They won’t. Establishment Dems want this as well. Repubs are doing it for them, and then any elected Dem then would likely be more of the watered down same, and they’ll quietly allow the status quo to continue.

Maybe they’ll stop the gutting. Maybe they’ll slim down some high profile things like ICE a bit. But largely they won’t ramp up hiring to return to any previous scale.

Also FYI, the last time the US Federal government lost employees on this scale was under Clinton in the 90s working bipartisan with a Repub congress.

You don’t levee children…

Why didn’t they turn down the Sun first?

Kirby vaccuums maybe? More like a MLM back in the day.

For a lot of people, when you look at how they spend their time, it is clear that their religion is both their belief system AND their hobby.

Think of the “Bible study” types. They’ve turned it into a hobby-like activity. Some I knew growing up clearly had nothing else. It was their hobby.

Warhammer. The tabletop one with the figures, not the video games.

Vacations/travel for some people. Its clearly something where they have zero clue about their privilege and zero self awareness as they talk about it.

Parenting. Seriously, it becomes some people’s only fucking identity and the way they talk about it feels like religious proselytizing mixed with a bit of used car salesperson energy.

Comic conventions. Some people make it uncomfortable how seriously they take it.

Wasting some time on Lemmy trying to leave shitty comments just looking to rile people up or something.

True for all cops. True for all garbage careers built solely on harassment and fucking with people.

Fuck em all.

No! How dare! My unique lived experience is unique to only me and my arbitrary group! You can’t be the same!

What next? You gonna tell me the “wait 5 minutes” joke about weather basically applies everywhere?

Then we go and define things as “invasive” as if the world hasn’t been ever-changing for billions of years. As if we know better and need an environment to remain exactly as we found it, forever. As if nature won’t just fucking figure it out.

Other countries elect scientists and economists sometimes.

What if I’m talking about very attractive adapters and cables?

Dayum look at dat female! So easy to plug into, and grips hard!

My favorite cable is an aux extension I use every day.

The “ultra wealthy elite having all the money to easily solve all the problems and not doing so” is considered suspension of belief?

Pff.

That’s literally the real world, right now. That’s immensely believable. I think what’s unbelievable is that Batman does anything at all to help and has any shred of give a shit for others.

The “motherfucker” forced me to hear this in Samuel L Jackson’s voice.

Reminds me of everyone during the pandemic house frenzy telling us to sell our house, and talking about how seriously they were considering selling theirs, cause prices are up so much.

I kept asking… and then what? You have to live somewhere… how much will that cost?

You mean 200 word AI results?

You’re in the wrong argument. The argument was about speeding and you’re trying to bring up recklessness in a mote general sense. Twisting the argument to make a poor point.

You don’t justify bad behavior by pointing to other bad behavior.

Based on experience, I don’t trust random assholes to determine for themselves when a rule is unreasonable. You’re unreasonable with this take and presumption about yourself. This makes you dangerous to society. You’ll prove that even more as you disagree.

You do not get to determine on your own that your actions have near 0 consequences. That’s some level of psychopathic thought and just reinforces why we have some rules. It’s also a lack of empathy or consideration of others.

You’re breaking a rule operating a dangerous machine, and you’re trying to shrug it off as no big deal. Dangerous.

AoE III was excellent. It explored new ideas and did it well. As a long time AoE fan who played all of them since the first, AoE II is massively overhyped, and AoE III is unfairly shit on.

Also they were voluntold to do Halo Wars, and they did a good job on it. It’s a good game, and it did an excellent job on console with a controller scheme, which was impressive at the time.

Ensemble got shafted. They were held up at the time as the leaders of RTS and Microsoft didn’t give a fuck. Just used and abused.

AoE online was clearly executive suite demands. Of course it fucking sucked.

Also look into informational interviewing and maybe see if someone can connect you with a current job-holder. People are surprisingly nice and it may be feasible to get their time to get an understanding of their field and daily work life.

Absolutely follow the data and put in the effort to find out.

Great re-use of this comic.