Interesting timing right as Minnesota anti-ICE Target boycott is just starting to get organized.
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Interesting timing right as Minnesota anti-ICE Target boycott is just starting to get organized.
A lot of that seems like it comes from a more general hate/distrust for the NYT than for Bouie or his writing.
If you're scared of protesting or a general strike because you could lose your job, healthcare, and housing, or even go to jail, now you understand why the US has no universal healthcare or housing and no guaranteed parental leave, but DOES have the largest prison and police system on planet Earth.
Still amazed that my dad, who has unwittingly pointed a loaded gun at me, and refused to speak to my brother for 3 months for implying that maybe a football team's mascot was racist, unironically mocks women for being too inexperienced and emotional to be political leaders.
I dont know enough to speculate how that happened in other countries that also saw concurrent declines in smoking, though.
There were also things like higher cigarette taxes and public health awareness that the tobacco settlements paid for, so I think a lot of Americans were basically coerced to change their behaviors just by making smoking a lot more expensive and inconvenient.
At least in the US, I think a lot of the sea change started with the very public lawsuits and large payouts that cigarette makers made in the 90s, and many other companies became very aware of their own potential financial liabilities and responded.
A *lot* of people still have a toddler's idea of risk assessment when it comes to politics where you only start changing your behaviors after experiencing significant and direct harm.
There are so many disengaged people sitting around waiting to be mobilized by tragedy, and they do not see it.
Grock of Ages
There's a difference between real dedication and just the single-mindedness of a mental toddler
If I were a woman, I think I'd just get a roommate and a couple of cats if that's how much I had to lower my standards.
Sounds like a nicer version of those fake navy seal boot camps where rich guys pay someone to yell and make them physically exhausted for a long weekend.
*Panera mixologists frantically brainstorming for how to make their charged lemonade the deadliest chain restaurant beverage again*
I think the more fundamental issue is the inability to weigh the long term consequences of an immediate benefit; it's the central conceit of every Faustian bargain and why a lot of people don't read the ToS before signing their rights away.
This drink will do the unthinkable and unite cardiologists and nephrologists against it.
Shoutout to the homie @fdsignifier.bsky.social for putting this out and pointing people to advocates!
youtu.be/v1nS_-ra8xE?...
What's the square stuff on the side of the bowl just poking out from the broth?
It is important to teach kids to be measured in their language because when they need to use a swear in times like this, they don't want the power of the curse diluted by familiarity.
That "just to clarify" post they made after taking personal credit for something that was a share of a share of an amalgam of stolen art is just so goddamn gross and pathetic.
It looks like the ship Weyland-Yutani puts people on to become xenomorph food.
To be fair, they do own most of the homes and that is kinda why we hate them
Kinda curious about the decision to describe it in the headline as a school "compound" like it's some kind of military installation and not just a "school".
Spread the word, an ACTUAL replacement for Flash is on the horizon! Go support this project NOW!!!!!!!!
bill.newgrounds.com/news/post/16...
Punxsutawney Phil woke up and punched his shadow in the kidney
At least with the door-to-door scammers I can put up a sign that says "no solicitors".
Well, at the very least whoever the hell this person is.
Bragging that you're mostly training your planned replacement is a weird flex.
This whole thread is great, but this point in particular is key. I’ll also highlight how age plays into this. In my younger years, I worked part-time at Barnes & Noble (book discounts…hooray!). One of my co-workers was a woman in her early 50s. A year and a half earlier, she had gotten laid off…
We're doing critical fluffiness science here today.
AI-assisted chat to text, but someone just recorded 20 seconds of riding on the red line at rush hour.
