Buying goods from an on-site store was called “sharecropping” in the US post slavery, but as you noted it had binding and entrapping effects, as designed. Sharecropping was basically feudalism; forced to work land you didn’t own hoping for a benevolent lord to grant you sustenance–but prices were always raised enough to keep you in debt interestingly…

“minifauna” is going on my list.

Quick, you need a mental health app and a prescription too. It’s not normal to be overwhelmed by this, you’re the only one.

Oregon has bonding time for fathers as well and paid family leave, actually the most generous pay rates and broadest application in the US. 100% of pay up to ~$60k indexed to inflationary measure and benefits tapers down for higher earners.

It’s not fat, it’s festively plump!

“regulated”

“Lol” - Fascist oligarchs

We can’t bailout lunch kids, what about my meth addiction debt? Nobody helped me. BOoTsTrApS!

While allowing the right to direct the narrative that tiny, poor individuals not paying taxes anymore is the cause of unbalanced budgets rather than military waste, medical murder, and corporations and the ultra wealthy paying close to no taxes while having all the money.

That’s like assigning arriving patients at the ER their own room and asking them to report their self-diagnosis and treatment back to the front desk.

The DNC cannot fix itself. The system has evolved this way because the money flowing to DNC has allowed them to remain powerful but not challenging the power structure.

To clarify as these words are used differently by different folks, what does “women only” and " inclusive" refer to?

The American empire?

“scanning…you do have a pulse, indicating you’re alive, your heart will at some point stop which means you are in the process of dying.”

“WARNING YOU ARE DYING REEEEEE!”

I work in HR. No one cares.

In the last week it’s frequently taking 10-15 seconds to retrieve/display posts, comments, etc. whereas before that no issues and instant. Nothing changed on my end hardware/internet wise. Anyone else seeing that?

I use brave as default search on Firefox, and search in incognito by default. On mobile, brave doesn’t save the “disable AI” setting so the slop is there for every search, not to mention slowing down the process.

Yeah, the more I read the less impressed I was–though I’m always willing to accept the probability I’m not smart enough to grasp an author’s idea. Seems like a subject that may have run its course in reasonable analysis and this is all that is left to scrabble about in for ideas.

Nonsense, I’ve installed a few, just need some duct tape.

For my child to participate in elementary school, and not be left out of comouter-based learning, I have to approve of her using a chromebook which is doing exactly what I’m sure we can all imagine with future marketable data sources: building profiles.

“…and when they were 7 they liked…” “Try the color red, they used to prefer than, might be a good nostalgic pitch…”

That sniper rifle was so dope, but the accuracy of CPU players with an AK like across the map and then /gaspingsoundwhenhit was so frustrating lol

Goldeneye Surface level PTSD. Enemies beyond your sight horizon due to fog/snow, no map overlay for relative positioning, memorization was the only way to not get lost.