Was on my bike the other day and saw one. Gave the driver the middle finger as I passed.

Good time to drop a reminder that the USA allows and encourages slave labour of prisoners. It has an entire industry of private prisons which contract out their slaves to work in various industries and fields.

Either executed or sent off for prison slave labour.

The former is somewhat hypothetical but the latter is happening right now.

Poor ting :(

I've lost track of how many times I've nearly pissed myself because an enemy NPC crept up behind me and put a round in the back of my head while I was busy doing something else. I'm not sure which of the STALKER games has the best AI but it can get really clever. I've never played another game that has enemies that can spot you from a distance, recognise that you are an enemy and that you haven't spotted them back, and then sneak up to you to assassinate you stealthily. You might've never even known they were there in the level with you until you're staring at the game over screen.

BC is so unbelievably fucked if this party wins next election.

And the chance of them winning is terrifyingly high.

A bare minimum 15 minutes on Wikipedia looking up the atrocities and hardship the USA has inflicted against other nations should make it very clear that Americans don't want what is best for their neighbours. They don't give a single shit what their federal government does on the world stage so long as they have their comfy suburban homes with cheap goods, gasoline, and guns.

The fact a convicted felon and rapist was elected as president twice is not at all a surprise. If you feel upset or defensive after hearing this then I don't know what to tell you other than "Tough shit, deal with it." The American people need to take some shred of responsibility for what they have done and continue to do.

No. No you don't.

Even before Trump, US exceptionalism, imperialism, and hostility ran rampant. Trump is not the focal point of the problem but rather a symptom of a much larger disease that has been going unchecked for decades. Americans love to pat themselves on the back while they say how much they disagree with whatever their federal government is doing but never have nor never will do anything to actually prevent their government from spreading suffering on the global stage.

Now that illness has really taken root and the country has shit itself and, for the first time in a long time, the American people have to sit in the mess. The global community is collectively packing up its bags and moving on while the US sits in a pile of filth and screams "This isn't us!". No, it's always been you. You just now have to actually face some consequence.

Not a surprise. This is the end result of prioritising immediate profit for shareholders and C-suite members over the longterm survival of the company.

The US auto industry only exists because of bailouts and federal protection policies that block or limit overseas competition.

I eagerly look forward to these blasting past me doing 40kph on the bike path, narrowly clipping me and ploughing a family off the path.

It'll be back, and probably in an even more malicious form. Let's not forget, even for a second, that Meta is one of the most sinister and evil corporations in human history.

This is a rather tactless question but there is a way of asking it without the ignorant, blanket insults against those who are struggling.