More like God’s Plan, these fools don’t understand genes, but yeah same outcome.

That’s about what I was thinking. Can’t entirely fault the sellers, everybody’s got their hustle to keep their heads above water.

But goddamn that should ring alarm bells for any policymaker who gives a shit. (I know, I know)

Yeah, I’m in the US and what you described matches the experience here too.

One major point though, the physical locations still have to pay humans, in my community, to operate. It’s not much, but these days I consider it roughly a moral duty to do what I can to force companies to spend money on employees.

And then otherwise at our house we just buy more and more stuff second hand. Quality in everything is trash anymore, even just packaging is barely functional trash these days. Everything you open destroys itself, including stuff that’s supposed to reseal with a zipper, like a bag of cheese. Gotta make line go up!

I tried to watch that interview (not this well-deserved rebuttal, the original) and just couldn’t force my way through about half, wherever the (dumbass) Brazilian favela story ends. Despite Callaghan and team’s sincere efforts, Nick just comes off like the fucking moron he is.

Ignorant about the things he himself has chosen to squawk about, while also truly lacking the mental “equipment” to engage with the topics in any complexity.

Like, any complexity, he seemed completely unable to manage the difference between the ideas “95% of Somali immigrants are law-abiding” and (his claim) “89% of fraud in Minnesota is committed by Somalis”. Those can actually both be true and they aren’t even very complicated but it was too much for him.

To be clear I’m not weighing in on those stats whatsoever, just the fact that he could not navigate the nuances between them at all.

He’s not just wrong and hateful, he’s fully incapable of understanding the exact phenomena that he somehow feels called to scrutinize and then scream about. He doesn’t realize that “real” conversation on the topic would go completely over his head, he’s so foolish that he can’t even see how out of his own depth he is.

I’d love to just call him a clown and move on but his flavor of horseshit is SO dangerous these days, as we see!

Lol! I think this AliExpress shop was doing the same probably. Just maybe more automated (maybe).

Bought something from AliExpress last week. Showed up in an Amazon box 😐 Aggravating that the only way to avoid them is apparently to never shop online. I already mostly don’t, but sheesh.

100% the situation. He provided exactly zero info or context that he was up to that, however 😂

First - intense lecture - terse, clipped, accurate - then half-shouting while eyeballing everyone in the room, at the parts one can only assume are most often misunderstood.

And then, “you may ask questions”. Lmao. Legend. And he really would do exactly that, and extremely competently, and would enjoy it if anyone engaged. His enjoyment was genuine but also similarly illegible, lol. I have a feeling he wildly outclassed even his peers at the school, bro’s frustration was like a wound, sadly.

Learned a ton from the guy, but can’t say many did overall, he offered it but didn’t exactly invite. Gateway experience for a ton of degree candidates, that whole deal.

Not even at a particularly serious school lol. Like I said. Legend. “You will learn this [hapless candidate chasing a dollar by pretending knowledge] - to my standards - or you will not proceed. I offer everything you need and much more, but you must do the work.”

What an embarrassing coward. Bet he gets his bitch ass destroyed by anyone remotely competent he ever trains/rolls with, such weak loser energy on display here.

[Edit: he’s panicking and going hard (way too hard) cuz he loses all the time - for his brain it’s “hell yeah, finally sinking this choke I’ve been working on!, damn felt easy this time!” Utterly shameful. Kill this man, he is far, far worse than useless. Give this dude an honorary Uvalde Award, if nothing else.]

Kill this motherfucker

One of the best (also most intimidating) teachers I ever had would do this when students asked questions - asked questions in response, gradually leading the student to discover, by publicly stating, what they understood and what they did not.

Everyone misunderstood him (Turkish guy teaching EMF in the US) and thought he was just trying to embarrass and shame them. Though to be fair, I DO think he had some serious resentment toward the sense of entitlement many students approach their education with, and I share it.

His attitude left a bit to be desired, but if you were willing to humble yourself and truly engage with him when you asked a question (AKA not just retreat when he starts probing) - he just had this magical ability to ask questions until you revealed (seemingly to yourself) precisely what you had missed. Never really seen anything quite like it, he was distinct. And he respected and became warm with the students who would humble themselves and publicly try, too, which came as a shock given his permanently grumpy, disappointed demeanor. Plus he went some years where no students achieved that breakthrough, so his reputation never included notes about such.

(Uhh, my bad, just went down memory lane and only some of that has to do with what you said lmao)

That is goddamn hilarious. Never saw it coming, sincerely.

Old man Da Vinci furiously scribbling while also delivering the overexcited stream-of-consciousness babble of a little kid with his favorite thing

That one is “Bureau of Land Management”

this guy coaxes

Sternly: “ya did great son and everyone loves you. Ya punched a budding Nazi and made it both entertaining and endearing, there’s no PR firm on earth who can ever stir even a shadow of what you did”.

Wait til ya hear about all the many places and things in the US named after the literal tribes of humans who once lived in roughly that exact spot 😐

I can’t get enough of that either and while all the great memes do the lad justice, I can’t help but feel we’re all robbed by the way they don’t capture the eager, self-satisfied “I can’t wait to deliver this L”, delicious, audible little clap 😭

This is a super accurate general breakdown, maybe the clearest I’ve seen honestly. Completely matches what I’ve witnessed through life (with all the acknowledgements that it doesn’t portray everyone’s experience of course, and lots of the rest of my words here suffer from the same).

What I’m realizing more and more, and want to expand on your points with - is how badly we all misunderstand the “family money” thing. I was slow to grasp it, because when/where/how I grew up, that sounded like opulence.

These days it’s table stakes. A lot of us have it, built-in, a lot of us don’t. I never had that help, scraped and scrapped to take my family to stability. Now that I’m here, I can see - no one here is like me. Roughly everyone I meet, in the world I fought to enter, is somewhat at ease. They don’t have especially high income jobs. They didn’t fight and struggle and strategize to own a home here. They typically can’t even be convinced it’s not roughly this easy for most. And they didn’t inherit huge wealth, either - they have no idea they’re “special”.

The degree to which one’s parents had stability themselves is becoming a stark dividing line in the US. I expect that line grows sharper and wider in the near term.

Edit - the troubling thing I’m trying to point out, is the vast communities of families all across the US who had just enough of a boost to make their lives feel, in every (shallow) way, like the stable affluent days of decades prior - the thoroughly taught “American Dream”. The people with money to spend live in a cloistered fiction, accidentally (from their perspective), and this seems super bad news for the current state of affairs.

Caring for older cars can be a real pain in the neck but it’s super rewarding too. Nice save.