Really? I heard that’s the most kid friendly place on earth.

Google is a Trillion dollar company. Fleecing the YouTube users for another 10m a year is pure hardcore end game free market capitalism.

Fuck them.

I had food come out my nose when I read the last line of that post. Lol…phew…

…and eventually you get desperate enough to drink that milk that expired 30 days ago.

once currency has no meaning.

You really think those bunkers are filled with cash Scrooge McDuck style? They’ll have food, guns, and likely lots of gold. They’ll also very likely be sustainable.

Keeping the mercs fed and happy is a trivial thing.

Unfortunately their house of cards is built on a foundation of wealth…and not just fuck you money, but literal centuries of fuck you money.

The fortune 50 I worked for could literally stop doing all business and maintain their current spend for a century and still be solvent.

This isn’t unstable at all…it’s built to last for 100s of years…the current leaders to their grandkids will be safe.

To further that…the 1% have private armies and well stocked bunkers to ride out any social uprising. That’s the really scary stuff.

We are all fucked though. Enjoy the hunger games.

It’s the natural end for a free market. The big players take over and squeeze every drop of blood they can from the consumer class until the inevitable collapse or B&L buys the government.

Centrist views are shunned by the internet at large. Both sides hate us.

Which is fucking hilariously sad to me…Google became Google because it got rid of all those things. It was just a search box and it did search well.

Now that it has a monopoly and no competition, it’s bringing back all the ads. Fuck your results, here’s a page of sponsored links.

In a couple of decades Firefox will shit the same bed and the cycle of capitalism will continue.

Meh…embrace the toxicity and get off the internet. Be a gentleman and don’t worry about it.

Renting was probably a better choice in this market.

You don’t really even have to save money if you’re smart with the first time homebuyers credits and grants.

I’ll take the average immigrant’s reading level over the average conservative’s reading level.

Top hit on google: https://www.crossrivertherapy.com/research/literacy-statistics#:~:text=Top 10 U.S. Literacy Rate,literacy below sixth-grade level.

Forbes: https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaeltnietzel/2020/09/09/low-literacy-levels-among-us-adults-could-be-costing-the-economy-22-trillion-a-year/?sh=223357864c90

Snopes: https://www.snopes.com/news/2022/08/02/us-literacy-rate/

There’s a bunch of other studies out there that back that number…It’s always generally 20% can’t read at all…50% can’t do critical analysis of text.

It’s really ugly…Those people all vote, and I think it helps explain how the most vile ridiculous demons the R’s put out there get 30%+ of the vote. It’s extremely hard to refute lies when the person consuming and believing the lie can’t read.

It’s only going to get worse. 20% of the US is illiterate. 50% can’t read above a 6th grade level.

Read that again.

1 in 2 people can not read above a 6th grade level.

That is a fucking insane statistic.

It’s fun for a minute…then…well…it’s kind of where “don’t stick your dick in crazy” came from.

Yes…it’s a dumb comment…but it’s kind of interesting too. Are we seeing the rise of the Right in the US because short form video became popular?

Stop sexualizing everyone because of what you see on the Internet. They aren’t fucking in public.

The fuck…I was there. The furries in bondage gear playing with a couple of toddlers is seared in my head. HAVE SOME SELF AWARENESS…that’s all I’m asking.

I’m just going to go with it’s really fucking weird to see a heard of kids around the furries at Pride.

I’m not anti-furry, but some self awareness would be nice.

You know dental has limits right? You’ll typically run up or blow by them after your first filling.