thoughts and prayers for their tooth

What’s Tatars precious?

Canada needs a plan in case launching missiles becomes necessary.

fReE sPeEcH

US MIC: “I wish the Feds would buy more guns and less butter.”

*monkey paw curls*

There are no minable deposits of rare earths anywhere. That’s why they’re called rare earth elements. Nowhere on Earth are there geologic processes that concentrate them into ores. The only way to get them is to process absolutely enormous volumes of dirt, at great expense in terms of energy used and pollution created.

Every country has them.

Who sells it is a question of which country is willing to render some portion of their territory uninhabitable for the foreseeable future, while also making a larger portion of their territory sick and dirty.

Right now, 500 million Europeans are begging 300 million Americans for protection from 140 million Russians who have been unable to overcome 50 million Ukrainians for three years.

this sounds like what Google wanted to be since its inception: ask a question, get an answer

somewhere along the journey, the reality of needing to make money drove the enshitification of search results: ask a question, get offers to sell you an answer

this seems like a step in a better direction

Yes. USA already knows what its going to do. A hypothetical trade agreement isn’t going to change the decision, so Ukraine should make exactly zero concessions in pursuit of influencing a decision which has already been made.

the one thing that gas is good for is cooking

Only if your kitchen is adequately vented, but most that I’ve seen are not.

A modern gas furnace or water heater will have a flue, and if the system has been installed properly then exhaust gasses, including CO, will get sucked out of the house.

Most gas ovens/ranges are unvented - they just spew combustion products, including CO, directly into the home. Its so bad that the 1st generation of CO detectors had to be retired because they were constantly going off when people would cook dinner. Modern CO detectors will only go off if CO levels remain elevated for hours.

Cooking with gas in a home that lacks a large hood fan that’s ducted to the outdoors is a terrible idea.

Right wing ideologies are a symptom of brain damage.
Q.E.D.

nothing says “free speech” like muzzling journalists

Imagine thinking CNN is center-left 😂

The loophole:

The program offers developers a tax subsidy worth potentially millions of dollars in exchange for keeping units affordable and renting them only to . . . households making below 60% of the area median income . . . Rent and income restrictions are supposed to last at least 30 years. But, after just 14 years, property owners may ask their states to find buyers . . . States can only sell at prices set by a formula that almost always overvalues the properties. As a result, buyers are rarely found. If states can’t find buyers within a year, owners are free to raise rents . . .

There’s no content here, just a paywall.

All that means is that $15 an hour over the course of a growing season is not enough to support a family and put down roots.

The very concept of “migrant” labor is flawed - its dehumanizing and precarious. People need a means of supporting themselves year around.

Not only do agricultural corporations need to accept slimmer profit margins and higher wage expenses, but an entirely new support structure is required to maintain the workforce in agricultural communities during the off seasons.

Oh no! The agricultural oligopoly might need to pay employees more to secure a sufficient quantity of labor? Gasp!

Economic devastation is when living wages.

Kerbal Space Program: progression from being unable to get a rocket into orbit, to collecting a surface sample from all 5 of Jool’s moons in a single launch