Good for you. I am making exactly what I made in 2021 after having raises suspended, job hopping to a better job, being laid off, and then hired in the best stable job I can find in this wretched new economy.

We're about to see wages go down after stagnating for years, often falling behind inflation. Look at tech where there are too many employees, new graduates. Supply and demand. People are going to have to notice.

I lived in a small town to everyone knew each other's parents at least from a distance.

I can't remember a single parent being attractive.

Nor do I remember the teachers being attractive, but several of them tapped student ass.

My optometrist just showed up on that MAGA businesses's website, so IDK but I bet they have some ideas.

Only if the city cares. I'm in a capital city where strip mining occurs within city limits, and they just leave acid pools behind because the thick forests keep people from noticing it

Because the warehouse was built on the tracks. Alas that infrastructure tie-in has mostly gone away, new facilities are built with proximity to cheap labor, land, and easy to consume + pollute natural resources.

Deleted by Creator slaps but I do not think it's sexiest

As I learned at the doctor this week, you can ask to be tested for immunity to things, like measles. So you'd conceivably be able to tell afterwards but how long will insurance cover these diagnostics?

While insulting the person that originally made the deal (himself)

It would violate their professional oaths, and yet, somewhere there's an OB/GYN and an optometrist ready to fucking rumble

There is hope that the backlash from this will be brutal. It will take half a generation to get here. But overall Christianity is not gaining more net followers, especially not the asshole flavors that so vocally seem to represent it.

I am guessing the folks that run Britain have some concept of how the weather works there on the daily

Funny I haven't heard much about TDS since he clubbed the economy nearly to death.

VA = federally owned and operated. This was done by design.

You know it's bad when Shadow IT starts migrating your inventories.

Probably an experiment by the C-levels to see how far they could actually take it. Benchmarking.

It's pretty bleak yes, our own families sold us out for this shit in their malicious ignorance, I just heard a VA employee tell me an email went out advising all hospital staff to remove rainbow lanyards or stickers or anything "safe space" identifying in their offices, because some patient had complained. This came out while we're helping my gay veteran friend get ready to die of cancer. Cause he shouldn't feel safe in the hospital or anything.

And they doubled the price in the past 10 years

Red states are brain-draining people fast enough, blue cities are where all the hospitals and infrastructure are, and that's all being defunded rapidly. Can you imagine what it would be like if droves of medical and other professionals just left red states - shuttering hospitals and colleges and the like.

When conservatives say "I wish we could just split the country and then we'd prove how our policies are better" I always picture the scenario of them wandering around, trying to get cancer treatment or an MRI.

The majority of people I know with dental issues couldn't afford to have minor things fixed so they turned into major things.

Dental insurance is a joke and lots of people don't even get that joke.