And in the US today, we are cutting the fleet down to less than 300 ships and cleaning house of experienced officers and enlisted to the point we will not be able to effectively fight a two-front conflict. Our "ghost fleet" has been pretty much wiped out. All while our potential adversaries are greatly building their…

IMO, the problem lies in the law. Used to be, there were only a handful of professions exempt from overtime pay. As the years went on, corporations lobbied for more and more professions to be made exempt, and the government’s been all-to-happy to oblige them. Just because you are salary does not automatically make you…

I would gladly wait 3-6 months longer for a good game made under more humane conditions than get a rushed bug ridden game where everyone worked 80 hours for weeks on end

It’s something you got to experience for yourself I guess, too bad people can be pretty ignorant and not take it seriously.

It’s about getting your fair cut and not being exploited. Not about being a paid whore.

Normally I would have agreed but after the very touching last episode for Futurama, I honestly want them to leave it be. Die a hero before it becomes the villain.

I wish motherly empathy/instincts could be weaponized. These fuckers would BURN.

Least surprising news ever. Nothing like living up to our exceptions you filthy whale shits.

I guess you didn't read my answer fully. I absolutely do advocate a minimum income, just in the form of welfare payments - not a minimum wage (that's actually better too, a minimum wage means nothing if employees only get scheduled to work part-time 10 hours a week, whereas welfare payments can ensure workers actually…

I agree with most of what you said - except the poor being taxed at the same rate as the rich via sales tax. That's not true, and you know it. The poor end up taxed at a higher rate than the rich, because the rich fucking weasel their way out of paying taxes.

Now I wish to visit my sister in LA just so I could show this to her and annoy her on every car trip, “We can’t stop here! This is morgellons-country!”

The thing is, you CAN put someone on opioids for the rest of their life. It's just not societally acceptable. A close member of my family was a psychologist, and knew of many, many people who lived pretty normal, functional lives while totally hooked on all sorts of things.

I love it when people say psychological pain is not real. These people who suffer from this bizarre psychological disorder are no doubt in hell. It’s no less torturous than an actual physical malady.

I don’t doubt that people who’ve been diagnosed with fibromyalgia are experiencing physical symptoms, but every time I see a commercial for fibromyalgia specific drugs, (Lyrica, I think?) I hate our medical/pharmaceutical system even more. They want it to exist and be diagnosed purely for the revenue.

My aunt “has” Morgellons. I “had” something similar in 2010. I was obsessed with ingrown hairs, to the point that I believed I had almost twice as much hair as I actually had, but it was ‘trapped’ under the skin of my scalp and therefore I had to free it with my fingernails. I waxed all the skin off my chin because I…

Oh, jeez. As someone who has actually suffered through Lyme Disease (got bit by a tick in Connecticut, had the crazy bullseye rash and everything), I cannot stand those people.

“Some were also nerve fibers: in extreme cases of delusional parasitosis, patients will dig practically to the bone in a futile effort to stop the pain.”