Also the point of public services is that everyone uses them if they’re sufficient for what they need. If they’re designed to just be a shitty alternative for desperate poor people they’re not going to be good.
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These things always seem to boil down to "rich people might also benefit!" and the apparent solution is to stick with a system where ONLY rich people benefit
A really funny complaint about the Zohran discount grocery store idea is that non-poor people could use it when there’s a grocery store half a mile from my grocery store that has everything cost 20% more that rich people go to because they don’t want to shop with normal people.
Remember, if you see someone stealing copper from a data center, no you didn't. youtu.be/xCzkSyAAf4M?...
Suspects steal $100K in copper from data center site
YouTube video by FOX 5 Washington DC
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When you have to explain to this degree YOU are the problem. Excuse after excuse. The guy has a history of assaulting women since high school. Pushed a girl down the stairs for not responding to his advances. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Assault, misogyny, verbal threats: Records detail new allegations against Rep. Max Miller
Police reports and filings in a bitter custody dispute raise new questions about the conduct of an Ohio Republican as he campaigns for a third term.
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For a chance, this isn't Cyclospora cayetanensis! It's Listeria monocytogenes, just to keep things interesting
monkeyrotica@monkeyrotica.bsky.social · 9h agoBREAKING: Diarrhea Peaches to open for Diarrhea Lettuce, Diarrhea Planet, Dismemberment Band. www.thehealthy.com/news/peach-r...
I survived growing up Evangelical, and I know purity culture when I see it Hypersurveillance is purity culture Punching down/ targeted humiliation excused as "tough love" is purity culture Purity culture teaches absolute obedience, regardless of circumstances Purity culture is dangerous
This isn't to say kids don't need protection; it *is* to say that protection will not come from a panoptic surveillance state that not only their parents but also any predator with a keyboard can franchise into their very own home.
I say again, "These surveillance regimes will not keep you or your children safe because they are actively preying on you": Rather than the predators, people focus on rigidly controlling children's ability to explore the world, from no third spaces to tracked online life,thus making Them targetable
Achai@achai.bark.how · 2w agothe push for ID checks online is designed to make children easier to target; Meta is one of the companies lobbying for these types of legislation. the whole idea is to continue to target children as a lucrative market by assuring parents that giving children unmanaged tablets is safe.
"Powered by humanoid robots" Will they be running on treadmills to keep the lights on? That doesn't seem very efficient.
He also "planned" a working moon mission by 2024 & we're still in the "sometimes it doesn't crash" stage of that process. Stop reporting on any tech bro CEO's claims as if they are facts, especially in outlets connected to our shared collective hallucination called "the economy". CONTEXTUALIZE SHIT.
FinTwitter@fintwitter.bsky.social · 8h ago$SPCX - SPACEX PLANS MOON FACTORIES POWERED BY HUMANOID ROBOTS
In 1986, contracting HIV meant you were going to die, usually slowly, painfully, and alone. Now it's a chronic illness like hypertension. In 1986, gay and lesbian couples couldn't have their relationships legally recognized and had to adopt elaborate legal workarounds.
Constantine@ajaxsinger.bsky.social · 19h agoFood, man. Food is so much better than it was in 1986. All of it. Poor-people food, restaurant food, fresh food, frozen food. Food is just a hell of a lot better.
Can we get a reboot of Smokey and the Bandit but with all Sikhs? I want that so badly just to watch a vein pop out of Jesse Watters forehead. At the climax there’s a Bollywood dance number to a cover of “Convoy.”
the funny thing about people in the western world being angry at sikhs for taking all the trucking jobs is that people in India are also angry with them for taking all the trucking jobs. It's not you. It's what we do. We are the Truck Guys.
I remember people saying the older you get the more conservative you get, but I am finding the opposite. The way things are headed I'm going to end up pushing a walker in black bloc while wearing a full face respirator hooked up to a portable oxygen tank.
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Why are the poors voting for socialism instead of dying for capitalism are they stupid or something? The media
I like the concept of sufficiency being added here because it does open the door for a discussion of CripTax. CripTax is, basically, when it costs a Disabled person more to live at the same or equitable level of comfort as a non-Disabled person.
Basic Income Action ↗️@basicincomeaction.org · 2d agoWhat actually counts as basic income? The most comprehensive definition — 7 tenets: universal, unconditional, uniform, individual, cash-based, periodic, sufficient. Read it here → basicincomeaction.org/about?tab=de...
"he allegedly admitted to creating a fake account and sending the messages to himself so he could step away from the show instead of dealing with what he described as difficulties with the cast and crew" perfect. no notes
as an actor, this tracks
Pixie Casey@pixiecasey.bsky.social · yesterdayin insane local news, the 26 year old director of a rocky horror production was arrested for sending threatening messages to himself in order to get the play shut down bc he didn’t want to deal with cast drama www.mynbc5.com/article/rock...
A data center was just shut down in Wisconsin after the town council refused to have private talks with the developer and told them everything would include public approval That’s how it’s done, folks
on Sophie Cunningham and a trans controversy that doesn't involve any actual trans people: defector.com/the-right-ha...
Fae: “Tell us your true name.” Me: “…Just my name? No birthdate, no SSN, no fingerprint scan, no address, no mother’s maiden name? Are you sure you’ve even got the right Olivia Waite? There’s like six.” Fae: “What the hell kind of bargains have you been making?” Me: “They call it health insurance.”
When you’re reading a romance involving Fae bargains and you start to hear a sweet little distant melody chiming through the air… Then you realize it’s an ice-cream truck. Then you remember you live on a side street backed up against the woods and have never once seen an ice-cream truck here.
In my state it is several orders of magnitude more likely that little Becky's shot at a state championship is blocked by a private school that bought its players with booster money than by a trans girl on her team or an opponent's.