i would have died cancer from the depleted uranium weapons in iraq.

instead, i’m just saddled with student debt for the rest of my life with useless degree to show for it and a marriage that was forced to end by the federal gov’t w zero prospects for another.

i went to college and i regret it; but i suppose i regret it less than going to the army like i originally planned.

it’s also common among the top 50% of income earners in the united states and the other 50% of poor people only have them if they live in jurisdictions where air conditioning is mandated by law.

i bet air conditioned still won’t be legally mandated in american housing law in such a scenario. lol

or worse yet, everyone’s compelled to buy air conditioning rent or “insurance”… aka the true american way. lol

can’t wait for the day that the american gov’t puts this in an advisory warning for americans after we let climate change do its thing to us. lol

sounds like they did better than i did. lol

i wish i had this realization when i was younger. lol

back then, i was deeply confused when i learned that people were getting off to a surreptitiously recorded hookup that featured me because i assumed no fancied me; yet there was in in my full glory laughing at the wailing coming from the man i’m pleasuring and the video had over 100k likes/upvotes.

it wouldn’t have made me a millionaire; but it would have gotten me a hell of a lot closer than i will ever be. lol

and at least i got a husband out of the whole affair; i like silver linings. lol

Yes. In an ideal world, people won’t have to do any dangerous or difficult jobs. But for now, we can’t start with the worst offenders.

do you believe that all sex work is dangerous or difficult?

do you believe that easy & safe but compulsory work as a means to get obtain food and shelter is an ideal world?

that is fanstastic and needs to go into the meme community somehow. rotflmao

i don’t thing anyone can argue against self reliancy in our critical infrastructure.

our disagreement is centered on the misguded belief that the western world (the united states in particular) will ever stop burning fossil fuels. the united states became self reliant on fossil fuels during the biden years and the epsteins will guarantee that americans will stay trapped in this climate killing version of self reliancy until they’ve squeezed every last drop of oil profits out of the united states and venezuela.

no prescience needed; the american gov’t has literally been doing that since the 1920’s. lol

you would know this already if you spend your time reading these public domain file releases instead of uncritically ingesting propaganda.

… making our energy system even more reliable on hostile and autocratic nations …

thanks to the freedom of information act, the state department released an epstein files like trove of documents admitting that they made up a bunch of propaganda about several nations; including china; decades ago to make the world believe this.

also: the epsteins have engineered it so that doing this through some gradual shift will never happen.

the climate change will fuck over this this world because of people like you who refuse to learn what’s already been common knowledge outside the western world since the 1990’s.

we’ve already blown past 2 degrees so it’s clear that we’ve already messed it up. the true question is how much longer we’re going to keep letting the epsteins manipulate us into messing it up further instead of buying cheap & scalable green tech from china.

lemmy was created by the people who used to inhabit r/politics; r/socialism; r/communism; r/linux; and r/foss and they coalesced around lemmy.ml

lemmy.world has the bread-and-circuses that you’re looking for.

genuinely envious

same here; i would be homeowner, married w children and with genuine retirement retirement prospects if politics did force the dissolution of my marriage; forced me to accept college debt for a useless degree; and several jobs untenable.

it’s strange to imagine myself as a capitalist. lol

these are haunting for some reason

queer people

and the queer people who go the queer circuit parties hosted in there make it clear where they stand.

i would love to see gitea gain prominence over github

this day is coming that i can no longer use pfsense-ng + vpn to do this and; by then; i suspect ublock will stop working altogether.

i see the opposite; posts with hundreds of comments but only a few dozen upvotes