Spider: I SEE YOU!

It’s security theater. They have a whole department, loss control, that watches the cameras and double checks the inventory counts to find thieves and track stuff, plus RFID detectors for high value stuff. Anything that slips through the cracks ends up either insured or a write off that their accountants can use to justify not paying corporate taxes.

So when you see the receipt checker, derisively say no and keep walking. And if they lay so much as a finger on you, file assault charges.

After all, if the corporations can abuse the system, so can you.

No no, leave them that way.

Yeah but see that would require the government to do something, and right now they can’t even tell their asses from their elbows. Oh and they’re cutting at least half the jobs. Because eFiShAnSeE.

What about overly bright LED signs? Like billboards or business signs? Those things also suck.

LOL no.

Good point.

First existential crisis? There’s isn’t one. Once you make peace with that fact then you can overcome the existential dread of oblivion and move on content in the understanding that nothing you do matters in the long run, and focus your energy on something else.

Except he doesn’t really have unlimited money. Like most rich bastards he had assets - aka, hypothetical money (investments). They take out loans using that hypothetical money as collateral, and then have to pay that money back over time, which they can do by earning dividends (hypothetical money increases that they can access without penalties) or selling hypothetical money for real money (possibly with penalties).

Musk borrowed an enormous amount of money, which saddled the loaners with hypothetical money that began to decrease in value, and were this unable to profit by selling it for actual money. They therefore have to trust that Musk will repay these loans or else sell them at a loss to some other dumb bastard.

It’s not gonna work. If these art AI thieves don’t care that they’re stealing then why would they care what the artists do or say?

Unfortunately there’s no way to predict it with any accuracy. IIRC his family history suggests a long lifespan. But that doesn’t matter because if Vance replaced him, that limp sausage will do whatever he’s told to do by his fellow cult members. The only hope then will be watching MAGA dissolve into infighting because nobody will have the charisma to hold the movement together. In that case it’ll lock up unless somebody can slap them around enough to restore order, but who’s gonna pull that off? Most Republicans have less charisma than moldy fruit.

And that’s how Reddit lost even more users.

One can? Lightweight.

Apple Endorses Nazis

FTFY

That bar to entry is a good thing; it helps keep most of the stupid out. The same stupid that ruined the rest of the internet.

I just did literally the only thing I CAN do, which is rate it 1 star and call out their spinelessness. I’m sure this token, irrelevant act will be ignored at best or manually removed at worst. But until they drag me off to the gulag I’m absolutely not going to shut up and play along.

Fuck Trump, Musk, their MAGA cult, and anyone who enables or colludes with them or fails to fight back.

Time to let my troll off its leash.

The outcome of this situation is gonna vary based on OP’s age and gender. Hopefully school in this instance is college. If OP is female it could be worse then male, if he starts treating them as a surrogate wife. I advise their dad getting some therapy or getting family therapy together. He needs to learn a healthier way to deal.

“realistic” lol

Enough that your abdomen would likely explode from the pressure. Which would make some percentage of your body fly, technically.