It’s a respectful xenophobia though. Like, it’s just as bad but entirely Japanese in flavor. If I had to make a ham fisted metaphor.

If their music is too loud to hear the fire alarm or other alarms. There were places that I worked that hearing an alarm would save your life. When I was a supervisor I should have said no ear buds, but that’s a bit ridiculous. So I only got on a person’s case if they had both in, a compromise. This way the teen sweeping can listen to their music and hear a hazard alarm if it happens. Workplace safety is important.

Yeah the movie really didn’t do the book much justice. The message was the same, but the movie completely undermined itself. Saying ‘Real life is more important than the digital world because it’s where real connections and food is.’ doesn’t hit as hard when it’s the very fact that it was Wade’s obsession with the digital world and having encyclopedic knowledge of Halliday that allowed him to win. The book is still clunky but it’s Wade’s actions in the real world that really set’s him apart from the sixers and gunters.

Teenagers

His name is Jimmy McMillan and he’s the leader of the Rent is Too Damn High party. Interestingly enough, Mr. McMillan has not paid rent for 45 years. That said, he’s maintained that it is how high his disabled children’s rent is as why he’s chosen to make himself a political platform. For a vet with disabled children he’s pretty active.

Wow what a great idea, I wonder why nobody else has ever thought about it.

Yeah, and it was Trump’s economy for the past four years because everyone knew he was going to win and everyone would be constantly winning too. Now it’s Biden’s economy, but wait until Trump’s economy kicks into gear. You’ll get so many jobs you won’t know what to do with them. Unless the economy crashes again after that, then it’s Biden’s economy again until it recovers then it’s Trump’s. What’s so hard to understand?

A lot of his supporters are born Republicans. Their parents voted Republican, and their grandparents. To them voting Republican isn’t a choice, it’s what’s expected of them. They don’t participate in the Republican party, they just consume it, like American’s consume everything else. Those people will never once question why they’re voting that way, it’s what their parents did, their community does, and it’s what their children will probably do too.

If his mouth is open, he’s lying