I'm an adult, near middle age. I bike everywhere. It's nice.

I don't have kids and never would, so I can't talk realistically about what that would be like. But I sincerely doubt I'd have any issues maintaining my current standard of living if I had like 6 times my income, but also two kids. In fact, if I was given $250k per year I'd volunteer to raise someone else's kids.

If the kids had disabilities or long term healthcare issues then yeah, that could be debilitating. I wouldn't put my hypothetical kids into a private school unless I was worried for their safety.

You gotta understand that to me $250k per year sounds like infinite money per year. So I'm never gonna be able to logically proceds that. I'm way down in the pits of selling manual labor and I'm never going to have anything higher than what I make now. $250k sounds like a fantasy, made up amount of money that I can't even fathom. If I woke up tomorrow with just $15,000 in my bank account I'd probably collapse and start crying.

You're not doing better class analysis, you're doing class reductionism

The elements that made New Vegas good were the team, the near infinite money they had, and how everyone seemed to enjoy the project. From interviews I've read with Josh Sawyer and Tess Treadwell, it seems like everything went as smooth as game production could have gone. They were never worried about deadlines or anything, despite the 18 month production time. They wanted to have more Legion territory, but otherwise the game is how they wanted it to be. So I don't know how those elements would get replicated.

Pentiment is really good though. Outer Worlds is...ok. I guess we'll see.

The internet at this point is so segmented and full of islands. YouTube channels can have 67 million subscribers and yet be completely unknown outside of its regular viewers. The uptick you're seeing might be restricted to its own circle of viewers, maybe? Because I haven't noticed anything like that. Internet popularity manifests as weird bubbles that don't intersect.

But I could just be in a different bubble. I haven't noticed an uptick nor do I even know who Cyraxx or kingcobra are.

Rich people are so stupid with money it's no wonder why most of them get rich through their parents. They can't fathom living normally, even though they may posture about it. They're such brain poisoned little piggies with such a high standard for comfort.

Plus I suspect a lot of their lives are centered around ensuring they never interact with a homeless/poor person, which has to suck up a ton of their income. They need a fancy house in a white suburb, they need a huge vehicle, they need to stick their kids in a fancy private school so they won't mingle with the poors. They can't have wealthy without also building a social cocoon, even if they could have a much higher standard of life without such an incessant focus on the country club stuff.

I make less than a fifth of what these people make and I still take vacations overseas and have a comfy apartment. I can save money too every month. I barely own anything. The most expensive thing I own is a $900 bicycle. The most precious things I own are my cats. I eat rice and beans for half my meals and my TV is a CRT from 2002 connected to a Dreamcast and PS2. Like what the hell, why do you need a yacht

I think Canada has just gotten weasely with their legal language to define consulates as police stations. Texas did the same thing by defining spying as "embassy record keeping while being Chinese."

Liberals lack imagination to the point everything they don't like is scary foreigners. MAGA/Putin/China/Venezuela are all the same thing to them.

There's a person in that thread unironically praising the atom bombing of Japan as a liberal victory

Do they have no awareness or are they like happily evil

You're going to find a lot of punk bands that would fit your preferences. Try checking out smaller punk bands on Bandcamp.

One of my favorites is G.L.O.S.S.

Their music was great although they've all moved on to other projects. Good anti-capitalist, anti-fascist punk rock made by trans women. Truly punk music in that they made only two albums that add up to less than 20 minutes, got contacted by a big record label, then decided to break up instead of compromising their own values.

I refuse to use any gaming guides that don't have cool ASCII art at the top

The canteen item's description in that game says it has a bunch of filters that turn water into Monster. I've always found that funny, like you stand in a river full of perfectly good water and your scifi thingie turns it into green bro-juice

One of these people has a Pulitzer

If I remember right one of their primary sponsors is the heiress to the Getty oil family.

The Internet was always reactionary like this. I think people who are nostalgic for a more innocent internet must have been children in 2007 or something.

Yeah American Catholics are largely distinct based on race and income from what I've noticed. Wealthy white Catholics have basically nothing in common with poor Latino Catholics other than supposedly the same religion

France is currently trying to ban Muslim children from going to school so clearly something went awry

Yeah that's not true, Louisiana is mostly protestant. It's had the national average of Catholics (around 21%) for decades now.

I think Louisiana just has larger numbers of white Catholics than other states.

Yeah Beto has also been vocally anti-Israel lately as well, but he's also not had any hope of a legitimate political career lately. That can't be making him friends with Democrats. He kept losing every race he was involved in, so the donors dried up.

Also in the 2020 primary there were so many candidates he had to pigeon-hole himself to one particular issue to be notable, he tried being the anti-gun guy. He did the thing Democrats aren't supposed to do which is confirm what Republicans think of them. Democrats are usually more submissive and conciliatory to Republicans. When accused of being anti-gun Democrats are supposed to be like "oh well uh, well, yeah you're right mr. republican we should still protect the blah blah." Instead Beto was outright saying "yeah we are coming for your guns, no one needs an assault rifle" and that probably didn't make him friends among the rich donor class who actually control everything

They went with Biden because they simply don't have anyone left

yeah the average person looks at Pete and visibly recoils in disgust. He'd be a Democrat version of DeSantis. He does well to his specific crowd, white comfortable nerds who work at Deloitte, but everyone else just sees a robotic weird rat man. Horrendous vibes emanate from him.

I mean I wouldn't put it past the democrats to put their chips behind him, but normal people see his entire vibe as fake corporate mandatory fun overly sentimental nothingness. He's a physical manifestation of Patrick Bateman. People don't look at Pete and see themselves, they look at Pete and see their weirdest supervisor at work. They see debate club nerds who they used to bully. They see a guy who would have worn a bow tie to elementary school

Who? Is this one of those rappers or streamers you kids are always talking about