Also, If I understand it correctly it’s also called this because caulking requires jamming pitch soaked rope into the joints so it’s still about rope!

Paid : give money for

Payed: nautical term meaning to let out some slack on the rope or to cover the deck in tar/pitch for sealing it

Yes. We are subsidizing the wealthiest corporations in the world to underpay their workers and then we’re subsidizing those workers to pay full retail price for the food that we are subsidizing farmers to produce. Yet no one who works for a living is making any money.

Farmers aren’t making any money, retail workers aren’t making any money, train workers aren’t making any money, truck drivers aren’t making any money, but Walmart, Monsanto and Union Pacific are doing fantastic.

It doesn’t dictate how they grow the food but the number one recipient of those dollars are the owners of retail food sellers and the biggest of these are companies like Walmart.

Kind of yea.

Within snap are some programs (like food stamps) that are another way to funnel government money to private business while using the very real needs people have to excuse the tremendous graft inherent in having the government pay retail price for store goods that it already subsidized the production and transportation of.

There are much more efficient ways to get people food and we used to actually do it but alas there is more money to be captured this way so no more government cheese or federally organized food transportation logistics. …and don’t you dare talk about strategic reserves, stock rotation or paying farmers to dispose of “excess” production…

Putting a million people in space would require ten of thousand of launches if they were Boeing 737s carrying the people.

Housing a million people in space would require technology that won’t exist in 20 years let alone in time to have it built in 20 years.

This kind of shit is just so fucking stupid.

It takes them 2 years to build an Amazon warehouse in fucking Michigan. We’re supposed to believe they’re going to build space stations to support a million people in 20 years?

Who is this stupid? Who believes this shit?

People will lose their jobs to AI in the same way that lumberjacks lose their job to forest fires.