Ideally lethal feminine form:

acknowledged, and reciprocated

… I attempted to write a serious answer to this but basically I got overwhelmed, waaay too complex to attempt to project … 60 years into the future.

So, instead:

‘Outlook cloudy, ask again later.’

Maybe this csn help you make up your own answer:

I am an ‘out of the labor force’ econometrician, not unemployed, out of the labor force, because I’ve been unemployed so long that I have realized that I am now unhireable in the field, and thus gave up trying to find a relevant job.

Would like to point out that I posted this yesterday, just without some text on top of the image, and it was removed as ‘not even remotely a meme’, despite many comments making other jokes on it.

So any image is a meme if it has a burned in caption, thank you .world mods for laying down the comedy laws with specificity and clarity.

You can do way more performance than that for not much more money, if you’re willing to try something unorthodox in a different way:

AOOSTAR Gem 12 Max Mini PC

$580 ($550 for Amazon simps)

CPU: Ryzen 7 8745HS ( 8C / 16T / base 3.8 Ghz / max 5.10 Ghz)

(approximately multi thread performance equivalent to a Ryzen 5 9600 AM5 socket)

RAM: 24 GB DDR5

SSD: 1TB

Power: Max draw 70w (on its own)

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GGB5L9P7/?psc=0

XFX RX 9070 OC (16 GB GDDR6)

$640

Power: ~220w

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DXLBTL4B/?psc=1

EG01 OCulink eGPU Dock

$100

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0G1STZM7H/?psc=1

ASRock PRO-650 G PSU

$50

Power: 650w (way more than what you need)

Gold Rated

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FSTL4VDZ/?psc=1

Total pretax cost: ~$1370

Cost %: +~17% compared to Playnix

50% more RAM, also its DDR5

100% more SSD capacity

GPU 3DBenchmark = +~60%

OCuLink is at worst gonna knock 5%-10% off of performance/fps, compared to similar hardware just connected directly via PCIe 16.

… should basically crush almost anything at 1440p, if you turn off RT when you want higher fps.

Or you can maybe find a cheaper 9070, or perhaps go with a 500w PSU, which is still more than enough, to lower that total cost a bit.

DREDD (2012)

The more modern Judge Dredd movie.

Mainly features Karl Urban’s chin, as Judge Dredd.

He never takes off the helmet. Before Hollywood had even discovered Pedro Pascal / Mando.

Its essentially a near perfect action movie.

Not really meaningful commentary on society, arguably is copaganda…

… but it is a very competent ‘dumb’ action movie, punctuated with extreme violence and one-liner quips, actually does have decent characters and even some character development!

I so very badly want this to be real.

sigh

Time to retrieve the nozzle.

Oh so we are mass producing punchable faces now eh?

Having just one wasn’t enough, Sam?

Hope the next molotov finds its mark.

Such as the Duggars.

And basically anyone in FLDS.

A whole bunch of people called out basically all the ‘text messages’ as obviously bullshit, when they were made public.

Because they don’t at all sound like two 20 something dorks talking to each other, they sound like a 45 yo cop, using cop lingo, and extremely overwrought language from baby’s first romance novel, to approximate a conversation that two 20 something dorks might have.

Yeah it was really weird that he said ‘the rumors that we did this are false’… before anyone prominent had actually… said that.

Extremely normal behavior.

It is comparable in the comparisons of the actual mechanics of the the shooting, and the subsequent government actions.

They’re both assasination stories with dubious ‘official stories’ that have tons of problems and holes with them, as well as significant evidence of the government doing a coverup.

And also, while you might not like to hear this, and trust me I don’t like saying it:

Charlie Kirk was really important to a lot of people.

He’s basically a canonized Saint/Martyr of the MAGA religion… millions of people really did, and still do, hold him in high regard.

We can think he was a shitty person who said and did shitty things… that doesn’t negate that a lot of similarly shitty people thought/think very highly of him.

They’re making monuments of him, naming streets after him.

A significant number of current day fascists… Ben Shapiro, Donald Trump, Steven Crowder…

They all wanted to be movie stars, script writers, actors, etc.

This is actually a broad trend, that some failed artists develop a megalomaniacal drive to ‘be respected’ in some kind of way, and that way is ‘being a fascist’.

Honestly, you can see the same broad authoritarian personality traits in a much larger subset of artists who basically cannot accept criticism… more often then not they just end up as lolcows, or that one insufferably snooty person you know.

The Boomers somehow think they are the strong men, while in reality they are the weak men that were created by the good times, aka the most anamalously prosperous sustained economic boom in the history of the planet.

(Well maybe possibly with the exception of what China has managed in the last ~40 years, but then we get into a very complex discussion)

At risk of playing too hard into the GenX trope: You should be more outspoken about this, and not allow yourself to be ignored.

Shut the fuck up Boomer.

Here’s how this is actually gonna work, at a broad social scale:

With some rare exceptions, the Boomers will sell their homes to pay for medical expenses, and die alone, in either old folks homes, hospitals, or much smaller homes/apartments, or if they’re very lucky, homeless or in a concentration camp for the homeless.

They’ll have to sell their homes because private equity/credit is imploding, and all their pensions and 401ks are ultimately based on that, even if they say they’re not.

And home prices are crashing because:

1 younger generations don’t get paid enough;

2 climate change costs are finally coming due via insurance now actually reflecting climate risks + outsized proportion of the last ~2 decades of new homes being built in high climate risk areas;

3 property tax rates are skyrocketing due to decades of local government mismanagement of budgets and infrastructure.

A fun fact that people do not like to acknowledge is that while yes, big Wall Street investors do largely set the tone and tenor of the housing market, the vast, vast majority of homes are owned by small time “mom and pop” landlords.

And the majority of existing home sales are Boomers selling homes to other Boomers.

They did this to themselves (and to everyone else), and the result will be that they impoverished their children while chastising them for being poor, enriched faceless corporations while claiming they hate them, destroyed the climate while claiming climate change isn’t real… all while claiming that everyone else is entitled, poorly informed about how the world works, and financially irresponsible.

The Truman Show has expanded to essentially the entire planet, following the proliferation of black box social media algorithms.

Before he died suddenly of an aneurysm, my former psychiatrist was fascinated with me.

“I’m not trapped in here with you, you’re trapped in here with me.”

May not be a smooth criminal, but I’m always thrilled to see 'em.