You might want to be seated when I tell you about what Europeans do

Double wall vacuum flask is what you need! I like Yetis but you can find them pretty much anywhere at a ton of different price points.

Shoutout to the Sohei warrior monks, who stayed on their mountains and occasionally came out to completely fuck up everyone around them, including other warrior monasteries, and were ultimately so annoying that multiple rulers went on straight up extermination campaigns against them

The liberals don’t even care anymore. Their latest catchphrase is “that’s just pure propaganda” whenever they are exposed to the reality of the contradictions of their ideology.

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People treating a “the Pope in 2025 should execute an armed international crusade into Israel in real life” post with absolute seriousness, and then telling you to touch grass, has to be one of my favorite HB bits

Of course, keeping inventory was much more important in those times. However, it’s disingenuous to act like robust American manufacturing had their shit together in any way back then.

I am quite versed in it as an Industrial Engineer, there is a cultural reason Deming was laughed out of American boardrooms and welcomed in Japanese ones from small podunk auto manufacturers nobody had heard of such as Toyota, where the system they developed would go on to form the basis of all modern manufacturing (which took American manufacturers so long to understand that they all went out of business). Even to this day, American auto manufacturing is a joke.

When pull manufacturing is considered a revolutionary concept, robust business does not exist.

Christ, fucking imagine what boomer work was like. A world without internet, without cell phones, without GPS-tracked semi trucks.

Truck broke down halfway across the country so our shipment of raw materials for the next production run is delayed? Shit, guess we’ll find out in a month from now. Another week of sitting around and smoking cigarettes it is, then!

Our contractor metrics are shitting the bed and customers are furious? Lmao I guess we’ll find out in a month when the letters arrive in the physical mail and resolve the problem in another year when we find out who to call.

Fuck it, did my hour of work today, time to get drunk. And earn enough to single handedly support a family of 4 with multiple homes, vacation cabins, multiple vehicles, and yearly international destination vacations lmfao.

Oh what’s that, it’s time to retire at 50 with my company funded pension, social security funded to the gills, flush retirement accounts, and rental property income.

Ahhhhh my bad fam! Yeah regular tires like that are perfectly fit for use. It’s definitely quite nice for quality of life rolling around with puncture resistant tires, whenever the time to swap comes! I always have puncture anxiety lol.

You beat me to it. I can also attest to the effectiveness of Schwalbe Marathons. Great in all conditions, not too heavy, and puncture-proof as it gets. Additionally, the retro reflective stripe is incredible for night time visibility. Best in class everyday tire, easily.

Those tires look pretty slick, OP, I know money doesn’t grow on trees but please consider it as a safety measure.

Have you looked into your state or city government? They have very long hiring processes and industry-bottom pay, but generally great benefits, pensions, and days off.

The positions in my state sound right up your alley given your background, including social services programs, communication roles, and if nothing else, you could start as an admin clerk/assistant and work your way up.

Private industry job availability is gonna be tough in your field, but you don’t need me to tell you that. To be constructive: try reaching out to faculty members you were close with at your university. They will have many industry connections and might refer you.

Also consider admin roles outside your field where you can use your soft skills - entry level customer/ops support in the supply chain field (warehousing, trucking, industrial factories, tradie fields, etc.).

Finally, take a deep breath and have a cup of tea or something. I’ve been there as well, laid off in a freezing cold job market. It’s not just you, every single position that opens up sees literally dozens of overqualified applicants to cherry pick from. The market is that bad right now. But the only way out is to keep looking and keep applying every day. There is a light at the end, even if it seems impossible now.

If I had the chance to expose Earth’s location to Trisolaris, I would do so without hesitation 10000/10000 times.

My local State government senator and representative couldn’t even spare 5 seconds of a staffers time to respond to me. Both Democrats. Guess they can win without me!

Yup. Welcome to the endgame of capitalism. This has all been predicted by the immortal science of Marxism, and will continue to follow the predictions.

Additionally, we are in a literal climate apocalypse. Every piece of current data and every projection shows the world in active and accelerating collapse. If every human on Earth simultaneously turned communist and decided to save the world, we could reverse it. But anything less and it’s all fucked within our lifetimes.

These two pieces combined are what the world’s ruling class know. Just like they knew about leaded gas and greenhouse gases. They see the numbers, the worsening quality of life.

And yet we must persist, so I do. Stay armed and loosely organized with stocks of food supplies (or a garden if you have land) and persist within the system while helping others when you can. I don’t know what else we can do individually. The alternative is to be destitute and homeless and unable to help anyone, which apparently makes me a Fed to say. /shrug

Nah it’s all like that. Most tradies are shit people (just like office folks and the rest of humanity) that just happen to have a little more work ethic, skill, and the intelligence to use them.

I support the highest paid union in my district, higher than teamsters, longshoremen, and stevedores, and for every 3 earnest good folk, there’s 10 asshole drama queen privileged trouble causing Trump supporting losers.

People with active restraining orders from their baby momma, that get apprentices horrifically injured and weasel out of accountability, waste hours making the office explain that their own fuckups are in fact not according to company and union procedure, fuck an entire job site by running new mechanics out of town that were just trying to put down roots (in the same union), etc.

They’re just people. And this is why a vanguard is needed to educate them. Frankly some of the rhetoric I see makes me wonder how looped in to reality some folks are, as if these people that struggle against their own interests would ever spontaneously assist the glorious revolution.

America truly is horrific for the disabled, even more than usual.

Posting for bump/solidarity.

If it’s a bog standard private landlord in the US (no government involvement), I’m pretty sure they can’t actually check your salary via some third party tool.

They might verify that you work at the company you claimed but you could always tell your boss/HR it was a scam or identity theft.

Like the others said, a photoshopped offer of employment or pay stub should work. A fake contract letter with trusted contact may be easier to do though, especially since you have a business you control.

$2m to lease an office for 16 months and $7m for drones and tech.

No doubt this will be added to the department’s budget and taxpayers will be forced to pick up future lease extensions, drone attrition, new drone models, training, and the continued costs of server hosting, software licenses, etc. in perpetuity.

I am 100% open to being shown otherwise, however my current view is that no conflict will occur.

Liberals will show up in droves with their Ukraine and Taiwan flags, stand around shouting platitudes, do nothing, demand nothing, and get sent home when they’ve been beaten up enough by the state security forces without ever fighting back.

For all practical purposes, there is no Left in America, and the ones that proudly proclaim it are too busy condemning each other online for not conforming to their perfect idea of the ideal Marxist proletariat (because that is totally our greatest priority in a political state where leftism doesn’t even exist) because god forbid they help a real person instead of telling other Marxists they deserve to be “proletariatized” for having a STEM education and are a fascist, actually, for consuming an egg.

Liberals are the majority of these crowds and they fundamentally cannot change the system they are themselves supporting, as we all already know.

The only thing left is collapse IMO.

Nah your research is pretty accurate. Locals and even Hawaiians use it commonly with a negative connotation, but when used respectfully and in-context, there is no negative connotation (unlike f*****).

The one that wandered in here is so fucking media illiterate and brainwashed by liberalism that they can’t even muster a coherent logical statement let alone an ideology without contradicting themselves lmfao

The world minus China is actually so cooked lmfao