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The average voter is a fucking moron.

If a company is firing you, fuck their "private company details." You should have zero loyalty or obligation to an entity that's potentially going to make you go hungry/homeless. Criminal disclosures will be covered by law already, so all you're doing is slurping up the boot juice and perpetuating the culture of silence that allows companies and capital owners to pit workers against one another

Completely off topic to the thread, but you just reminded me of a time I snuck onto a movie set and got to actually do that. I posed as a driver for the car company and got to start/drive one of those bad boys with the hand crank. Inside was all switches too which was wild. The most uncomfortable ride of my life.

Medication by another means is still medication friend. And if therapy is not your jam but you're open to medicating via doctor-prescribed anxiety medication, you can always set an appointment with a gp. I can tell you from personal experience that self-medicating with nicotine and perhaps other substances will only mask the anxiety. To truly deal with it you've got to take it head on. For me medication and therapy made a world of difference, but everyone's path is different. Wishing you luck!

War is never needed though, is my point. Yes unprompted aggression deserves a response (I'd never advocate for just laying down and taking the fascist boot), but war itself only produces destruction, broken homes, and broken families.

My comment was more about those who have not been through an actual war but romanticise it. There is nothing romantic about it.

The people responsible are the politicians who funded this shit. They're not going to put themselves behind bars

Lived through and ethnic cleansing genocide. I always laugh when western keyboard warriors start talking about how war is "needed" or "coming" and larping out their movie fantasies. Real war is nothing like TV. Its hell all around. There are no victors in war. Everyone loses.

Maybe you just never approached it from the right angle. I bet if you tried a new approach the subject matter wouldn't be quite as obtuse

Proof?

A report by a former IMF official that completely ignores the indisputable fact that China is the only manufacturing and producer superpower in the world (not counting military production, where the USA is the undisputed leader), and instead compares the two economies on a financial services standard which favors the USA to begin with bc they're solely a financial/services driven economy at this point.

Look, I'm not a fan of a lot of what happens in China, but this is a shit comparison and projection.

For what it's worth, yelling "Fire" in a crowded theater is not unprotected speech in and of itself. It became a popular analogy in US jurisprudence after being used by Justice Holmes in Schenck v. United States, but it had nothing to do with the question, holding, or even the dicta of the case itself (it was more or less just an off the cuff analogy). This was later tested and clarified by the Branderburg standard which held that for speech to cross the line to incitement (and thus not be constitutionally protected), it must be “directed to inciting or producing imminent lawless action” and “likely to incite or produce such action.” Under that standard, the covid argument would fail.

That being said, many municipalities have disorderly conduct and disturbing the peace laws that will likely get you in trouble if you went around yelling "fire" in crowded spaces (especially dif you actually incited a stampede or a crowd crush, which could then have you on the hook for more serious charges).

Good. The "border crisis" provisions were ridiculous. This bill was mostly smoke anyway. What we need is a separate funding bill for Ukraine and a separate, comprehensive reform bill for immigration to make it easier to immigrate legally, to add funding for visa/asylum processing, and to fund better care for those in US custody awaiting processing. The border "security" shit they're trying to push is a dog and pony show giveaway to Republicans and further militarizes one of the most corrupt, ineffective, and unaccountable organizations in the entire US government (ICE & border patrol)

I've started to curate my own rss feed for news (largely a mix of art, tech, and socio-economic commentary). One of the most interesting writers/artists/podcasters I recently discovered is Caitlin Johnstone, and highly recommend subbing/supporting her any chance I get.

Same experience and sentiment here. The only thing I'm really missing is an API I can hook into for automation and integration with my home library setup. But it's on the roadmap and (allegedly) being worked on so fingers crossed. I will say that once I imported everything from Goodreads and got setup, I've not gone back.

Awh damn, I didn't do a link check after posting. My bad. It's analogous to Goodreads, though both have their strengths and weaknesses (imo goodreads has a much larger community and better kindle integration, whereas StoryGraph has a much better metadata/stats platform and a more personal community feel - its also not Amazon driven, if that matters to you at all).

But to circle back to your original question since you can't see the link, I'm currently wrapping up Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism. Overall a good read and a great collection/distillation of socio-economic data, if at times a bit repetitive on some points (though it makes sense in context as they all relate).

StoryGraph

Yes and no. I've been in quite a few situations where an overrun/understaffed location will funnel half a dozen or so cars to the parking lot after a certain amount of time before the food is ready.

Most certainly will be ways to exploit it to make the numbers look good without improving quality of service (see fast food drive-thru workers asking customers to "pull up front" in order to stop the timer and artificially move the line while the customer continues to wait for food)