I’m trying to imagine being one of those backstage people. How do you not feel sudden and intense fear when this guy says that to a huge crowd of morons? Do I already have to be one of those morons in order to agree to do setup for this guy’s rally?

And what about whoever’s doing setup for the next show? I would probably stop showing up for work…

The boy who cried fascist, except he never lied about it a single time, there’s just a lot of people who didn’t care if a few sheep get taken, and refuse to care now that we’re running out of sheep.

Sounds objectively better than the current system where the weirdos get funded by billionaires and legitimized far more than the litany of normal candidates

Made him president and then graduated from support to worship while he actively worked to make everyone’s lives worse. Blaming Biden for handling the pandemic poorly the same way they blamed Obama for the 2008 crash. Sucks to suck, I guess.

I don’t remember anyone saying 10 was worse than 8. Maybe buggier on launch, but stylistically it worked more like 7 than 8 did

Changing amendments is no problem when you have judges to “reinterpret” them at will

I think Republicans are also generally disengaged. That’s what enables them to vote for so much monstrous garbage; they don’t pay enough attention to know what they’re voting for. There are also plenty of true believers who really are christian nationalists, but for most people, if they follow the policy positions, they’d be Democrats.

So when it comes to the number of people watching a convention, the DNC sorta naturally attracts more people since the base is paying more attention.

What difference does an airtight case make when you have a litany of judges, all the way up to the supreme court, that will happily twist the law to rule in your favor?

Fewer legal immigrants doesn’t mean fewer workers, it just means fewer people being paid above board. That extra money doesn’t go to union members, it goes to stock buybacks and CEO packages. The more of a company’s workforce is part of the union, the stronger the union’s negotiating position, and THAT’S how unions get more money for their members.

Immigrant labor is actually cheaper when immigration is tightly controlled, at least it is in the US where “restricted” really just means more illegal immigrants rather than fewer overall. When you let people in legally, they’re documented, unions can actually reach out to them, and they are protected by things like minimum wage.

Illegal immigrants are not.

I enjoy the idea that some shitass mason hated whatever king hired him, built all the stairs as quickly and poorly as possible, and then to save his ass later had to be all “oh hmm yes the stairs? That’s a feature actually” and somehow it winds up catching on

“Meat substitutes,” ie impossible burgers and vegan cheese, are more expensive. There’s a complex process and decades of trial and error that have gone into trying to replicate specific flavors. But “things in place of meat,” like tofu or beans (dried beans especially), are often cheaper.

The little coal guys from spirited away are real!

It is happening now but evolution takes a long time. If there were a ton of adaptations that happened in the next 10,000 years, that would be incredibly fast on an evolutionary timescale

While simultaneously opposing any form of gun control so they can fight… something?

Apparently the only protest worth anything is one where you’re shooting at someone

Exercises on lichess are one of my favorite ways to kill time. Haven’t played a real game in years but I love the low pressure of running through little scenarios, even if I can’t always grasp why the computer thinks a particular line is optimal lol

(And you can do a bunch of them offline)

I live in a place with a functionally free bus line. I thought it was great and used to ride it all the time, but then the local homeless figured it out and now every time I get on, the seats are covered in filth and there’s usually someone who smells absolutely vile. They don’t get on to go anywhere; they get on because they have nowhere else to go. They just hang out on the bus.

Obviously the real solution is to give homeless people a proper place to stay, improve mental health care, and all that good stuff. I hate the cycle of moving people from once place to another. But in the meantime, making bus lines free can make them a horrendous experience for everyone else.

Edit, also the solution to the article’s actual point of fairness in fares seems simple to me. Make it free and just have a progressive tax that pays for it

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Everywhere I go… I see his face…

Trek tends to fudge the dates on purpose. It’s supposed to take place In The Future, and you’re supposed to be thinking about whatever philosophical concept the episode is about, not the exact timeline of events. From Wikipedia: “stardates were originally intended to avoid specifying exactly when Star Trek takes place.” I hate linking to Fandom wiki pages, but I’ll say the page on stardates goes on at length about how inconsistent Trek time is.

Jumping around within a single episode is a little funny, but doesn’t surprise me. Some writers try to be consistent, but maybe only for a few connected episodes, and some don’t try at all. Sometimes a character will die, but an earlier episode or a flashback with a clearly later stardate will see them alive. There’s all kinds of technobabble about where they are in the universe, and light speed relativity, and so on, but at the end of the day the show isn’t trying to hide any serious messages in its timeline so long as the story of the episode makes some level of sense.