MystikIncarnate

I should rephrase.

Instead of "massively overpriced" I should have said "way outside of everyone's budget"

Still overpriced, but the cost is low enough to actually afford it.

I agree.

Everything needs to rise IMO. Except for the highest levels of management.

My job in 2016 paid 90% of what I make now. Inflation in that time has been around 25%, and I've only increased around 10%...

Minimum wage is far worse, I know this, but just because minimum wage needs to increase doesn't and shouldn't imply other areas don't also need to be increased.

I'm in a more senior position, and I've changed jobs at least three times to get where I am now. If minimum goes up, I won't be angry about it, but I will be left wondering why I'm not also getting more.

Companies need workers and wages have been stagnant, and plenty of working people who used to be middle class, are now homeless, despite still being employed.

The whole situation is fucked and the only people profiting out of everything are the wage theives at the top and their shareholder friends.

It humors me that we're making the housing market so unaffordable that "tiny homes" are a thing. They're smaller than ever and it's literally the only thing that's not massively overpriced.

I thought that's what condos were supposed to be. Somewhere between apartment living and a full house (townhouse/semi-detached/fully detached).... Do people really care that much about having a lawn?

I almost thought this was going a different way. I'm happy to be wrong.

I imagine some capitalist, right-wing fucker is screaming at their screen going "nu-uhhh" and furiously typing that you're wrong despite having done zero research.

I'm employed, and I live like I'm in poverty. As much as I want to lift up the homeless, I would also appreciate fair wages for the employed.

Since rent/housing has gone insane, I'm having a hard time making things work on the money I'm making. I'm well over the "poverty" line and I can't afford to put fuel in my car and buy name brand products, even if I wanted to. Products like.... Idk, Campbell's.

How dare these people wanting to improve the life of the poors by giving them handouts. For shame.

*I'm a "poor" and I approve this sarcasm.

So ... People who have billions of dollars sitting around doing jack and shit, are ruining the economy?

That actually checks out.

I'm not going to disagree with you. I just want to point out that if they manage to get their offspring infected when they also contract something... They have a chance of winning a Darwin award...

I'm not saying any of that is a good thing.

I agree with the idea of bodily autonomy. Above all, someone should have the right to do, or not do, whatever they want with their own person.

Whether that is to listen to doctors advice, buy pharmaceuticals and self-administer as prescribed, or even end your own life, and everything in between.

Quick disclaimer, suicide should still be evaluated by a psychiatric professional, and simply being suicidal shouldn't necessarily mean that nobody can, or should stop you from committing that act. I'm mostly referring to medically assisted self termination, after the appropriate safeguards, checks, and balances have been cleared. Simply wanting to off yourself without being cleared as having sound mind should be something we, as a society, should address carefully, with the assistance of mental health professionals.

With all that being said: I probably would DIY some pharmaceuticals. Anything that's an opiate or other restricted substance, definitely not. But if I can buy the ingredients without needing a special permit or license, I definitely would.

I try to avoid banks. They generally don't make my life easier.

Edit: I'll add that, if tellers direct everyone to the ATM, so much so that the ATM is the only thing people use, then tellers won't be needed anymore. Thus unemployed.

Short story: when I was working grocery, at the tail end of my tenure was the start of the self-service checkout. The boss wanted us to encourage people to use self service checkouts. Nobody did, for obvious reasons.

Definitely menus.

Most of the run/gun aspects are very similar regardless of which Borderlands game you're playing.

BL3 was by far the best for menus. Not perfect, but a lot less cumbersome than the previous games.

I want to go back and play through the whole series again, but the nuances of the older games that were fixed in the more recent games always throws me.

I play on PC and it's very very obvious that kb/mouse was an afterthought for some of the games.... I just hate doing fps with a joystick/thumbstick.

Either way, I've redeemed this for all of my copies of Borderlands. So the next time I log in, I should have golden keys for days.

The movie, that came out like, a month ago?

I was always planning to watch it when it went to streaming/home video kind of release. I rarely go to the theatre anymore.

I'm also waiting on the same for the new Deadpool + Wolverine movie....

Considering the little I've heard about it so far (trying to avoid spoilers), it seems like I should skip the Borderlands movie, but I'll probably still watch it.