Right, and part of the problem is these hawks (the kind who own 2400 pubs) would then fly in with that much more VC$ and scoop up 5x that amount of something like this passed. I’m all for the idea, but big companies don’t get little guy breaks, they can play with the adults and take the loss.

I agree with your assessment of current state; add in a few cohorts of 10 commandments in classrooms, reduced access to birth control because they’re taken out of schools, reduced education because the DOE has been rebranded and now education takes place through public school Grok portals or God knows what, sexual content is heavily censored and restricted which doesn’t do good things for teen pregnancy rates.

Lol drive across state lines? In the palantir big brother world of 5 years from now? Read up on the data gathering and now nearly realtime tracking of movement that can and is being done by “law enforcement” and red state government agencies in the name of stopping abortion. Just like how facial recognition of protestors will be weaponized, the new fascists will take anything they get their mits on and warp it to their ends.

You might be right; they’ll be hooked up to the Matrix, eyes glowing

Gta2 was the best

No…and our recently anointed head of the CDC, RFK, has already reduced and restricted who is advised to receive even the flu and COVID annuals.

Violent crime about to explode as abortion now illegal in many places–the knock-on effects of it pretty well isolated as the only reasonable explanation to the sudden drop in violent crime in the mid 90s that has continued through today and was a central thesis in Freakonomics.

With abortion now illegal, hushed up, or hidden in many states, the crime and its vicious cycle will return. Bet your money, when those who would have otherwise been aborted come of crime age in ~15 years, full Judge Dredd world will be on in the US. Teen pregnancy, from the 2nd generation of otherwise aborted kids, will of course explode to the delight of evangelicals everywhere.

Just started a book today I got recommended here called “on oil” about the ties and parallels of oil and evangelicalism to Alberta’s oil boom starting in the 60s.

Just keep rubbing their nose in it. A few will finally tire of the smell of shit.

If only they’d included a definition for the ignorant right in the same article:

“Plague occurs in three forms, bubonic, septicemic and pneumonic, depending on whether the infection hits the lymph nodes, bloodstream or lungs. Most US cases are bubonic, typically spread via flea bites from infected rodents.”

So since I can only assume he’ll pardon himself if he ever leaves office, why is he worried?

“expression analysis” - 2025 phrenology

This goes right up there with stock chart technical analysis. "It’s definitely this. Though it can also be this. Or that. And it depends on the person. And the context. And…

It’s so messy/noisy with variables, stuff like this just gives people false confidence that they know who/what someone is or what something represents. Psuedoscience

Read title as “homicide robot community”. I’d say that’s reasonable as an American at this point.

I love a good article, but sometimes the visualization is the easiest way to quickly show something to make a point for someone otherwise unfamiliar. I’m actually going to include this in an index for a presentation I’m going to do at my local city transportation and safety committee to show that the problem isn’t unique and there are choices to be made. If I go to try to make a change and provide a bunch of teams of paper, that makes a different impact.

There’s a reason propagandists generally use photos video(since film has existed): it can multiply the impact and in some cases make an impact and reach people who would ignore written content.

Both companies are owned by a large Japanese conglomerate. They got lucky with indeed, and have used little of its unbelievable market share to solidify it’s position and improve the product. Indeed, properly managed, would print money and go parabolic as a stock. Instead it’s just sat there because both sites suck and exist on inertia.

You would enjoy 419eater.com

Sorry, $45m and a starter home which barely exists is like 500k minimum? So one can buy one of the biggest buildings in the city for 90x a starter home? Wow.

It must to reflect the current high vacancy reality of a business model (commercial real estate) serving a base that doesn’t now and is unlikely to exist in the future; white collar, on-site work. Someone much bigger than a local CEO would have bought it (REIT, another bank, etc. but they’re already nervous about similar real estate on their books). Many potential commercial property buyers don’t care if it’s a warzone if there is money to be made off leasees.

It’s funny how the permissive zoning for businesses hollowed out cities thanks to zero residential or sustainable community development, and city governments everywhere didn’t GAF the last 50 years as long as that sweet tax money was coming in. Meanwhile, downtowns are dead and there is a gaping hole of residential housing–especially efficient, dense residential housing. Gee, wonder what the solution would have been? This is the real reason the city of Portland is forcing its employees back on site–they don’t want to look bad not having skin in the game in their own city.

I was on the fence about attending a world cup (it would be my first) when the sleaze has been trying to say it’s “his” for the last year. Since FIFA has been corrupt forever it probably means I won’t be able to enjoy it as much because I’ll be considering what I’d be endorsing. It’s disappointing, I’ve wanted to go to one since I was a kid but considering there will probably be ICE raids in the concourse or psychopaths trying to drive trucks into the crowd to kill the [insert group] I’ll have to forgo it.

I’m surprised I have heard anything about boycott here–therr was a ton of push for that during Qatar build up around human rights, and nothing for this? I’d hope the US gets boycotted by whole nations ala East German/Russian Olympics.

What a life, lived.

Thanks for this link. So amazing to get to see real convo not from corporate media.