When it's time for money: COMPANIES ARE PEOPLE TOO!
When it's time for punishment: but you can't hold a company responsible, it's not just one person.
"the mods who freely give their time to a bootlicking, greedy shithole of a company are also bootlickers! Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaat?" -u/Mboomo
Turns out "market forces" was just the heavy metal poisoning talking, they were just hallucinating magical economics.
Lead in gasoline and household products really fucked with some generations, hard.
I threw this together in 2 minutes: 
spoilers
Salamander on Anaximander
I imagine
With the internet ,you don't have to!
It's basically a wall you shoot over, and if you can shoot over the wall, the round doesn't have the ballistic trajectory to fall into the road.
There are three things you don't mess with
Mother nature
Mother in laws
And my mother fucking money
No pay, no work.
I hate most scarves. Mass produced ones are terrible.
Someone knit me a scarf out of merino wool, and it was super duper soft, didn't fuzz up, and was one big möbius strip.
My guess?
Lit room: lots of things scattered around, colors, visual noise, over stimulating
Dark room: dark, not very visible, less/no noise, not (necessarily as) overstimulating
anecdote
The most relaxed I have ever been was in the middle of a huge snowstorm the wind died down and the flakes were huge, I couldn't hear anything, it was after sunset so once the flashlight was off it was pitch black, and with my coveralls, hoodie, thick coat, gloves and scarf I was warm and couldn't really feel much of the outside. I just laid down for about 40ish minutes, occasionally seeing the dim spot of headlights from a passing car. Similar concept, dark and quiet, muted external stimuli.
I mean, after a certain point, yes.
Two frogs sit in a pot of water, one turns to the other and says "were on a fire, we should leave before the water boils"
The second frog turns to the first and says "you're being alarmist, things aren't that bad."
This sounds like the second frog.^‡^
It might be the more practical choice to keep backing away and keeping yourself and the people you care about out of the spotlight as long as possible, it's certainly the safer choice and one that probably leads to a longer life...
You are certainly more optimistic about the future of the country than I am. I train because honestly I find it a little fun, competing with my own best times on various drills and courses. I also in recent years have come to train even harder and begun introducing LGBT friends to firearms, because I believe the country is headed toward civil war.
I'm not inviting my LGBT work friends to my range because I want them to attack ICE. I invite them and encourage them to buy their own firearm and train for self defense because I have literally heard other coworkers say, out loud to be met with nods and agreements, "any day now they'll let us loose and I can go killin all them fs and tr***s (slurs for LGBT people)" and no end of bullshit about how "mentally ill" and "unstable" they supposedly are.
Besides, if my choices are "concentration camp v0.95" and "best case scenario being on the run after a shootout with the gestappo" then I know which choice I'm making.
You definitely have way more faith in our (metaphorical) neighbors and the system than I do. That probably a good thing, I'm a depressed pessimist with tons of anxiety about the state of the world. If more people were like me we would be like 10 years into a Civil War already or worse.
^‡^(frogs don't actually sit in blowly heating water as certain movies like to say, they still will leave at some point when it gets uncomfortable)
I'm not bi but I like frogs...
So.... I have nothing here. I'm at a ~~:.|:;~~
My state surprised me during covid.
It's not surprising me now...
They aren't around anymore as of this morning, but they liked the hoodie and hat and I thought someone might like to see two doggos.
They were both good girls and I miss them.
I propose taking that 1k, measuring against the average income of anyone who makes under 1M, and use that percentage of cost of living to fine the company appropriately.
Example: 1k fine for someone who makes 10k/yr, that 1k is 10% of their yearly income, whereas a company that makes 10,000,000,000/yr, that's only 0.0001%