If no one can buy anything, or have any money, then inflation can’t happen.

His brain so big you can’t even see it.

When a 20 something that goes by Big Balls is in senior management, I wouldn’t be surprised if the remaining employees think you open doors with your face.

I don’t know if people will hit the banks.

Back on black Tuesday, most things were bought with cash.

Now everyone either uses debit or credit. I don’t think there will be the big of a demand for cash unless one of the big banks says it has run out.

I do think that the credit market might implode within 6 months, as many Americans will probably forgo paying their debt to buy food for the week, and the credit companies will not have the capacity to squeeze blood from that many stones at once.

If consumer credit crashes, then the consumer economy essentially collapses, as a huge chunk of the population essentially lives on a knife edge between their bank balance and credit limits.

I give it at least a month before this all really starts to go tits up.

Anyway, I’m gonna go buy some waterproof storage bins and about 500 pounds of rice and beans tomorrow, just because that’s my new hobby.

I spent a good chunk of this paycheck on car parts for my car and my wife’s.

Breaks, oil and air filters, enough for 3 years of maintenance.

Last month was parts for the furnace.

Most of the affordable stuff is made over seas.

If you can, I suggest also stocking up on repair materials. Parts are going to skyrocket in price very soon, and it’s going to become very expensive to even do regular maintenance on most mechanical equipment.

Reich 4.0

Everyone who isn’t a prick chooses work at other airlines.

The number of issues United has is indicative of severe cultural issues within the company. Toxic work culture drives good, compassionate employees away and leaves only the people who thrive in toxic environments.

That’s not what leaked means tho

How are you protecting them from insects, potential rodents, or water damage?

If the economy gets so bad that you need to dip into the basement rice, you very likely might not be able to get your sump pump fixed or keep out pests as well.

I have a week of emergency food, but it’s stuff my family will actually like to eat and is fairly nutritious. Beans and rice will only get you so far. And my emergency stash is in waterproof storage containers on a shelf. I just advise you to actually look into shelf stable foods you’ll enjoy eating and look into proper storage practices for food.

I can’t afford 4 years of canned goods for 3 people.

I’m just gonna set up a garden this spring and can 90% of it.

Oh to be so young that you don’t remember gay marriage being illegal

There’s been a pilot shortage for years.

So the FAA reduced the requirements for being a flight instructor. There were a bunch of shitty flight instructors which led to a lot of private pilot incidents.

I think we’re seeing the results of those shitty instructor’s students becoming commercial pilots at the same time that the seasoned pilots are leaving for retirement or cushy private roles for corporations and the wealthy.

So it’s mainly an experience thing. Most industries run on the experience of a small group that guides new workers until they’re experienced enough to keep things moving. This is what happens when there’s not enough seasoned workers to guide all of the new employees coming in. The same thing is happening in the trades, where a lot of industry knowledge is being poorly passed down due to all of the old guard retiring at the same time as their replacements are being hired. It’s anecdotal, but I’ve heard from friends who manage facilities departments at major hospitals that there’s a lot of barely running equipment because they’ve only got a handful of people, and only 1 or 2 experienced people, trying to maintain entire campuses.

Overworked, inexperienced employees will make mistakes. And unfortunately for them, they no longer have the opportunity to learn from experienced workers before they are thrust into critical roles.

Man, I hate when planes suddenly and randomly decide to swerve of their own accord.

Shame on this airport for not employing proper airplane trainers.

Said over the deafening sound of a billion solar starship blowing up in the lower atmosphere

It’s almost like the economy doesn’t account for most Americans.

Isn’t gitmo an incredibly small prison anyway?

There’s got to be millions of undocumented people, they’ll never fit in a little peninsula…

How can people not see where things are going

That’s why they bitch and moan about fake stuff.

It lets them downplay normal people who get upset at injustice, because their “injustice” was never resolved.

Evening that their injustice was entirely fabricated and never needed to be resolved.

I wish our president was just stupid and not incompetent and evil.

Stupid presidents would just do things like fund insane plans for moon colonies or undersea military bases because it’s cool.

Instead we have an incompetent old man who has been given a list of easy to follow steps for dismantling American democracy.

It was possible for the FBI to release a statement about Hillary’s emails a month before the election back in 2016.

Why isn’t it possible to release stuff in a rush now.

That’s always been the play.

Do heinous thing.

Say heinous thing is policy

Make sure policy never changes.

What bothers me admit space X, was they awarded a 3 billion dollar contract for Starship. They were awarded this by Kathy Lueders, and interim director at NASA, who reached out to only SpaceX and told them to drop their bid to get the contract. She, as an interim director, single handedly and I’d argue fraudulently awarded over 3 billion dollars to SpaceX. She then went on to retire from NASA six months later to take a job as manager of the SpaceX facility at Boca Chica.

Fraud and lies means we’re probably not going back to the moon. Just like how Tesla got so popular because they deceive investors with unachievable ranges on electric cars and the promise of full self driving cars.