Phoonzang

The latest season of Black Mirror had an Episode just like this.

Oh there's plenty bottoms. The whole schtick of the Catholic church is suffering and obedience.

Been there, done a lot of them, uh, that.

But those things do not scale with the (alleged) value oft the property, but with things like property size, number oft occupants, curb length etc. Or could even be billed at actual cost (your garbage example).

As someone who travelled to the ZS for work (under different Visas(.... Not really shocked. The shit some CBP officers pulled during immigration at the airport. "What do you mean, you are here to work, don't we have Americans to do the job?", " Why do we invited Europeans to America to speak at an American conference?", "You're here because a Swiss company bought an American company? This can't be right."

And this was mostly in California. During Obama. I can only imagine how these interaction would go now, when those notjubs feel encouraged by their leader and on the right side of history.

Not going back there for a long time.

Nonono, they plan to do it. Might take anorher 3 years for execution.

It would in a properly free market. But late stage capitalism's goal is monopolization, because it maximises profit. Or to quote Marx: "Monopoly is the inevitable end of competition, which engenders it by a continual negation of itself."

And this is exactly what Steinbeck is describing here: "you buy food from us, at our prices, or nothing at all. We'd rather destroy our product than to sell lower." And they can do this because no one has access to the products, or the means of production (e. g. the land to grow produce).

And this is where we are today with Amazon, Nestle, Walmart and so on. They don't have any real competition anymore.

Dude, you have some tiny ass washing machines.

Und wie sollen diese Leute merken, dass sowas nicht normal ist, wenn eine Zeitung das so abdruckt, ohne das irgendwer was sagt? Das finde ich eigentlich das krasseste, dass das keine einzelnen Spinner sind, sondern genug Leute dahinter stehen...

Additional day 3: be overjoyed that you can just replicate your basic needs, so you now can work less (or not at all). All that free time! Think of all the projects xou could do!

Start by replicating junk food and beer and sloth around until the evening of Day 29, panic, make plans for some way to big Project for Day 30. Day 30 replicate stuff you need for the project. Before properly starting, realize you forgot to ~~buy~~ replicate some crucial stuff but ~~home depot is now closed~~ you've already used the replicas quota, be discouraged, overwhelmed, give up, promise "next month is going to be different!".

Second that notion about not being IBM. Currently on a quite new Carbon X1 (from '24), because my previous one (five years old) started having issues (internal monitor flickering, staying black for some time, keyboard falling apart...), which was in turn a replacement for a T430s. That was preceeded by a T400s. The T4x0s still run without issue, so I found quite the drop in quality from the Ts to the X1s, especially the keyboard.

All of those of course were no match for my trusty old T43, that was one beast of a machine.

I guess since most devices don't have removable batteries anymore, you'd be violating checked baggage regulations as they don't allow batteries. Not sure what the consequences would be, though.

Add gorgonzola or some other blue cheese, had one like that recently, and though I absolutely loathe Hawaii pizza, the pear and blue cheese combo blew me away.