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  • That's exactly what I was implying. I used to live there - the asphalt would be hot to the touch at night and outright dangerous to touch with bare skin during the day. The heat island effect made for an unbearable outside temperature for most of the year.

    I'll never understand people who want to live in the desert; plants can't even survive there. Phoenix is a monument to man's arrogance.

  • How are people like you still both-sides-ing for upvotes when one of those two parties is filled with literal fascists and Nazis and the other just forgave billions of dollars worth of student debt? Wake the fuck up. Your false equivalence only serves to help the fascists. Unless, of course, that is your goal?

  • Hang on - in your analogy, the 17 year old kid is the battered wife and the black strangers - miles away and across state lines - are his abusers? Suggesting the kid was somehow a victim here? Like he spent his whole life being tortured by his abusive spouse (black strangers)?

    da fuq?

  • I'm not the person you are replying to, but I take your point and agree with you in principle. However, you didn't really address their point that $42k is the median household income in her area. So at least half the households (not just individuals) are trying it. But I don't know how it's working out for them.

    Perhaps that region is quite affordable or has a low cost of living or is crime ridden, idk.

  • This makes me a bit excited to see a court rule that a sitting president is immune. If that happens (it won't), I would expect Biden to immediately take full advantage of his newfound powers and publicly announce a dead or alive bounty for a whole slew of right-wing fascists currently holding or running for public office. That particular ruling could really solve this little Nazi problem that's been developing here in the US.

    "Good news, Mr Trump! You're off the hook since one of those obviously illegal things you did were crimes because you had presidential immunity. Hey, while I have you...."

  • Yup. These "free market" folks conveniently forget that competition is bolstered when there's a floor. An impartial referee to call balls, strikes, and fouls. A set of rules everyone has to play by, or they don't get to play at all.

    Also known as regulation.

  • The cloth masks were supposed to be a simple thing society could all agree to do for a while until better, medically proven masks were readily available. While they probably provide a benefit by reducing transmission, even if only by a small amount, they certainly don't hurt. This was all that was available at a time of overflowing hospitals, supply shortages, and rapidly increasing infection rates.

    Republicans, a club of mostly white guys who have publicly declared themselves the nemesis of science, immediately embraced obviously false claims arriving in their AOL email inboxes that the masks were actually harmful and that by wearing them, they were endorsing an impending government takeover by a new world order run by black antifa Jews... or some shit, I mean Jesus fuck you guys will believe anything. So anyway, those same Republicans loudly shouted "oppression" and to this day they won't stop talking about it even though the rest of the world can't stop thinking about just how batshit crazy these people went in the early days of the pandemic.

    Entire international medical community : "While we really prefer if you would just stay home for a bit and cut down on social gatherings, we know you're still going to go out. But if you could please at least wear this. It's cheap, readily available, and we're desperate to do anything to slow this thing down. We think they probably help in certain circumstances like if you're infected but don't know it yet. If we all work together and exercise basic precau..."

    Republicans: "This is literal slavery. Now if you'll excuse me, I'm late to church."

  • Smart frugal people. Lots of others will just factor it into the cost of a vacation and be okay with it - accepting the fact that it's overpriced and mediocre quality. It's just a matter of convenience and how much people are willing to shell out for it.