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  • "nuke the unevolved savage freaks" is the most blatant example of standard issue online "it's ok to say racist things about Indians" I have ever seen. I have no idea how anyone in 2023 could not have a single brain cell to make them rethink a statement like that before clicking the comment button.

  • Are you fucking kidding me with this racist shit?

  • If you remove the capital letters, "the first lady" got Covid could imply that only men have gotten it up to this point

  • Also fascinating to watch so many self-proclaimed "leftists" parrot Fox News talking points. I swear I think some of these people want the fascists to win so they can get their chance to cosplay revolutionary.

    Zero acknowledgement that every revolution in history has violently decimated the working class and only replaced one power hierarchy with another. Oh, but their revolution is gonna be totally different...

  • And we...have treatments and/or vaccines and public health campaigns for all of those endemic infections just like we will continue to do for Covid?

    I'm not sure why you think endemic is a judgement of risk. It's not. It's an epidemiological definition.

  • Seriously. I watched both of my parents get their "good jobs" sold right out from under them to private equity firms that laid off all the older, more expensive workers immediately. I, myself, was laid off twice before I turned 28 years old.

    I have zero incentive to be "loyal" to any company when they so clearly will never be loyal to me. What a load of horseshit.

  • Oh man, let me introduce you to my absolute favorite used book seller:

    https://www.ebay.com/str/secondsalecom

    Also, construction leftovers on eBay are a great way to get sink faucets, light fixtures, etc. for a house.

  • Sorry, I'm just gonna repeat that for the folks in the back...

    NONCOMPLIANCE SHOULDN'T MEAN EXECUTION BY FIRING SQUAD

  • I thought it wasn't about her shoplifting? Make up your mind.

    Oh, I'm sorry. It's not about any of that, is it? It's just about whatever you need to excuse a government agent murdering an American citizen without a proper trial by jury.

    Do us all a favor and never pretend you respect the United States Constitution ever again.

  • You're a good teacher, working around the things they find important in their lives. Thank you

  • Those complaints originated in TERF circles

  • Oh, I'm sure she's still very pro-LGB. Most TERFs are (for now at least). It's the T part of the equation that they think it's acceptable to hate

  • It's an unsustainable business model for profit.

    "In 2005, private equity-owned firms owned less than 1 percent of skilled nursing facilities. By 2015, they owned 9 percent; the share is likely higher today.

    Purchases of nursing homes by private equity firms are associated with higher patient mortality rates, fewer caregivers, higher management fees, and a decline in patient mobility."

    https://www.nber.org/digest/202104/how-patients-fare-when-private-equity-funds-acquire-nursing-homes

    Squeezing profit out of the end of elderly people's lives is an extra special level of disgusting

  • "Should" cost. Yeah I'm gonna need citations for that one. You really and honestly believe the libertarian nonsense that private, for-profit corporations are going to provide those same high quality services and fuck us less?

    And make no mistake, those are high quality services. Corporations are perfect happy to use all the free data generated by the National Weather Service, US Geological Survey, NIH, NSF, NIST, etc precisely because it's world class. It's funny how the only things that people complain about the "government" doing are all the things that cost corporations money like product and environmental safety. Or social services that are deliberately inefficient so conservatives can keep complaining about how bad "government services" are. It would be a lot more efficient if they would just give poor people fucking cash.

  • No this is different, actually. The other event is the hypothesized genetic bottleneck triggered by the Toba supervolcano eruption only 74,000 years ago as opposed to 900,000 years ago for this newly proposed event.

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tobacatastrophetheory

  • Well, I like roads and bridges being fixed, and good reliable weather forecasts, and standardized weights and measures, and a functional department of justice, labor, food and drug safety, standardized phone and Internet protocols so companies can't completely lock us in their walled gardens, cars that are safe to drive, etc. So I'm happy with the taxes part of that equation

  • It's also pretty hard when the corporations you work for aren't interested in paying you what you're worth. People need and deserve better wages