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My problem with this thought is that a civil war = government forces vs cilivilan militias.

I imagine it more a weakened government (but still with a functioning military) supported by civilian militias backing the government, versus various large and small insurgencies possibly with foreign backing.

Why would they? They’re wealthy enough to weather nearly anything. They do lack total power though, which is why you see Silicon Valley flirting with Yarvin.

Incorrect, you keep complaining and decide to put up with the powers that be.

Enjoy living on $14/h for the rest of your life.

Yeah, just like it’s polite to maim someone when you could have killed them.

Thiel is probably safe. Haven’t heard much about young boys on the island. Of course, he could always be “gay” in the same way he was a “libertarian”.

> I know it's en vogue to bash new media dealers and clutch our collective pearls. But if traditional media could get these engagement numbers, I can't imagine they wouldn't.

At least legacy media wasn’t directly promoting and rewarding antisocial behavior and crimes.

The employers already had all kinds of bizarre tricks to keep tipped workers down.

My girlfriend works for a local chain restaurant. Some of the things she tells me about seem like they shouldn’t be legal (forcing everyone’s cash tips to be pooled with non tipped teenagers they don’t want to pay, for example. Pretty sure the company has had previous class actions against them. This was just a small local chain in a middle/upper middle class suburb.

I saw a post on Nextdoor the other day where another restaurant closed, laying off the workers without paying them for hours worked. The general consensus about how to get the money you worked for: you don’t. The state has no labor board and there was little option for recourse.

We’ve been trying to “educate” people on nutrition for a long time, but this country is still fat as hell.

The future needs serfs, not readers.

> The long short of it is that the remote workers become alienated, while the office gang has a good chance of becomes a good ol' boys club.

This is what it becomes anyway whether I’m in office or not.

Yeah, against the ugly smug face of Cuomo I’d choose anyone else too.

The capitalists are no longer capitalists.

Somehow we went from capitalism is the best system because it most efficiently distributes scarce resources to “give us all the money and power in the world because our large language model is going to usher in Star Trek!!!”

The grifters have one. Though you could equally assign the blame to the idiots who fall for it.

If the ASVAB is basically an IQ test, I’m horrified by how quickly my intelligence has decayed.

When I took it in HS, I scored quite well. I’m almost certain I’m bomb it completely now. Particularly any mathematics I haven’t touched since high school would look foreign to me.

Zuckerberg is one of the most evil men in America.

Also why this country is full of fat retards

> The reality is that people twiddle thumbs.

No way man. You get hard workers (tm) working hard. I can’t tell you how many h1b Indians are more than happy to respond to my every bark any time of day to work on my visionary line of business SaaS app. People like you are obsolete bozo.

From what I’ve heard the startups nowadays are only interested in people who already have a resume.

> The current billionaires seem yo know they're headed to apocalypse since theyre building evil lairs.

It will be apocalypse for us, but a glorious new age of feudalism for them. Why else would they be building castles and describing ideal societies of feudal oaths.

Every single person in the country, regardless of political affiliation should know them as most dangerous domestic enemy.

Agreed, it’s a very hot take on this website, where everyone’s egos have been inflated to near popping, but I’ve long held that most software jobs are pretty easy.

But the cool thing about software is that it has paid so well despite its relative ease, it’s a well paying field that still secures a middle class life that’s resilient to inflation.

Once that’s gone, a whole lot of people are going to find themselves condemned to dropping an economic class or two.