Volunteer firefighters are not unpaid, that not what volunteer means in this context. They are not full time, professional firefighters, they have normal jobs and when a call goes out, whoever can make it drops what they’re doing and goes in. But they absolutely get paid, very well, for their time, from the tax payers dollar. Or by directly suing for restitution as with my car accident. $1700 for a gaggle of looky lous

Reminds me of Ra

I don’t really think any of us are normies

Bibisraum

Volunteer firefighters are paid pretty damn well while 20 of them stand around a car wreck at 2am.

As the launch was happening I said to my wife “AI must be making Kubrick’s job so much simpler” and she just sort of glared at me…

There are some real sickos out there man

He’s the Branch Manager of our treework crew

I’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe. Attack dogs on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched tennis balls glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser’s Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like drool in rain. Time to lie down.

The sense of “what can I even do” is so fucking overwhelming right now. I know that’s part of the goal, completely flood the zone to make us apathetic, but it’s working really well. This is exhausting, just getting through the day is exhausting, and still I feel a deep need to at least do SOMETHING, but don’t see anywhere my effort would even scratch the surface. I donate half my eggs to the community fridge, I offer free lawn care to locals that aren’t able to afford it or do it themselves, I am vocal about progress in spaces that are traditionally conservative, but at the end of the day it doesn’t feel like it matters or makes any difference.

I mean I’m just here because of the API thing