I wouldn’t word it with absolutes, but yeah that sentiment is correct.
I wouldn’t word it with absolutes, but yeah that sentiment is correct.
You want someone to help you do something for the good of everyone. Do you ask the giant selfish asshole or a rock for help? Republicans are the rock.
RealPage needs to be dismantled and entire C-suite jailed. If Wall St isn’t scared to death of making price fixing trusts then we are all in very deep shit.
Thanks for the link. Good read so far.
While we’re throwing out Qanon dissections, Gabriel Gatehouse’s The Coming Storm is a wild listen. I heard about it when he guest interviewed on Jon Stewart’s The Problem. The stuff he said there was so interesting that I checked out the podcast. Gabriel’s moved on from BBC now, but I’m eager for more of his reporting.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0bc3rjy
Edit: Oh and how could I forget: HBO’s Q Into the Storm is the best piece out there on this. They’re there interviewing Qanon while at the height of them kicking shit up.
It’s because it doesn’t make any sense on the surface. Why were people so angry? Why was the jovial jokey part of the internet being so serious and violent? It marked a shift of the internet being srs bzns to serious business.
If you grew up on 4chan and haven’t read It Came From Something Awful, I highly recommend it. It lays out how gamergate was the inflection point. It also makes the case that counter culture is now forever dead. Makes you feel pretty bad about things, actually. It feels pretty correct though.
Also, it’s an incredible anticonsumerism piece. If you ever feel like you can no longer fight the machine, this book tells you that you’re not alone.
To work at a Denny’s for minimum wage? Get real. The jobs are where housing is expensive.
Seems to really stretch the term “humane” thin. There are a dozen simple examples that poke holes in this wide net. What about killing someone who is willing to die trying kill you? What about someone currently on a suicidal killing spree (as happens once a day at a school)? What about the millions of animals raised for slaughter everyday? All that is the same category as a painless dispatch and a torturous murder?
Being humane is about how you do something given the choice. It has nothing to do about the absolute action.
Please read Consider the Lobster.
https://faculty.etsu.edu/odonnell/readings/lobster_dfwallace.pdf
Tungsten is very dense. It is space efficient.
There are certainly more humane ways. Would you consider drowning or burning someone equivalent to lethal injection? That doesn’t sit right with anyone.
You’re thinking about this wrong. Cops can’t pull you over for speeding if they’re stuck going 45 mph.
Palworld didn’t plagiarize them. This is what the kids call a nothingburger.
Obviously there are loads of similar designs, but in a way that indicates illegal asset stealing? That’s a different question, and so-called “lazy design” aping on other creations doesn’t qualify as actual theft unless it can be explicitly proven.
More grimly, it is a big corporation trying to squash an upstart competitor and suppress art. If they succeed then it is truly dystopian and a sign that we need more legal protections against overzealous copyright litigators.
This is a good idea if they only put it in public service government issue cars.
Hanging chads pt II coming this Winter
They leaned their strategy pretty hard into mining when that was on the table. They for sure chase trends and alienate their base. Any way to juice near term profits and they will. It’s working out for them right now, so surely it will forever.
Sure did. It’s an embarrassing op-ed. Short and flimsy arguments. Every link is either something that someone else did (mostly state legislators) or about lip service rather than action. About the only thing Biden can claim credit for is related to the economy, where his policy has helped transfer wealth upward. If “progressive” means “keeping things perfectly as they are” then you can go ahead and be a progressive.
Biden’s party is more progressive, but Biden is not. Note how he is on par with popularity polls with the guy who attempted to lynch our political representation. Obama was easily more progressive.
If Biden doesn’t at least say he wants to do something about housing affordability then I won’t be voting. I’ve voted blue my entire life.
>see headline
“Oh cool. What fun and inventive thing is Microsoft doing?”
>reads first line of article
“Oh it’s for AI. Gross.”
They’re happy to say that younger folks should be okay with it, but as soon as they’re faced with it, it’s suddenly a tragedy?
Horse shit. Fuck anyone gaslighting the value of housing security. I hope their home value turns to dust.