What kneecaps this prodpect is that the other half of the supply-demand curve simply won’t fall enough to meet American production where it will inevitably peak - far lower than that of existing overseas factories, even with the implementation of tariffs.

I think people fail to understand that, even if investors were to somehow become obsessed with dropping factories in the states left and right, people still wouldn’t be able to outproduce China and India. Even if Americans get paid the same poor wages, the cost of production would still be too high because the cost of living is also too high, not least because we have very little HDH and everything is too spread apart with little public transportation.

Obviously fake news! Trump couldn’t be assed to run around grabbing eggs on the lawn, that sounds way more strenuous than golf.

Yeah, I think people forget that the definition of a weed is simply “A plant that is unwanted.” Himalayan blackberry in the PNW is often a weed and it grows aggressively in a lot of backyards here, but lots of people keep it around because… blackberries.

We never will because it’d be the end of late stage capitalism and that means billionaires can’t have their yachts and jets, and we just can’t have that.

Yeah, I would love to quit this bullshit job and do something worthwhile but then I’ve got maybe half a year before my insulin runs out because they never let you have all that much chain on your leash.

i would

I mean, it is very clearly AI. If you need another thing, the hair covers the ears at different levels in each panel. Real artists don’t do that, because why the fuck would they bother drawing the ears different three times in one comic, AI doesn’t know any better.

There’s a lot going on here that indicates AI, not the least being that for something that’s stylized to be a pencil illustration, the linework and colors are way too consistent. Also note:

• The truncated eyes in panels 1 and 3
• The paper generating spontaneously in the second panel
• The inconsistency in the grass patches in panel 3

I think I wouldn’t mind an HOA if the dues they collected were used to fund things like maintenance and upkeep of houses to the standards they set, but as far as I can tell all they really do is take your money to tell you your lawn’s too weedy and your fence is the wrong color.

They only exist because everyone in this fucked up country treats housing as an investment vehicle first and a shelter second.

Technically speaking, we abstained our way into it.

Half to a third of the U.S. The rest of us know full well how bad this is. I really hope Cali puts its tariff exemptions in place and Oregon and Washington follow suit because otherwise we’re going to see the worst recession in the country’s history

Honestly a good deal of us would be happy to have leadership that isn’t actively trying to kill us.

I mean this isn’t how government is supposed to work, but, here we are, with an unelected idiot handing pink slips to every government agency under the sun that doesn’t stroke his ego.

I feel for the remaining members of the NIH who have been told in no uncertain terms “Find or fabricate evidence that aligns with our anti-trans stance or start looking elsewhere for employment.”

Bad. The guarantee of a fifth major financial crisis in my lifetime tends not to be great for the old mental health.

Two inch gap between the plywood rectangle wall and door so everyone can see you taking a shit? A foot between the bottom of the door and the floor so stupid kids can pop their heads under and keep you company? Say no more, I got you covered!

It really is impressed upon me how cheaply every public bathroom is constructed. I feel like somebody could sneeze too hard and the whole thing would jostle apart.

First week on Spiro and E. My skin is already a lot softer, I think? And it’s hard to tell if it’s real or just placebo, but I kind of do feel a little more ‘me.’ I still don’t like looking in the mirror though.

Predictably, executive leadership has taken an official stance of sticking fingers in their ears and going “LALALALA I CAN’T HEAR YOU.”

If the bar lets Nazis in, it’s a Nazi bar. Good on them for refusing to be a Nazi bar.

Started HRT yesterday. I’m really, really hoping that I can end a decade-long plus dissociation and stop feeling like a walking ghost. Here’s hoping.