"But you see, capitalists take on a risk..."

The Anglosphere The French left.

"Tables don't have genders, you dumbasses."

Good read, and my apologies for going off like this. I should know better.

Honestly, calling it "tech" is a bit of an insult to the idea of tech. Sure, there are some good examples in San Francisco, like Pixar. Ed Catmull is a genius who invented 3d animation, that's technology. Google at the very least helped shape the internet as we know it today, and Apple can at least be called a real competitor to Microsoft for desktops (although Linux is objectively superior).

Now look at where we are, bullshit apps that are rapidly enshittifying before our eyes and a bunch of useless startups probably created as part of a money laundering scheme. Speaking of which, since no one wants to live alongside CHUDs, the Bay Area has the most overvalued housing in the world. I'm from bumfuck nowhere, and I always looked up to San Francisco growing up, and seeing it in its gentrified state makes my blood boil: the wealthy have no taste and their wealth is wasted on them.

Why can't they go fuck off to Martha's vineyard or some antebellum south town instead of safe havens for weirdos?

Good god I despise the anime combat being "just hit it with a bigger laser beam until someone says uncle."

In Full Metal Alchemist, since it was science based, there was some thought to the combat and I really liked that. Power creep and its consequences.

I'm tired of hearing of the housing crisis especially from people who have been treating this like a new normal. The only viable solution at this point is housing Stalin.

If the entirety of the East Coast (and California for the other side) has to turn into one big Hong Kong: so be it.

"The Jews are in power, and they want to vote away their power and create world peace.....THOSE SCUM!"

Fucking westerners.

MFW there a literal LUXURY JOBS in this hellscape, and some of them are in fields that are NECESSARY for humanity.

"Well now, your dear friend GarfieldHeteronormativity would happily explain why this didn't work! You see, you uppity workers have been so mistrustful of the wealthy as of late, we just need more money shelled out to the wealthy, us lowly poors need to bear the burden of more austerity, it's good for the economy you see? You don't want the economy to be hurt, do you? When shareholder value goes down, when property values go down, poor porky is forced to make you pay for it all."

: "Don't be silly, cops don't commit crimes, they stop them!"