turtle [he/him]

America’s right has been pretty relentlessly trying to get people out of pensions and into 401Ks for decades

Not just pensions. They’ve also been trying to get rid of Social Security in favor of private retirement accounts invested in the stock market for decades now.

Dear CEOs: devour feculence.

You have no idea. The US is a complete capitalist dystopia. I finally realized this several months ago when I read news stories about “vanlords” renting broken down vans parked on the streets for people to live in, for hundreds of dollars a month.

Those tiny round signs on sticks were absolutely ridiculous. What are they, crossing guards? Might as well be, because crossing guards would have more guts and more principles.

But that would have put their corporate donations in jeopardy!

I’ve heard of that too. They also have a mobile app, so you can do it directly from your phone.

That would be rather clever!

Elon has two left feet!

I get that reference. Holy shit!

I bought something off Ebay, and sure enough it came from Amazon anyway. I guess they either dropped shipped or they fulfill their orders.

Argh, this drives me crazy! I went to ebay and was willing to pay more to avoid Amazon, but the stuff comes from Amazon anyway. I’m pretty sure this is just 3rd-party sellers drop-shipping stuff. I don’t believe ebay sells anything themselves.

Anyway, I finally figured out that anything being sold new on ebay with only stock photos for a higher price than amazon has a very high likelihood of being cross-shipped from amazon and the seller is pocketing the difference (minus ebay fees?). Either look for non-stock photos, prices less than 5-10% higher than Amazon, or ideally both to avoid this.

A couple of times that I fell for this I made it a point to return the products for a refund. I didn’t give the sellers a negative review because I figured that it’s just some poor slob trying to eek out a living, but I came close.

I think this is a much more realistic assessment of their relationship, rather than Musk having compromising info on Trump.

Probably!

Oh, for sure! But Musk also has a lot of other qualities that Trump likes, besides being powerful.

Praise Kier!

I doubt that Musk has anything on Trump. Much more likely is Trump having a lot of reasons to like and admire Musk:

• is the richest man in the world
• has constant attention from the public
• publicly spouts nazi positions
• publicly spouts anti-government positions
• spent millions on Trump’s reelection campaign