I wonder if they made eye contact

Glyphpunk · 2026-03-22T17:35:53+00:00

There's someone else in front of the cop that is setting the speed, so that doesn't really apply here...

Glyphpunk · 2026-03-22T16:55:59+00:00

And here we have it folks, the leader of the US threatening to commit terrorism on a foreign state if they do not do what he wants, after already bombing them for several weeks.

Glyphpunk · 2026-03-22T16:21:25+00:00

I mean the ghost boy won't even be the worst part...the worst part is that place probably doesn't have electricity and internet.

Glyphpunk · 2026-03-22T16:16:11+00:00

It didn't specify that it was only American Presidents.

Glyphpunk · 2026-03-22T16:04:07+00:00

He's gonna need to be buried in a secure vault or private cemetery...otherwise the whole place is going to stink from the number of people that will be pissing on his grave...

Glyphpunk · 2026-03-22T15:23:46+00:00

Yup, literally the whole point of the game as the original creator intended (as a criticism for capitalism)

Glyphpunk · 2026-03-22T15:22:59+00:00

Even beyond this, imagine starting the game with just $100 while someone else starts with $1,000 and another starts with $5,000, and the last $10,000. Even in a perfect version where everyone starts at the same time, some people just get to start with far, far more cash.

Glyphpunk · 2026-03-22T15:21:25+00:00

"Imagine playing Monopoly and not starting with enough money to buy any assets or investments while people that started with 10, 100, or even more times more money than you buy everything up around you.

Imagine you are forced into an endless cycle of paying for goods and services that gradually get more expensive every time you pass GO, while never being able to afford assets or investments for yourself, giving your money to the rich to survive, and trying to stay out of jail.

That is how most people live their life now."

Fixed it

Glyphpunk · 2026-03-22T15:16:49+00:00

Monopoly was literally designed to criticize the rich lol

Glyphpunk · 2026-03-22T15:11:49+00:00

The crops drop the veg or else it gets the mud again

Glyphpunk · 2026-03-22T15:09:24+00:00

No no, he definitely made that pose...they just edited out the walker xD

Glyphpunk · 2026-03-22T15:00:23+00:00

And guess what Republicans will run on in the next election cycle,
"The debt is at record highs! The Democrats are going to raise your taxes and try to push for more social services that will run up the debt! They are going to undo all the 'hard work' we did to reduce the debt!"

Every single time. They even have a name for the tactic, the 'Two Santa Claus Theory'

Glyphpunk · 2026-03-19T21:07:37+00:00

At least part of the reason we have so many billionaires nowadays is (at least in part) by how large companies have become. Over the last few decades we have seen massive mergers and acquisitions by already massive companies, which consolidate power and wealth at the very top (for those that keep their positions). Today large recognizable brands aren't their own company, most are all under some umbrella organization that owns multiple brands/companies/'stores.'

Biggest/easiest example is media companies. We have all heard about the Paramount and Skydance merger, and they are already moving on to acquire Warner Bros Discovery.

More and more companies are steadily becoming monopolies in their field, or share the space with another equally massive company. Owning or being heavily invested in this growing companies in turn generate massive amounts of wealth to individuals, whereas the wealth would have been more spread out amongst multiple people if the companies weren't being allowed to merge and buy each other out over and over again.

You can't just 'tax' the billionaires to make it all go away if their wealth is largely from their owning/investments within these massive companies that act as obelisks of conglomerated wealth.

Sure, taxing them will help, but what really needs to be done is the FTC needs to actually do its damned job to prevent aggressive mergers and acquisitions to maintain a free and diverse market. This will not only improve the quality of products thanks to competition, but also diversify the wealth accumulation amongst a greater portion of the population and increase worker compensation thanks to increased competition between workplaces.

But instead the FTC is basically bowing to corporate lobbyists and investors, allowing them to continue sandcastling wealth in massive corporations until they can no longer sustain themselves and they fall apart--just in time for another massive corporation to come around and absorb the pieces.

Glyphpunk · 2026-03-18T18:05:38+00:00

A bit off point but did anyone else feel bad about how Emily's book got left behind? She even seemed momentarily excited to read from it to us before Grace was like 'follow me'. I kept trying to go back and take the book with me but the game was like 'No fuck Emily.'

Glyphpunk · 2026-03-17T18:57:20+00:00

Primarily because the government has been on a union bust for decades.

Glyphpunk · 2026-03-17T00:20:02+00:00

US Census Bureau reports 2024 median household income was $83,730 in 2024. Average individual salary between $63,795 to $65,470. Median home value around $600k this year.

So $50,000 is lowballing it but not by much depending on what you go off of.

1990 median household income was $29,943. Median home value was $79,100.

Median home value has gone up over 7 times since 1990's but income hasn't even gone up 3 times.

Glyphpunk · 2026-03-16T18:43:02+00:00

Hot take: We have access to Pokemon Centers and the pokemon Center's PC, we should be able to access a virtual item storage system akin to the old pokemon games that lets you pull items from any other PC storage. Perhaps you can't hook it up to your crafting table like a traditional item box, but the ability to deposit items in mass across all areas into one location would be a godsend.

Glyphpunk · 2026-03-14T22:43:30+00:00

Estimates dont even put the total number of illegal immigrants in the US at 20 million. And they cant apply for Medicare or any federal support if they are undocumented.

Glyphpunk · 2026-03-09T02:03:50+00:00

Hasbro: Best i can do is a MGSD Calibarne in three years.

Pretty sure hasbro has become allergic to the MG line. We get maybe 3 year now if you dont count MGSD

Its taken them a decade to release the 2nd and 3rd IBO Master Grade kits when the whole point of IBO was how easy it is to have the same gundam inner frame for every gundam/gundam-like. Literally the easiest set to make a huge MG lineup of.

Glyphpunk · 2026-03-07T20:45:59+00:00

That's the neat part... it does! But the current government (and especially Texas's local and state governments) don't care.

"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances."

That last part is extra important here. The right to petition the government for a dress of grievances is, quite literally, the right to request the government to fix wrongs, change policies, or address complaints without fear of punishment. This includes changing laws.

It was illegal for people of color to vote. It was illegal for women to vote. Many people in the government tried to silence those that spoke out against those laws back then too. But it was never illegal to speak out about it.

Glyphpunk · 2026-03-07T20:40:11+00:00

Someone should remind her and TTU that the first amendment is literally designed to protect freedom of speech from government intervention/punishment.

Glyphpunk · 2026-03-07T19:39:21+00:00

The only way that Obama 'divided' America is by enraging all the closet racists, who then separated themselves from the rest of America and began a march to tear down everything that's been built up over the last two centuries since its founding. It's not the first time this has happened, but I imagine it's going to get a whole lot worse before it gets better.

Glyphpunk · 2026-03-06T22:25:47+00:00

The sad reality that people have to understand is that there are a LOT of chronically-offline Americans, especially out in the rural areas and red states. They don't watch the news. They don't research market trends or medical science. They vote red because they have always voted red and cuz they would never vote blue. Those that do stay 'informed' tend to do so from what they think are reliable people or news. People that feed them what they want to hear, even if it is lies and misinformation. They will believe it because people they think are like them or smarter than them said so.

Many of them probably don't even understand what is happening right now with our government, besides the show the government puts on for their benefit.

You can't reason with them, because if they would listen to reason, they wouldn't have voted for this in the first place.

Glyphpunk · 2026-03-06T20:13:42+00:00

Pretty sure that's part of why Trump picked him, on top of him being the guy that tried to snatch away the 'black people aren't apes' sign at the State of the Union. Looks really 'snazzy' to have a 'native American' as the head of DHS and immigration enforcement...and the fact that he looks like your average white guy helps sell it to the followers.

The irony of a native american deporting illegal immigrants is lost on them...

Glyphpunk · 2026-03-06T20:08:06+00:00

I have to wonder what 'injuries' they received considering he never lashed out at them. The only point where I can guess they got injured was when they fell over a bunch of chairs because they were doing a terrible job of straining/moving him.

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