As staggering as a $38 trillion national debt is, we are soon going to be looking back at such a cute little figure. We’re borrowing money to give to billionaires (soon to be trillionaires) and leaving the rest of us non-rich with the bill.

What’s disgusting is that this isn’t even a joke. That is really what those fucking people think, and it’s even what they say out loud.

A lot of people didn’t like that poor girl.

I don’t think it’s all that common. In my case, I was laid off by a west coast tech giant and actually got something of a severance for the first time in my life. Instead of finding another job right away, I bought a used school bus and converted it into a motorhome. Since I thereby already knew how to drive a big bus, getting a job as a school bus driver was a natural progression. Mainly I do it for the health insurance which is otherwise pretty useless and insanely fucking expensive.

The AI driving thing? I don’t see why it won’t be a thing eventually. If kids get run over from time to time, they’re easy to replace at that age.

awful, expensive, objectively shitty vehicles like Jeeps

Jeeps are the most hilarious brand out there. Absolute pieces of shit and insanely overpriced. If you buy a jeep Jeep, like the real Jeep thing with the canvas top and the doors that come off, I can at least understand the appeal of that basic form factor. The truly mind-boggling thing is when people buy Jeep-branded cars and SUVs that aren’t even real jeeps. Paying a huge premium just to own a pointlessly gilded piece of poo.

I get that people want fancy cars and shit, but I just can’t even.

I drive a Z3 that I bought eight years ago for $8K. It is by far the cheapest car I’ve ever owned on an annual cost basis, and it still only has 120K miles on it. Even some fancy cars can be had for next to nothing.

I used to make well into six figures as a programmer. Now I drive a school bus and I’m vastly happier. I’m always surprised when I wake up on a Monday morning and realize that I’m not dreading going to work (I actually look forward to seeing my elementary school kids). I make less than one-sixth of what I used to but I have savings and already own my house outright, so it’s all good.

It’s going to suck when AI takes over for CDL holders, however.

My brother makes $200K and his wife makes $100K. Somehow they are broke. It just doesn’t make the slightest bit of sense. They do Uber Eats for literally every meal but that can’t account for all the money, can it?

the judiciary system not understanding statistics (5 percent of all nurses have a statistically-significant high death rate)

There was a study years ago in Norway where they wanted to see if there were correlations between any disease and living underneath high-voltage power lines. They found that 5% of all diseases were so correlated … when using an alpha of .05.

Where I live (Philly suburb) there was an incident where a guy driving a 12,000 gallon gasoline truck pumped out 4000 gallons at his first gas station stop and then decided he just wanted to go home rather than making the rest of his deliveries. So he ran the hose to the back of the station and dumped the other 8000 gallons onto the ground. This happened to be right above a creek and about 200 feet from an elementary school.

It just doesn’t make any sense how anybody could be this stupid. He got 20 years in prison for it or something like that. He certainly deserved it, but meanwhile executives who manage to create far worse disasters never see a day in jail.

“Some say killin’s too good for him.”

Same shit, different assholes.

Orangutans are pretty chill.

I don’t think he’d have any supporters if he didn’t pander to evangelical religious sentiment. have ungodly amounts of money.

Pun intended with that “godly”.

Modern dryers with their crazy-ass controls piss me off. All I need is a time dial and a temperature switch.

My house has a washer and dryer time-until-finished displays. I’ve watched both of them sit on one number for ten minutes or more.

This is what not giving a shit whether your laundry is done or not is for.

For financial balance, they would need to talk to Europe’s poorest 20 million men.

My ex-girlfriend was American and half-Jewish (on her father’s side), thoroughly non-religious and very liberal. But after high school she spent a summer in Israel on kibbutz and somehow it made her completely insane on the subject of the Palestinians. She talked about how they needed to be exterminated and that Israel was completely right in what they were doing (and this was the '90s). If I tried to argue with her she insisted that I couldn’t understand since I’d never been to Israel. It was like talking to someone possessed by a demon.