In fact, I’d argue that perpetually kicking a hugely popular Democratic issue to the next election cycle says he specifically doesn’t want it solved, so that it can keep the same campaign literature.

Remember, Chuck is trying to please “the Baileys,” a fantasy median couple who wouldn’t vote for him if they could and generally oppose Democratic policies. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dijMKwZMU2Q

legit places…

My university, 23andMe, Transunion, Equifax, CapitalOne, United Healthcare…

Title says “in,” means within the grounds of the facility that these protesters were denied access. “At” would probably be a better preposition, or maybe ‘around.’ “In” implies that they’ve banned detainees from prayer.

Benjamin Franklin: It is better that 100 guilty persons escape than that one innocent suffer.

Donald Trump: It is better that 100 innocents starve than that one grifter eat cake.

Good news, then: Ozempic about to get cheap.

The grand jury didn’t really have any choice: it was a turkey sandwich, and they only indict ham.

My favorite conspiracy is that he & Epstein have been trafficking girls, young women, and even boys, and using the product to blackmail GOP leadership into “supporting” him. How many times since 2015 have you asked yourself, “What does Trump have on [X]?” after a private meeting and abrupt policy flip? Blackmail material is useless once it’s public.

That girl can rant. Love her work, but always watch it at 2x to maximize the frustrated-teacher vibe.

Probably can’t vote in NYC because their legal residence is already Florida, Nevada, or somewhere without income tax. And they won’t leave because The Villages just doesn’t have the food, parties, or culture that NYC has.

Would you allow the converse: FoF to store data on your system? Data that could be CSAM - maybe encrypted, maybe not - ‘terrorism’ content, etc?

My problem with chains of trust is the Kevin Bacon problem. Sure, I trust my friends, but some of their friends can be a little sketchy. Plus, they don’t have any direct social contact with me, nor any personal consequences for betrayal. And nevermind the sketchy friends of the sketchy friends.

Federation has its uses, but trust is not one of them.

Shit’s woke, yo! Put a tariff on it!

There’s twice as many non-collision accidents as all the collision categories combined. People just wiping out, which definitely sounds like too fast for the turn, showboating, etc. Not that women can’t do all that - it just feels like much more stereotypically male behavior.

General slip-and-fall doesn’t seem like it would be highly gendered. Do you find pool injuries are overwhelmingly one sex?

I still go back and start up JC3 once a year or so, just to steal helicopters & tanks and trash enemy bases. Peak grappling hook. I really expected more of the same, dialed up to 11 in JC4, but yeah: uninstalled after a day.

The people seeing the biggest dollar increases will be those above 400% of poverty level - $62,600 for singles, $128,600 family of 4 - because the “Big Beautiful Bill” brings back the cap on ACA subsidies. In my area, the benchmark ‘SLCSP’ is $1150/month (single). 2025, someone making $70k would have paid $560 for that, after tax credits; 2026, they’re on the hook for the whole bill. Family of 4 making $130k is going to pay $3045/month in 2026; would have paid $1030 in 2025.

There’s big percentage changes up and down the scale, but bringing back “the cliff” essentially targets self-employed people who are finally getting ahead.

So, the US GDP is about $30T. Walmart revenue is about $700B, or 2.3% of GDP. Amazon, 2.1%. United Healthcare, 1.3%. Roughly one out of every 20 dollars spent in the US goes to Walmart or Amazon. That’s kind of terrifying.

I have to believe the best times are ahead. I look back at any point in US history and there was more hatred for different people, more formal oppression of those people, more imperialist aggression. Maybe, there were times when certain segments of the white male population could get material goods more easily, but that was often at the cost of just just accepting poverty for everyone else. Not to mention literal famine and plagues.

There’s a whole world of people out there making shit better all the time. Curing incurable diseases, building alternatives to fossil fuels, converting crowded streets to greenways. There’s a lot of political pressure trying to preserve the bad old ways, even trying to bring back long-forgotten plagues, but we are still finding better ways to do things despite those malicious fucks.

This one, though, I know it’s going to. And then you can plane all the evidence back off, if you want, like a trip to the power washer.