Alexa, order another air strike please.

Made in England Japan. Of course.

It’s not, but he’ll believe it is. And thus his suffering will be even greater.

Later, his wife and her sister are both tragically killed by a malfunctioning transporter that O’Brien had been putting off working on because there were so many other malfunctioning things more critical to keep working.

Also he gets arrested for smuggling after Quark points the finger at him.

“stop eating cake!” Antoinette cried “my oak trees need water.”

Performative hate is central to conservative ideology.

In a mad Max scenario you have 6 weeks of fuel. Even if there’s still some left after that point, it’ll start to degrade. You might be able to keep a car running for up to a year if you managed to get hundreds of gallons of gas, and keep it stabilized.

Realistically speaking in a total societal collapse scenario, your best bet is staying close to people you know. If you’re thinking you could drive off in to the woods somewhere, A: you and everybody else, B: can you run off in to the woods right now? Today, drop everything and just go live off grid? If so, why haven’t you, and if not, what makes you think you’ll be able to because the power is out?

Sorry best I can do is 30% apr on an 84 month loan for a 125,000 dollar car that will lose 90% of it’s resale value in 3 years.

Almost everything about the situation you were born in to is an accident of birth.

As in, you had no hand in it. Your parents may or may not have had some say in the matter, but for the vast majority of Americans, they didn’t choose to be an American either. Any more than they chose the color of their skin or the texture of their hair.

If you’re the child of immigrants, or an immigrant yourself, then sure, be proud of the accomplishment. It was hard and they (or you) earned the right to be here. But for most of us, it’s just where we happened to be from.

Raping children? Ok.

Rounding up random brown people and sending them to overseas concentration camps? Perfectly fine with it.

Gas is slightly more expensive? THAT’S THE FUCKING LINE

Pride comes with accomplishment.

Being human, being American, being male, being white, these are all accidents of birth. There’s no reason to take pride in any of it.

Bring born in to a disaffected class of people, being gay, or a person of color, and overcoming that adversity to any measure of success, that merits some pride.

But just being human? Anybody can do that.

“he shot himself 9 times in the back of the head, jumped out of a window, and ate toxic tree frog venom on the way down.”

And walk faster than anyone with an umbrella.

Dig even deeper for oil you say?

WELL I THINK YOUR BROWSER LIKES TO FELATIATE BIRDS!!

… YEAH! it sucks cloaca. How do you feel about THAT‽

Frequently the attitude towards equipment is that it can be sold once they’re done with it. Particularly specialized equipment might sit a little longer but that’s built in to the calculation.

There’s a bottleneck in hiring skilled workers to run that equipment, and time to get that equipment up and running. It can take months from when the equipment is in the building before it’s making parts, up to a year for very sensitive equipment. And troubleshooting it to get it working at capacity takes even longer.

Which is great, if you need time to find people to run it, but usually those skilled workers already have jobs, and there are only so many available in any given area. Even if you have them available you’re stuck paying them for months before you’re ready to put them to work.

It’s high risk and it takes a long time to pay off. A miscalculation is the end of the CEOs career and may bankrupt the company. The first to pull it off though will be in a great spot, assuming it’s not a bubble and it doesn’t burst. Manufacturers are going to want some solid guarantees before taking the plunge. Optimally they want someone else to pay for it. They may actually be negotiating with these companies now about funding their expansion.

Most companies don’t make much money selling to “normal” customers. Enterprise sales are almost always the bulk of the revenue.

Sir Patrick… How many beers did we have?

“There… Were… FOUR PINTS!”

One of my senators is a trust fund baby who started out in venture capital. My other senator insists on receiving fucking faxes. Neither respond to constituents.

My congressman, famous coward Don Bacon, is retiring to take a lobbying job at a defense contractor and was never receptive to feedback anyway. On account of being a coward and all.

Guy, we get it, you like the r-slur.