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The left: Let's not kill anyone.
The right: Let us embrace Hakko ichiu and expel the roundeyes.
The alt-center: *presses detonator*
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Americans are so provincial that they think all migrants are the Norteño roofing/drywall guys who came to the US post NAFTA
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You realize this is a dream job for a sizable chunk of the population. Immured inside a big concrete cylinder & drip fed worm percocet so you can play Space Shipping Tycoon for 5,000 years in a row. There’s guys out there doing that for free right now
Can any dune book reader explain why anyone would choose to become a navigator in Dune?
In the world of Dune, navigators are barely human anymore. They spend years immersed in highly concentrated spice gas, causing their bodies to mutate severely until they resemble strange fish-like creatures. So, why would anyone accept such a terrible price?
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“2000s lad culture” was not in fact wearing high heeled boots, skinny jeans, jewellery, eyeliner, and hairspray while trying to start a global love revolution based off having skim read Noam Chomsky. Brand was of course specifically supported as an alternative vision of manliness to lad culture by the Sensibles of the day.
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The newer generations are unemployable, so I shut down a business yesterday.
I have many small businesses I got involved in, one is a Saltwater fish store. It sells fish, corals, aquariums etc.
The most profitable part of one of these stores is outside Maintenance. Going to peoples houses, changing the fish tanks water, cleaning glass etc.
This is a very simple job, you run a hose in from the truck, suck water out, pump water in (nothing manual), and use a magnetic razor blade to clean the glass. Take a water sample and leave.
We had 4 trucks and 6 guys doing this... then 5, 4, 3... each person that quit put more work on the ones left.
We tried to hire, it's a very low skill job. Most maintenance guys make $15-18 an hour. We went upto $35 an hour to try and get people. Beyond that we cannot be profitable.
The job is easy, you have to have a license (actually hard as hell apparently), and pass a background check (youre in peoples homes, also hard as hell). Pass a drug test.
At $35 an hour we got the following.
Someone that caused almost 8k of damage when they started pumping in water, went out "for a smoke" and the tank overflowed.
At least 5 hires that went through background tests, drug tests etc then didn't show for work the 1st day and never called us again.
Someone that intentionally pulled the guard off the water pumping hose, and sucked someones fish into the pump.
Someone that scratched the District Attourney of las vegas, Steve Wolfson's tank by deciding to not use the magnetic razor, and "do it by hand"... fo no fucking reason. (4k bill)
A wrecked van
Someone who stole our water tester (1500 dollar machine).
I have no empathy, at least in Las Vegas, for people complaining about no work, no jobs blah blah blah.
$6000 a month to put hoses in and out of a tank and look at pretty fish.
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Moralfagging is such a good meme bc people can’t even get mad at it without moralfagging
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Pakistan is a religious apartheid state that constitutionally unpersoned a religious minority group at the demand of a nationwide hate movement and provides legal cover for terror against poor and marginalized people through accusations of blasphemy, a capital crime.
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This correct. The culture-based War of “Woke” is over, now begins the era of naked ethnic and gender based resentment politics.
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I’ve long argued that free school lunches aren’t a big deal and in fact make quite a lot of sense. You’re paying for a bucket of goods. You aren’t expected to bring your own chair, or buy your own books. You’re compelled to be there by the state. If you go to a conference, they give you a sandwich.
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Buddy you’re riding a skateboard backwards down a hill the man was you
I’ll never forget the day a man tried to kill me while I was livestreaming in Rhode Island.
I was coffinboarding along the Blackstone River when I encountered a man who began threatening my life. He told me, “Your ass is canal water,” and “You’re already dead.” He repeatedly demanded that I turn off my camera so he could kill me and throw my body into the canal.
I genuinely believed I was going to die that day. I ended up escaping approximately six miles straight to get away from him. Eventually, I made it back to my car, drove out of Rhode Island, and haven’t returned to the state since.
What makes this story even more disturbing is that under two months earlier, another man had been found dead in the river at the exact same location where this man threatened to kill me and throw my body. Detectives are still investigating that man’s death, trying to determine exactly what happened to him. I was recently on the Rhode Island Channel 10 news for this.
I don’t know whether the two incidents are connected, and I’m not claiming they are. But knowing someone had been found dead in the same place where my life was threatened is something I’ll never forget.
I’m incredibly grateful that I managed to escape that day, because there’s a very real possibility I wouldn’t be here telling this story if I hadn’t.
I haven’t talked about the situation much since, but saw it is going viral here on X, but that the full clip wasn’t shown. Also, the full livestream is available on my Twitch (wenevergetyounger) or YouTube: youtube.com/@henryposton?si=…
This incident happened at the end of a 2.5 hour livestream.
Life is a gift, and I’m grateful I got another chance to experience it.