u/Tall_Eye4062

Say individuals were allowed to be multi-millionaires, but once they crossed the threshold of being a billionaire, they were fined and their excess money was taxed away.

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At parent-teacher night, an angry father storms into the classroom.

"Why the hell are you teaching my son that Socialism is a good thing?"

The room goes silent.

He snatches a piece of chalk from the tray and, with absolute confidence, writes across the blackboard:

SOCIALISM = COMMUNISM

He folds his arms triumphantly.

The teacher adjusts her glasses.

"Actually... those aren't the same thing. They're related political concepts, but they're not synonymous."

The father's smile evaporates.

The chalk slips from his fingers.

Clack.

His hands begin to shake.

"...That... that isn't what Fox News led me to believe..."

A student quietly raises a hand.

"So... are we still having the quiz?"

The father lets out a horrified gasp, sprints out of the classroom, and peels away from the school parking lot before anyone can ask a follow-up question.

The chalk remains on the floor, a silent witness to the evening's events.

Are the billionaires and corporations afraid of losing power, so they're trying to convince people that Socialism is bad?

But it gets worse. Eventually, you become ugly, poor AND old. And then your chances of getting married drastically go down.

I feel like women expect men to be 6 feet tall, make 6 figures, etc. But they don't bring anything to the table.

I thought they were good guys who saved people, and helped people. Later, I learned they have traffic ticket quotas, and shoot elderly women who have a potato peeler, and dogs. I joined the Army instead, because I resonated with the Army values. It's kind of depressing to grow up and see how life really is. What do you think?

And now I'll get to spend the rest of my life alone, because I'm a guy. And we don't get many chances in life.

It's weird, it's uncomfortable, and I don't understand why libraries would approve of it.

The idea was simple: instead of searching through manuals yourself, you'd type a question in plain English and the computer would try to answer it. From what he described, it would scan technical documentation and company manuals and then generate a response based on what it found. He said it wasn't perfect, but it could answer things like:

"How do I install this software?"

"What does this error code mean?"

"How much memory does this machine support?"

The biggest problem was speed. According to him, it took around two minutes to answer a question on the hardware they had available at the time. He said management eventually killed the project. Their reasoning was supposedly:

"Nobody is going to waste their time asking a computer questions when they could just look up the information themselves."

My grandpa always laughed about that quote. He thought the idea was sound and spent months trying to optimize it, but the project was shelved before it ever left the research phase. I wonder how many other ideas were sitting in corporate labs decades before the technology finally caught up.

People are weird and hostile. One time, I held a door open for a lady because we were both going to the gym. She did this weird motion with her hand and shook her head no. I went inside. I've got worse stories. I got attacked downtown before. I've had my life threatened. I never even did anything wrong.

You can add any food toppings you want to the burger. Lettuce, tomato, ketchup, etc. But the patty is made from ground up crickets. Would you accept?

When they said "Musk's trillion-dollar rise proves The American Dream still works," that was the dumbest take I ever saw. He isn't a rags to riches story. He was rich in the first place. I guess there's no trustworthy national news station left.

Three men walking through the jungle are captured by savages.

They are brought before the chief, who offers them two choices;

1. Death

or

2. Boola Boola.

The first man doesn't know what Boola Boola is, but he says it must be better than death, so he picks Boola Boola. The savages grab him and violently rape him for hours, yelling "Boola Boola!"

Afterwards he limps off into the jungle, but before he leaves he tells the second man "don't pick Boola Boola!"

But the second man says "Well that looks terrible, but it can't be worse than death". So he too, picks Boola Boola, and is savagely raped for hours by the savages whilst yelling "Boola Boola!"

Like the first man he limps off into the jungle, and warns the third man not to pick Boola Boola.

So the third man says "Boola Boola looks unbearable, so I must pick death!".

The chief grins wide and exclaims, "Death!... by Boola Boola!"

:P

"Except hot." How do you honestly react?