Snot Flickerman

It still does, but I do understand people’s displeasure with snaps.

Ubuntu in the corner, crying.

Linux users: “Stop hitting yourself, stop hitting yourself!”

I mean, considering the process for getting this fleet started in 2015, it would be 2035 before a new fleet would be rolling out… so yeah, they’ll just call to shut down USPS

True, making them rely on vehicles that are failing will reduce the ability for the USPS to effectively do its job and give them another reason to say we need to privatize it.

They literally spent the last 10 fucking years getting these replacements ready to replace the aging fleet.

Also, it’s not just a $1.5 billion dollar hit, there was and is a $6 billion dollar contract with Oshkosh Defense to build 165,000 of these, after going through a 6-year iteration process of bids and prototypes. This is throwing the baby out with the bathwater for no discernible reason and at an extremely high cost just to force USPS mail carrier to be locked into an ancient, aging fleet of vehicles. And I don’t think a defense giant like Oshkosh isn’t just going to sue the shit out of the government for damages for cancelling a contract if it hasn’t been fulfilled already.

It sounds like just one more way to try to kill the USPS because if all their vehicles keep breaking down, they won’t be able to do their jobs.

Fiscal conservatives, my ass. Most wasteful sonsabitches alive.

The USPS literally just got these, and they’re replacing the way-past-end-of-life former fleet of USPS vehicles. These things are so recent that I have a post about them in my post history and I’ve only been here since October 2023, not even two full years.

Getting rid of them is literally forcing USPS to use old, broken, difficult to maintain due to age vehicles. These replacements have been in the works for ten fucking years and there’s a $6 billion contract with Oshkosh Defense to build 165,000 of them.

Further, the old vehicles are missing a huge boon to mail carriers: air conditioning.

Like so many things, it seems like the cruelty is the point. It’s not just that they hate EVs, they hate mail carriers having modernized vehicles that are in working condition and climate controlled so they’re not sweating their asses off in the summer and freezing their asses off in the winter.

Technically you can get unemployment in the offseason.

Mom: We have regime change at home.

Regime change at home:

Vranyo.

You know I’m lying, and I know that you know, and you know that I know that you know, but I go ahead with a straight face, and you nod seriously and take notes.

The bald faced lies are like the final insult. Even during the lead up to Iraq they made a show of trying to fake intelligence enough to suit their goals. Now it’s just, fuck it we ball, and say whatever, who cares, and who cares if they know we’re lying, they can’t do anything about it.

A whole ass article and even mentions that the poorest with the fewest hours worked spend the least amount of time socializing and they seem to not even mention that there isn’t anywhere you can EXIST without paying for something except maybe a public park or a library. Standing on the sidewalk? Loitering. Coffee shop? Must buy a coffee.

They even note that people have less personal time than ever and people are working more hours. Hmm I wonder if that translates into people not being able to afford going out to do anything? I wonder if there’s any evidence to support that?

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/cost-of-living-income-quality-of-life/

The findings? For the bottom 60% of U.S. households, a “minimal quality of life” is out of reach, according to the group, a research organization focused on improving lower earners’ economic well-being.

Also note that the “bottom” is the majority.

I’m not saying this article doesn’t have valid points, but it misses a lot.

On top of people not being able to afford anything, there is also stuff like this:

https://www.newsweek.com/psychology-dark-triad-psychopathy-narcissism-personality-conditions-2085956

People living in societies with more corruption, inequality, poverty and violence are more likely to exhibit “dark” personality traits—like narcissism, psychopathy and spitefulness.

“Aversive personality traits are associated with behaviors such as aggression, cheating, and exploitation—and thus with high social costs. Therefore, even small variations can lead to large differences in how societies function,” Zettler explained.

“Our findings substantiate that personality is not just something we are born with, but also shaped by the society we grew up and live in,” he said. This means that reforms that reduce corruption and inequality not only create better living conditions just now, they may also contribute to mitigating aversive personality levels among the citizens in the future."

How are you supposed to function in a society full of narcissistic psychopaths, who are driven to such behavior because of the environment they’re living in? How am I supposed to make friends when everyone around me is a selfish, abusive asshat who isn’t concerned with the well-being of others? How am I suppose to find emotional and social support in such an environment?

I think these are two major factors affecting US social dysfunction that this article didn’t address, however, I think there are a lot more, too. Including political polarization, the breakdown of education, and cult-like mentalities among the populace.

Who’d have guessed that Musk’s promise to “maximize free speech” was just a dogwhistle to allow the worst of society to say all the worst things with no pushback.

Oh yeah I guess everyone guessed that. None of these fucks cares about “free speech” they want “free speech without consequences specifically for me, but definitely consequences for the speech of people I don’t like.”

The most important aspect of this that I think most people are missing is that they are specifically trying to bias the public into thinking he definitely did it. There is no “allegedly” in how they’ve treated him, they are actually using the positive public sentiment about what he did to continue to build the idea that it was definitely him and we don’t need to go to court to prove it. The public loving Mangione and believing he definitely did it is actually in many ways beneficial to their case. It helps solidify the idea in the general public eye that “he did it” before any court case has looked at the facts.

Almost nobody outside of government jobs and banks actually gets holidays like this off. (So you know, mostly white collar white people) What a fucking joke.

It mostly just fucks with working people’s pay schedules, direct deposits, and when they can cash their check.

To be clear a lot of them want to rape the men, too.

Further, you could just say “rape the women” because “your” implies some weird ownership over them.

Yeah this is when the wealthy have decided the lower classes are expendable. They don’t actually care about poor people having more babies. They just want rich people having more babies. They would like to see us gone because they think they can offset climate change by getting rid of a lot of us. Too bad for them they use ten times the resources as the bottom 50% of society.

It’s my guess that they either have 1) weapons manufacturers donating to them or 2) have weapons manufacturing in their district (which they see as “job creation” for their constituents) or both.

In response, Democrats have claimed that Trump is sending the country into a constitutional crisis.

Fucking Jesus the constitutional crisis has been here for almost two months already. Great job Dems on underselling the seriousness of this.

The crisis is here and has been ongoing. Saying he is just sending us into it now is pussy shit.

Reppin argyle socks instead of the classic striped, hell yeah.

If the Trump admin had it’s way, the entire Suicide & Crisis Lifeline would be staffed with people who would just say “you’re such a pussy, the world would be better without you anyway” to anyone and everyone.

See also: “Weapons of mass destruction” in Iraq.

Literally fabricated “intelligence.”