What was that Sim Sisyphean home design that was floating around the internet a while back? The guy ha designed a home for the Sim that basically took forever to exit via a circuitous hedgerow or something that the occupant could never quite make it out of to get to work, and would have to turn around and trudge all the way back through the circle to home, only to have almost next to no time to sleep and eat before it was time to get up and begin the hopeless trudge to work again.

Yeah.

Good place for those personalities.

Absolutely. And that also applies to some immigrants from harsh dictatorships. I worked with a pro-trump Russian. He liked trump specifically because he wanted someone to “crack skulls” and all that. (This was during the BLM protests.) He wanted the police state to shut up everything inconvenient to his way of thought.

Been listening to a lot of breakdowns of intro guitar riffs and synths from ‘80s and some ‘70s music. That shit is still awesome, especially seeing as so much of it was still brand new and experimental with the electronic side. Really hits the nostalgia button hard, though.

I don’t think you can crank a home oven up that high. 600° F? Wow.

Numerous reasons.

Lots of people don’t want anyone to disturb the system…”upend the apple cart” as it were. A known, even if shitty, is still better than the unknown. Like people pining for lives under the rule of some harsh autocrat. Even if your neighbor disappeared one night thanks to the State Police, it was better than worrying about the less-harsh policing that lets kids get away with graffiti-ing everything or the petty theft you’re always hearing about.

Also, if they come for the rich people, they’ll come for you. If they tax the rich, they’ll tax you. If you support the rich, people will remember that, and they’ll come for you.

Maybe a little of the “I could be rich someday” idea too, so they support obscene wealth with the idea they could somehow also be rich no matter how minuscule the chance. The irony being the wealthy are the ones supporting barriers preventing you from even achieving financial security, forget ever being wealthy.

The OP made a distinction between wealth and power. Your question salad conflating the two, even if wealth does grant power, is muddying the original question with “What is the definition of ‘is’?” It isn’t meaningful.

This looks AI. Inconsistent focus, scale of cats is different, lights on “rig” are inconsistent, where’s all the LAN and power cables? Who builds a bitcoin mine in a weird tunnel?

Thoughts and prayers worked so well to stop school shootings. Don’t know why they think more religion will somehow fix things. They always seem to take the shitty idea and just double down harder, like that’ll work.

CEO: has lunch and answers a phone call. “I’m working!” Writes a proposal from a yacht “I’m working!” Goes golfing with industry buddies. “I’m working!” Paid tens of millions not including stock options. Spends time in the c-suite. Actually is working. Writes a letter about his cubicle slaves who are chained to their cubicle at work, their phone at home, unable to actually use PTO due to fear of negative performance reviews, working 50+ hours on the clock and uncounted hours off the clock “You need to work more!!” With their pay and benefits constantly under assault by managers.

Not trying to contradict, just add a little updating and nuance.

The first two lines weren’t true until more recently. Becoming a pilot was expensive, but not out of reach. You could literally do it by earning money fueling planes up until ~20 years ago. Also, you didn’t get paid shit up until 10 years ago and they started desperately throwing money at new pilots to hire and keep them. Even some larger airlines paid like shit for newer pilots depending on aircraft for a really long while.

The dream was to make it to a major and put enough years in to make the big money.

But in the last decade things have really changed. Pay is decent even for a lot of the smaller aircraft (but not great, depending). But training costs are outrageous compared to 25-35 years ago.

The last line is in regular rotation.

Number of cycles (departure to arrival) would be a pretty decent metric.

Best efforts at emptying the cookie jar into the pockets of the rich and blaming everyone else for not giving up enough to keep it full.

I love how businesses say “Fuck you, pay up.” to longstanding customers and blatantly tell you that the good stuff is only for new customers.

Fuck you, cancel my subscription.

Wouldn’t it be a good idea to give everyone the 20% off for the month or whatever? You’d be like “Yeah! What an awesome company!” and stick with them.

Yes, it does. But it would be higher at the 45°’s and not in your face. We planned a grid on the compass one way, it would have been no more difficult the other way.

TBF a shitload of us know how socialized health care works. We want it.

There’s a massive, massive industry that is working very hard to make sure that it doesn’t happen.

Yeah. City roads should have been planned on the 45°, not the cardinal compass directions. Would have prevented this and saved lives. The sun would be higher and not be in your face as much.

Edit: the earth is round. I apologize for my mid-latitude chauvinism. Adjust angles per lattitude.

Oh look, another plain-speaking “smart” republican that needs interpretation and rationalization to tell us who he really is and what he really means.

Sure man. Canned speeches vs real time. Not even in the same league as Obama. Dude got the job because of the family name and thought it would be an easy ride until reality hit him right in thr nose. Then he got all fundy and stubborn. Know who else graduated from prestigious schools and is president? Yeah, bet you can guess.

Exceptionalism.

The kind that says “I’m special, but you aren’t”

The kind that lets billionaires exist and fuck with national politics and laws. The kind that lets rich people or corporations off of crimes with little or no punishment. The kind that lets a religious person use their religion to be shitty in any way, as a shield or a cudgel. The kind that lets someone festoon their pickup with LED lights and a squat so you’re blinded at night when they’re coming at you or tailgating you.

All of them think they’re special and the rules don’t apply, they don’t care how it affects those around them - or others are to be exploited.