There it is!

You can always assume what kind of person brings dogs into establishments.

“I’m a paying customer, fuck you!! I’ll do what I fucking want!!”, is their mantra.

First, I would like to thank you for responding as you did. It wasn’t just a dismissal of my argument, but an honest take from your perspective. That is rare to see these days.

I find it a bit interesting that you used the HVAC field as an example. I’m assuming that you are perhaps in the field and have felt some kind of sting in your day to day operation. If this is the case: I do feel for you, as I am in an adjacent field that has not felt any signs of recession. In fact, I have seen growth rather than loss.

I know this is probably not comforting, but I do want to punctuate that it is because I haven’t felt the effects of tariffs in my daily life that I feel the way I do. As I stated previously, I drifted into the field I am currently in because I saw signs that I wouldn’t be subject to getting laid off (I originally worked in a field that was happy to lay off half of their workers at the first sign of financial trouble). I saw the potential for economic turbulence and decided that a more stable field was worth more in the long term, even though I would be sacrificing higher pay.

Every move I have made was in the service of my family. Which is why I find it hard to sacrifice an inch in order to supplement the lives of other families.

What do you say to someone who works in a recession proof field? That they made all the wrong moves?

That, even though they looked ahead and made all the right decisions, they are still wrong and should shoulder the burden to supplement the lives of everyone else at the expense of their own families?

I do work that stresses me the fuck out every single day. It’s not the field I wanted to get into when I was younger, but the payoff is that my family can live on a single income. My wife and kids have the opportunity to travel and learn. I sacrifice those trips so that they can make them.

Selfishness is labeled as such a horrible quality, yet so many perpetually online people only care about their own situation. They belittle anyone with an “I’ve got mine” attitude to support their claim that those people should be supporting their lives through taxes!! Simple hypocrisy.

I don’t mistake my “selfishness” for a twisted understanding of how the economy should work. I know exactly what I want. I’ve worked hard to get it. I will not let someone take that from me just because they want it without putting in the work.

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All great selections!

I was a fan of all of the Apogee platformers:

Commander Keen,

Cosmo’s Cosmic Adventure,

Monster Bash

Also Lucasfilm games:

Loom,

Maniac Mansion

What a great time for PC gaming!

Is this boomer for real chat?!

Anyway, this 30 lbs of Ramen is about to disappear!

Ah yes: jealousy. The driving force of all leftists/socialists/communists.

YOU CAN’T HAVE MORE THAN ME!!!

But tell us how you feel about Tesla owners…

I believe that Take Off Your Pants and Jacket was released with 6 different secret songs (in the US anyway). Each album came with 2 of the 6, so you had to see if your friends got the other ones on their albums.

It was a good time!

Yeah!! Spend your money on a completely pointless lawsuit!! Fill some lawyers pockets instead of helping your citizens!!

Remember: the most important thing to professional politicians is optics! It’s what fools the morons into thinking you are doing something good!

I plugged the HDD in WHILE the PC was on (yes, I know, what a fucking moron).

I don’t know what to do.

Update: was able to find a local place that knows what they are doing. Turns out I fried the North Bridge 🙄. Got a new MoBo in the way. I hope I can get away with just a plug and play.

Absolutely!! Unless of course we are talking about “burdening” certain women (or certain men) with the inconvenience of giving birth to another person.

In this case, science has absolutely no place in the conversation!! I don’t care when life starts!! No scientist should be allowed to weigh in on whether or not abortion is murder!!!

Following this logic, someone who kills a pregnant mother shouldn’t be held liable for the murder of 2 people! And fathers who do not want to be fathers but are being forced into the situation should not be held liable for caring for a bundle of cells that they didn’t want!

All of these double standards are tiring and gross!!

They used to be the superior form of bread stick.

Olive Garden’s quality (like most corporate chains) has nose dived in the last 15 years.

Shittier food = more profit!!

Because we have far too many hate blinded citizens who are ready and willing to drop to their knees and open wide for the bukkake of anti-America propaganda?

You guys are celebrating the “comeback” from a person who works for the Chinese government and is LITERALLY labeled as “China state-affiliated media”…

Of course not. Not anyone that doesn’t have any dependents.

You all get to do almost nothing all day (except post weak takes on Lemmy) and act like you are carrying the economy on your back.

Fuck off. The adults have people who depend on them.

So you are a non US citizen trying to meddle in the daily affairs of US citizens?

I see you Temu Elon Musk!

I mean…it technically fits the macros.

There’s the lame take I was talking about! Way to prove the point!

I want to see some change. REAL change! There is a uni-party that DOES NOT want that kind of change, and the majority of internet people vote for them time and time again.

Stop fooling yourself.

“It’s ok to lie about things! Truth can be bent as long as it serves the mindset that I have! All you got to do is label everything fascist! Then lying or presenting falsehoods is righteous!!!”

All they had to do was NOT present this organization as “non-partisan” and the article would have held credibility.

But who the fuck needs credibility?! My opinion is righteous and just!!

Right now! What are YOU waiting for?

Oh yeah, your life isn’t actually that bad. At least not bad enough to throw it away to become some kind of martyr that will be forgotten after 3 months (how long has it been since that one guy shot a CEO? 2 months and almost completely out of the news cycle?)

The sad (SAD) truth is that people on the internet LOVE to convince themselves that they are oppressed. The “resistance” they claim they are putting up (which is really just posting the lamest takes on social media) gets their cortisol 'a-flowin!

In reality, they would NEVER give up their lifestyle to make any of the changes they claim they want to see. That is, unless they can whip up enough people to fill in the front line first, then they can continue their comfortable online “resistance” without any risk.

Like I said: you aren’t oppressed.