God, have I been there.

The worst part of Big Bang Theory is how bad it makes you feel when people you know recommend it to you.

“What kind of person do you think I am, exactly? And who do you think this show is for?”

How many of them were also

k-pop

…I’ll see myself out.

Essential and non-essential are almost meaningless distinctions for most goods people use on a daily basis. I could LIVE on beans and water. Do I NEED toothpaste? Aspirin? How much am I allowed to enjoy something before it’s a non-essential good?

People paid more for something because they were forced to, and it wasn’t for any economically necessary reason, and the cause was illegal, making it tantamount to theft, and refunds to companies equivalent to receiving stolen goods.

Nitpicking the necessity of the good is a cheap excuse to do nothing, not a gotcha.

Let them. It’s better than “nobody will let it be fair so we won’t even try.”

Take the total tariff income, divide it by the number of people in the country, and send out the checks.

It’s the ONLY legitimate way to handle it.

Not that I’m defending Lindsay Graham in ANY way shape or form, but isn’t it a professional faux pas to reveal your clients as a sex worker?

“Don’t bring me problems. Bring me solutions.”

Is it beneficial to risk your own job to save your company from its own stupid leadership knowing they’ll learn nothing and do something worse down the line?

Asking legitimately.

That’s okay.

It’s not a real company, either.

“More of us than them” is a gross oversimplification of our unity.

Take here on Lemmy, for example… Lemmy’s users are almost exclusively broadly all on the “destroying the planet is bad” and “corporations are causing many problems” side, but aside from that it’s a constant, unending cesspit of purity tests and infighting.

The fact is, there’s no mass of people unified on riots because there are 8 billion of us, and we can’t even get a few million to stop using social media brainwashing tools that actively give them depression.

The billionaires are the DRIVERS of our destruction, but people are walking themselves right into it of their own free will.

Your mistake was assuming the world ending meant everyone would die.

What it really meant was the ending of your ability to control your own destiny, and we are in fact in the latter stages of the closing of that noose, no matter how much the “we’ll just grow a community garden in our commune” people like to delude themselves that the system will let them go.

“They’re literally exactly the same.”

• Insane people

Computers still exist and they still have browsers and they still work for your bank’s website.

Even in the browser of an unverified phone.

Don’t worry… It’ll only take another 20 years to get back the herd immunity we already lost. And that’s assuming the idiots who listened to him in the first place don’t decide this is a liberal psyop and they know he REALLY means NOT to get the vaccination.

People who can vote and do not could just as easily have been lazy Trump voters as anything else. They’re political dark matter. They don’t absolve a populace.

“Of the people who didn’t bother to make a choice at all, maybe most of those didn’t want this” is not a compelling argument.

You mean my emergency disk space?

How about you guys kiss the pimpliest part of my ass instead?