Especially considering inflation will eat half of it.

Seems like a distinction without much difference to me.

you might be correct, but that would be a very long term game, 10-20 years.

Yeah, well, my weirdness continues. I've got that ADHD time-blindness pretty damn hard, so future events which are inevitable might as well have already occurred in my perspective.

i think we're going to see a "new left" in the coming election cycles

That's my prediction as well. Now that the Democrats are the new right-wing, the obvious competition would be a new left-wing party. It probably won't be one of the existing "left" parties though, as they are almost all thoroughly captured by either foreign interests, state security agencies, or both.

Are you kidding? That's a good end. Big ol' red flag right off the bat.

She's not wrong.

Conservatives are immune to all forms of shame except the deep-rooted sexual kind.

They'd have to catch him in bed with the basketball team before he'd quit.

It's only a matter of time 'til the "AI" bubble really pops and all those tech companies that fired too much of their workforce have to start hiring back like crazy.

Software companies don't want you to know this, but the open-source licenses on the internet are free. You can just take them home. I have 458 apps.

They won't. The party exists to serve the rich.

It depends.

Yeah, you won't get any sort of externally visible changes from a single dose, but for some trans people that first dose can still be a life-changing experience.

They don't warn you about it in the informed consent documentation, but for me that first day on HRT brought on an almost overwhelming feeling of gender euphoria. It was like a part of myself that had been missing since puberty finally fell into place. The weight of 25 years of repressed dysphoria fell from my shoulders and I couldn't stop smiling, couldn't even walk across a room without breaking into a little dance.

It took the better part of a week to start seeing some physical changes, and that was mostly in skin texture.