limiting the scope of the government, which is one of my biggest political values
Why?
Smaller government = bigger corporations. And corporate control = everything goes to shit. We’ve reached maximum shareholder primacy.
And it’s not like we can “vote with our dollar” anymore, with how consolidated everything is. For example, consider the attempts at boycotting Nestle…
Because they already raised hundreds of millions from investors
Okay, off the top of my head, without googling:
people would want to share the evidence
Almost as if there’s an enormous state surveillance apparatus that will black-bag you if you talk? Let’s not pretend China has freedom of speech here.
And I’m sure you could pick apart the claims and the sources, and find biases, and say we should give the CCP the benefit of the doubt, but there’s really no reason to do so–what evidence is there that the CCP have changed their ways for the better?
2027: Change your direct deposit to this routing number and account number
Hi hi
We’re your plumber girls (uh huh)
And have we got news for you (you better listen!)
Get ready all you plumbing girls
And leave that poop knife at home!
Toilet water rising
Confidence getting low (how low girl?)
According to my estimate
This shit’s gonna overflow
Yeah the pledge is definitely weird.
Eh I don’t buy that, at least not as the primary goal. It’s more a side effect of the structure and resources of a class. When the classrooms were built to support 18 students per class, and the teacher’s union contract says they’ll have a max of 25 students per class, but in actuality they have 31 students per class, kids sharing desks and bumping elbows, yeah we kinda need all 31 of those kids to sit down and buckle up, or no one at all is going to get any learning done.
Is it the ideal learning environment for every student? Nope. Is it the ideal learning environment for any student? Probably not. But unless we’re willing to invest more in education, it’s what we’re working with.
I think they want kids to pay attention in class
I haven’t watched the Olympics in a long time but I thought the experience was kinda shit, especially compared to ye olden days of it being on every channel. My experience was basically:
My wife: What’s the difference between “Women’s all around final” and “women’s all around final (TV)”?
Me: googling I think we want the “TV” one?
30 second ad
20 seconds of a commentator talking over a view of Paris
2 minutes of ads
15 minutes of the camera just looking at an empty apparatus while there’s clearly other stuff going on in the background
2 minutes ads
30 seconds commentators discussing the event
2 minutes ads
Ok they actually fucking start, finally
Someone does something, 2 second MICRO AD??? This is a thing now apparently? Randomly throughout there’s these insanely short ads that are super jarring
Zoom in on Simone Biles face
Watch someone do a warmup on vault
Simone itches her nose
We can clearly hear other competitors doing things in the background, but Simone is looking to the right, so let’s focus on that
2 minutes ads
Watch a competitor do uneven bars, neat
Back to Simone, she’s talking to Suni now, we can’t hear it, but it must be important
Literally can see people doing flips and shit in the background, but let’s watch Simone as she sits in this chair
2 minutes ads
BREAKING NEWS: Simone blinks
“What did that other girl get for a score? Did they show it?”
Attempt to rewind 30 seconds. Big mistake, 2 minutes ads
Simone does a vault
2 minutes ads
…
Like I love Simone Biles, I do. Obviously I want to see all of her events. But holy shit, I’m here to watch the Olympics, not the “Simone is waiting for her turn” show. Also it was like 90% ads, they didn’t even show some of the highest scoring performances (since they only showed like 3 other people besides Simone), and half the time didn’t even show the scores they received. It was just…pretty bleh.
Anecdotal, but when I visited Madrid I saw more cats on the street than any other city I’ve visited. So maybe they get by with neighborhood cats?
“Orca Gang Activity: Crips v Bloods in the Deep Deep Sea”
Someone’s gotta check your butthole for ticks after a hike. Don’t want to get Lyme
Well here’s a story written in 2003 about exactly that, that I find myself thinking about more and more often
Daddy Time, please.
Does anyone have the text of recently released Epstein files? I found the PDF scans but want to be able to Ctrl+F for “Trump”
Lol, we still refer to movies shot with a shakey nauseating camera as “filmed Cloverfield-style”
I wonder if that’s even true. Sure, corporations aren’t black-bagging people in the night (yet), and the VOC genociding entire islands was many many years ago, but who put lead in gasoline and lied about its safety? Who covered up decades of climate change research? Why are we inhaling a credit card of microplastics every week? How are property management companies colluding on rents to create price floors and evict families?
Or here’s something forward-looking:
If Albertsons and Kroger are allowed to merge, do you think that’d be a good thing for American food security? If the government was not powerful enough to stop the merger, what should the citizenry do?