Imagine being the factory worker making fleshlights.

In this context, fecal is funnier. Feral doesn’t make much sense

IMO the pandemic showed us we need to improve our social safety net (unemployment benefits) and get all workers contributing (taxed wages). We heard all about the “gig economy” and the US government threw money at everyone and everything driving up government defecits and inflation. Caveat: not an economist

If the US didn’t support them they would go to someone else and take their intelligence gathering with them.

Rye Coalition: The Story of the Hard Luck 5

If you like rock docs this is a good one.

Turn of the lamps, light a few candles and whisper sweet nothings in it’s ear

Hey looks like i got one point!

Not with that attitude you ain’t

I lived through all that too except for very early Sunday mornings our local station would show Felix the Cat and Popeye cartoons followed by Davey and Goliath. I think they got away with t because it was before church started and Davey was somewhat religious

Zero (born in '66). Can we add some more to the list?

21: had to wait for the television to warm up

Thunder stole my thunder

After thinking about it i began to wonder if the whole on/off tariff stuff isn’t a ploy to boost economic numbers temporarily to look good. Imagine if you are a business such as a car rental company that could heavily be affected by a tariffs on cars. Buying a new fleet now could save millions if not hundreds of millions versus waiting until tariffs are enacted. This is the long held basis for target 2% inflation. We saw something like this during Trump’s first term with the Carrier deal in Indiana and Foxconn in Wisconsin. Great news is promoted when the deal is made but not much is said after it fails to pay off. To be fair stuff like this happens and it’s not limited to one party or the other. Another example is the GDP hitting 3% after the 2017 tax cuts, it quickly went back down to 2% the following quarter. The 3% got lots of attention on Fox News, the drop back to 2% and the trillion dollar deficit did not

Is this an effort to force Americans to buy Tesla? Because if I remember correctly it was Barrack Hussain Obama who was supposed to force us all to buy electric cars

You are gullible

Yes. Full time fast food worker wages

Do people on Lemmy think that there was a time when one could afford a house on fast food worker wages?

Those were the days

In my town the CVS has a self checkout unless you hunt someone down. So maybe OP was talking to themselves

And if you want to fish for trout, research the waters you intend to fish. I booked a cabin for a long fall weekend only to find out the creeks weren’t going to be stocked until the following weekend. Trout don’t survive the warm summers there and there’s no natural reproduction

Better yet understand that none of your gear makes heat, you do. Think of your sleeping bag and clothes as batteries that need to be recharged periodically and your body is a generator. When you shiver that is your body trying to burn calories to produce heat. You can stay much warmer by keeping busy and moving around than you will by standing around a fire. When you wake up cold in the middle of the night, move your legs like you’re riding a bicycle while laying on your side. It won’t take long to warm up. Also keep an isolating layer between you and the ground like a foam sleeping pad. It also works for when standing on frozen ground.