Not an answer to your question but in looking it up this killed me…

“In 1965, Alan Stillman opened the first TGI Fridays restaurant in Manhattan. He lived on 63rd Street between First and York Avenues,[11] in a neighborhood with many airline stewardesses, fashion models, secretaries, and other young, single people on the East Side of Manhattan near the Queensboro Bridge. He hoped that opening a bar would help him meet women.”

Imagine being like “I need to meet women, I’ll open a business.” Lol

He paid $5000, or $50k in today’s money in Manhattan. JFC… I can’t even imagine what that would actually cost today.

I’m just concerned the media landscape is so different now that we don’t have enough people living in the “same reality” to really ensure that. Hope you’re right though. Unfortunately no matter what I think we’re going to have to go through the worst of it before anything can change. :/

This is what has me so depressed. This is a forever thing. They lost there for now, but they’re just going to get better at their manipulation as “they” have globally. Reich wing asshole billionaires have been solidifying control of all major media. It’s only a matter of time when fascism runs most major countries. :(

Thanks for sharing it! I appreciate the serving size lol

I’ve noticed that too! I can only use the “static noise” ones, not anything looking to replicate any natural sounds or I notice the pattern too lol

I wish my brain worked like that… Anything that has a pattern my dumbass brain is like “oh a pattern! Let’s focus on that like your life depends on it!” Music would drive me crazy lol

I need the randomness of actual “white noise” to drown out anything that my brain would feel the need to pay attention to. It’s insanely annoying.

Yaaaass! I haven’t done this in forever, but it is actually really good! Looks like I know what I’m adding to the grocery list next week.

It’s somewhat similar to the burger on a donut. It’s actually really good! I made a bacon cheeseburger, put it in a maple donut and almost died. Lol No ketchup or anything like that though.

AI & AGI have me kinda terrified because of how we worship the rights of ownership especially in America.

Some major company will own the AI/AGI and will have the right to all of the profits it generates. Combining AGI with the advancements of robotics, pretty much any job that could justify the expenditure of the robot and AGI will be eliminated. With how we treat the rights of ownership and with how the ownership class sees the rest of humanity, the only future I see is a future where “we have too many people” is the only conversation and not because we can’t feed them or house them, but because there isn’t enough work for them to “earn their own living.” The ownership class will never accept “giving” anything away to help people that “aren’t productive.” You’re not a human, you’re a profit generating labor machine.

So: Work or Die!™ Now with 95% less jobs!

Fun future. :(

I was always pretty interested in geology, but I knew that the only secure work would be for oil companies so I never went for the degree…

I was always really interested in gems and minerals, but admiring them isn’t a job, and photography in that field is insanely specialized and not exactly a reasonable goal to shoot for, so I never got that degree…

I was also always really interested in astronomy, but there’s literally no work in that field at all so I didn’t go for the degree…

I never “found myself” because all of my interests either has you working for “the enemy” or there just weren’t any jobs to be had. Now I’m stuck working in a factory and I have an upcoming job that’s for the Israeli military…

I want to end all my cream cheese conversations like this 40% off waffle iron:

Piss on carpet.

The argument we usually see in the US is some nonsense like “you’re comparing the Democrats in America to the left globally, you can’t do that! They’re to the left of Republicans so they’re the left!”

…ughh…

A little help with your English if you don’t mind me saying, but when using punctuation you don’t put a space between the word and the punctuation. If you see how I wrote this, the comma is connected to the word as are the periods.

Other than that your English isn’t bad!

Every cat is kitty! :)

I love cats! I have a monkey kitty of my own, I’ve just never been fond of dogs unfortunately.

An interest in dogs. I really dislike them as far as having to live with one which makes dating literally impossible. Using dating sites over the years I’ve seen probably 80%+ profiles mention loving dogs, needing dogs, stealing your dog, owning all the dogs, some profiles even start with “blah blah dog.”

I hate that there’s such an obsession with dogs and travel… :(

I’m forgetting what exactly the reasoning was, but I looked this up at one point and apparently there’s a difference between the chickens used for laying eggs and the chickens used for meat. It’s not that one is resistant to the virus or anything, but apparently we aren’t concerned about the stock for meat. It won’t be affected as much as eggs.

Prices haven’t changed for meat by me. $3.99/lb for the cheap supermarket “brand” as it always has been.

Edit: I looked it up and actually the chickens used for meat, broilers, are apparently more resistant to the virus but also live MUCH shorter lives. They were bread to bulk up quickly to go to slaughter as fast as possible while chickens used for eggs take more time to get to egg laying age and are more likely to get the flu and die.

I’m nearly 40, uneducated past high school, living in someone else’s garage working a dead end job in a factory in America stuck in the second most expensive area in the entire country. I’ve been single for the past decade, at this point it’s permanent. You want to know loser? I’m peak loser lol

You own a company and just unfortunately ran into some massive dickhead parents. Never a fun experience but with time will come self confidence if you continue to succeed like this. The only thing that matters as far as your girlfriend goes is whether she loves you or not. The parents can go suck donkeyballs.

The thing about protesting is that the government needs to give a shit for it to have any effect, unless we’re talking about actually forcefully changing who is running that government. We’ve been screaming at concrete buildings for decades and yet none of the issues we care about are dealt with. In good times we have propagandists to placate the masses even if we had a government who was afraid of losing voters, and in “bad” times well we still have propagandists, but we also have a government that couldn’t possibly care less about what we think. I still protest, have gone to many rallies and such, and while the feeling of community is nice at the end of the day all I feel like I ever accomplished was yelling at a building with a bunch of other people.

The only way this administration is changing direction is when the wealthy go after them :(

As an American I can say its actually gotten a lot easier, it’s all sad. Just sad all the time.