I feel like people outside industry don’t appreciate this message as much as intended.

Industrial switchgears, often part of an electric apparatus that looks like a giant metal box, have lead times measured in years. The supply chain is completely fucked.

A literal CEO of a $20billion company couldn’t skip the line despite writing them a letter and begging for any price.

Companies are paying long haul truckers expedited rates to haul a 53 foot trailer with a switchgear inside, and the rest of the trailer completely empty. Just to get it 2-3 days sooner, after their 1 year wait. You cannot operate the facility without it.

It really is a huge shame when one of them gets damaged.

Yeah those “too good to be true” AI/mechanical Turk-type jobs are usually thinly veiled scams. Eventually they’ll stop paying or randomly terminate you, etc.

If you have some kind of circus trick (drawing, editing, copywriting, etc), you could try fiverr. It’s quickly evolved into low-cost creative gig work and some creators charge up to hundreds for more complex commissions or larger jobs.

If you don’t have a circus trick, the only other thing I know of is the “slave labour” (yes it’s really called that) community on Reddit. That one is fully peer to peer so be very cautious but people post more menial tasks there from time to time.

Finally you could farm Bing Rewards and survey websites. It would be a truly pitiful wage but it converts time into money (gift cards) using the internet. This is really cruel and unusual punishment but… it’s an option.

Edit: if you’re any good (like, top 1-5%) at multiplayer video games, kids will pay tons of money to boost their accounts on the competitive ladders. This is by far the most lucrative and easiest option but it requires you to already be good.

Well Patagonia is one of the brands I don’t feel bad supporting due to their commitment to repair, reuse, and mission to behave as ethically as possible within a capitalist corporate structure.

I looked up their links to Israel and find a bunch of insane babble from Christian and Israeli sources about hundreds of thousands of dollars in “pro-terrorist” and “pro-Hamas” donations.

So now I am even happier to purchase Patagonia lmfao

I recall plans being unveiled for $40k in student loan relief around this time 4 years ago as well. That didn’t happen, the concession is blocked by court order, and now I’m being told to vOtE again just one more time.

Just like how vOtInG was supposed to codify Roe v Wade, bring in police reform, correct the trillions of dollars handed out on PPP fraud, bring us Medicare for all… damn you know what I’ve been being told to vOtE these problems away for decades now.

Why don’t Dems push policy through during one of the many majorities they’ve enjoyed in the last 60 years?

Shoutout to Reagan for defunding all of American science to dig a giant hole in Texas that the European expert counterparts already warned was a dumbass idea that would never work

Lmao are you a literal child

That’s not how online risk management works at all

In fact mods should take this down for spreading malware

Femboyfishing is my oshi

Soy sauce braised black beans (East Asian side dish, there’s other ingredients ofc)

Uhh that’s all I got but it’s delicious and you can very easily adjust recipe to your taste - make them sweet, super salty, spicy, soft, hard, whatever

The kids are dumb, idk what to tell you fam. It’s a side effect of being young, not a generational thing.

With the rise of peer-to-peer e-commerce, they’ll believe anything a random stranger tells them. “Link? W2C?” And you can send them any phishing site and they’ll happily make an account and throw away hundreds of dollars without even checking if the business is legit. It’s incredible and I’m sure I’d have done the same at 13 if I had todays internet.

This is why I could never have kids. I’ll feed myself Westoid slop and just exercise to balance (I know that’s not how it works), but I can’t even imagine sending my own child off to school with fucking Lunchables, soda/juice, and a squeeze pouch full of lead.

Just an unimaginable amount of ultraprocessed sugar and carcinogens straight to the brain, and that’s considered doing okay as a parent in suburban America.

But also, what the hell are you supposed to do when you work 12 hours a day and commute for 2, before even taking the child into account.

I just don’t see how having children makes sense under a capitalist regime.

Insha Allah

Or… some of us can’t watch a 20 minute video at work and want to know what the video in the video community is about, and join the discussion?

Note how everything the “antisemite” said is complete objective truth.

Liberals are increasingly turning to more unhinged behavior now that reality is no longer on their side (not that it had ever been, but you get me).

The absurdity of the cognitive dissonance of simultaneously supporting genocide and Republican policies while having to argue they are on the side of justice is literally mindbreaking liberals.

It’s so fucking hilarious.

I encourage all comrades to never forget the sheer concentrated child abuse that was the push to reopen schools during the pandemic.

For the first 6 months, entire classrooms were being ravaged with 100% infection rates. Kids were getting repeat infections 3, 4, 5+ times a month. And white liberal Karen’s in the office were just treating it as another “teehee kids, what can you do” moment.

An entire generation completely fucked by long covid. Who even knows what the fuck that many COVID infections do on developing minds and bodies.

I’m sure we’ll find out when they all start dropping like flies…

Not for long!

That’s the best part of leftism consistently being the logical and moral conclusion of political ideology.

Liberals are absolutely fucking furious whenever you point out how reality and facts are directly contradictory to liberalism.

And they can’t do anything except fume, sneer, and make death threats because they can’t argue against reality.

The American Empire is falling, insha Allah.

liberals spend 8 years making “this is how democracy dies” memes about the GOP

literally and completely unironically act out the exact same scene that meme is based on, at their convention

You can’t make this shit up folks.

She also told Rina Sawayama to just get over the rampant sex abuse in the entertainment industry, that it’s a part of the job and she should be grateful for the opportunity.

She was a performative bullshitter all along. A disgrace to the hyperpop community.

Now that can’t be, I received word from a liberal on this very platform that the US didn’t send them $24 billion in weapons, they actually only sent $20 billion therefore the genocide is back on the menu!

Sometimes I wonder if liberals even feel cognitive dissonance at being the same MAGA chuds they claim to hate so much.

Ah wait, if they did, they wouldn’t be liberals!

If you have powerful enough hardware,

“Full-fat” games designed for a PC experience:

• Manor Lords
• Crusader Kings 3, once you learn the game it plays exactly like how you describe zomboid. Especially on lower difficulty and 1x game speed
• Sports sim games on low difficulty with the games AI playing for you
• Black Desert online (MMO, but just play it like a single player idler. Don’t stress about gear score or PvP just relax and grind)

Truly a sign of a healthy and prospering nation that is definitely not in an active state of collapse