WafflesTasteGood [he/him]

I was under the impression that “war with China” was at the top of the plans for over a decade now. I definitely remember seeing stuff like this years ago, and all that’s changed is the US is even more reliant on Chinese imports.

Is a war-time economy still good if your manufacturing sector can’t get 2/3rds of its raw materials?

By my estimation, half of white collar jobs are like this and everyone just engages in theater about how busy they are

This is common in a lot of blue collar manufacturing jobs I’ve had too. Gotta milk the work and get it done as close to the expectation as possible or else you’re rewarded with more work and higher expectations.

Always been a huge point of frustration for me since I like to get a good pace going and stay busy since it makes the shift go by faster, but then I have to arbitrarily slow down to keep from giving the boss man the wrong idea.

I’ve kinda seen this in manufacturing for the last few years. Not explicitly “AI” but newer equipment designed around being smarter and not requiring skilled operators. Think like WordPress but for industrial machines; it might do basic stuff pretty well but fails at complex operations, and it’s an atrocity if you ever look behind the scenes to do some troubleshooting.

hyper-exaggerated, racist caricatures of 19th century Americans.

It’s literally impossible to exaggerate the racism of 19th century Americans.

This was a big deal for us because my dad had just bought a “TiVo” like a month before, so we could watch and replay this in real time like some magic space wizards.

The things is, Dems could have given us a single payer system but they specifically chose not to. They could have completely removed the risk of losing healthcare for everyone but they chose not to.

Poor guy didn’t realize the mall ninja store was replaced with an Adam and Eve until he was half way home with the whip and handcuffs.

It’s the tactical box cutter and whip that makes this illegal. Take those out and add in 4 more guns and everything would be fine.

This is informally already a thing. Most lenders largely ignore medical debt so they can lend more and take in those sweet interest payments.

I’ll always drop the exception that it’s potentially worth voting in local politics, particularly in small remote communities. These vary in frequency and often don’t always overlap the major elections and are largely ignored.

City and county positions can have a real tangible impact on your daily life and the amount of votes to swing these elections can be really small in a lot of America. It’s still an uphill battle against landlords and small business tyrants, but it’s something real local organizing can overcome.

This one made more sense in my brain

This actually hits pretty good for me, having lived in rural religious hellhole america most of my life. Had to learn pretty early on how to regulate my vocabulary to keep many of my peers from going red and fuming.

In my area they just finished a bunch of low income duplexes in a utilitarian metal building style. Not necessarily a bunch of pushback, but there’s loads of negativity over the look and style; purely superficial shit.

I find it funny because those low income metal buildings are gonna outlast the quarter to half a million dollar groverhaus communities that are popping up everywhere here.

Also a lot of “cant have sex out of wedlock or else maw maw gets big mad” and these guys have no clue how to use birth control so they can’t even pretend to be celibate when their partner ends up pregnant.

Probably One Piece with my wife since she got into it a few weeks ago.

One of mine absolutely loves to shover her head down shoes. Sometimes she gets a little stuck and it sounds like a one legged man is hopping around my kitchen at 3am.

It doesn’t count when you’re the Good Guys.

Black beans and rice. I drain and rinse can beans and cook in some olive oil with onions and garlic plus whatever seasonings I’m feeling. I’ll add about 1/4 cup water to give them a nice little bean sauce and cook them with the lid on. I’ll just throw the rice in a bowl and dump a bunch of beans on it sometimes.

Id suggest melatonin. My kid (also AuDHD) gets it most nights because they get restless and struggle to get to sleep without it, to the point they get frustrated with theirself.

Ill also use it when I have a something important the next day. I’ll normally toss and turn and lay in bed for hours restless but a kids dose of melatonin and I’m off to sleepy land without fuss.

I definitely suggest starting with a kids dose if you’re gonna try it. Personally, I find sleep aids get less effective as the dose increases as I get kinda trippy and loopy which makes me restless._{___}

Definitely a stable economy. Not just propped up on heaps of debt on debt on debt.

Don’t think about any of that and just buy some pizza with theoretical money.

I’m pretty sure the owners of sawstop agreed to release the patent if this regulation passes. The issue is the actual components involved increase the cost of a saw, completely eliminating cheap options.