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Now we just need a robot PETA to protest the fighting between the Chinese and US robo dogs.

 

what if it returns to the human to fetch another clip?

 

I say we just skip the warfare all together and have countries settle their differences BattleBots style. Maybe instead of 1v1 you just up it to a royal rumble style with both sides fielding entire armies of droids and robots. Gonna take out a chinese army dog with Tombstone

 

Just sitting here giggling at "those horses are praying to Mecca" lol

 

I chuckled as well, reading that while eating my pasta

 

I used to work at a restaurant by a Lockheed Martin office and I had to serve large groups of them during happy hour at least once a week. Like 20-50 people easily

 

I mean I would go binge drink to avoid looking my family in the face if I worked there so I get it

 

Cortana in my ear trying to help me get laid

 

@David87

 

And what, pray tell, will they use to help them Love Sounds?

 

Truly incredible

 

Would he say that there were…good people on both sides?

 

when he says no one is working two jobs I GUARANTEE you he isn’t including people who uber, doordash, instacart, or do any other kind of gig work on the side

 

Bottom earners have done much better than top earners??

 

He lives in a completely different reality

 

Also don’t look up heads are so back Adam McKay is awesome again

 

Dude must be living on a different planet

or lying on purpose

 

*sigh* @David87 get the graphs

 

Oh man this girl is totally into me... Time to seal the deal by telling her how long ago 1919 was.

 

These guys realize that the whole fucking point of Roxanne (and Cyrano de Bergerac before it) is that it is better to be true to yourself and not speak with someone else's words, right?

 

correct!

Fastest wage growth over the last four years among historically disadvantaged groups: Low-wage workers’ wages surged after decades of slow growth

Real wages (aka those adjusted for inflation) have risen most at the bottom end of wage/income brackets. It’s been middle and upper income people whose wages have stagnated out thanks to inflation the last few years. This is shown in many different groups and govt orgs data. As the study says, pointing this out doesn’t equate to saying poor people are fine, as they’ve never been fine. It’s simply pointing out that the inflation that plagued the U.S. economy in late 2021-2022 didn’t hit poorer folks as hard as it did richer folks on average.
Of course housing ownership has become more expensive thanks to Fed interest rate hikes and credit isn’t as cheap anymore, but anyone who likes left wing fiscal policy would be wise to emphasize that that is a different story from Biden’s fiscal policies and the causes for inflation if they’d like more big expansionary fiscal policy to get passed during the next recession. Because right now what politicians are learning is it doesn’t matter if you pass policies that do big spending during downturns to help out poor people, if any inflation occurs people will blame those policies and you’ll get punished for it. Which means the next recession’s recovery will look more like post-2009 where all the wage gains are at the top and unemployment lingers longer. Americans are sending a message that they prefer that to higher prices and better relief for lower income folks. Not good.

it is a pretty underrated sorry how much the wage gaps between certain demos reversed, imo. They’ve been trying to do that for years.

 

He yada yada'd the genocide.

 

I believe the amount of people with two jobs is roughly 5%, which would be like what, 8.5 million people? That’s probably about right.

edit-ayyye, nailed it. Or, close enough.
8.7 Million Americans Now Work Two Jobs To Make Ends Meet Despite Inflation Continuing To Cool

More Americans have two jobs or more, a sign of inflation's burden