Form factor was fine anyway. Don't fix what works. I mean there's things I personally didn't like, but I'm not really one to use it handheld much. I like that they aren't changing to a different form and making everyone toss their Switch games for a decade of Switch 2 remakes of old games.

I might would be interested if the new specs are much of an improvement. Although, my existing Switch is modded and I don't game nearly as much anyway. I won't be an early adopter by any means.

Surprised they didn't mention their "furbabies" too.

Outside of "folks," I don't think I've ever heard anyone who I believe would actually be the type to report the illegals call them "brown." It's only one step away from this telling you to report "people of color."

Yeah, in a lot of ways it seems like a scam to make dealers money. I have a small amount of silver. All well known minted coins, so pretty much the easiest to trade, authenticate, etc. You're stuck buying at a premium and selling at a discount. Silver is up 20% since I bought most of it and I'm probably breaking even if I sold them now.

That's the real answer. I could make a decent list of success stories that I know personally across about any age up to my own (low 40s). Common factor? All had their dads around as well as other positive male influences.

I think it's partly why I'm biased towards the positive side, as most of these examples are friends and family's kids, and I'm really only friends with men. So by default it's kids of men that are still around and have other men around. Most of them love me because I treat them with respect even when they are young, because that's how the men around my dad and grandad did me when I was a kid. That being another factor too, those same people are the ones that can get someone in the door. Having a network is more important than anything, because we all know we aren't getting past an AI automated HR system.

I’ve got a couple houses I rent out a smaller town in the South. Both still worth just under $200k. Not fixer uppers. It’s a big enough place that unless you’re in something specialized you could find work. Boring place that’s never going to seem trendy, but it’s fine to raise a family. I’ve got a cousin there in his 20s, wife, young kid, new house. Average non exotic jobs. I’ve seen jobs there a fit for me, probably a bit overqualified, I just really don’t want to live there, already have a job and house, etc. I’m in my 40s and have already been down that road. It worked out too.

Where I live now it’s like yours closer to 400k. Have an upper 20s friend with wife and kid doing okay-ish. Definitely a lot tighter on the budget. He’s also just now getting to the point of “maybe I should learn something useful.” Very much a product of the “follow your passion” culture who’s passion is unmarketable and instead works in a warehouse.

There are parts of Africa today where black people don’t have the tech to build Stonehenge

I'm not getting fucked over, because I spent next to zero amount of time on these social platforms. Single digit minutes per day. The exception would be totally non politics, social justice, or anything related Youtube content.

That's my commentary on all of this, either I'm required to stay on a constant IV drip of agitating social media bullshit to be able to hold an intelligent position on what Elon is or is not doing here, which by the way might just actually be in line with the rest of you, or I walk away and shrug my shoulders. Because all I'm given here is someone saying "Elon is doing something." The Twitter Files are evidence from 2020 mostly, before Elon. At least with the H1B stuff, it was all out in the open.

What I hate about social media is there is so much work to find any evidence. This random guy says this because another random guy said that because another random guy said this. It's all just a bunch of people trying to keep me in a state of agitation. Can no one present a smoking gun?

So, we're admitting that blacks are a different species?

I actually agree with the shortage aspect. But the Indian imports aren't worth their own shit. All the white people in tech-adjacent fields have to make up for their failures. I could point to an entire sub-industry of intelligent contractors my company hired out just to spend the mountains of time it takes wading through the swamp of shit the IT developers called a "solution".

I've bitched about this before, as someone who at one point of my life wanted into IT, I hate what these people have done to that industry. There's an entire two floors on my former corporations building dedicated to IT development, and it's fucking little India. A white dude looks as out of place there as in a negro hood.

I think the main reason for me there's a nostalgia factor to it, as that was what I listened to as a teenager. I didn't watch the whole video but it looks like mostly disagreement with his politics, which is fine, but also somehing that was normal for a teenager in the 90s to ignore. I do still listen to some of it, Alice in Chains being my favorite, but yeah I know another bitching heroin addict. My everyday listening music taste has drifted back to 70s rock, blues, country, and classical more so though. Most of which I'm sure someone could poke political holes in too.

Counterpoint to you, I do find a lot of melodic quality to the actual instrumental portion of grunge music in a time when it wasn't necessarily as edited out. This especially in contrast to modern popular music now that is a boring beat with a nigger mumbling about sex parts through an autotune device.

Southwest only flies Boeing 737 so if you're wanting to avoid Boeing then that's easy one to mark off the list. American and United both fly Airbus planes any of the routes I've been on the last few years. All airlines suck as far as I'm concerned.

Reddit is Satan's lair, no surprise you find Satan there.

I'm more for the total annihilation of influencers anyway. I really don't gain anything from knowing the opinion of this random internet chick.

I just learned to use the block button on pedo shit and disengage from the rest. It's not worth the time to type to argue with someone who's is just trying to agitate me. I've moved on from sitting around in a constant state of mad at the world, it's no way to live.

No better way to ensure submission but to demand sacrifice to be with a woman.

Although I will note, there is a difference between a hobby and an obsession, and I don't think a lot of men understand that.

I’m pretty sure SpaceX is totally private and independent from Tesla. As is Twitter. So, you wouldn’t get any value from those companies. Tesla being public has to report all their information, and I actually looked at it before I commented. It’s actually quite good, but not to the tune of $420 per share good. It’s all speculative value on the future of Tesla really.

If only Trump decided to identify as a woman the last couple weeks of his term and made a big deal about being the first woman president.

Let them fight. Who cares. One party wants to entice a fight and the other wants to fight. The law enforcement officers can just walk away and not be endangered. Send the coroner in the morning.

I also really struggle with these as well, because a huge amount (I might argue majority) of the supporters for female beauty in games will really only accept a pixel's width short of actual pornography. So you're stuck with two polar opposites to choose to support, ugly as sin man-women or slutty women who would look at home on OnlyFans.

Nier wasn't bad though. I've played it twice. The vast majority of the time you have to put effort into looking for smut. Even the ladder clip you mention involves intentionally manipulating the camera to look up a skirt. I'd call it acceptable for whatever it's rated as.

The stock market has just gotten stupid. Yeah, Tesla is a fine company, but that stock value is absolutely insane. There's almost no such thing as looking at fundamentals anymore, unless a company is going bankrupt.

Yeah I know, the post was about numbers for 12 year old boys, I just ignored that part.

"I've got folds....in different area codes."

So they couldn't even spend 3 seconds making the face look different from previous entries (Odyssey I think?).

Yeah I'm with you. I'm not corporate quite anymore, albeit still very much adjacent to it. I did that for 20 years though, and you know what, the minor investment of time, mental, and physical state really paid quite well. It's the ones that seek fulfillment from corporate work that suffer. I sought to exchange a limited amount of good work for a paycheck, and spent my non-work time seeking fulfillment with family, friends, hobbies, etc. while not having to stress over income.