Recently added n° 3 to the list as well. Gotta say, anxiety and despair hit different when possible homelessness enters the mix.

I don’t know whether to fear or admire people who manage to thrive under these circumstances.

Hardly surprising from people whose family tree looks more like a circle.

Definition of shortstack lol.

It’s crazy, it’s as if these corporations don’t WANT my money. Never, EVER buy into day 1 DLC, it’s the most anti-consumer practice in the entire games industry.

People need food. People need housing. People are freezing in winter and boiling in summer.

“Please help us”

“Sorry, best I can do is ChatGPT. Ask it how to survive, or how to entertain you, idc.”

I’ll probably still buy it… in a year or two, heavily discounted with all dlc included. But at these prices and conditions at launch? Lol.

Sorta. It’s being somewhat selectively enforced. Certain people always seem to be able to skirt the rules without consequences.

Here in Belgium you pay an extra tax on unoccupied homes. Unless you can prove you’re working on getting it up to standards, but there are hard time limits on those permits.

The common people? Hardly. To them it really didn’t matter all that much as long as they were protected from war and famine.

But eventually that happened and they couldn’t ignore it anymore.

The elites of society will have been much more aware of the situation (and acted accordingly).

Yeah I think the Romans around 400 AD felt very much the same.

Holy shit, that’s Caligula levels of conceit. Next he’ll make his dog a fucking senator.

Not accurate. In reality the piss splashes down on the unwashed masses beneath.

Ayup. People seem to have no idea what’s coming next. Millions will die. And we can warn them as much as we want, no one will believe us. That also absolves us of the responsibility imho.

TLDR; notorious pedophile murderer Marc Dutroux claimed he actually worked for “certain people in the government” when procuring victims. It was never proven in court, but I’ll believe it.

I think you mean BECAUSE of bonus ban.

They know what they’re doing. Their constituents may be stupid enough to believe it, but all those people at the top are completely aware of the grift they’re running.

It sure is, but I have no idea from where. Picked it up online long ago.

That’s why I hate the insertion of “mindfulness” into every type of self-help.

Motherfucker, did it ever occur to you that my hyper-awareness of shit is part of the cause of my problems?

Caregiver burnout is a thing. Don’t set yourself on fire to keep others warm.