Look at the way he behaves.

People who behave like he behaves without money don’t go anywhere in life because no one wants them to be around. He’d be working at a packing plant somewhere. Or a fast food counter. I say that because the guy isn’t actually intelligent. He isn’t some engineer that designs cars or rockets. He just bought the companies with the people who actually do that. And it doesn’t take a genius to have a lot of money and invest it in safe bets. Look at Donald Trump. Guy is a moron but it’s pretty easy to take daddy’s money and buy/sell real estate. Musk would still look like the Gollum he looked like before he got REALLY rich and paid to make himself look different. He’d be alone, poor, and sad. I mean, he’s clearly sad now because no one who’s happy behaves the way he behaves. He’s lonely because the only people who interact with him are people that want something out of him. He ain’t poor though, so he’s got that going for him.

Of course, if he wasn’t born wealthy he wouldn’t be who he is, so this is all assuming that his personality is the same without the lifelong money, which it wouldn’t be. In a way, the born rich thing was kind of a curse for him because he never got to become a real boy or a real man.

5x6 hours

or

4x7.5 hours

I think we should be working a 30 hour work week. It’s more conducive to, you know, having an actual life. 40 is far too hectic and time consuming, especially if you have kids. We simply need more time for our personal lives. 40+ just makes you feel like your life is on fast forward and your real home is just a secondary home to your work home.

I’m leaning toward 5x6 hours. That way you’re present for coverage 5 days a week, but you’re in and out in what feels like a much shorter timespan. Every once in a while we get let go a couple hours early, so I only end up doing 6 hours and it feels so much more natural. I don’t really need to eat. I don’t get really anxious like I always do in the last couple hours of an 8 hour shift. I have a couple more hours of the day to get other shit done. It just feels right.

The entire point of humans advancing technology throughout all of history is to make our lives easier. Well, guess what, we live in a technologically advanced civilization now and worker productivity has skyrocketed because of it. So why are we still working so much? Answer. Because our overlords demand it so we can enrich them beyond our wildest dreams. The sad thing is if we all got together in solidarity and demanded a 30 hour work week, we’d have it.

Oddly enough this is the game I was trying to get to work a handful of years ago when I last gave N64 emulation a shot so I could play it with a friend. Ended up realizing the N64 emulation scene just wasn’t there yet. Guess it’s time to give it another go.

A few people I know whom I used to think were fairly smart have even fallen prey to some clearly wrong misinformation

This is probably the most depressing aspect of it all to me. Finding out that people who I thought were intelligent and good are actually anti-intellectual and amoral.

You know when you have a society rebelling against vaccines, one of the greatest things to ever happen to humanity, that you’re witnessing a downward spiral.

Yeah. It’s a big deal.

“BUT DEMOCRATS DON’T DO ANYTHING!!!”

Honestly, I’m not sure how possible it is for Trump to undo this. I haven’t looked deep enough into it. I read something about Biden doing what he could to make it hard for it to be undone. There’s so many nuances to our legislative system and the powers that the president has that it’s hard to tell how safe this from Republican fuckery.

Yeah. I mean I try not to be the guy standing on the corner with the “THE END IS NEAR” sign, but the writing is on the wall here. History has shown us that if a populace doesn’t work hard to maintain a democracy, it loses it to the forces working against it. And our society simply can’t responsibly handle the threat of internet propaganda and radicalism. There will never be a more stark election than what we just experienced and we still failed the test. If we’re failing the easiest, most obvious tests we could possibly be given, we don’t stand a chance.

It’s not going to be some cataclysmic collapse and downfall. It’s going to be slow and steady and extremely despressing.

Hey look, another 4 years of Republicans not doing anything of value for the American people.

Meanwhile, Democrats just banned medical debt from showing up on credit reports.

The differences between parties couldn’t be more obvious and Americans were still stupid enough to elect the do-nothing party. That’s how I know this country is barreling down a path to collapse. It’s not Trump. It’s not even Republicans. It’s braindead stupid Americans.

You been paying attention? Elon and Trump are buddy buddy. Elon has donated big time. He has shown up at rallies. They did a live interview together weeks before the election. Trump tapped Elon to be the head of a new government efficiency department. Now he’s making questionable posts on social media regarding our government and what he plans to do regarding it.

If you voted for Donald Trump, you voted to give Elon Musk more power in our politics. Anyone who thinks otherwise is engaging in an act of extreme ignorance.

But the talking head on Fox told me what to think about socialism, using no facts or common sense.

What am I supposed to do? NOT believe them?

I mean you can, and should be, pissed off at Democrats all you want. Doesn’t change that all data point towards them being a better decision for middle/lower class Americans.

Problem is, a bunch of Americans feel the way you do, but instead of still voting intelligently, despite being upset with Dems, they chose to stay home or vote 3rd party.

So now a felon rapist is our leader and the ultra rich have made it abundantly clear average people like us are going to lose even more power.

Isn’t it great that Americans are so intelligent and well-informed that we voted to give this trashcan more power?

We pretty much fucked any chance we had for the middle/lower classes to gain more power/influence during our lifetimes. Weak middle/lower classes = shit country. It’s only going downhill from here.