Ugh 5 minutes in those comments and my stomach ulcers are already starting to come back.

Forget killing Hitler, im using the time machine to assassinate Reddit.

Taking a shitty electric truck to a place that's largely without power seems like a poor idea.

My kneejerk reaction to the "no automation" was negative, but after reading the actual explanation why, I totally agreed.

Automation is better in theory, but in typical capitalist fashion it's mostly done in a hamfisted way to push out labor and ends up costing more in the long run through high initial and long term costs.

In order for tech to work right in blue collar work, it really needs to be designed and implemented almost entirely by the workers themselves.

Thousands of people are literally stranded

Let's stop and pick up this tattered cloth to make sure it's safe.

I was under the impression that "war with China" was at the top of the plans for over a decade now. I definitely remember seeing stuff like this years ago, and all that's changed is the US is even more reliant on Chinese imports.

Is a war-time economy still good if your manufacturing sector can't get 2/3rds of its raw materials?

By my estimation, half of white collar jobs are like this and everyone just engages in theater about how busy they are

This is common in a lot of blue collar manufacturing jobs I've had too. Gotta milk the work and get it done as close to the expectation as possible or else you're rewarded with more work and higher expectations.

Always been a huge point of frustration for me since I like to get a good pace going and stay busy since it makes the shift go by faster, but then I have to arbitrarily slow down to keep from giving the boss man the wrong idea.

I've kinda seen this in manufacturing for the last few years. Not explicitly "AI" but newer equipment designed around being smarter and not requiring skilled operators. Think like WordPress but for industrial machines; it might do basic stuff pretty well but fails at complex operations, and it's an atrocity if you ever look behind the scenes to do some troubleshooting.

hyper-exaggerated, racist caricatures of 19th century Americans.

It's literally impossible to exaggerate the racism of 19th century Americans.

This was a big deal for us because my dad had just bought a "TiVo" like a month before, so we could watch and replay this in real time like some magic space wizards.

The things is, Dems could have given us a single payer system but they specifically chose not to. They could have completely removed the risk of losing healthcare for everyone but they chose not to.

Poor guy didn't realize the mall ninja store was replaced with an Adam and Eve until he was half way home with the whip and handcuffs.

It's the tactical box cutter and whip that makes this illegal. Take those out and add in 4 more guns and everything would be fine.

This is informally already a thing. Most lenders largely ignore medical debt so they can lend more and take in those sweet interest payments.

I'll always drop the exception that it's potentially worth voting in local politics, particularly in small remote communities. These vary in frequency and often don't always overlap the major elections and are largely ignored.

City and county positions can have a real tangible impact on your daily life and the amount of votes to swing these elections can be really small in a lot of America. It's still an uphill battle against landlords and small business tyrants, but it's something real local organizing can overcome.

This one made more sense in my brain

This actually hits pretty good for me, having lived in rural religious hellhole america most of my life. Had to learn pretty early on how to regulate my vocabulary to keep many of my peers from going red and fuming.

In my area they just finished a bunch of low income duplexes in a utilitarian metal building style. Not necessarily a bunch of pushback, but there's loads of negativity over the look and style; purely superficial shit.

I find it funny because those low income metal buildings are gonna outlast the quarter to half a million dollar groverhaus communities that are popping up everywhere here.

Also a lot of "cant have sex out of wedlock or else maw maw gets big mad" and these guys have no clue how to use birth control so they can't even pretend to be celibate when their partner ends up pregnant.

Probably One Piece with my wife since she got into it a few weeks ago.

One of mine absolutely loves to shover her head down shoes. Sometimes she gets a little stuck and it sounds like a one legged man is hopping around my kitchen at 3am.

It doesn't count when you're the Good Guys.