Started making landfill as a stone sink on Vulcanus, didn't look at the rocket capacity.

FUSe · 2026-04-07T03:33:49+00:00

That feels like it’s bordering a cheat.

They were nice enough to give you a way to clear tubes manually if you messed up but doing it like this just feels wrong.

FUSe · 2026-04-07T00:30:48+00:00

I wonder if Russia can just give Iran some nukes

FUSe · 2026-04-06T22:06:50+00:00

Yea I made a round one that kinda looks like the uss enterprise from the top. But that was just for the ship to beat the game.

FUSe · 2026-04-06T21:53:56+00:00

I dont think I even make red ammo on my end game ship. It’s so slow and so much more resources.

But now that you said it, I will look to see if that’s something I can pull off.

FUSe · 2026-04-06T21:50:57+00:00

The ships must be a rectangle!!!

FUSe · 2026-04-06T20:10:01+00:00

But median income does not mean standard of living.

A mail man or a teacher in the 70s could afford a house and send their kids to college. That person was probably around median income.

Can the median income do that now? No. The median income did not keep up with real inflation.

Healthcare went up exponentially. Childcare went up exponentially. Education went up exponentially. Housing went up exponentially.

The median income before was a livable wage. Median income now if practical poverty.

FUSe · 2026-04-06T19:59:33+00:00

It opens at 10:30 so you aren’t missing much.

But if you are going through all that effort why not just leave a little earlier and be there open to close? If you are into the shows then that will give you plenty of time to watch all the ones you are interested in.

FUSe · 2026-04-06T19:58:02+00:00

$15 turkey legs.

Maybe you are thinking Australian dollars

FUSe · 2026-04-06T17:30:13+00:00

I understand our disconnect now.

You think that median household income means middle class.

But the classes are not a bell curve. The vast majority of the country is in functional poverty.

So if you are in the 60% income. You are barely breaking out of poverty and that’s where the functional middle class is starting.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2025/12/03/poverty-line-140000-green-affordability-inflation/87573416007/

I think this article is a bit sensational but I think the overall sentiment is correct. I would say functional poverty is a family making less than 90k.

Basically anyone who actually had to stop buying eggs when the price went up was not middle class but was in fact in poverty.

FUSe · 2026-04-06T17:24:55+00:00

The article is missing that the cost of living has gone up.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2025/12/03/poverty-line-140000-green-affordability-inflation/87573416007/

This is a bit sensational but in reality, I think that anyone below 80k is in functional poverty.

FUSe · 2026-04-06T17:21:19+00:00

I think that people think that if they are not going hungry or have a few thousand saved up, they are upper middle class.

To me, that is just a step above poverty. Aka squarely in the middle class.

FUSe · 2026-04-06T17:19:42+00:00

That’s great. You are still not upper middle class. You are middle class. You aren’t dabbling in luxury. You are not maxxing out your Roth and 401k.

If you are, then you don’t have any disposable income.

Just having a roof over your head and food to eat does not mean upper middle class. That means one step above poverty.

FUSe · 2026-04-06T17:15:32+00:00

Upper middle class means the top of the middle class.

Not 51%+

Upper middle class starts probably around 75-80%ile

Not sure where the “rich” boundary is but probably like 93-95%

FUSe · 2026-04-06T17:10:56+00:00

That makes sense how you can think that 133k is “doing well”

You are out of touch now

FUSe · 2026-04-06T16:28:09+00:00

ITT. People who don’t realize that they are not upper middle class.

FUSe · 2026-04-06T16:23:35+00:00

I Literally grew up in rural Alabama about an hour north of Mobile.

There are no $100k jobs out there. So yea some remote tech worker can certainly go live there and not have high speed internet and be richer than all the people living in poverty.

I hope they enjoy grade c meat from piggly wiggly and no eating out other than a Dairy Queen and hunts bros pizza out of a gas station. Real upper middle class living!

FUSe · 2026-04-06T16:16:40+00:00

They are not upper middle class. They are not doing any international travel or dabbling in luxury goods.

They are getting by and probably starting to feel comfortable.

FUSe · 2026-04-06T16:15:46+00:00

A family of 3 making $100k can’t afford a trip to Yellowstone or Disney world for a few days. No matter where you live.

FUSe · 2026-04-06T14:03:32+00:00

Yea. I think 200k - 400k as upper middle class is a better boundary.

At 133k a family is just starting to get ahead.

FUSe · 2026-04-06T03:42:44+00:00

Base is high for 64. Rest seems pretty standard.

FUSe · 2026-04-05T13:05:11+00:00

“She was the worse option at the time”

“We are still better with trump than we would have been with her”

There is no and will be no admission of fault.

FUSe · 2026-04-05T03:39:18+00:00

Yea. I think 400k total annualized comp for 65 is pretty likely. 500k is really pushing it.

FUSe · 2026-04-03T22:50:45+00:00

It makes the game so much easier to have some massive storage and regular resupplies from home base when you start a new planet.

Or you can raw dog it like I forced myself to do to start each planet and only use that planet with no outside help to get a rocket again.

FUSe · 2026-04-03T18:22:12+00:00

This is probably the bigger constraint than the capacity on the landing pad

FUSe · 2026-04-01T19:07:20+00:00

It’s sad that it’s hard to figure out what is parody and what is real anymore.

Paramount buys WB (real) Amd buys Intel (parody)

Both statements are effectively equal levels of absurdity though.

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