Uuuhhh isn’t that just literally a lie? Like wtf

No debtors prison but there is a credit score. And that shit is the gateway to paying less for everything when you’re borrowing money. Especially for a mortgage on a house so you actually have equity in the property you’re living in.

Wrecking your credit score basically gate keeps you from a lot of stuff sadly.

I mean, I know you said /s but just saying fucking up your credit can screw you hard in the hyper capitalist hellscape we live in.

That sucks. Yeah, fighting is the keyword there.

I mean, I’ll put it this way, I wouldn’t recommend Samsung appliances and won’t buy them again in the future but I have not found any major problems with mine five years on (save the fridge).

I agree though that there are enough bullshit problems that pop up and having a severe lack of good customer service is a combo that’s steering me away from Samsung. However, they are ubiquitous for a reason.

I think their appliances are a lot like the rest of their tech. If you get a good one it’s solid for years and years, but God help you if you get a shitty one because their customer service is garbage.

Also idk what crack or other drug their engineer was on that designed the ice box in my freezer but it literally is made in a way that constantly causes problems with ice build up and not being able to dispense ice because of it.

But I will say all the rest of my Samsung appliances and even the fridge aside from that ice box bullshit have been going strong.

I think they also have crap quality control, it reminds me a lot of anything Alienware I’ve owned. Still using a mouse from 15 years ago but also had a keyboard from them die right around the one year mark and it was impossible to get any help from their support.

While I’m ranting huge shout out to turtle beach who’s customer support and care was exceptional. My dog chewed through my headset wires and they shipped me a new one no cost.

Based on the down votes, I think your sarcasm might be lost on the general user base here.

If you haven’t watched it yet you’d probably enjoy Westworld - it plays a lot with that space and approaches some very interesting philosophy when it comes to human consciousness and what it means to even be a person.

I’ll not down vote you but I will give you the rhetoric.

You could argue we are just constantly hallucinating but that’s circular logic because we know that we all have a shared perceived reality and that people are capable of hallucinating. That is, we define the word hallucinate by its relation to what we would all colloquially refer to as reality.

If you argue that all you do is hallucinate then the word loses all meaning. For example, I may see things that are not actually there and also see things that do exist, how would one draw a distinction if “all our brain is doing is hallucinating?”

I think it’s a fun thought experiment, you know, akin to the shadows on the wall in Plato’s allegory of the cave, but ultimately you’d be driven to madness if truly there was no way to tell what was real.

See I like the aliens come help part and not the nuclear annihilation, mostly because that’s gonna be real bad for whoever survives.

The aliens could come and grant us a post scarcity economy with replicators or something like that. I mean, we may in the next 40 years see a real paradigm shift of how we organize our society because having like 20%+ unemployment caused by automation and shifting priorities is simply not sustainable for any country. Not sure if that’s what will end up happening, AI is not a magic panacea that it’s pandered as by tech bros, but I do think there’s a strong potential for it to replace a lot of the bullshit jobs that we have that kind of just exist because of the bureaucracy of corporate America and compliance regulations and such.

Anyways, I also doubt aliens would even visit here. We’re so violent as a species and have lots of things that go boom, there’s probably way better planets to visit than Earth in our galaxy. I know I’d stick a quarantine zone around our solar system and go on with life if I were an alien overlord.

Posadism is fucking wild.

Just skimming the surface of it and I’m all what the actual fuck over here. Would be cool if aliens actually did drop in and help us all out. I suspect we’re just going to keep the capitalist machine churning while the world suffers and we undergo some radical changes in climate and weather as the wealth gap keeps increasing.

I mean shit my job pays me decent and I do stuff that I low-key think shouldn’t even be a job, I just have to keep on the wage slave train to get what I want for my minimum standard of living and it isn’t even plush.

I guess what I’m saying is it’s a fucking scam and I hope the aliens come soon.

the major difference is China hasn’t bombed anyone or established overseas military bases… yet. Anything can happen in the future.

It’s worth noting that is changing. They have two overseas military installations now and a lot of their commercial ports are set up for dual use so they could use them for wartime navy if needed.

But I do still think China is much more interested in economic soft power vs the USA who’s power projection is oftentimes “help us or we’re just gonna take what we want with force.”

Obviously that’s a huge oversimplification of a very complex topic just thought it was worth mentioning China has some overseas military force projection capabilities but they’re very limited.

I mean, the USA can basically move the equivalent of most nations military to anywhere on the planet in less than a week. It’s pretty crazy. But I think we are going to see some serious shake ups in the navy with new tech, carriers are great but it takes a lot to support them and some hypersonic missile batteries could probably make it through current defense systems. I’m not sure we’ll ever see a large scale naval battle on the open seas ever again but if that day does come it’s going to be real interesting except for, you know, all the deaths.

Fair, I was surprised it read the Cyrillic so well given the compression of the original image. I thought about just using a Russian to English dictionary and looking the words up but I was like meh Google translate is fine and it looked right given the context of the comic.

Assuming the Google translate is right:

Hmm everyone in here seeing different things, I like it.

Personally, I saw a dragoon. (I need more pylons)

It’s ok we’re all dumb here

You’re not 100% convinced that it’s a fake after it literally tells you to eat pizza and watch a movie as advice to deal with marijuana addiction?

Honestly I think you got me with not putting a /s because clearly you must be joking but part of me also is like “maybe people are this dumb?”. But I think I’m the dumb one here

Short Answer: Markets are complicated and full of hundreds of thousands of moving parts. For a very simple example related to beef - we could consider the import of Waygu beef since that’s a commodity you can’t make in the USA.

Obviously, there’s plenty of other beef products we import. Anyways yeah usually a country is exporting and importing the same stuff in some quantities when it comes to things like beef or pork or simple mechanical widgets or whatever. Just stuff that because of the quirks of supply and demand and logistics makes it so widgets are exported for sale and also sold domestically.

Not unless you’re really dumb, people accidentally shoot themselves with “unloaded” guns all the time.

If you get shot cleaning your gun you have MAJORLY fucked up.

Like, you have to try to be that level of stupid and it still happens. People are just incredibly dumb it would seem. I mean, I know we must have a ton of morons in this country in order for Trump to get elected because … Everything.

I’ll go one further for you.

Now there is THCa on the market that when you heat it - you know by smoking it or whatever your method of choice - literally turns into Delta-9 THC. Some light reading on it.

So there is this really odd legal gray area now. I think it should be abundantly clear by now that marijuana should just be fucking legal, it’s readily available all over the place and it being illegal on the federal level is just dumb. It’s safer than alcohol and we have ads for that shit shoved in our faces everywhere we go.