No they don’t conflict; they’re symbiotic.

The “American dream” was dreamed up by rich capitalists to encourage poorer people to work harder, longer hours, and to do so with as little grumbling as possible. Couple it with the “rite of passage” mentality - i.e. working super shitty conditions because everyone else had to do the same - then it’s the perfect indoctrination needed to convince people that their hardships are their own failures and not the system’s.

Another, simpler, way to look at it is that the “American Dream” is a carrot on a very long stick that is dangled in front of us to encourage us to move forward with their capitalist agenda while making us think we’re getting a reward for our labor.

Frank? Where ya been buddy?

Which one is the sad, pathetic, and hopeless Kirk?

Must be from the NPM delivery service. The recipient is lucky the driver didn’t give them thousands of dependencies too.

Found jordan_the_stallion8.

Amateur

I wonder how that would affect any possible signing bonuses the soldiers got when they signed up. Are they going to have to pay any money back? Are they going to have access to their GI Bill?

It’s always never.

The enemy of my enemy or some shit.

Kermit is that you?

You’re okay with mint-based soap (soap with actual mint) and not mint-colored TP (no mint at all)? Priorities, amirite?

To be fair, I’d be more concerned with black tarry blood in your stool than the fresh red blood from your hemorrhoids.

If my dog smiles that much at night while we sleep, then it’s worth it.

There’s also the perpetual stew.

A batch of pot-au-feu was claimed by one writer to be maintained as a perpetual stew in Perpignan from the 15th century until World War II, when it ran out of ingredients to keep the stew going due to the German occupation.

That’s amazing. Sad. And amazing.

I agree. It’s more a side effect. The goal should always be enjoyment or some other form of enrichment. Curiosity would work too.

Fairly sure that death is the ultimate reform that 100% guarantees criminals won’t be committing any crime ever again.

I thought the first cake was cats, and it was a trick to kill everyone at the kennel club. Your way makes more sense.

So what I’m understanding is that it’s only piracy if I don’t have an LLM to feed the books to?

It would taste better to suck on a lemon directly. 🤮

Nailed it!