Even if we had commie blocks in the US, believing they would ever be affordable is pure fantasy. The corpofascists would just collude with each other and price fix things so that they’d cost the $3k/month that current lowest-tier shithole apartments cost and then everything else would get a major price hike.

Just because you have an economy that’s running so poorly it’s “about to collapse” doesn’t necessarily mean it’s worse. It’s a really low bar. By the time it stops working for the 2000 or so rich guys benefiting from it and they actually come to the epiphany that maybe just maybe they’re the ones running things into the ground there will already be nukes in the air.

Eventually you graduate to making the conscious decision to not instead of just being to lazy. Last time I had a job that paid a living wage was 2018. I’ll never look at society and the world as a whole the same way again. If I was considered romantically undesirable back then, I would be entirely in the wrong for thinking there’s a chance now. It was time to get over it a long time ago. I’m over it. Now I read books and study science so I have a better chance of surviving the impending collapse of western society.

There is 1 good reason to not do this if you live in the US and here’s why. Let’s say you don’t have health insurance. You get a diagnosis and you have cancer. It’s going to cost 10 jillion dollars to do anything about it because healthcare providers don’t give regular people the same prices as the health insurance companies get charged. Well lets say a year later you get a job with health insurance. Now you can’t have health insurance cover that because they can prove it’s a “preexisting condition”. Have fun getting all your wages confiscated due to all that medical debt so you’ll have to choose between dying in homelessness or having to flee to a country that doesn’t have an extradition treaty with the US. Or maybe Mike Johnson will let you live out the rest of your days in gulag out of generosity.

If you know something is wrong with you and are in a similar situation you’re probably just better off making the most of the time you have left on your own terms.

How about do literally fucking anything to make it possible to work in exchange for a living wage, huh? I hope these fascists get sent to concentration camps themselves in the end they fucking deserve it, unlike the Jews did.

shitty ask reddit. In this case it’s called shitty ask hilarious chaos. We need more quality text shitposting participants.

This is the sad truth. Americans care far more about forcing their ideology on others than they do about their own well-being. If people actually took a second to think “how will this fuck me over” instead of “but what if good things happen to the types of people I don’t like” then life would be a whole lot better for everyone.

I mean as much offense as possible when I say: making life harder just because it “brings people closer to God” is the wrong way to run things and always has been.

I kind of already did that all that stuff. During the pandemic I saw the writing on the wall: the united states is doomed to fail unless we get major reforms that are never going to happen.

I bought a cheap lathe. I then built a furnace and a burner. I then built an end mill out of scrap metal which I then used to build a forced air intake burner so I can melt stuff with less fuel. I’ve researched and experimented with electronics to the point I can build just about anything. Electric motors, computer logic, you name it. It helps that I have a computer engineering degree anyway. I found a decent way to produce my own double layer circuit boards which is going to pay off now that custom pcb services will become 100% unattainable by normal people. Right now I’m engineering a way to build a brushless motor controller, completely out of trash without buying anything of course.

I’ve learned how to make my own lead acid battery plates. I’ve figured out enough chemistry on my own to make all the bases and acids in at least some capacity out of stuff I can acquire for either free or really cheap.

I still have a lot to learn and a lot to do but i’m far enough along I can continue doing that no matter how much worse and more expensive society becomes.

I’m ready for the bitter fucking end of modernity. I’m not living like people did in the 1600s, period. And I definitely won’t be helping people who supported things I oppose.

People who believe that people with nonphycoactive thc metabolites in their system are less valuable than people that don’t are worthless pieces of human trash themselves. I’m not sorry, I just want to be allowed to be happy.

It wouldn’t HAVE to be endless suffering if it wasn’t for the majority of people living their lives for reasons besides than to be happy.

Making society and life in general more difficult just because “it brings us closer to God” is the wrong way to run things and always has been.

the only times i’ve ever been employed and made a livable wage while doing it was at a job with policies like this, and it was because I was basically the only employee they had ever found that could comply with such absurd expectations. You have to miss a day at some point sooner or later. Which is why I no longer work there. Was being able to have that one dentist appointment 6 years ago worth it? No it was not.

share your x11 and wayland configs. Unless you’re one of those people that only needs 1 of them and hasn’t figured out how tf to get all that shit to work.

op either was unable to get hicolor graphics drivers to work or prefers the solid blue bar to the blue/light blue gradient. Back in the day this was known as being a noob. Now where did I put my dentures…?