I wonder if there’s a market for a comic like this, but where the idiot protestor gets shot in the head. Just full on revenge porn.

ICQ was a key part of my realization that most people are lazy, short-sighted, idiots.

Everyone I knew wanted to use AIM. ICQ had better features (offline messaging, style overrides, you could change your name without changing your account, file transfers worked better, etc etc). But no one cared.

It’s like how people won’t get off facebook or reddit. Sometimes you have to have a little inconvenience for the greater long term benefit.

It just takes one brave soul with a hidden weapon to pose next to him, and we can be on a better timeline.

Heh. A typo where I meant drive, but it’s funny so I’m going to leave it

Meanwhile, in the city I just get on the train. Going out and then having to drink your drunk/tired/etc self home is miserable.

As the other poster said, you can have multiple accounts. Betterment, for example, automatically puts money in several banks for you and is thus insured up to $2 million.

So if the stocks fall enough you won’t have your money anyways.

Banks are insured by the government. If they get rid of the FDIC then I don’t know, but if a bank collapses you still get your money.

The fact that if you’re rich, you stop paying social security tax is insane. I hit it one year and was like why did I get a big bump in my take home? I absolutely did not need the extra cash.

It’s kind of annoying and distracting. It makes me think they have some emotional damage (don’t we all?) and then I start wondering what else is going to break under stress.

A sincere apology and owning fault is a power move. Apologizing four times because the chair made a weird sound when you adjusted it makes you look sad and impotent.

Musk is also a profoundly stupid man with the emotional maturity of an unloved 13 year old boy. He’ll do anything to try to fill the void in his heart. Well, anything except be a decent person, I guess.

I kind of hope that will have the bonus effect of making the ownership class ease up on return-to-office. Sure, have your executive meeting in-person. Oh shit, someone flew a drone in and it exploded, shooting nails everywhere and killing half the c-suite? Shit. Anyway. We’ll be working from home until at least they clear the blood out of the carpets.

(Though realistically, they’d make workers go in physically while being remote themselves. But maybe someone will bomb their house. No mercy for the ultra-rich.)

It’s the “conservatism has one rule: there must be in-groups for the law to protect but not bind, and outgroups for the law to bind but not protect” thing.

Maybe we should put the prosecutors to death instead.

As more people are laid off, “I gotta go to work” becomes less compelling.

Show your work.

We really should be organizing to fight the right wing, because they’re pretty unified.

It does feel like unrest is coming. I don’t want to live in a world with car bombs in the US, but I do want all the republicans dead, so.

People should organize. If management demands that people go back into the office for nonsense reasons (eg: control, spite), management should be removed. I don’t care if that’s because they resign, or because 20 of us showed up at their house just before dawn for a surprise party.

Good. More.

Maybe we should, like, storm one of these ice facilities, have our own bastille day.

Maybe something that reflects on all the loss. Dead from COVID, chaos from government programs shutting down, allies betrayed, and a mirror in the center that says something like “you did this”.