theneverfox

I also think I'd punch them in the face a lot

I wish someone would tell me this every day

Just do it and say "oopsie!"

I'm just going to go ahead and say... The grapes are probably sour.

Everything good in my life has fallen in my lap, everything I've worked for ended up sucking

From jobs to romance, everything sweet in my life just fell in my lap out of nowhere

Ripe fruits fall to the ground all by themselves, you just have to get to be ready for them

Who cares at this point. The law doesn't matter, they're trying to put homeless people in camps. They've already put legal residents in camps. Minors and citizens too

Just punish them all. They should have fought harder if they didn't want to get fucked by the state, as far as I'm concerned they were absent in DC

Lol what? We've been taken over since citizens united

They just don't care anymore. They're going mask off, just public bribes and concentration camps

Computer science is basically the study of software engineering, because computer engineering means hardware, which has grown into a separate discipline that computer science only touches on

Programming is writing code for the ticket, architecture is designing the system that gets written into tickets, and software development is the whole process

But all these disciplines grew faster than language, so really the titles are whatever you want them to be

Why do they care? They're in the debt game, and they get 2% of like half of all purchases too

They won capitalism, they've stacked the barriers to entry up high and taken economy activity hostage.

Now a group is pressuring them to reach further with that power... Why not normalize overreaching when they're being invited to? They're probably giggling at the opportunity, if it goes badly they can reverse course and blame collective shout

Hell, if this keeps happening they might as well open up a protection racket

Well... Obviously

If it were 20 year olds Trump could go out there and say "I did what you would do if you could, my critics are just jealous losers" like he usually does, muddy the waters a bit, and his base would buy it. In a week they'd be victim blaming on Fox like normal

Except you just can't say that about kids. People aren't going to be like "yeah, anyone would rape a kid if they have the chance, right?" At least not out loud

Plus, there's a solid chunk of his core that actually support him because they think the pizzagate stuff is real, and the Epstein files are the conspiracy theory they redirected the crazies to. Except this one is very real, and they're doing a cartoonishly obvious cover up

Great!

So with your example of buying equipment... So you're now saddling your business with debt. Why wouldn't you get a second loan when you pay off the first one? You take another loan to open up another location, and once that's paid off you could open up two more.

But uh oh...One of the stores was in a bad location, but you're still on the hook for the loan. Now you're dragging the good, successful businesses down for the next 30 years

But uh oh... You're too old to manage all this anymore, so you sell it to an up and comer. But they took a loan to buy it, which the business has to pay back

But uh oh... Your success exploded, and because you took all this investment you're now required to become publicly traded. Your shareholders demand you become as big as apple or die trying, and if you refuse they boot you out and put a consultant brained CEO at the helm

That's how it works in America. You have to grow at an every increasing rate if you ever take the money, and the end result is always enshitification. And it happens fast - in my lifetime we went from zero national debt to $40 trillion, we've had 3 boom-busts, homes are up like 10x, and what happens? People are financing a single meal over several pay periods and going further into debt.

On the flip side, inequality is growing exponentially. Because basically everyone, at every stage of doing anything, has to add in the cost of interest

I just don't see any upside beyond "this is the way things are done". I also don't see a path between here and a different form of money without a total economic crash, but I think that's inevitable regardless, even the world bank is coming up with alternatives

But I think the first step is we treat debt as immoral. It's what got us in this mess, even if they exist in some form we should treat the concept as shameful

Yerp.

Well, it's a zero day for 24 hours, right?