Best of luck to you. I’m in a similar boat, but thankful I have a good job I don’t dread that makes an effort to take good care of me. I’m on track to retire in my 50’s, but if my investments do better than expected and I hit my number earlier, I’m out.

But I’ve also never understood why anyone works longer than they need to if they have the means to live comfortably in the first place.

Yeah, I know. It’ll almost certainly be a quick, real-time crash that the Signal chatters in Washington had advanced warning about, and retail investors will listen to Jim Cramer telling them to keep investing and lose their hats in the process.

There have been several micro-crashes. There was one last autumn in the crypto space.

Hopefully regular people are given enough time when the bubble pops to maneuver, but there’s no guarantee. I’m just assuming there will be a coordinated effort among the Epstein Class when the crash becomes inevitable and they’ll exploit it while most retail investors lose everything.

Metaverse - still one of the best jokes around

This one I slightly disagree with. I got my headset on a black friday and it was super cheap, but VR documentaries are friggin’ amazing and I hope museums will invest heavily in it in the coming years.

Fully autonomous self driving cars - “Just around the corner” for the past 10 years

Definitely. Makes me feel good for people who make their living driving trucks.

This also belongs in #NotTheOnion.

While I wouldn’t recommend investing in SpaceX (or any company contingent on Elon Musk’s wild claims, which often prove to be unfounded), investing in general is volatile and share prices fluctuate daily.

What’s wild is that SpaceX’ satellite Internet product is actually really good, but the valuation of this company is insane and that retail investors have no voting rights is a huge red flag, and therefore it’s important to stay the fuck away.

Reminds me of Donald’s first term when they were trying to groom Ivanka to be his successor and she got humiliated at several international events.

The videos are inspiring to watch. These people aren’t fucking around.

Yup. This is, in part, why I leave some of my mistakes in my videos. That’s the easiest way to prove to people that my content isn’t AI without arguing about it.

You could try.

My wager is you’d be assassinated, but for a glorious and short time you’d be the most successful American president in history. There’s a reason why Congress term-limited presidents after FDR. People want presidents that actually do good shit. It’s just that we never get a choice between two good people ever.

Sounds like an opportunity to educate someone.

Grow up.

Not everyone lives where they’re used.

There’s no need for sarcasm.

Yup.

I was more than a little proud that my city had the balls to prosecute and imprison a killer cop. Our governor pardoned this bastard shortly after taking office and now the motherfucker’s back on the street.

It’s all 100% performative.

Enough people have died getting literally cooked in Tesla cars, unable to get out, for me to never want to get in one of them on purpose.

If he’s that close to the PM office… he’s not a man of the people.

Just like how here in the US you can’t get a decent person within sniffing distance of the presidency. It’s all members of the Epstein Class.

As a regular public trans rider here in KC, I keep my head on a swivel. I’ve ridden for years and have only had two dangerous close encounters with homeless people, but as some have said, it’s unlikely surveillance will do much to change it. You’re probably more likely, statistically, to run into danger driving or riding in a car. (Note that our streetcar line does have armed security though, so that’s nice.)

It’s security theatre and the footage is probably being sold to train someone’s AI model and sent to the fed without a warrant to tag to the profile they have on you.

That said, I carry a stungun for my personal defense, but I 100% would not use public trans habitually without some means of self defense.

You’re right.

It’s what a person says that matters, not their actions.

No amount of charity will cover the fact that the white-robed hypocrite is hiding a pedophile ring.

A fair criticism.

Yeah, this never occurred to our leaders here in the US during the War on Terror either, and they warmongering in seven countries at once. It can get a whole lot worse, but I hope that doesn’t happen.