spriteblood

Dang coming in clutch, my friend

I was able to register, thank you so much!

Check out Tildes

I would if it wasn’t invite-only :/

Half the reason I was on reddit was to engage in discussions, and that’s largely lost if I’m just scrolling through an unfiltered news feed with no way to participate.

I’m 100% not okay with stealing and ransoming people’s personal information, but this makes me want to be 99% not okay with it.

Is this just SMTV: Royal? Like basically the same game but with some added content?

The issue is voters talk about how regular people are doing, while politicians talk about “the economy” which is rich people and business…

This, 100%.

Ask some person on the street how their stock portfolio is looking, and they’ll probably be like “The F are you talking about???”

Ask the same person about the cost of groceries, and they’ll have a rant locked and loaded about why a 12 pack of soda costs $10 now.

When people respond to these surveys, they are taking their experiences with them, and most of us are seeing expensive gas, expensive groceries, expensive housing, and jobs that don’t pay enough to live. People couldn’t afford to live on $8 an hour a decade ago, and now everything costs more.

This has downstream effects in that it makes it harder to switch jobs because you cant wait two weeks for your new job to kick in - much less afford to take off work to go to an interview. You can’t move to a city with more opportunities because cities are more expensive and you can’t even afford to save up enough to make the move because you’re paycheck to paycheck. Jobs paying “market rate” for wages which is dragged down because the system keeps people desperate enough to work for cheap.

These are people who have had to live with the boot of the economy on their necks for a long time. And while politicians can talk about all the great jobs out there and how amazing the economy is, for real people that boot is just stepping down harder. It’s no wonder they blame leadership when this is their experience with this economy.

Pollution, climate change, unchecked capitalism, VR headsets… I’d say we’re just a few decades out from a dystopian cyberpunk era

So is this guy, like, the Devil? Every headline I see with him is like “Emperor Palpatine is buying single family homes” where I just assume it’s for some nefarious purpose that’s gonna benefit his regime and dick over a looooot of people.