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

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.

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.

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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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.

I love an IPA but you need to have a pallet cleanser from time to time. I’m a big fan of ‘Purity Law’ beers, they tend to be predictable, mellow flavour, and light to medium alcohol content. Perfect for lawn mowing, BBQing, or working on the car.

Godamnit

Most people don’t have a ‘green’ option for which they can vote.

We won’t touch the Greenbelt.

-Doug Ford, 2018

Ford says he’s confident nothing criminal took place in Greenbelt land swap amid RCMP probe.

-CBC news, 2023

Not that he was a green leaning politician to begin with but this is just another example of blatant lies used by politicians to get elected and totally fuckover their country.

All the “paid thinkers” I know spend their careers explaining how every ongoing problem is not their fault, and that the people above and below them should have foreseen the problems that have only just now occurred.

2.3l engine, truck smaller than an average suv, drive like a grandma.

If you made an electric conversion and used an induction motor it could still be stick! Induction motors have a narrow range of useful rmps so the transmission is still needed!

Getting >30mpg out of a pickup ftw.

there aren’t many people on earth who have earned as much right to be skeptical about claims of radioactive contamination

Oh yeah, I forgot about the dozens of atomic bombs…

Fear mongering, anti-nuclear, luddite propaganda.

Slavery is the ownership of a person as property, especially in regards to their labor.

Having 100% exclusive rights over the fruits of a person’s labor, so, a job.

Slavery typically involves compulsory work with the slave’s location of work and residence dictated by the party that holds them in bondage.

Ever applied for a mortgage?