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The Moon by Dark Moor

But hey, if it happened once, maybe we'll get to find some remains of another system to which this happened as well. Or maybe, someday, someone else will find ours. Or perhaps gravity is the only force keeping us from drifting off the surface of our rock, preventing us from falling into the darkest void for eternity, with the vain hope that your frozen corpse will someday land in someone else's yard, like a cosmic frisbee.

If your adversary is high tech, you must be proficient with low tech solutions.

-Sun Tzu, probably

We'll probably be seeing this in other places soon. They upload pictures of "Drones over X city in Y state!" that is clearly just an airplane, and do it a few dozen times. Now when there's real drone activity, when people search, the AI enhanced search engines will pull the most popular results, not the most current or accurate. Now the common consensus will be, "Oh, it's just another plane probably." Drones over cities become commonplace, and everyone is used to another layer of police state from clear blue skies.

I nisread, I thought you said "Not everyone in the US". My bad for the miscommunication.

True, some will be denied and will just rot, if they're fortunate enough to have insurance to deny them.

Why thank you, it took many edits to get it to the point where it was creepy but believable.

Can you imagine hitching your wagon to someone only to find out years later that they can't stay focused while under the effects of teargas?

What doesn't get spent on enjoying a retirement we will never get, will be claimed by medical bills from failing health. Generational wealth doesn't apply to us, and no one is coming to save you.

It says a lot about the strange people you meet online that, had I never responded, no one but me would truly know if this offhand comment actually came from a deranged stalker or just some drunk and bored idiot looking to do some light trolling.

No idea. I always tell them how nice I am, I always hold the door for them, and I even shower before we meet up. I've even going so far as to pick them up at their houses, they never seem to appreciate it. Some have reacted quite unexpectedly, slamming the door and yelling about police. I've learned to never show initiative and learn their address beforehand, as the effort is never reciprocated. Maybe if I was some knuckledragging douchebag, I'd get some of the attention I deserve.

I don't believe in heaven, but people like this make me hope hell is real.

Not the treats!!

I appreciate you taking the time to reply, and I'm glad not every company is as bad as they possibly could be, but this is going to be a trend.

Be it inflation, or supply line issues, or sanctions, they drum up an excuse to raise prices, and they won't come back down. Based on what you're saying, maybe Costco will come back down, but gas and groceries in other stores will be more hesitant.

I bet even Netflix will use tariffs as an excuse to raise prices somehow. We need collective action, a general strike.

I recommend you read up on the Tragedy Of The Commons, it will make you realize how it feels to be a blade of grass.

I'm well aware of their roles in this, and the improbability of anything changing. Unrelated, I would ask for a blue dragon for their lightning breath.

Just another excuse to wildly raise prices, probably far above the rate of the tariff increase.

Perhaps, instead of passing the full brunt of the costs onto the customers, maybe the executives and shareholders take home less profit? Maybe take a financial hit to easy the cost of living burden on the commoners?

Or maybe starve the people out, and see how many people start playing Luigi's Mansion.

Other commenters are saying this is a good thing, and that this will eventually make thinga better, but lots of people will suffer in the interim, and somehow find this line of thinking acceptable. The oligarchs could ease the plight of the commoners now, they could simply take less profit so families don't have to, they could pass laws now, but they don't.

They could just have easily said, "A Costco executive warned shareholders that potential loss in profits could be a result of President-elect Donald Trump's proposed tariffs."

The other commenters are correct, however, many more will suffer. This is all only going to get worse for us.

A man stumbles into a kitchen, bouncing against the fridge, knocking most of the magnets and art to the ground. He throws open the door, and pulls out a silver can. He cracks the lid and a spray of foam dashes against the blinds over the sink. He wanders a few steps and kicks the fridge door closed, while halfway draining the can in one draft. A young boy is eating cereal at the counter, dressed for school.

"Dad, are you seriously this drunk this early? This is exactly why mom doesn't come home anymore."

"It's 5 o'clock somewhere!"

The boy grips his spoon hard enough to bend it in one hand, as he eyes a shattered clock slumped against the wall in the corner, it's bent arms forever indicating a time when the fragile peace of a household became just as fractured.

"Not anymore, dad."

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