A pipe dream invented by DuPont to make people not feel bad about throwing away plastic!

He kinda was. He was given the option to stop at any time.

It’ll never happen. As long as there is any kind of economy there will be some greedy fuck running nike ads in your brain every time you think about shoes.

Slides Tubular Bells LP out of its sleeve

linux zealots who might blame you for choosing that

I’ll defend them. Like pushing for vegan diets, solar energy, and the end of single use plastics. It’s annoying, it’s not fun but in the long run it’s to make the world better for average people.

You’re in the wrong part of the internet, bud.

Not like the millions or billions of man hours wasted to make 50-ish removed into defacto-gods.

I work at a blast furnace, you can get alarmingly close to liquid iron before you are permanently injured.

Almost like its wealth disparity, not age, is causing the problem after all!

I pumped gas up hill, both ways, all summer when I was 16 and used the money to pay for college, buy a house, and invest in oil. You just need to try harder.

I’ll get on it as soon as I finish this job

So I guess “blatant” is the type.

Pretty much, most of the gen x I work with are indistinguishable from boomers at this point.

kids don’t want to work these days

people need to just save more money

immigrants are taking all the jobs

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https://www.slax.org/ It’s easy, is a full featured desktop, and has persistence on your USB stick.

This is my favorite way to deal with management.

So you want me to disable a safety feature to help speed up production?

Dreams? What about when it locks up and plays a virtual 200db 5khz tone for the rest of your life?

I leeched when I was on limited bandwidth now I am the sole peer for about a dozen hard to find torrents. Balance in all things.

Across all wages combined? What if you just look at people who make <100k?

Most people don’t have the manual dexterity or mechanical intuition to get into trades. Millwrighting, welding, plumbing and electrician-ing all require a person who is clever enough to understand and repair equipment that they have only just seen. Most people have a hard time applying a screen protector for a phone they have owned for months.

Domestic manufacturing is where Canada/USA should be aiming to create jobs. All skill levels are required and automated facilities still need humans. The positions are a lot more varied now, with most tasks being those that would require expensive vision systems or minor problem solving. Domestic manufacturing might help with some of the bull shit global supply chain issues as well.

It was spelled out more clearly in the comics. They even trained human minds to do tasks that the machines could not/did not want to do.

X86_64 It’s an Acer H340, it originally ran windows home server starting in 2009 but I switched to Debian in 2016. It has run the entire 14 years less about a week of power outages.