latenightnoir

She 👏 Is 👏 Cuddling 👏 With 👏 You 👏 She 👏 Wants 👏 Emotional 👏 Stability 👏 First 👏!!!

Dunno if I used this meme correctly, but I did feel the need for it... I miss cuddling so damned much...

Yes. We know. We all know. We've known ever since you've expressed your policies.

Reminds me of my classification for different types of water when I was but a wee spud:

• "water-water" - flat water
• "water" - anything else

Especially when you don't have any form of weekend support. But, hey! Bad news can't reach you if the Support page's just a placeholder!

Agreed! I'm by no means endorsing the grift, I'm just (as) objectively (as I can) observing the rules of the game. Or, rather yet, how the game implicitly expects us to min-max.

And, yes, a rational system would encourage the development of standards and principles, it would try to function based on mutual respect and empathy. And this would be beyond even moral considerations, to bring it full circle, as our survival has been and always will be collective - no one human being can survive completely on their own forever, and especially not when we're rocking 8+ billion members and we've become so interconnected.

Incidentally, it's why I don't understand the anti-globalists. Like, what are you expecting to do, maintain your contemporary standard of living by doing it all yourself? Which'll be first, figuring out broadband internet, or how to build an alarm clock from scratch?

I mean, even if we're to take it from a moral standpoint (i.e. it's immoral to charge for services of undetermined veracity), we can't be surprised that some people are grifters when the whole system of value within which we currently have to function is a grift.

Edit: I'd even argue that those of us who refuse to grift are shooting ourselves in the foot from the start in this context.

Dropped this

This. Did not expect to feel bad for cockroaches today...

They make the money flow, they earn a living, and they have job security pretty much ensured. That sounds like legitimate employment as far as Capitalism is concerned:-?

I hate Safe Mode.

#capitalism

I honestly don't think I am. They are both affected by the same elements, although degrees may vary.

Let's not forget the at times almost resentful detachment from all things American which has been sweeping Europe (and I'm not criticising it, don't get me wrong), and an increase in the prevalence of opinions which are in opposition to America is to be expected as well, both in the people and the politics (one feeds the other, always).