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@neanderthalsnavel Crowdstrike only exists because Windows is so inherently terrible at security.

@mischievoustomato @arcana @echo_pbreyer The EU wasn't satisfied with completely killing their entire tech startup ecosystem, they want to take out existing tech companies too.

Can't rule over medieval serfs when they still have Facebook.

@caekislove @leyonhjelm Zoning is why American cities suck now, and why all the remaining "good parts" were grandfathered in from before zoning laws ans somehow managed to escape being bulldozed to build a freeway or parking lot.

@hazlin There is a vast gulf between "help" and "do everything for you with little to no effort on your part". Too many church people expect the latter. The reality is that God expects all the effort you're capable of, which is a hell of a lot more than you think it is. Otherwise you would not grow.

tbh, I've never once seen that. All I find are people trying their best. And, Christians telling them they aren't doing enough.

Then we have attended completely different types of churches, full of completely different people.

Most of the church people I've been around seem to think that believing in God eliminates their obligation to work hard and be responsible. And I don't mean at their jobs. They go through very little personal growth because they put almost no effort into the truly hard parts of life: intellectual understanding and emotional maturity.

They sit in sermons, hear everything, but understand nothing. They go home and watch football or Netflix, while ordering pizza they can afford neither in the wallet nor the coronary artery. They never read anything philosophical on their own time, much less the Bible. They ship their kids off to horrible public schools to get indoctrinated by nutjobs. Then they end up divorcing, or in a horrible loveless marriage, because neither of them has learned to put their personal emotions aside for even a moment. And all along the way the say platitudes and ask for prayers that God will somehow magically solve their problems.

Their mouth will tell you they are trying their best and want to fix their problems. Their actions say otherwise when faced with basic steps like "pray for lower blood pressure, but also stop drinking soda" or "pray for a raise, but cancel your subscriptions in the meantime" or "pray for a better marriage, but also honestly consider the other person's concerns before yelling at them and storming out of the room" or "pray for a good wife, but also move somewhere that actually has available quality women then actually go out and socialize".

I've known a fair number of real Christians who are not like this, but they usually aren't church people. They can't stand the hypocrisy and heresy rampant in the churches. Sometimes they meet in the park or at someone's house, but it's no Church by any normal definition. No more so than the believers arguing on the fediverse constitute a church.

It just isn't the Gospel. And, has nothing to do with Jesus.

The parable of the talents is about using all the facilities God gave you the the maximum of your ability. The master's talents don't invest themselves, and the servant who didn't put those talents to work got scolded and punished. God gives everyone a little to start with and then gives more or takes away what they have based on what they do with it, and how earnestly, of course with some degree of grace because we are all flawed.

The world sucks right now, but that's life. Some of the harvesters worked all day, and some only an hour, but all were paid the same at the end of the day.

$5000 a month

$60k/year isn't even middle class anymore. Even $60k takehome isn't middle class in most places where you can find such jobs.

If someone can't live comfortably on 5K a month then something is seriously wrong

You can easily spend over half that just on rent and utilities for something that isn't a sardine can and isn't an hour drive from your job. You can easily drop $1k/mo on health insurance, unless you like gambling or you think that "you employer pays for it" doesn't just mean "taken out of the labor budget on a different line". Used car loans are averaging over $500/mo now. Food easily that much too. Now think about trying to save on top of it...

I survive on 2500

Yes. You are among "the Poor". So am I. So are most Americans. It sucks.

But $5k/mo still isn't much either. It's also Poor. Double it and then maybe it would be a figure where you wouldn't have to worry about basic expenses going up. Probably more like triple it.

My rent is $1080

My old 600 sq ft apartment in an old building in a small town in rural Montana goes for more than that now.

I run Linux

based.

shitty life in general.

You're barely holding on. You won't be able to do that for much longer with the economics in the US, I'm sorry to say.

Move to Mexico. You already live worse than many people here live on far less money. At least you'll be able to afford to buy fresh food at the market and go out after work for some beers with the bros (in Spanish). Restaurant work won't make much here, but we have this crazy thing called a "functional economy" where there's lots of opportunity for anyone with a good work ethic and a little wits about them.

I raise a family comfortably on less than $1000/mo. A single guy could get by on less than $500/mo easily. There's a sign on the corner of my block where someone is renting a room (utilities included) for $70/mo.

can't uninstall without agreeing to ToS

cat /dev/zero > /dev/sda

elderly ass

There's no good single young women in the US. They're all fucked in the head or have been snapped up by the top 10% men.

what happened to the days when men were men?

Boomers sent their kids to public schools full of communist teachers and now act surprised that their kids have become blue-haired commies.

i don't really like anime that much.

sus

and while i do enjoy latin women, i'm hung up on slavic and finnish women.

To each their own. My wife is asian. But lots of guys on here are terminally single with no prospects, and a big tiddy latina who loves them is a hell of a lot better than humping an Eva Braun dakimakura until they work up the courage to take the trip to animeland.

@PurpCat @parker @laurel @p @0 @ins0mniak @catmanmancat @mischievoustomato @threat Hey now, that's not fair. I'm constantly telling them to move to Latin America, get an anime-respecting big tiddy latina gf, and write video games while living in a house made of mud bricks in the middle of the city for $70/mo.

Nobody listens, but that's not my problem. Horses and water and whatnot.

@graf @p @laurel @BiggusDiccus @threat I started on Slack all those years ago. It did Just Work (TM).

@mischievoustomato @ryanhe It would have been trivial. You could have had Mac Pro's with Threadrippers. Instead you get Mac Pros that can't even run two screens and have the performance of a mid-range Intel mobile chip, when the benchmarks are honest.

@lain The market has spoken: chat bots are more valuable than Germans.

@noyoushutthefuckupdad They are probably just literally illegal in burgerland. Ever stopped to read that paper of fine print on the back of your hotel room door? Tip of the regulatory iceberg.

@Kyonko802 @Kerosene @Xenomorph @DrRyanSkelton Back in my day we just, you know, clicked the executable.

@PraxisOfEvil @synapsid @EdBoatConnoisseur @PopulistRight The glowies will just fuck him over regardless. He's basically powerless to stop them, short of things he'd never actually do.

@PraxisOfEvil @synapsid @EdBoatConnoisseur @PopulistRight Here's the real blackpill:

Imagine he gets in and does everything you want him to do that's vaguely within his actual power. Four years later he's out and the next guy reverses it all on day one. There's no one else who could possibly step in in 2028 and override the deep state.

deranged system

Except Americans won't even use cash to lower their taxes. They won't stop shopping at Walmart and Amazon to save their local economy. They won't buy domestic products over cheaper imports to save their own jobs. Those are all really simple things compared to removing the deep state, no matter how "weak" it appears to become by its own actions. It doesn't matter if they make fools of themselves and circuses of the courts if nobody actually stands up and <redacted>. Which they won't, no matter how much shit people talk on the internet. Not until they are literally starving, Best Korea style. They're kidnapping and castrating people's kids and still the parents just sort of sit there and rack up lawyer fees. The feds have trouble actively bribing and tricking mentally unstable people into falseflagging.

Maybe Gen Alpha will do something. Nobody younger, so long as there is Netflix and DoorDash.

The things he did that were most meaningful can't be undone.

The things you listed are just delays. Jobs can leave later and migrants can come later. A 4 year delay rounds to zero over the course of your kids' lifetimes.

incentivized

Perhaps, though anyone who's not a complete moron would have known this by the middle of his first term. He's not a complete moron, so that means he lacks the wherewithall. His situation hasn't changed since 2018. If he was going to do it, he would have done it back then. Regardless of what his supporters may want, he's no Napoleon.