes, cookies, and bread. No one has ever noticed a difference when i bake using it.

It’s called an Apartheid State, and it’s been done many times to various degrees of success.

Yeah, but that wouldn’t be politically correct, and American media loves being politically correct when it comes to torture.

I’m not defending ICE scooping up people. If you know that your visa is expired, you should assume that you are on their radar. Airlines verify all their passengers with TSA to ensure that no one is on a no fly list or q watchlist. Airports are secured locations where your identity has to be verified. Literally all it takes is for ICE to see you have signed up for a flight next Friday, and they can have an agent waiting for you at your gate.