It exists among the skilled trades within the construction industry, where the value of one's labor is tied to a very tangible and measurable output. High producers are able to command a higher wage because they earn the bosses more money (or they'll take their skillset elsewhere).

It's a Garbage Pail Kids gag from 20 years ago.

Darktable

The FOSS alternatives to Adobe Photoshop, Lightroom, and Illustrator have really come a long way in the last 10 years.

Alcohol consumption among millennials is plummeting, and Gen Z never fucked with it much to begin with.

In my experience they straight up don't know how to engage with you. Typically they get defensive about their own habit after you say "no thanks".

Wife and I drank casually (but still too much) and stopped last year. We lost weight and our baseline sense of well-being is much higher. Once you get far enough away from drinking, it becomes alarmingly clear that people are straight-up poisoning themselves, and have no idea how to socialize without it.

I'm feeling genuine fear. Need to log off

I've got a friend who expatriated to the Netherlands to escape the fascist spiral we're all feeling in the United States. It was not an easy task to manage with a wife and kid, as you can imagine.

I guess this goes to show there's little hope in trying to run from what's clearly coming.

The one (unsubstantiated) rumor that has me excited is the prospect of a dynamically destructable open world. If they're able to pull something like that off in a GTA game it would really be something "next gen". But I admit that's mostly just wishful thinking on my part.

It's a screen cap Jake Paul posted when he revealed he facetimes with Trump

Keep it charged between 10-90% (hitting those top and bottom extremes shorten lifespan) and don't let it get too hot or too cold.

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How the fuck do you even use a chat room with 2000 people online?

I work in the trades and drive a lifted Jeep Cherokee from the 90s. It allows me to move through chud circles without detection.

Status symbol goes brrr

left to right: alternate universe Felix, Matt, and Will.

I don't know what word to use if not "preference". People have preferences.

It's in God's hands now.

If you don’t give people the means to buy food then they ARE going to kill and eat you.

Their calculus seems to be contrary to this. It is, in fact, all a game to them.

You need some neem oil. emulsify a teaspoon of it in a spray bottle filled with water and a few drops of dish soap. Spray your babies every couple of days.