“this is the future the left wants under COMMIESOCIALMARXISM!”

dystopian picture of current day late-stage-capitalism in the US

This has the same energy as “I hate my wife/husband” boomer humor.

Nobody needs/wants the white liberal to speak for them, but another voice in the crowd demanding something surely can’t be a bad thing?

Maybe for you, I routinely leave mine at home.

You poll them on policies, and suddenly everyone is a “far left extremist” for wanting safety nets and basic standards for human existence.

Former coworker kept saying he was republican, but he disagreed with them on a fundamental level about nearly every social issue, including guns.

He was all for anything and everything about collective bargaining, the workers uniting against management, but god forbid you use the “U” word.

Agreed every day about this social safety net needs expanded, that program needs better funding, more programs like this or that should exist for people in need, but once the dreaded “S” word comes out, suddenly everyone is a commie. Cause you know how socialism is actually communism and all that.

It’s okay to admit when you’re wrong, you know?

That was at a specific rate though, and assumed you were needing to be present on the digging device.

I’ve been wondering how much deeper we could make it with the advances in materials tech.

The biggest issues are heat around the head, since it’s getting super hot down that far, as well as twisting the bit without warping the shaft. By the time the energy is transferred across that much piping, things tend to get very twisty.

I bet by now we could easily drill into the hollow earth!

Completely unrealistic.

The cops would have been there already dragging people out the doors to beat them away from the cameras inside.

“oh a new form of power generation? Sweet! looks inside it’s making steam to spin a turbine…”

As former enlisted, I wonder if at any point while floating to the ground they thought to themselves “holy shit, I’m gonna die in a desert for pedophiles, why did I go along with this?”

At least one gets to think twice for now, but I doubt they will.

Lmao Tone is hard to read, I wasn’t upset so if I came across that way my apologies, I was just adding more info in response to points you had raised.

I would assume if they meant it as some kind of a dig, they wouldn’t accept the invitations to hammock with us. Their tone was friendly, it’s just not a term I’ve heard and given the different comments so far, it seems to be a mixed bag as to whether other people would consider it an insult or a compliment.

Really though given the context, I’m going to take it as a compliment even if it was meant as an insult.

I haven’t read it in full in well over 15 years, but that comment made me go find it.

I am not okay today if this is making me cry and I just woke up an hour ago…

I love it

And we are very CLOSE to winning! Just some more brave soldiers will die, but that’s what happens in war. We have secured victory and are winning and will win!

Ą̴̙̭̲̬̖̙͌͊̓̊̈́͜r̷͈̯̮͍͓̖̕͘͝ͅe̸͙̱̫̙͋̀̓̅̂͛̈́ ̴̩̜̝̬̟̙̀̈́ẁ̷͇̱̻̱̪̉͆͒͋͑̕̚e̷̛̱̩̲͓̩̫̽̆̂̅̿̆͒͠͝ ̸̣̹̙͌̅̉̏̀͘͜ḡ̴̨͙̗̬͎̝̟̋͠r̵̯̝͔͛͌̽̈́̀́̈e̸̞̩̜͉̫̺̣̗͒͐̀̊̐͠͝͝a̷͕͊͒͆͒̔t̶̡̛͖̳̬̟̥̳͛͂̓̉͗͗ͅ ̵̹͙͙͍͌y̸̺̰̥͌̇̇͜͠ę̸̢̪̤̖͈̣̙̀̔̚͝t̷̙͔̃̿̏͘͜?̴̧̨̩̼͉̳̺̺̪͊̐͑̉̀̏̾͆̍͜ ̵̛̙̀̓͠

No joke, when I saw the thumbnail I was just about to go looking through my photos because my dog looks very similar (terrier Chihuahua mix so his snout is a little longer) and he loves wrapping up in my tortilla pattern blanket.

10/10 doggo

I have no job currently, my clothes are mostly 5+ years old with most of my stuff being around 10 years old from my last retail job when I got them discounted and on clearance, my car rolled off the line before I was conceived and has the damage that says it lives in deer country, and my food comes from wherever is cheapest.

And they all know these things since we talk about such things at meets along with basically every other topic. pretty much everyone is in the same boat, and with only one exception we all live with roommates and parents.

If you’re thinking of a 2010 hipster with a man-bun and Abercrombie clothes driving their Leaf from the iPhone store to the fancy food market where everything is 5x the price because someone put the word “organic” in front of “tomato”… I mean, imagine me however you wish, but we are definitely more the type to live in a log cabin we built ourselves away from any kind of technology. I like what gadgets I do have, but I’d trade them for “not living in capitalism hell” any day.

Lmao “upper”

I have no job currently and can’t afford more than basics for food, but thanks for making assumptions.

I own a regular gasoline truck. It once spent over a year sitting in a driveway with no battery or driveshaft, and a half filled tank of gas.

After putting in a new battery and drive shaft, I didn’t remember how much gas was in it anymore, so I took my 2gal can and put abiut half in to get it started.

No issues starting beyond the usual no gas primed in the line or fuel rail, so it took a second, and I drove it for about 50 miles before stopping at a gas station.

I have also never once swapped the gas in my mower after letting it sit all winter.

I understand that gas degrades, I just have never had gas that sat long enough to go bad I guess? I don’t think 1 gallon of gas would “fix” 15 gallons of bad gas…