That’s crazy to me. I only use my local bank at their physical location. I feel like the fact that they exist in close proximity to their customers who can put hands on them gives them a little extra incentive to not do corrupt bullshit.

It doesn’t make me feel better. It makes me feel like our situation is hopeless.

You’d think that, but that’s part of the point and magic, and it does not necessarily add up to that point of “leave us both more stressed than ever”.

It does me. You all are acting like I have no experience with this. Finding out other people are suffering the same as me doesn’t make me feel better about the situation. It makes it feel more hopeless.

Why would I want to just add more shit to what someone else is dealing with and then have theirs added to me? That would just leave us both more stressed out than ever.

I was stressing out just trying to read my fucking work benefit options last week…

Literally all I could say to any of this would be downer shit. That’s why I hate small talk. It’s just depressing and I feel like it makes me look bad.

I use a password manager in my personal life but my job doesn’t allow it so I have to keep the 10 or so passwords I have for various vendor sites in my notes. All my passwords are the same thing with slight variations to meet the different asinine password policies the different sites use. It’s fucking stupid but I don’t care if they’re not going to give me a good way to keep all this shit straight.

But only a little. Wouldn’t want to lose too much interest and hurt the credit card companies profit margins.

Oh boy, that’ll cover a few months of increased expenses…

Oh right everyone lives in a HOA now and privacy fences aren’t allowed.

I look great naked. The world deserves to see.

Also, only the main screen time and date button actually pulls the calendar up. That works on all screens in Win 10. It’s incredibly annoying

Will I be fed and cared for on this ranch or is it more like a concentration camp thing?

They aren’t going to provide for people’s basic needs after the robots take their jobs. They’re going to keep the excess productivity for themselves. Just as they’ve always done. The only way that changes is by force, and by the time people get desperate enough for that they’ll have an army of robots at their disposal. We need to tackle that capitalist problem before we get to the point automation taking all the jobs.

Elon’s bullshit isn’t going to be that point though.

Any port in a storm.

Okay, but can we execute these people for putting this concept into the world anyway?

Community is what you make, sometimes it’s no more complicated than talking to the same people every evening when you take a walk or getting to know your neighbor. Your brother’s family is your community. Your family is your community.

I mean, great, I have family and some good friends too, but none of us have anything to spare and we’re all struggling to hold our shit together constantly. We get together and hang out a lot but we’re not able to actually fulfill any of our goals or grow as people. I want to do more with my life than just fucking consume bullshit and worry about if I’m going to have enough money to handle the next emergency.

As one of those that carried that feeling throughout my life. It’s not that I haven’t worked to make things better. I’ve worked my ass off and all I’ve been able to achieve is barely treading water. I can’t invest in my community because I don’t have any spare resources to do so. I’m almost 40 and I’m still renting a room out of someone’s basement ffs and there’s no indication that anything is going to get better any time soon. If I wasn’t on the hook to act as a (shitty) safety net for my brother’s family when our parents are gone I’d have probably domed myself by now.

Being able to see their faces increases accountability.

My friends compliment me on my physique and being well dressed pretty often. Sometimes they give me shit for it to but that’s just banter. I don’t compliment them much on their appearance but that’s because they usually dress pretty schlubby and don’t take care of themselves.