It would be very easy. There are many places where money is all you need. Living in a shithole like the USA is the last place you want to be. Go anywhere you find Russian oligarchs or their kids. There are many micro nations that would gladly let anyone print any name they would like for a fee.

Republicans don’t make up the bullshit about election fraud, they read their own playbook and only change the names. Such is the criminal weirdo party.

Black has the most universal meaning of solidarity, seriousness, mourning, and formality across cultures and peoples.

I don’t think so in general.

My personal business was just auto body and a very niche segment within that.

I’ve also worked for mixed ownership. They tend to fail because someone must sign for the credit required to run the business. Eventually this person holds leverage. People change, and nearly all humans are corruptible.

It is hard to run a business, like when I was the buyer for a chain of bike shops. I spent nearly 3 million dollars on preseason orders. If I got that wrong, the business is going under. A lot of that money is credit from the manufacturers. The way it works is that manufacturers have no idea how much of whatever they need to make and warehouse. Buyers know the local market, store demographics, and core customer base. They can make reasonable predictions about what will sell and how. Mind you, I needed to know absolutely every detail about new products and changes in the market with each season, but at the time I rode everywhere by bike, I raced, and I did downhill enduro for fun. I went to interbike and a bunch of demo days for brands. I effectively took over for the owners because I did my homework and backed up every decision with statistical sales history in each store. However, one of the owners had undersigned his house and that turned into leverage and a problem. We were struggling to finance and open a new store when I was nearly killed ten years ago riding to work and got hit by a driver badly. That lead to a cascade of problems that closed all of the stores a few years later.

Personally, I see group dynamics as a potential problem in most cases. The best I ever had it was when I worked completely by myself. Owning a business sucks though unless you have the money to deal with the ups and downs. Only a fool likes at or near paycheck to paycheck when they own a business. I wouldn’t consider anything for a business now unless I can generate more than 15% extra money after paying everyone including myself. If you can’t put money back into the business, you’re going to fail within a few years

Terms of service are slavery contracts that presume all persons possess the means to process and competently understand the choices they make. The acceptance of these agreements is the legal forfeiture of citizenship and democracy. This is the simplified core issue of present Western society. Ultimately, people have proven that they will sell democracy and citizenship to anyone willing to create digital novelties. This has normalized and funded exploitation and the US party of open legislative loopholes for criminals.

Seems like a stretch unless you fundamentally understand the implications against the third pillar of democracy—freedom of information required for an informed public. Informational determinism is a cornerstone of democracy. This cornerstone is missing and the house of cards is falling as a result. Most of our present issues boil down to this one problem either directly or indirectly.

I owned my own business with employees twice. I’ve faced decisions where I needed to screw over people to grow my business or make more money. “I owned my own business…”

It is not hard to make a fortune. You just need to be a psychopath in a way that threads all the legal loopholes and only hurt people that are beneath your super secret caste rank we’re never supposed to admit is a thing.

It starts by making your first million in reserve by becoming a slumlord. Then you can afford to use the legal system to bankrupt smaller fish while avoiding larger predators. From then on, you just need to continue to cannibalized as much as possible. Eating big fish is dangerous. Large filter feeders that kill hundreds of thousands of average people are the safest bet. Also, fund the right political party that maintains open loopholes that are easy to exploit and protect their biggest whales, and turn a blind eye to cannibal fish, while selling idiot krill whatever mysticism nonsense they are willing to buy. It is not hard. Just be a terrible human being. I failed when I tried, but my apprentice at the time still has his house to this day.

Statistics. You’re still there and only complaining. I purged all subscription parasites from my life in 2019.

I live by the abstraction, “you can’t fix stupid in anyone else but yourself.” All you can do is tell others what you did with your one wallet vote and hope that others do the same at some critical mass.

They do it because you’re still there, and you care while they do not. You want to think you’re human. You’re not. You’re a new deck chair on a yacht if you’re lucky. Most likely, you’re no more than a liter or few of diesel.

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This, and lay out the details like ELI5 and as an unemotional objective thing with detail.

I have received many flags to sort out that take more than a few minutes to figure out the tone and meaning. I strongly believe people have a right to be stupid, wrong, a bit rude, or to have a bad day. I need to know exactly why the comment is more than this in a well laid out fashion. If you think it is a pattern with the individual, prove it. If some subtle phrase carries more meaning than I may realize, say so. I want to make people feel welcome on all fronts with a Hippocratic framework of “first, do no harm.” At the same time, a visible mod is a bad mod. I will read every detail. I will give the benefit of the doubt in every possible case. I won’t be passive to bigotry, but I will allow an asshole that does no harm. I’m but one insignificant mod. I care a whole lot more as a person, but I act conservatively as a mod. When flagging something imagine the person on the other end is working on some big project, stopping their day, and taking a half hour to sort out the details, thinking them through, and taking action. It usually takes me longer to shift gears and do this in practice. I’ll usually send a message explaining why I did or did not do anything as well.

Who wants to bet unknown party is Nvidia. They are already in the cross hairs for antitrust over their market share. It is absolutely in their best interest to bank roll a minimal competition to avoid interference. With AMD announcing they are backing off of the bleeding edge, they were absolutely firing a massive shot across the bow of Nvidia while polishing the guillotine blade. 80% market share and no competition is a death knell.

Enter the culdesac. Welcome to the neighborhood. Feel free to script your house wherever you wish to compile it.

I actually tried that a few weeks ago with some tight wrapped bandages. I couldn’t keep it in place. My skin is too loose and fatty just under my breast and it leads to the bandage rolling down. I thought about getting something different to try and wrap it but wrapping didn’t feel quite right with pressure in circular compression. My waist is still a good bit smaller so it is about like wrapping the outside of an awkward funnel.

It is such an unusual issue. I mean picture how breaking a rib up around you nipple can make your posture feel better, but it is not just posture. Like, normally people can have back pain but they can still minimally function. If I push too long and too hard I fail entirely to the point I am on the ground and unable to do anything.

I even thought about just the upper part of a corset, but then it probably wouldn’t stay in place unless maybe some suspenders or something. The thing is, my posture is what is holding me back the most, but I have major damage all the way up my neck. I can only barely turn my head to the left and can’t see over my shoulder at all on that side, it just grinds, locks up, and often causes injury if I try.

The only thing I really got out of physical therapy was a deep tissue massage of a dude using his elbow to articulate each individual vertebrae one at a time. It used to wear him out because he had to push so hard. I learned to do the same thing using a tennis ball, baseball, and the knob end of a baseball bat. I lay on the floor and place all of my weight on the ball/knob while rolling it to achieve the same pressure and articulation. If you can imagine picking up you hips with a hard object like a baseball and trying to put some force into it, you have the kind of pressure it takes to impact where I really hurt. I’m going to need nearly if not equivalent pressures in a small area to really make a difference.

I also need to maintain the rest of my skeletal movement. I may spend 90% of my day in bed, but even when I sleep, I can’t stay in one position for more than just a few minutes. I flop around like a fish constantly. If I don’t, things get bad fast. One of my lowest lows was from attempting to address my chronic lack of sleep with prescription drugs. It is a tricky problem. Likely one without a solution, but that scares me less than it used to. It is one of my last strings of hope for a bootstrap fix , but I’m quickly approaching a now or never timeline with a bleak future otherwise.

Thanks for the reference. I have a bit of experience with print and design. I can make almost anything modular, and have mastered FreeCAD.

My biggest concern is anchoring and shaping effectively, along with long term effects of smaller pressure points. Making something that can handle sitting standing and lying seems a likely issue as well. I want to replicate the pressure from a break specifically. Pressure from rare stomach issues is miserable for me to an excruciating level. Something about it places the wrong kind of pressure on my back issues. That is why I haven’t done a corset. I need something like a pressure only on the left side of my sternum on just two ribs. Basically, ribs 5 and 6 are the bottom of what you feel in the front bottom of your chest at the base of the sternum. Intuitively, I need pressure from the front under my nipple area that pushes these ribs into the spine with little impact anywhere else.

Vader’s moon is my favorite

Not that anyone cares, but I used to work painting cars for a used car lot next to this actual place north of Atlanta Georgia. I can’t believe I found the sign in an image search.

Only men in nicer luxury cars showed up at this place, mostly older Asian men. I never saw anyone leaving carrying anything. Not items in hand, or a bag of any kind. It became something of a joke between myself and a few other people. I can’t confirm nor deny this is the last visage of truth in advertising in America.

Americans are safe. The edible food product concrete fortress will stop them.

Immeasurable dong bot

(47m/8b) × 100 = 0.5875% of the world. Those numbers are likely total accounts as well and nowhere near the real active users. I bet many of these are also systems with multiple users or users with multiple accounts. Reported numbers are usually unverified and inflating them as much as possible is in the best interest of Sony on may fronts.

It is neither here nor there. I used to love the first few generations of PS stuff, but I really see no reason for consoles like these any more. I owned everything I played back then. I find it rather pathetic that my right to own has been stolen.

I’m presently taking a snack break from Cataclysm DDA after tracking down foods with better iron content in the game. Under that I have a bash script and Emacs running with my mods to the game. I’ve been playing all afternoon and making little odds and ends for the game. Sorry if my perspective from a non dystopian space rubs the wrong way. What I’m doing isn’t for everyone, but if everyone had some better self control and the character to stand up for themselves, you will find that you get your rights back from these asshats, or you will get them from the next generation of platforms that rise from the ashes. The only terms that actually matter are the ones you’re willing to put money into. I back up that statement. I’m on a 12th gen Intel with 16 GB GPU. I would be playing AAA titles but there are no game manufacturers. I don’t care if I’m the only person unwilling to adopt feudalism and serve some tyrant overlord on their yacht. So be it.

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