Worked for a guy who treated us like shit, human bungee cords on trucks and fork lifts, paid under tge table for overtime, minimum wage if we were not at the clients house. Still in business today.

My father, who was generally a very jovial man and pretty fun, once threatened to beat me with a shovel because I wanted to take a break to rest.

He died of brain cancer about two years ago and I often wonder how long it was growing.

Honestly, driving a car. The average driver breaks a traffic law like every 6 seconds or something wild.

"“The decision to close a store is never easy,” company officials said in a statement. “The simplest explanation is that collectively our Chicago stores have not been profitable since we opened the first one nearly 17 years ago.”

The stores lose tens of millions of dollars a year, according to the company, a figure that nearly doubled in the last five years despite numerous strategies to boost performance, including building smaller stores, offering local products and building a Walmart Academy training center."

https://news.wttw.com/2023/04/12/walmart-closing-4-chicago-stores-company-says-losses-have-doubled-last-5-years

Doesn’t sound like theft was ever the problem here according to them?

That Walmart CLAIMED were closed for high theft.

Probably leave religion in the past, recognize the oligarchy as the source of most of our woes, legislate for a maximum income, laws to make home ownership by companies illegal, begin providing universal basic income, stop caring about the boarder and just let people in, decriminalize drugs and prostitution, criminalize bribes to politicians, break up the obvious monopolies, nationalize internet access, expand voter access and encourage everyone to vote, release prisoners from prison for non-violent offenses, close private prisons and reform tge whole court system, structure fines for laws broken as a percentage of income making them a deterent even for tge wealthy, ties minimum wage to inflation or tge gdp in some way so it can keep up without further legislation, open a new department that is not police to handle most calls more ethically, cap income within a company so no one can make more than X times more than any other employee of the company, simplify tge tax codes to close most loopholes, empower tge IRS to send citizens a bill instead of paying turbo tax, prevent civil forfeture, remove state ability to fine individuals without an income for not paying fees, expand disability benefits so you can have more than $3k in liquid assets and still get benefits, and so on.

These were all just off the top of my head.

Working isn’t the only way to amass capital either. In fact, it is surely the slowest method.

It takes education, you can work your whole life at being a pro golfer, but if you never receive guidance, you will not reach your potential.

It is very simple. When you are worried about yourself and your own actions that is normal. When you are concerned about what others choose, that is conservatism.

The one where the guys dead twin brother had the long-lost cousin who was married to the dude who murdered the brother, but we didn’t find that out until he cheated with the sister of the other girl (played by the same actress) who was lost on the mountain after the plane crash.

The systems allow people to do harm, we need to violently oppose them.

Jeff Bezo may suck as a person, but capitalism is designed to make people like him as the ruling class. If you don’t like it, fight it.

But you live in a world where there are few union jobs, and the middle class has all but evaporated. We can’t afford to buy things because we don’t make enough money, so companies stopped making products for us. Brands no longer compete to create the best value for the customer, but to make the most short-term profit they can.

While unions may not be the best solution, it is clear the working class having a voice is a feature, not a bug.

Australia already showed us that it isn’t even that hard. And it was incredibly effective. It’s just that the largest gun manufacturers can spend over 100% of their profits on paying politicians and talking heads to keep things this way.

Australia is a great parallel for your arguments. The same “we had to concur the wilderness” history and all. I believe they have not had a mass shooting since 2008 when they passed their gun control.

The secret to really creamy eggs is to use 2 teaspoons of cream of tartar on the pan before you begin the creation of the eggs. The best way that I’ve found to apply the cream of tartar is with a coal spatula. You can rub the cream of tartar into the pan with the spatula in the cabinet under the sink to reduce the chance of the sunlight or gama rays interfering with the adhesion process. After that, your pan should be good for at least 60-70 years of making eggs! Unfortunately, if you make anything else in the pan, it will ruin the “seasoning” I believe it is called, and you’ll need to do it again. But believe me, the eggs are well worth the effort! Especially helpful when making a chicken based egg as they tend to have the lowest protein levels.

As an American, not much honestly. Community means Christ in these parts.

https://youtu.be/HwtljkGZJnI?si=p9-B0EPeeiFBwerh

I learned as a kid playing star craft that there are noobs and newbs. Newbs are people new to a game who need help learning. And a noob is someone who has played for a while and refuses to learn and would rather troll.

And then they started the murdering.

It depends on how you play for sure. But considering they hide items and secrets paths everywhere, the camera controls are horrendous. And I do not believe you managed to fight the fire giant and did not experience any bugs.

I’ve not even beaten the game and I’ve fallen through the map a few times randomly.

I have so many problems with Elden Ring. I know it is super popular, but the polish just isn’t there. Enemies hit you through walls and terrain, you will teleport to the ground dead sometimes when run around the many cliff faces, and most of the character builds seem weak compared to just strength great weapons.