"I hate
when big tech
must monitor my body
during the simple act of buying groceries."

but it's all For Your OWN Good.
smile! it's just Capitalism.

Thee Market SHALL
Decide. we just
getta Concur.

[ALEXA & I
both LOVE them
new Undies btw!]

@1 yes when I think of strength the first thing I think of is elderly people being forced to work. Why stop at 64? Or 67? We need to grind every last piece of humanity out of everyone, all for the almighty dollar.

At least you're consistent I guess. Your shillery for objectively shitty things doesn't end at the domestic level.

@4 except Amazon announced they were forcing their employees back downtown 3x a week starting in May, and boy have they DOUBLED DOWN on that statement, climate pledge and unbearable traffic be damned.

"AWP, which Seattle hosted at the new convention center last week, brought in an estimated $15 million for the city."

Great! Now we only need another $1.985 billion to pay for the recent expansion.

that sounds way too woke.

@8 62 is not elderly, at least not anymore.

This issue is only going to get worse for not only France but other countries as well. With populations now declining in most first world nations there simply will not be the tax base to support the social net for the aging populations. It's a math equation. So you either have to tax younger folks more which puts them in a bind and precludes them from starting their own families or you have to ask the older generations to accept less, either by taking a lower pension or delaying payments. The next few decades are going to be tough until we can reach a new population equilibrium or find a way to reduce the costs of caring for those who are growing older.

"... or you have to ask the
older generations to
accept less... "
@18

if you're speaking
of Social Security

or,
you raze the Cap
BUT it'd be Okay to
Reduce -- not Eliminate!
as Incomes progress. other
than all those Nice Tax Dodges*
which need deep Scrutiny -- via the Citizenry

will it go Far enough?
I dunno but it beats
the CRAP outta
a Puny little
$169K cap.

*Exceedingly
LEGAL (and Brought
to US! by you know Whom)

There is always infinite money for destruction. Spending is only a concern when it comes helping people.

Idea for Play Date: local community bands. I belong to one: the Ballard Sedentary Sousa Band. We play music from the golden era of marches, sitting down. Our season is from March to November, and we play concerts at different venues, including the Ballard Locks and Folklife. We do an annual concert for Sousa's birthday, around Nov. 6, at Kenyon Hall in West Seattle. Our website: https://sedentarysousa.com/

21: “There is always infinite money for destruction. Spending is only a concern when it comes helping people.”

Well, considering France is spending less than 2% GDP on defense and around 30% GDP on social spending, I don’t think defense spending is the issue there.

WTF BNSF and YouTube??! Obviously Big $$$$$$$$$$ at public expense no matter what is the only concern with the wealthy and corrupt. The Orange Turd should be banned from EVERYTHING! A train derailment near Anacortes hits way too close to home. I hope the Swinomish Tribe sues the shit out of Burlington Northern Sante Fe and wins, hitting the profiteering KKKorporation$ in the pocketbook where it hurts. Losing their ill-gotten billion$ is the only way they'll see reason.

@3 kristofarian and @5 Yeshua: I guess I'm among the lucky ones. Amazon, MAGAts, RWNJs, SCROTUS, and other rape-minded sociopaths can't screw around with a uterus, ovaries, or Fallopian tubes I thankfully no longer have.
Griz is gonna have to have another "Regan [MacNeil] / Carrie [White]" party tonight!
Bring on the red wine, popcorn, dark chocolate with almonds and sea salt, baybee!

@27: And I proudly wore my pink pussy hat, too!

"I hate
when big tech
must monitor my body
during the simple act of buying groceries."

Is your opinion really necessary? I’m not interested. Anyone who has ever been in an Amazon Go should see the ceiling packed with sensors that track your shopping, duh! It’s not magic, lol. I don’t work for Amazon or any tech company. The sensors track which bodies take products, and you associate your body with your Amazon account when you enter, enabling their high-tech shopping experience. All that computing power is why their prices are so much higher than Safeway or Fred Meyer.

"All that
computing
power is why
their prices are
so much higher than
Safeway or Fred Meyer."

relax. it's
just a Tech Tax.

'sensors'?
whom needs
stupid 'sensors'?

Get the fucking
Chip bitches*
& Never car-
ry stupid
Money
again.

*like Fido's
only with ALL
your Information

[Unsure if you're
Ovulating? ask
ALEXA -- she
Cannot lie.]

speaking of lowlifes
Bottomfeeders &
trumpfsters

Trump Says
His Arrest Is Imminent
and Calls for Protests, Echoing Jan. 6

With former President Donald J. Trump facing indictment by a Manhattan grand jury but the timing of the charges uncertain, he declared on his social media site that he would be arrested on Tuesday and demanded that his supporters protest on his behalf.

Mr. Trump made the declaration on his site, Truth Social, at 7:26 a.m. on Saturday in a post that ended with, “THE FAR & AWAY LEADING REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE AND FORMER PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, WILL BE ARRESTED ON TUESDAY OF NEXT WEEK. PROTEST, TAKE OUR NATION BACK!”

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/18/us/politics/trump-indictment-arrest-protests.html

as per Usual
thee Perfect Victim's
talking outta his arse which
Actually slightly Improves his breath

@33 totally agree with you. Having a DA file charges on a misdemeanor when he regularly refuses to file charges against people who are robbing bodega owners or assaulting random pedestrians reeks of hypocrisy and lends credence that this is all politically motivated. I'd love to see Trump convicted and unable to run in 2024 but this is playing right into his hands and making the Progressives look scared.

they won't wriggle
outta their words
if the comment's
History is handy.

let us EDIT but
Background
the Original

@44: Thank heavens I have no use for Amazon, Alexa or Siri and never will. The Tech Age and Err of the Orange Turd will be the death of us all.

@44 See my comments @27 & @28 raindrop, dear.
I went outside for another walk today and let my pink pussy hat speak for itself.

@35 kristofarian: At this point, the Orange Turd is so mentally deranged and paranoid schizophrenic it's acting like Napoleon Bonaparte in his last days in exile on the island of St. Helena. I predict it'll be one last pathetic MAGAt soap opera "As Mal-a-Tardo Burns". Either that or the Orange Turd gets swallowed and crapped out whole by either an alligator or a Great White Shark as the RepubliKKKan neofascist blood red state of confusion that is Flor-i-Dumb sinks permanently into the Gulf of Mexico and the Atlantic Ocean. Wouldn't it be rather fun if it were both?
I'll be stocking up on red wine, dark chocolate with almonds and sea salt, and popcorn when it does.
Said Gentleman Gene Wilder, as world renowned candyman Willy Wonka, in 1971:
"The suspense is terrible. I hope it will last."