Tipping Point (game show) Puns

Such rejected by Pointless, Only Connect, The Chase etc.?

Tipping Point could ask, what's that African stripey horse looking animal, starts with a "Z", rhymes with "libra", is not a shopping trolley nor an army tank - then offer shopping trolley, army tank and zebra as the choices and the odds are less than 1 in 3 that someone will say zebra.

Kudos to the host for his patience and his schedule of almost limitless shows, though.

And extra kudos to the couple yesterday who finally selected Mercury Winning Rap Albums on Pointless (and won the jackpot) after that category being on Pointless since about 2015.

It was Winnie Harlow !!!!
the man didn’t have a clue, he didn’t even know anything about antm 😂😂😂😂😂

Just want to eat my tea in peace with nice t.v! All his hard work Brenda, they don't belong to you! Turn it off. In fact just put the T.V in the bin.

But watching the Chase makes me feel happy? There’s just something about Tipping Point

I was wondering if anyone had ideas they'd like to share on what the tipping point would be, and when I say tipping point I'm not referring to the warming tipping point (I believe we are past that) but when the majority of people will stop and ask "Wait, why am I still working?" Or "Is there really a consequence if I stop and do what I want?" Of course people still need money to eat and pay rent/mortgage/ect but there will be a point where the majority of people stop wanting to play the game. I already see a massive uptick in people not only wanting to work, or wanting to work for better pay, but questioning if they have to work at all.

We're already seeing the consequences of our actions for not taking our life back. We would not need this subreddit, and ones alike it, if we knew how to sort out the problem. We're (and when I say "we" I mean lower to middle class people in western countries) probably the only people on this planet who could force a change at this stage. It's worked before and it will work again, if all of us just stopped working. Or even easier, stop paying taxes. It won't work if only a few do it, then the government you're under could jail you but they can't jail everyone.

Anyway back on topic. There's already shortages damn near everywhere and they're here to stay. This illusion isn't going to hold forever. Will it be the protests for the dwindling food that snap the string, the lack of water or purely unsafe water we'll have to drink? How about another storm to flood another city? I'm sure we can wait for a few more thousand to die before the string snaps. Business must go on.

Course I'm a bit of a hypocrite. I'm not doing much to help though I am trying to get educated. I don't want to go to any protests because I don't want to catch covid or any of its new variants despite knowing change isn't going to come if we don't all do out part. It's crazy how the end of the world can slip by when you're watching a show or going to work.

Personally I think the snap will come when we see videos on youtube showing people fighting for food and water on the shelves because we will be the ones filming. I think it will register with us that the shortages are here to stay and only going to get worse. I think that there will be no rations given out, or not enough. Military will be deployed in heavily populated areas to keep the peace and we the people will have no one to take our anger out on but those peacekeepers. I think it'll get ugly.

Looking at numbers, Housing and rent prices had a huge spike, way above the norm between 2020 and 2022. Inflation numbers are showing a rapid ramp up. Cost of living just exploded.

Wages on the other hand went up but way too little to really offset the cost of living. The cost of work permits (College degree) For a good portion of the population just the process of working costs Money (Transportation , Daycare etc) Then of course the cost of healthcare.

So far it seems the masses are still distracted by the political breads and circuses and things still are not yet bad enough. For examples, newer generations still able to live at home with parents and be distracted with things like the internet is social media or they are getting some kind of allowance + the low wage jobs keep them busy enough.

Then you have the immigrants who are accustomed to living in squalor (ie Favelas etc and being paid peanuts) so they come here and its a slight improvement so no problems and they do at least get some kind of welfare/medicaid etc.

The problem though is now effects of 14 years of FED corporate bailouts and money printing is starting to have its effects and will start squeezing the middle class like a python slowly killing its prey.

I see rapid inflation significantly faster than wages, housing is now going to reach stratospheric levels in the next couple of years and I see a couple of things ahead.

#1 Rents will become untenable, young adults living away from home will be either forced to move back with parents (allowance + shitjob won't do it), or live with like 6 roommates

Cost of living expenses will strike hard in the next few years, food, etc. but wages will continue to be depressed. Instead of hyperinflation I see hyper stagflation as the greater risk. between the two hyper stagflation is much much worse. IF not then rapid stagflation.

I see a tipping point being reached in 5-6 years. The first thing that will happen is general strikes across the United States, similar to what Solidarity did in Poland. Then the NG and LE will be put to use in order to force people back to work, and if not things could get worse.

What the young generation needs to do is work together as a team, there needs to be an equivalent of a Solidarity movement. Remember this is a Class issue not a (Republican vs Democrat or Black vs White etc.. woke issue)

Voting is not going to make a difference, regardless of who you vote for they represent two side of the same coin and ma

Ive been doing a bunch of research (basic google user level) to determine the severity of our situation to better make decisions impacting my future and one thing I keep realizing it's that despite some small but positive momentum we're gaining, its realistically all but too little too late. From legitimate sources I'm seeing that we've clearly already entered tipping point territory and even worse, our transition to cleaner energy sources are 50 years too late..

I'm trying to gauge where you all are at in terms of your own studies and takeaway on the current situation.

From where I'm standing, barring some truly God level scientific breakthrough in geoengineering that would not only fix the issue but also not cause unintended catastrophic side effects which in all likelihood seems very unrealistic, we're fucked.

Are you all standing about where I am on this matter?

Today we had 39 staff out sick, out of about 200. This includes teachers, aides, paras, etc. At today’s faculty meeting I asked how many teachers need to be out before we close. The answer is 30. I wonder how long before we get there.

UPDATE: we have 29 teachers out today.

Second update: both of my children have Covid.

Third update: I’m positive and home for the week

TW: abortion.

Back when we were engaged I had gotten pregnant. I still remember that i told him before having sex that day, that I dont feel safe with no condoms, but he asked me to trust him. He ended up pulling out late, and he told me that on the spot. I had no access to plan b pill or anything, he told me not to worry and then flew back to his home to see his family. I fully trusted him.

At that time i was still living in my home country where a child out of wedlock is illegal and socially just unacceptable. I was not ready to have a child so I decided to abort. Illegally. Taking a risk on my life. Hardest time of my life. I broke in tears so many times at the drs office where he had to register me under a fake name and i had to sign a waiver that he is not legally responsible of any side effects including my death. I come from a very conservative family and I had to keep it a secret- so i had no support at all. I did it all by myself. It took its toll on me. It broke me.

My fiance ( now husband) was on a trip to visit his family and couldn’t afford to get on a plane to be with me. I knew he had the money, he just couldn’t bother. But i excused him, I was dumb and trusting and in love.

Yet i felt so lonely and traumatized. He wanted to keep the child and we had an argument over the phone. We were in LDR and simply not ready for a child. All i asked him was to keep it our secret. He ended up telling his mom because he was upset and “needed support”. I was furious at him and frankly called him out on his bs and told him that if anyone needed support, it was me and the least he could do is honor my request of keeping it a private matter.

Now years later a part of me still blames him for making me go through this, and i still feel betrayed that he told someone else about it. My decision to abort still haunts me until today and he never understood that.

Now we are having trouble in our marriage (he cheated on me, thats another story) and we currently live with his parents after moving to the states ( thats another story too)

When his mom knew we were having trouble in our marriage, she told me that i can talk to to her about anything. She was trying to be nice considering that i have no family or friends here. Also, her husband cheated on her multiple times before but they worked on it and she says they are now happy, i dont see happiness in their home though but thays not my issue. However she tries to project that onto our marriage, saying

Was it a person, an event, or something else? Had someone I’ve started sleeping with very recently just suddenly say so. Highly respect that he did but got me thinking…

Call it a hunch, but I feel as though TEZOS will be a front runner this year. I’m not sure why I feel this way, but if p2e games take off as much as I think they will, we could see a rise in TEZOS’s use, especially with Ubisoft already using it.

I don't know how many of you have been paying attention to the number of new COVID cases in the United States the last few days, but it is astronomically bad. Like almost twice as bad as the previous peak, and we're seriously just getting started. The coming week is almost definitely going to be even worse, judging by the states that have been hit by Omicron the earliest (like NY), we're not even close to peaking yet.

And what are we expected to do? Continue working. Die for profit. We've already been told by the federal government that we're on our own, there will be no relief for us, and we will be expected to work even if we're contagious. And you can bet there will be no closing of business, or unemployment benefits.

The ruling class is trying to pretend that this isn't happening. They're trying to brand this is a "pandemic of the unvaccinated" so that we'll blame each other. They're trying to close Pandora's Box, force us back to work no matter the consequences because they're already afraid of how much we've woken up. They're forcing us to choose between a deadly disease and homelessness/starvation, just to ensure we don't realize there's a third option.

But the thing is, Omicron is threat regardless of your vaccination status. It's mutated enough that even my booster shot can only do so much. It honestly astounds me that this subreddit is currently just full of stories about bad bosses, or memes about quitting. I'm the opposite of cynical, often to a fault, but it's starting to make me wonder how many of these stories are fake, and being posted to distract from the real issue that's currently facing us all. Corporations infiltrating labor movements to de-escalate and distract has long been a thing.

A class war is being waged right now, more openly than ever, whether we like it or not. They're barely even trying to hide it. It absolutely sickens me that more and more people are continuing to die, or have their lives ruined by long COVID/losing work, and we're all expected to just go along with it.

Well I refuse to. We need to strike, and we need to strike ASAP.

As everything on the web will be linked and the machine will save the user’s preferences, it raises the issues about security and privacy! When the user engages deeply and consistently, the web will generate more verifiable and minable pieces of data. The more information is provided, the more they are rewarded with a richer and more dynamic experience. However there raises the question of security! Now that Web3 is at its peak I guess it's the right time to make sure that everyone in it has the security that they need and wanted.
https://www.crypto-news-flash.com/web3-is-at-a-tipping-point-its-time-security-catches-up/

I've been watching research and activism and news about ME/CFS funding for so long, that I'm pretty jaded. When covid pandemic started, I saw it as possibly the one thing that could lead to enough chronic illness to get people to research it with a massive effort.

I see some news articles about massive amounts of funding for long covid, and if true, it should be really good news, but it seems like there has to be some kind of catch I am making a decision about whether to do assisted suicide soon in Switzerland, but I'd stick around if I thought there was hope for real understanding of etiology and treatments , not even total cures, but treatments, in my lifetime.
What do you make of this article on funding?

What about this one?

Thanks

If Amazon unionizes, it'll be huge. They are such a pivotal company and such a major win would truly make a cultural difference and shift the conversation on what's possible/permissable.

What can we, anti-work, subscribers do to meaningfully help? I'm tired of just complaining, reading complaints. We need to do something.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/11/technology/amazon-union-vote-alabama.html

For those of you who have abandoned a game outright, what was the proverbial straw that broke the camel's back?

What savings would you need to tip into the coast lifestyle?

I am 28 living with long term partner, also 28, and we each have roughly £80k in savings spread across S&S ISA, private pension, crypto (<5% allocation) and some other accounts/cash. We both work in tech with good incomes (70k and 85k) and expecting this to grow further with each appraisal period.

Our savings nearly doubled during the pandemic thanks to no commute, travel, and socialising expenses, and as such I've been slowly beginning to ponder about the near possibility of coastFIRE.

We are child-free by choice and not necessarily saving for a deposit as we'd like to travel a bit and live in different places while working odd jobs here and there, just to sustain the current lifestyle without worrying about actively growing the savings pot.

The question is at what point do we stop the current rat race? This time next year I expect we'll be going on a combined £200k, and then there's always the next milestone, the next round number, which will always be closer and closer thanks to the income growth.
I'm worried we'll be too blinded by the numbers to leave, or on the other hand jump ship too early and later wish we did just that extra year.

I'll post a pic of me pouring a bottle of vodka down the sink later. Thanks everyone

Getting to the tipping point...

I'll be blunt here. The transition to a productive and diverse agroforestry system from a monoculture is not easy at the beginning. Actually, it's flippin' hard. It's not just about planting trees, vines, and shrubs and watching them grow. In many cases, especially In the wet tropics where soil compaction and erosion wreak havoc on the soil biome in the absence of a forest canopy.

As this video shows, the difference between the first year and a few years on can be a true transformation.

But be patient. Remember that life makes the conditions for more life possible. The return of diversity brings a balance of microbial and wildlife helpers that monocultures and other biosphere unsuitable farming systems all but destroy.

At some point--and when it happens depends on your climate, crops and other factors--BUT a time WILL come when the tasks and costs begin to go down. Way down. And then the rewards start to come. Not just the crops and revenue, but the pleasure of working in the shade of the tree canopy, watching a host of birds, lizards, and frogs take care of "pests" for you.

The day will come. Hang in there. It's so worth it.