That sounds absolutely terrifying to come back from. I can see why you were worried nothing was real afterward.

Whaaaat That’s wild, what did you do in the other life? Do you have regrets?

Are you saying you married a mechanical Elf? Lol

That’s crazy man, have you ever done DMT?

Why is aipac spending so much money to keep him from getting elected?

Both sides are fascist. Biden and Kamala enabled isreal’s genocide. If ending a genocide isn’t a priority for you then I don’t care what is.

This slow and steady strategy you’re describing got us here. The only thing it helps is fascists. Deluding yourself into thinking otherwise is quite frankly, childish.

Honestly could this just be explained by how people over 50 tend to suck with phones and computers and how vital that is to most jobs now? Cause like all I can think is I wouldn’t want to hire people 50+ either.

Not saying all 50+ people but there are more people like this over 50 then under. Alot more entitlement too and less educated.

In my mind, if you need to sell your labor to survive, then you’re a worker. If you don’t you’re a capitalist. There’s small business owners that have a foot in both worlds, that get a little messy but thinking of it this way makes sense to me 🤷

So if an A-lister has enough money to not have to work I’d say they’re a capitalist now even if they still choose to work.

Pedophilia, Immortality schemes and trying to create their own ideal societies usually in the form of company towns or private islands.

Lol good point. Just education camps then

If it’s real I think he should be sent to a re-education camp. America really needs them.

That’s wild man. Sorry you have to put up with this shit.

Just my 2 cents but the conditions you’re describing sound like they could qualify as a threat to health. 🤷 Maybe I’m soft or maybe you’re just young and in good shape. I’m imagining someone in their 40s or 50s working in the conditions you describe and I’d expect them to faint or get heat stroke. Doesn’t seem like they can set that standard based on the specific worker idk.

Lol that meme is spot on.

Sorry you had a similar experience growing up 🫂but it’s nice that someone understands what I mean and what it was like🙂

Idk sounds like it could apply to this situation :

https://www.osha.gov/heat-exposure/standards

Under the General Duty Clause, Section 5(a)(1) of the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970, employers are required to provide their employees with a place of employment that ‘is free from recognized hazards that are causing or likely to cause death or serious harm to employees.’ The courts have interpreted OSHA’s general duty clause to mean that an employer has a legal obligation to provide a workplace free of conditions or activities that either the employer or industry recognizes as hazardous and that cause, or are likely to cause, death or serious physical harm to employees when there is a feasible method to abate the hazard. This includes heat-related hazards that are likely to cause death or serious bodily harm.

Might be worth trying to file a complaint:

https://www.osha.gov/form/osha7

I grew up in the USA specifically a right-wing evangelical bubble. Pops was an engineer and part time pastor. So I was a pastor’s kid that went to an upper class Christian private school 5 days a week. Between that and church all of the other kids and adults I knew growing up (with the exception of an older brother 16 years my senior and 2 neighbor friends) were all part of the same cult.

There was so much I thought was normal

Adults bullying children

Casual violence

Abusive language

It took me until my early twenties to really understand that racism was real and the people I knew were racist. That sounds insane but in the bubble it was almost exclusively wealthy white people but we had some tokens. In my school about 1 in 40 students were Nigerian and we also had a handful of kids whose mothers were Asian mail order brides. These kids and their parents had to just accept and ignore the racist shit all the white people said and did in order to be “one of the good ones”. This made me think that shit really didn’t matter. I really enjoyed racist humor but I thought the joke was you would have to be so stupid to really think like this. Not ‘other race bad’ haha. Kinda like straight dudes pretending to be gay with each other. Which is also really suspicious in hindsight.

I think beneath it all was this idea that we all were good and well intentioned so anything that seemed contrary to that must be ‘joking’. Or the idea that you can say and act like an asshole but be a good person underneath it all.

You are just the sum of your words and actions.

Shit so many things.

We bullied each other in a classist way, like we had rigid school uniforms and one of the few choices we had was between short sleeves or long sleeves on our button ups. If you wore short sleeves even in the heat the other kids would call you a “grocery store manager”. That was seen as pathetic and gross.

I was one of the poorer students at the school. To give you an idea. The parents of two of the kids in the grade above me owned the NFL team in our state and they weren’t the richest students.

Idk I’m rambling. Great question OP! Really made me think

I drive, my parents and peers pressured me a lot and I got my license as soon as I could at 16. Now I’m 30. In the past couple of years I’ve started living on my own and work remote. I hate driving and have started to realize I am really bad at it. Each drive feels like I’m rolling the dice.

I think if I had been less insecure when I was younger I would have never gotten my license. It’s a real shame to me that driving is necessary for so many. We need better public transport🫩

Best of luck stranger. Not driving is a shitty thing for your parents be disappointed over. Stay safe

So I work for a state government and I can code a wee little bit. I found some ways to automate a good chunk of my work with app scripts. Full disclosure, I review them but I couldn’t do it without Gemini. 😅 (That being said I would never trust an agent as an automation for anything)

I made the mistake of telling a coworker or two about the first automation I did. One of them told the boss thinking I’d get kudos.😔 I did and more work.

Haven’t shared any of the automations since. I also built all the ones since to slowly work over the work day so it looks like I’m doing them manually in real time. I also automated all of the data imports using my work email so if I get fired. My account is terminated too and they will all stop functioning.

I gotta say it’s actually made my work day much lighter. Hopefully it won’t catch up with me negatively

Replace capitalism is misleading tbh

Don’t get me wrong I want them to win. I’d rather have them over Republicans or establishment Dems but these guys don’t want to get rid of capitalism they just want to regulate it and build a stronger welfare state on top.

Huh, learn something new everyday.

Is there a better word to use to insult people?

Is “stupid” ableist?