Almost any and all “tracking information” is fictitious. Many, many companies use estimates and present those as facts. Some are a lot more egregious about it than others. In my neck of the woods, I’ve noticed that PostNL’s tracking info is often made up whole cloth, telling you your package will be with you tomorrow while it hasn’t even entered the country yet, much less cleared customs.

This is awesome.

I have a chicken that is… shall we say, a bit more adventurous and independent than her flockmates. She regularly comes to the back door to either beg for food or simply to “self-serve” from the bin of chicken feed in the shed. She doesn’t leave the property (luckily) but she’ll walk the entire perimenter up until the end of the driveway at the street. Maybe I should get her something similar.

I’ve never used Amazon in my entire life (well, I’ve probably visited websites hosted on AWS, but that’s it).

I see no reason to change that. Besides we have a pretty neat alternative in the Benelux in the form of bol.com. Loads cheaper & more local.

Good thing I don’t have any then.

Parallel construction for sure.

The old Top Gun movie was likewise used for recruitment. I’m pretty sure they actually got sponsored by the military to a ridiculous degree for this express purpose.

I should start an online gravepissing business. You pay me, I go and piss on whoever’s grave. I’ll do this one as a freebie though.

When we say billionaires are evil, this is mostly what we mean. Inaction is just as bad as bad action, if you have the means.

There have been a handful people (ex-billionaires) who apparently got the message and decided that a few hundred million was more than enough for them and gave the rest away (and actually did it right away instead of in a “pledge” when they die so their children can curate the non-profits that will inherit their billions). Mckenzie Scott is one.

Fuck you life! fucks off to /c/weedtime

Well, maybe not the emetophagia. Everything else checks out.

I suspect this happens far more than you think. They just have amazing security details.

Such as in wartime. And this is war, but most people are far too blind to see this.

have it worse in first world countries than they did in France during the 1700s

In absolute terms? Definitely not. The lowliest “unskilled” worker today has vastly more amenities than even a 17th century nobleman could even dream of.

In relative terms, however? The ultra-rich robbed you, me and every single other person on this planet. And to this you may retort that you do not care about wealth and are content with what you have. I would applaud such an answer, but it would be besides the point. What we’ve been systematically robbed of, is our time. Years, decades that could be spent enjoying your lives with our loved ones, instead spent slaving away at a desk or in a factory only to make the few who have everything even more. That, to me, is absolutely unforgivable, especially since I’ve long since past my physical prime and am still being robbed of this time against my will.

Now, if you want to alter the claim to “the threat of violence is needed,” then I would be more inclined to agree; however, individually murdering certain billionaires is not productive;

Again, I disagree. There are about ~2700 billionaires on earth out of ~8 billion people. Killing half of them and having that wealth redistributed would solve more problems than it would create. But if I do that, I’m thinking like said billionaires.

Which is the only way to fight them. If you try the moral and legal route, you won’t stand a chance because you’ll be fighting within systems and rulesets they have created to give themselves every (unfair) benefit.

Sometimes the disgruntled worker who shanks the boss is the hero we need.

I didn’t know that; that’s actually kind of poetically beautiful. If only I could convince myself to believe it. But beautiful nonetheless.

Well, neither of them died very early, had significant issues in life after their misdeeds, and they never saw consequences for their actions. So my point stands. I don’t think the “evil” are immortal, but they do tend to lead suspiciously long & prosperous lives.

I respectfully disagree.

The ultra-rich aren’t shy about killing you or your loved ones if it makes them an extra million. There are exceptions, but they’re definitely not the rule.

Tit for tat. We’re absolutely in a class war and the owner class has been winning for three or four consecutive decades. The inequality in society was lower during the French revolution than it is now. Hell, the pay Scrooge gave out in the old tale was more than minimum wage is today adjusted for inflation.

I’m not saying we need violence, but I am saying we need the threat of violence for these kind of people to do their part. No one needs a billion dollars, let alone a trillion.

to our freedom and wealth. Yeah seems kinda obvious if you think about it.

I don’t know. The fact that Dick Cheney is still alive is kind of proof there is no loving god imho.

Trouble is my herb spawns are getting rarer and rarer. Not sure if it’s because other players are getting to them before me, or the devs actually decreased spawns.

Por que no los dos?

Bird flu pandemic + actual hot nuclear´war. This is doinh miracles for my mental health. I always felt as if nothing really ever mattered.

It doesn’t. We’ll be a tiny stain on an otherwise lifeless rock.