I hate it when the default state is turned into the negative. Every time I have to specify “unsweet tea” I feel the sands of my lifeforce slipping away.

But reading and learning from a library, then writing and selling your own book based on that is NOT stealing. It’s the wrong argument.

A powerful argument if one cannot tell the difference between a person and a product.

Look at all that space dedicated to a vanishingly small number of cars. This could be a nice inner courtyard with some grass or at least way more trees, but nah, we gotta have a road and weird alley with two parking spots per building.

Oh no, he was slammed??! Was he also owned, sent a message, taken to task, and other things that mean someone said something that he ignored and went right back to what he was doing?

tldr; I’m so tired of these Wrestlemania headlines of completely consequence free replies to people being terrible. Wake us when any bad person experiences anything approaching accountability.

There are no good guys in this war.

I am 14 and this is deep

Maybe covering everything with cars and car infrastructure was a bad idea.

That’s a quality headline rewrite.

If there was an easy solution to the cartels someone would have done it already. Take obtainable wins.

It really cracked me up 15-20 years ago when there was a fair amount of panic about the government / world order microchiping people at more or less the same time that everyone was starting to pay to carry around GPS devices that listen to you.

Yes. Improvement no matter how small is still improvement. More importantly, improving conditions can have sideways impacts on those big problems. Cartels (and Putin, using your Russia example) feed off desperation. Improving material conditions tends to make things harder for the bad guys, which is why the bad guys work so hard to make materials conditions worse (/wave MAGA). In reality, most problems are multi-faceted so we’d be fools not to see the big picture and do what we can where we can. The alternative, hyper focusing on the big problems, lets other problems grow which ultimately ends up feeding the big problem.

In their very half-hearted defense, some total weirdo did become one of the richest humans ever by saying “Myspace, but more superficial and with Harvard’s PR machine backing it.” Several subhuman ghouls become insanely wealthy by saying “banking, but online”. There was also “Walmart, but online”, “record store but on the phone”, “all this open source software but it’s mine now”, and several other giga-genius inno-venters.

Someone always thinks something else is more important. Doing that and making (wishfully) perfect the enemy of good are solid recipes for no progress.

Push for systemic change and fight the Democratic establishment 364 days a year.

Oh good, so they’ll be taking on domestic forced labour next, right? Right?!

Geez fellas, I’m starting to suspect these GQPedos actually have no values whatsoever and are just saying whatever feels convenient to get what they want.

Good catch. Thanks!

Yes, because these people are not bound by nations. They are part of a global community that very much wants to keep itself free from global government for, more or less, the same reason bandits operate away from cities.

It’s the religion of peace!

Solid post. #2 stings extra, extra hard when you learn that in the USA doctors spend on average somewhere between a quarter and half their time (studies vary) with insurance nonsense. We could potentially DOUBLE (or, low end, increase by 1/3 which is still insane) the number of useful doctor hours tomorrow, but we don’t. U$A

progressively making it impossible for trans people to exist

Geez, a person would have to think for like 2, maybe even 5 seconds to forsee how this plays out. Instead of buying apples from the orchard, we’ll be buying apples from the local apple thieves. Hey, why are there no more apples?