No one should be making permanent, lasting decisions with potentially major impacts on society until after their brain has fully developed- so roughly around age 24.
By which I obviously mean no one under 24 should be allowed to have kids.
cue the Church’s self-righteous and unbearably self-serving indignation
Sit still? Be quiet? Fine.
Consciousness falls inward, a galactic space battle with sapient dinosaurs ensues
Put that fuckin Boomer in prison for 3 years.
The marginal cost of information goods is zero. Digital Capitalism is inherently a scam, even moreso than physical products.
53% of white women voted for Trump in 2024.
I’m finding it very difficult to see why Texas should be allowed to remain independent. They can’t maintain their infrastructure, they can’t provide for their citizen constituents, and they frequently signal a willingness to demean America by association. They’re not good at governance and are constantly begging for Federal handouts.
So let’s just take over the state. Send in the Feds, remove the Executive branch and State supreme court justices, and disbar the legislative officers. They keep fuckin around and it is past time they started finding out.
Double vinyl is okay, but a half-speed mastering would be better.
Somehow the company store returned…
Better be sure. They can run at 25-30mph (faster than Usain Bolt)
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“Fuck you all, I’m going back to my cave.”
I agreed that they are the natural outcome, in the absence of effective regulation. Sans means without.
Capitalism inherently concentrates wealth, and as wealth concentrates, it builds upon itself while seeking out novel opportunities to deepen influence. We see this phenomenon in modern economic scenarios as individuals gain the ability to co-opt political forces, and create larger and larger wealth watersheds.
In other words, the existence of billionaires is a symptom of a broken system- one that has NOT effectively been regulated. They become monopolistic entities unto themselves. Billionaire brands then gain further leverage via network effects, creating a snowball that only government intervention can safely defuse. It doesn’t matter if one billionaire is “good,” nor one politician. As Edwards Deming famously said, “a bad system will beat a good person, every time.”
Exactly this.
I’ve never understood recency bias in friendship. If we’re friends, what does it matter how long its been? Why does a relationship degrade simply because time has elapsed? Is your brain so fickle? Is there no expectation of continuity? Loyalty? Does a treasured item that’s been put in a drawer for a time lose its innate value?
In this regard, I prefer my brain to whatever the hell normative is; I don’t require constant or regular affirmation to remain steadfast in my beliefs.
Sure, sans regulation. The point of govt regulations is to ensure that platforms that control two sided markets are not given complete largesse to fleece the participants. It’s ultimately a defeating strategy with diminishing returns, as both producers and consumers lack the necessary surplus required to participate AND to invest/reinvest resources toward long term growth. Another reason that stock buy-backs used to be illegal.
And obviously you can probably guess I believe they should be illegal again.
Idaho also ranks in the bottom half of states for primary care and physician availability. 39 of Idaho’s 44 counties are health professional shortage areas
They’ve already lost 1 of every 5 OBGYN since 2022.
A better functioning government would break up these conglomerates as they operate like cartels, price fixing and gouging and colluding with each other, all at consumer expense, while simultaneously watering down product offerings to their worst versions.
This is NOT the free market.
I’m not saying it’s right, but I’d understand it
You can actually purchase that bust of JFK from the Kennedy Center gift shop.
Everything south of LA is:
La Jolla, hateful mean snobs
San Diego, topically nice but incredibly shallow. Deep as a puddle