Think of our perception of capitalism as closer to your great grandparents’. Your statement of thatcher implies UK, so think before the unions and the council housing and for us yanks before the NHS. And with an oncoming doom from climate change. And that’s in addition to the technofuedalism. The benefits of privatization increasingly feel like a bold faced lie to us
Exactly, they’re attempting to establish legal pretext for genocide
Look up the PayPal mafia. Tldr: their founders are overthrowing the world’s oldest democracy at the moment.
Oh no. Anyways…
Like I wish there was more nonpolitical content on here but I’m not sad that this is a den of communists and technopunks
Ah, but what will others do for all of it? Fascists eventually decide to just steal from the undesirables
And open guys, and gays suffering for our sexuality. None of them visited Roy Cohn as he died of AIDS. Tim Cook may get spared from raids at first, but if it goes as bad as we fear he’s going to have nobody willing to defend him
And the solution is to make such hate crimes dangerous. Gay bashing used to be more common, but armed f*gs bash back, and that reduced it
But they also insist that competition breeds innovations when you propose the state just seize their unregulated utility
Yeah it’s more like each cigarette is a bullet in an incredibly large barreled revolver that’s firing at you occasionally. But it’s also not the only thing loading it. Some people will survive by chance and a lot won’t. Clean living will increase the odds you live long and it’ll increase the odds you’re healthy while alive. But there are enough people that we have plenry of pediatric oncologists and plenty of 90 year old smokers. And even the 90 year olds that don’t smoke are outliers
Nothing will fuck you half as hard as random chance. For every one of those people there are a lot of people who died young thanks to lifestyle choices.
That’s beautiful. When I was a teenager my friends picked up smoking. My mom had cancer so I didn’t, but I did pick up stepping outside and having a chat with strangers. And yeah it’s been a wonderful habit to have. That and a willingness to say yes to adventure have led to an interesting life.
Exactly. Maybe the agencies should be joint legislative executive or something but we do need them, because I don’t want Jim fucking Jordan deciding how much lead is safe for baby food, but even worse would be for nobody to decide
It’s more like a variant game of chicken. The longer everyone stays in the higher the value goes, but once people start bailing you better hope you sold enough for it to be worthwhile. The big investors set the game but they’re also the most constrained because if they pull out entirely or quickly they can pop the bubble and they may not be able to sell their shares fast enough to get all their money before shares plummet.
I subscr to the theory that Tesla is valued not as an automotive stock but as a tech stock. Companies like Toyota and VW are valued wildly different from companies like Google and Amazon and tesla has long pushed for everyone to think of it as far more like apple than like Honda, with quite a bit of success. That’s why Elon does his whole Tony stark/Steve jobs routine and swears full self driving and other revolutionary tech. Because otherwise you have to look at his vehicles as the gilded Yugos they are that do have some really great aspects, but ones that are now being done by companies like Hyundai that can actually assemble a car well
The problem is that restaurants usually have similar load patterns. The orders for the Mexican place aren’t coming in while the pizza restaurant are slow, they’re all getting a decent surge at lunch time and a bigger surge at dinner timr
Yeah the cold and soggy is my main criticism. At that point I’d rather cook
Maybe it’s what I eat but I find the food is always worse after delivery. It’s usually gotten a bit cold and steamed a bit. Some stuff like pizza and Asian food handles it well, but falafel and anything fried is best served immediately
Oh absolutely. And yeah I think a lot of people see us and get a little stuck on the gender presentation bit. Hell, I did as a teenager.
In fact, for a long time (and still in some places) in order to medically transition you had to do something called “real life experience”, which was living as your preferred gender for however long the therapist wanted. Now theoretically that could be a frustrating roadblock that has notmal issues, but basically be come out, change your name, use your pronouns, etc. However this also caused problems of essentially forcing overcompliance to gendered expectations. In college a friend of mine was told by a therapist that she wouldn’t get approval to start hormones if she didn’t start wearing makeup and dresses to her sessions. It used to be a joke in trans communities that we’d basically ham it up for doctors then go home and put on jeans and a t-shirt like everyone else wears.
It’s a bit outdated but the book Whipping Girl by Julia Serrano deals with quite a bit around transness and feminism.
OK. You know where the door is, use it at your leisure