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Are you mad that people got mad? Anger is not a subtle political instrument, a win is a win.

I was randomly up at 4, shouldn’t have been on my phone at all. Word salad.

Oh shit. Free demo too. I’ll see if it has the same magic for my kid that it did for me

Sooo

It’s illegal to be against the genocide, it’s illegal to be proactively for it. Is the only legal option to be not paying attention?

Not surprising that the refund check doesn’t reduce driving in practise. If memory serves - you can’t reward a behaviour into extinction, just like you can’t punish a new behaviour into existence.

At least, that’s if you credit what they teach in applied behaviour analysis courses. I don’t get to use my degree much, except at times like this.

That’s the way you do it, if it must be done at all. And despite my antipathy towards cars, it seems it must.

I have to imagine the tail wags the dog both ways in that scenario. Better public transport feeds into better public health outcomes, and nationalised healthcare (should) have a vested interest in reducing auto reliance for myriad reasons.

In both cases, it’s being called a “challenge” because they have already capitulated.

I don’t know what comment you meant to reply to, but I was pretty specifically talking about attacking people for what they do.

I just wish there was a clean way to diss them for weaponising their self-hatred. If you think of a really pithy insult for people who externalise their negative feelings, please share with the rest of us, it’s badly needed.

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We need to be fucking shit up

I’m very privileged as a dual citizen, I get to be disappointed by two cack-handed empires

Worst guy I’ve ever voted in, Starmer. And I voted for Biden. I’ve learned my lesson, never voting strategically again. Sucker’s game.

Are we sure these flags came from an appropriately needy flagpole? How many flagpole sittas were in their household?

Imagine a car, malfunctioning, looking at you while it hits you.

I thought I might be playing it loose applying it to the case of private equity in the creative arts, but it feels right

Bad money chases out good, they say.

You jest, but remember that the Dept of Education has been EO’d almost out of existence, currently run by Vince McMahon’s wife who is a staunch supporter of “school choice” and charter schools. These are the easiest way to re-segregate schools, put the curriculum back in the hands of moneyed interests, and defund public education.

The trend will be that public schools will have all the kids who are economically disadvantaged, disaffected, badly taught, and unable to be helped by teachers and faculty who are underpaid, understaffed, and hobbled by bad policy, the more school shootings will become a problem that doesn’t affect a certain segment of society. Any parents who can, will pull their kids from failing public schools and pay more to have their kids attend other schools, or even homeschool. The fewer kids the public schools have, the more budget cuts will be authorised.

All public schools will ultimately be shuttered, under this plan. School shootings will keep happening of course, but once it only affects rich white kids, it will finally be taken seriously, at least.

It takes two to tango, they say. Corporations have a lot more wallet to vote with, as it were - but we are not powerless or blameless when we support them out of complacency.