Do these people realize that these federal programs don’t run out of money? You can’t “use up all the food stamps”. The one guy in that video was complaining that his disability was cut off, like that has anything to do with the Haitian refugees who can’t even get disability benefits.

In Douglas Rushkoff’s book “Survival of the Richest” he talks about the survival ideas of these rich morons he talked to at some event. They were discussing strategies to keep security guards loyal in a post apocalyptic scenario. Shit like shock collars, timed safes, anything besides treating them well. It’s a good book.

They’d rather keep driving us towards an apocalypse they wouldn’t survive than do something to avoid it.

I really don’t believe SCOTUS would have let Biden get away with that. They wrote that decision is such a weasely way that it gave Trump practical immunity, but allows them to decide when it applies to other presidents.

Still I agree that if Democrats actually cared about things they’d consistently force SCOTUS to overturn popular policies, if only to show the public they’re simply unelected political actors.

I go to see my partners family a few times a year and the conversation is so awkward. Their mom does nothing but watch reruns of law and order SVU and 50’s shows on TV Land, and their dad runs out of normal stuff to talk in about 20 minutes.

We can’t talk about any kind of current events because the dad has incredibly reactionary takes despite claiming to be a progressive Democrat. I had a meltdown when he started talking about the Palestine student protests like they were brainwashed into supporting terrorists.

I’ve tried to have things to talk about to avoid getting into arguments, but they seem so bored with anything I have to say, so we end up sitting in silence for long stretches. Then when we leave they’re like, “Leaving already? You just got here”.

who have not missed rent in the last two years

Come the fuck on. What in the hell kind of means tested bullshit is this?

They have a stronger version than the US because lawyers can argue for it to the jury. In the US they aren’t allowed to do it, and most states have model jury instructions that tell them they are not allowed to ignore the law because they think it unjust.

I am for getting rid of cars, but it’s not like new headlight technology stops that from happening.

The OEM reflector style ones are mostly fine, IMO. It’s the projector style lights, and when people jam LEDs in a reflector that wasn’t meant for them, that are the problem.

These are the projector lamps: They rely on a little piece of metal covering the top half to keep the intense and evenly diffused light from blinding you, which doesn’t work if you’re not on flat ground.

Reflector style led lights diffuse the light unevenly, no differently than halogens, other than the color temperature.

The absolute worst are when people take led bulbs in jam them in headlight housings that are meant for halogens. The light doesn’t leave the bulb in the same way affecting the diffusion pattern, plus they’re more bright than intended.

The new matrix style LEDs could be a game changer. They allow some of the lights to turn off when there are oncoming cars, and darken just the areas where they are. The only downfall is the computer hardware needed, but the same hardware that tracks cars for automatic emergency braking systems can do it. If past is any guide, those systems will be mandatory in new cars at some point.

I wonder how much of this stuff is really useful, or is meant to portray them as scrappy underdogs in need of aid.

I hate this argument. How does buying something incentivize more of it to be made when there is a substitute(dirty energy)?

It’s like saying you’re going to incentivize people to eat healthier by destroying vegetable crops

It depends on what you want to do with it. It’s a useful certification to get jobs, but a lot of them are really difficult jobs with not great pay. I think it depends a lot on the area, though.

I was considering getting my CNA to get a specific social services type job working with disabled kids. I decided against it because the other CNA jobs available in my area were difficult and low paying nursing home jobs. I didn’t want to do school to end up making a couple dollars more an hour than McDonald’s pays.

I had those when I quit smoking weed.

Sometimes I’d realize I was dreaming, then wake up and explain the dream to my partner, all while still in the first layer of dream.

That was Chicago.

I think we’ll see more of this stuff. It’s just too tempting for politicians. They can fill a budget hole, lower property taxes, etc, and make it some future administrations problem. Especially if they structure it with a gradual increase in prices.

It’s like taxing people 50 years in the future but getting to spend the money now.

I think it was the regular political corruption that exists everywhere in the US, lobbying, campaign donations and the revolving door. Texas is definitely winning the race to sell off all the public goods, but this kind of thing happens all over. Chicago sold off the rights to the parking spaces on public streets in a similar kind of deal.

Texas is the champ at letting private industry profit from government.

They built a toll road with $1Billion in public money, using a private equity firm to build it which resulted in large profits, and hazardous work conditions. Then they sold 50 years of toll rights to a different private equity firm for $600mil, with no limit to how much could be charged. When tolls predictably skyrocketed, they had to buy those rights back for $1.7 billion after the firm had collected tolls for 5 years.

https://sci-hub.st/10.1016/j.urology.2008.10.057

Genocidal freaks just laying it all out. Smiling and saying every Israeli would push a button to kill every single Palestinian, and basically admitting it has nothing to do with hostages(I assume that’s what the statement “even if it happens later” means).

Edit: They have a Twitter post saying this was taken out of context. What context could make this better?!?!

Tor works on clearnet just fine. A lot of sites block tor exit nodes, or at least limit them from creating accounts, but that shouldn’t matter here.