u/Asafum

I don't like to be too specific with what I do, I'll just say we're more Gucci than Garmin. Our products are "luxury" and apparently the competition isn't really competition.

But who knows, maybe there is another one out there that is gaining popularity. I don't really pay attention to that market other than what my job entails. Lord knows I can't afford even our cheapest product, not to mention I have no use for it lol

I work for a company in the US that supplies these kinds of ships with specific equipment. I can tell you there has been a *MASSIVE* decline in purchases since a particular orange "man" started running the show in the US. A lot of them are "afraid" to make purchases now.

We would generally aim for a "40 unit" build week as that is pretty much our capacity, 25ish is the general slow period we face annually. We're doing 10-13 unit build weeks now.

As someone in the US you're not that far off even with the sarcasm.

A lot of us are still blind to it, but around the 2010 period we had a massive consolidation of news media by major corporations. The entirety of our "legacy media" are corporations that only care about profit and creating a "news product" for their intended audience. I can't think of any well known publication that is "independent" from corporate propaganda influence let alone political. The right actually does recognize this to some extent and get really irritated about focus on social issues related to identity as that's the only "safe" conversation for corporations to have that feed their intended "news product audience." So they see that news as manufactured and it reenforces their desire to seek "other media" that confirm their biases.

What I do know is the right wingers are having a feast. Their media embraces the worst of their far right troglodytes as they always embrace the Republicans mission of feeding the wealthy. The so called "left wing" media will join in on the bashing of anyone to the left of Joe Biden as they also aim to protect the status quo of "feed the wealthy."

There's no real culture war, there is only class war. :/

You have no idea what you're talking about. Enjoy your weekend.

What?

It was a joke about how we have no money to spend on healthcare for the population, but we always jump to throw endless cash at defense contractors to supply the military...

Sorry, best I can do is 2 trillion more for Boeing, Raytheon, Lockheed Martin and the like. They're desperate man, they haven't had a war for like 12 minutes, they need to be fed.

Faux News: "the world's largest collection of antisemites gathered around the Hague to demand the death of all Jewish people! Stay tuned to hear why they hate *you* specifically and want your family dead!"

"I wonder why aliens never show themselves to us?! Come in peace!"

.....yeah.

Putting aside the insanely vast distances needed to reach us, we can't even stop killing each other. Why the hell would another intelligent life form want to come here? All we do is kill each other, rob each other, exploit each other. Wonderful societies we have going for us.

The heritage foundation is a terrorist organization.

>Media researchers found more than half of Canadians still say they get political news from Facebook,

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October 2025: China will now face an ungabatillion percent tarrif! We can keep this going all day!

I honestly believe it is intentional as well. The 90 pause that went around social media the other day wasn't a mistake it was a *leak.*

They'd be stupid to not be financially gaining from their intentional manipulation. We hired an entire administration of grifters, what else should we expect?

Unfortunately knowing my country and the dumbfuck propagandists that direct thought here, they'll just go harder and blame every other country for our failures.

It won't be because of Trump, a terrible populist, it will be "those damn foreigners that didn't just roll over and accept American demands for Fairness™©®." :/

It's ok I'll say it: I wish every fucking fox propagandist would get executed. They're a cancer on society and there's only one way to deal with a malignant cancer. I'm so fucking sick of them.... Decades of their putridity have rotted the brains of *at least* 30% of the US population...

I'm pretty sure this will involve having another Reich wing asshole running the US tictok so they can increase their propaganda reach. They don't give a single fuck about Americans power elsewhere, they *only* care about ruling America.

Or it's proof that there *is* a god and he's a massive piece of shit that gives the worst people the best luck. Seems to be the trend among the worst of us. :/

Corpo media barely talks about it unfortunately. I'm enraged but most of the population has no idea

It's accurate, it's just not informative enough.

Trump *is* pushing for peace, as in: Do everything Putin wants and you can have peace! Simple!

Right wingers: wait wait I *love* USAID now!

Yeah with all the ways he seems to be actively trying to ruin the country I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised to see him have the US do it first and then the others "can follow" after they see we did it.

Except what they'll follow with are nukes aimed at us to ensure we can never get in their ways again. :/