Probably whoever the leader of Taiwan is.

And this song is for OP in the back. It’s called “We Hate You, Please Die.”

Rather than following you around, they should go to where the entertainment is and advertise there.

I have no problem seeing an advertisement for something I’m interested in when I’m looking at something I’m interested in that is also directly connected to that thing.

For the most part, I only marginally skip past sponsored stuff on YouTube, for instance.

Or when a tech reviewer is reviewing a piece of tech that I might be interested in buying, that’s excellent marketing.

But if I’m talking to my friends and they tell me about a cool widget that they like and then I go home and I turn on my computer and in a completely different environment, an advertisement for that widget pops up while I’m looking for something completely different, then I get really, really upset and it guarantees that I will never purchase that widget.

We chartered the seas by onions belt, which was the fashion at the time.

1: Put a set amount of your paycheck by percentage into a savings account before you ever see it.

Aim for at least 10%, but if that’s too much because our economy is fucked, do 1% of your take home pay. You make $500 a month, you put $5 a fucking month into a savings account.

If you can’t do that out of your paycheck, find a way to take on an odd job to make up that difference.

It’s stupid. It’s tiny. It feels pointless.

It’s incredibly important.

2: Learn how to live below your means. I don’t care if you’re a crypto millionaire or a homeless person living on the street, you have to find a way to live off of less than what you have and take the excess that you generate and put it into savings or investments of some type, something that can support you when shit gets bad bad.

3: When you find yourself with extra time, don’t just sit around and binge watch TV or doom scroll.

Definitely get your binge watching and doom scrolling in at appropriate times, but if you find yourself with two or three hours with nothing to do, call up a friend and go try to hang out with them.

In your 20s, friends are popping out of the woodwork for you.

But only the ones that you cultivate and continuously put just a tiny little drop of effort into will still be there when you are 50 or 60.

And it’s a lot of fun to hang out with your friends. It’s far more rewarding than any doom-scrolling you will ever do.

If you find yourself without friends, for whatever reason, try to find something new to do that takes place in a specific location on a regular schedule.

Nothing makes friends faster than repeated interaction over a period of time.

Bad kids get coal, which increases the chance that you’ll get lung cancer.

Good kids get cigarettes, which increases the chance that you’ll get lung cancer.

Santa has been recognized by the state of California as a cancer causing agent.

I wasn’t selling KDE Connect to you, I was selling Linux to the other people that might overhear, lol.

Every once in a while, I run into the olden smut magazines here on Lemmy, and I’m like, “That’s somebody’s grandmother.”

Seems to work much better on Linux than it does on Windows, in my experience.

Sounds like you have a guilty conscience.

What information adults share with each other is between them, true, but when you put your business in a public market it is okay for people to comment on your business.

If they did not want the comments, they would not have put their business out for people to comment on them.

I didn’t say that there was. I said maybe that’s a good thing.

Maybe he didn’t know his wife was looking at porn.

Maybe they can look at porn together and have more fun sexy times together embracing each other’s sexuality.

Those ads are also usually targeted, which means that there’s a chance that your wife is looking at porn.

Make of that what you will, hopefully that’s a good thing for you guys!

This would also do numbers in shirts that go hard.

You have broken the law, and therefore you have been sentenced to having your second Peepee whacked.

Bailiff, present the spatula

Yep, those “cuts” only serve to funnel more money into the hands of the already rich.

America has so much money in the form of financial goods and services at its beck and call that everybody could be “moderately” wealthy and it wouldn’t even be a big issue.

People with armchair economics degrees will tell you that if everybody had $10,000 in their back pocket at all times, that a hamburger would cost $100. But that’s just not the case.

Any company that tried to make $100 hamburgers the default (more accurately, anybody that tried to make hamburgers that cost 13.5 hours of minimum wage labor the default) would find themselves unable to sell hamburgers.

Not to mention that it is very possible through regulatory means to cap the price of goods and services with a reasonable method. We have computers. We have programs. We have some limited form of neural networks and artificial intelligence that could be used to dynamically price things so that they are affordable for everybody.

Every single obstacle that people love to throw at the average person to explain to them why they have to continue living in Squalor has a very simple solution that merely requires compassionate and capable leaders to implement them.

And we don’t do these things because the way we are doing things is the way we’ve always done things and people resist change.

It is nothing like a home equity loan.

It’s more like a business loan. Actually, that’s exactly what it is, is a business loan.

The influx of money has allowed more things to happen that will generate profit through economic activity to pay off the business loan.

The big number bad thing is pushed to make everyone think that America is in financial trouble and therefore makes it easier for them to swallow that they are living in some form of poverty.

That $30 trillion is the value of the economic powerhouse that is America.

It’s made to look bad when it is actually good, as long as it is moderately reasonably managed.

The thing is, is we will never pay off the debt.

Paying off this debt would be bad for America.

Even if we did pay it off for some reason, we would immediately begin to accrue more debt because that debt is the cash value of the money influx that we are using to do amazing things, the same way a landlord would not just pay off their rental properties, but would instead, if they found themselves with a paid off rental property, remorgage it, and use the cash value of that remorgaging to purchase another rental property.

And it is also useful as a lie to control the population and to make them think that America has financial problems and therefore to tolerate a little bit more misery in their own lives when it’s completely unnecessary for people to be financially miserable.

That misery only serves to increase the happiness of the people who are aware of the fact that it is a lie and have used the lie to benefit themselves.

I wouldn’t be surprised to find out that they have weaponized hanlons razor and are actually malicious, but are acting bumbling and incompetent to keep people from rising up and slaying them.

o7 rip

If it were a Costco 48 pack, that would be 13,434 calories, 653 grams of fat, 1.3kgs of pure sugar, and 206 grams of protein.