As someone who owns a vehicle, I feel more like I've escaped the matrix when on public transportation than when I'm driving. I still have to have a car to get places public transit won't go, but I always look forward to the completion of each new station, one more area I don't have to drive to.
I think we and our closest relatives are the weird ones. If I remember right, most species of animal can reproduce until they die, and many die after reproducing. We kinda complicated things not just by looking after our children but also their children too.
It's an obvious farce from the beginning with a direct reference to the violence of the J6 insurrection. It would have been a lot harder to make it any more transparent without just ham-fistedly commenting, "J6 bad. Violence justified." I'm definitely not asking for a pass. I stand by what I wrote. It seems we have different interpretations of its meaning.
I don't know that we should be advocating for violence here. If we do that, we may find our opponents responding by doing the same, resulting in a positive feedback loop of escalation. I mean it's not like they [checks notes] carefully planned and organized a rally based on an extremely inflammatory lie, riled up the attendees, told them to fight, sent them to the Capitol Building resulting in an angry mob that stormed the Capitol while actively calling for the deaths of the VP and several members of Congress, killing some people and vandalizing the offices of Congress...oh, no. Well, at least they weren't pardoned for their flagrant, violent insurrection...oh, no. You know what? Just disregard my earlier comments. Carry on.
Also, I don't think it's possible to recover from metastatic prostate cancer. As I understand it, treatment just delays things, but there isn't a cure.
On a side note, paying to work is one small step toward acclimating to the oncoming technofeudalist dystopia.
"All of our entry-level positions are internships. It's $300 per job application, $1,000 per interview, and if you're lucky enough to land the job, you'll pay us $40 per hour for the experience. A small number of the highest-performing interns (and legacy hires, of course) will be offered a full-time position with a hiring bonus equal to their internship costs and a salary based on the contributions of the interns working for them."
Overall or per capita?