I was just at a Costco over this and tbh, I fucking hate all these stores and it’s a shame because at least Target around here was the most tolerable of the big box options, at least before they put everything behind glass with no personnel to open it.

What was it like in the before times, before the Walmarts and Targets of the world took over?

Good thing we still have social security when we get older…

/s, with a sigh

I feel seen in this. Sure I’ve walked 4 miles at 1am a few times but who hasn’t?

I said similar on bluesky, glad at least Lemmy folks get it. Guy “earns” 4 million per hour mostly by existing. $20 million the equivalent of one of us donating 100 bucks to the Harris campaign or something, which is extremely depressing.

Oh man, one could supply an entire army with the arrows shot at that guy, I’ll tell you hwat.

I’ll be honest, I was just thinking about the lack of school shooting news. Is it just getting buried or do those kind of assholes just feel too “seen” by this administration to take it out on kids or something?

I mean, they will likely add to the deficit mostly because they won’t collect taxes on the rich. The current spending, if I’m being honest, isn’t really an accurate prediction of their actions since contracts are still playing out and plenty of money is still being spent, although I’m betting additional costs are incurred if it’s covering severance costs and legal bills, which could be temporary if they have their way.

We’re two months in; if in a year they “win” and a ton of people aren’t still sueing them (which honestly is unlikely unless we really go full nazi) then sure, it’ll cost less because it won’t be doing jack shit for the American people. Still not a win, of course, since it’s like saying you lost weight after a quadruple amputation.

I feel that drop everything biz. Having two kids really it’s a damper on it even within state.

I wonder if there’s a way to be ready if that ever did happen in front of me. I feel like I’d have more luck stopping a mugging than a group of masked ICE agents, and even that probably just adds gas to a fire.

I’m not even sure what an average American is to do when people are getting disappeared. The best we’ve got is protest and calling Congress and neither seem to do shit about literal abductions.

Depressing, but just the other day at a USC coffee place I overheard some rich white girls make a joke about something “being a DEI thing!”, albeit with the same kind of slight hesitation as one would have with the N-Word. So yeah, that’s their slur now, I guess.

Oddly, I feel Mexico is a better fit for my state of California, especially with their recent cool shift in an educated President. Maybe we can get a sort of E.U. style thing except for Canada, Mexico and blue states, plus whoever else would make sense.

My students said it was awful. They actually like the actress in that role, btw, but just… Everything else is awful.

As fucked as this all is, it really is a “they’re just like us!” group running things. It might as well be on fucking Discord with people going “gg Yemen.”

Note: you do not want laymen running your fucking military, let alone the whole government.

The funny part to me is the guy who got the texts thought it was AI spam at first because it’s just too stupid. It really is “who’s texting me?” for real.

…I don’t think it says what the driver was driving, and somehow that’s driving me crazy. I thought to look it up because I figured it’s gotta be a Tesla, but “a car” could mean any brand and another source suggests it’s a fucking Nissan Pathfinder!

Reminds me that conservative fucks don’t even drive EVs, it’s really fucking funny to me that even this guy is driving a Japanese SUV instead of a Tesler.

Wow, that sketch makes the youthful and confident looking Luigi look more like a mob underling from a GTA game. Yikes

Hell, even extremely capitalist countries like Japan have low levels of homelessness. It’s astonishingly bad in the US in large part because of the sick mentality people have regarding the unfortunate.

I mean clearly it makes no difference but yeah, lol

You know, with how distracted your average Tesla driver is, I’m pretty sure this would trick them even with them “driving” with AP on.

Y’know, I’ve never known anyone who’d use that because credit cards exist. Is it a bad credit thing? Cause even my bad credit homies have credit cards (with terrible API).