Ministry of truth and all that.

As is (sadly) becoming tradition.

“I CAN’T BELIEVE IT’S NOT sex with a minor in a way that violated state laws”

Or, more likely the economic incentives that they are exposed to (academia, grants and the politics of both) reward this behaviour.

The principals are understood, I remember reading about similar issues with the Dutch East India Company (you know that recent company that just went under in 1799) back in school. The reason we are where we are is that people (economists often try to say otherwise, but are included in this set) in the system we have are incentivised to not actually change things, but to come up with reasons why they should stay this way.

Oh yeah, we should do a study…

Wait a minute, I am on to you grant boi…

This just in, studies rediscover basic functions of an economy. Again.

A few more studies bro, just a few more. We are sure to figure this stuff out if we just do another study.

Stop vertical integration (ban the fuck out of it) and give anti monopoly laws teeth. The reason Walmart at the like can do this is by making themselves the only real choice for the poor (and then making everyone poorer).

Edit: also to add things like walmart hold suppliers over a barrel so if you ban the vertical bullshit you also give the companies supplying walmart more ability to ask for more.

OK I don’t have a dog in this regatta, but I gotta say you making a comment calling out someone providing nothing but insults that itself contains nothing but childish insults that also contributed nothing is fucking amazing.

I would say this is some peak reddit right here, but I don’t really think its an insult or care enough about another website to invoke its name.

There is no reason to party in these times.

Parties over.

Fun!? In this economy?

Cool, what does that have to do with making cars needed for most low income houses (if you have transit available you are very lucky in NA) then banning the cheap ones while subsidizing the costly and more environmentally damaging ones to produce all while gaslighting the public into thinking climate change is their fault and not on the massive companies (who also get exemptions and loopholes us little guys don’t)?

It would be better if people under stood that the solution needs to be cheap for people so they can afford it. People don’t pay for things they can’t afford for very long.

How’s that transit in California doing?

So, used prices go up more?

I can’t see any issues with the pending affordability among people who can not afford a $60k plus car in a car dependent nation like the states…

Children sometimes pick up firearms from an unlocked safe that everyone thought was locked and an accident happens.

In my area of the world, that alone right there is reckless and criminal. You are not winning this argument out side of the USA since the very idea of a firearm put away anywhere WITH A LIVE ROUND IN THE CHAMBER is pants on head insane let alone unlocked, unwatched, and in a place accessible by children.

The same line of reasoning gets weird since with the same level of “care” you could accidentally leave a loaded magazine the firearm, or more commonly be stored with live ammo near by. This is just another US invention to sell you a solution from responsibility.

Oh and I have only one firearm (a marlin 22) with this feature, it sucks. It is not safe, you can not use the fire arm without a magazine (silly). It has needed repair 4 times in 5 years (it has malfunctioned both in a way that stops the firearm working and one time in a way that made the bolt slam down when the magazine is inserted sometimes leading to a discharge).

Or, hear me out, even the most basic firearm safety being taught before selling someone a firearm.

Well she is in prison…

For 2nd degree murder…

That is the neat part, it does not!

https://www.canada.ca/en/public-health/services/publications/healthy-living/suicide-canada-key-statistics-infographic.html

so 4500 “suicides” vs the articles above 15,300 people. I don’t think 15,300 is a subset of 4500.

Ah yes, it is a “life style” choice and all that jazz… Not at all the inevitable result of decades plus of poor governance/systemic failures.

You did not think I made my fortune by writing checks did you?

GOONS, HIRED GOONS!