To eat yogurt

I don’t blame him though, most people make me lose my faith in humanity. I think it’s rational for someone to want to protect themselves and favor self-preservation. I also think it’s rational to contribute to a system which helps sustain you and your life and everything you enjoy doing. I don’t think it’s fair to ask people to make sacrifices or be altruistic or less selfish. I do think it’s fair to ask people to be reasonable and civil.

Almost everyone in X-Men

If commuters don’t have an alternative to travel, then policy makers should mandate that the commuters carbon tax be paid for by their company

I think the problem is that it’s targeting residents, which is how you know the policy was drafted by anti-environmental proponents, regardless of what anyone says. Carbon taxes need to target companies, not residents. Companies and industries are the main producers of carbon emissions, the output of residents pales in comparison.

Trump sounds like a tired old man who cannot think of all the consequences of a decision, so he’s just picking the laziest option.

There’s no precedent in history for multiple nuclear powers waging a war, or getting pulled into one. There’s no telling what can happen because we’ve simply never been here before.

And people who think their money or resources will save them from black swan events are forgetting all the previous black swan events which made losers of everyone. The Great Recession and Covid are two most recent ones.

Most of all though, the major winners of WW2 are utter failures now. Britain is crumbling and not even a shell of its former glory, and America is eating itself from the inside out thanks to Russian PsyOps war 300 while Republican losers are salivating after ww3.

So no, ww3 is not going to MAGA, but more like nail the MAGA coffin shut

I think UBI and reskilling or upskilling programs with apprenticeship placements would help. I am not saying coding boot camps, I am saying more specialized stuff like electrical grid maintenance etc

The trick is to either get an example from them of what they think is a descriptive invoice, or to break down your invoice filling procedure into a step by step workflow or checklist.

Someone isn’t necessarily being an asshole, that person has their own struggles, goals and priorities. Managing a condition and someone else’s expectations or their own condition is the hardest part of working together. This is where soft skills help, too

Is this post sane-washing Russia? What’s left about Russia under Putin? Overall funny, though

Please let there be karmic balance, and let them both be disinfo agents from a troll farm, please God

So they fixed the electoral college, and they know victory is all but certain. That’s why they came up with the most cruel and despicable lie so that when Trump wins, despite losing the debate, progressives and leftists and sane people will be heartbroken and soul shattered.

This is how you know the electoral college is fixed, they have no fear of repercussions

Sue the racists

We don’t know how consciousness works enough to say they don’t. Having a brain and/or nervous system might not be necessary.

Hmm sorry but no, there are traits exhibited by conscious entities which we don’t observe in those which lack consciousness. This is a nice explainer on consciousness, note that it’s not saying anything about needing a brain to exhibit those traits

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/consciousness/#DesQueWhaFeaCon

correct me if I am misremembering sth

Eh someone who gives their SO hell for not sticking to their diet is not necessarily “Karen”, it’s unnecessary to frame it this way

He’s cheating on his diet, as others mentioned. I feel like you should be able to just talk to your wife about going off diet once in a while…

'tax the rich" will garner the support of the “not rich”, you know the ones that don’t pull the strings or have the power.

99.9999% of people are not “rich”. If you have to rely on income from a job to keep from becoming homeless or destitute, then you’re not rich. If you have to work a job to make money, you’re not rich. You can rent a lifestyle, sure. But how long can you sustain it without working?

Remember, expensive lives cost money. Where’s that coming from, exactly? A huge majority of people are working class.

Most people would benefit from a society which taxes corporations and the uber wealthy (non working class) their due share. Higher taxes means more social programs, and social programs are not just welfare. Social programs come in all sorts of varieties, including funding art and museums.

Arranged marriage is not forced marriage. The arrangement is that you meet the potential suitor via family, and if things don’t work out that’s it. You’re not supposed to force or coerce a marriage, at least that’s how it is in most South Asian or Middle Eastern families who practice this

Edit the horror stories we read about in the news are usually about lower income or uneducated folks, most middle class or upper class families practicing arranged marriages don’t go around forcing things if a match doesn’t happen

The video is possibly illegal in several states https://www.citizen.org/article/tracker-legislation-on-deepfakes-in-elections/

Edit maybe there should be more election deepfakes so that we’ll finally have legislation outlawing this behavior

I know from some experience that parents eventually make peace with their children for cultural differences like these, at least some of them do

This is great, but maybe there should be some campaign finance reform against things like citizens united etc. It’s very worrying that a handful of ceos can out do all of this if they want one particular candidate

Whatever the case, corporations should back Harris, even if some of her platform or party policies don’t immediately benefit some corporation. Long term national stability isn’t a guarantee when there’s political or international turmoil, and historically there’s been more national or global turmoil under one US party vs another