Remember_the_tooth @ Remember_the_tooth @lemmy.world

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It will be a showcase one way or the other.

"US prepares for appropriate response to especially egregious acts."

Ah, the crisp, refreshing taste of diet fascism.

Bold of you to assume this about enforcing law (or keeping peace).

This is escalation for the sake of performative leadership. It's another manufactured crisis. They find a manageable problem under someone else's purview, exacerbate it, use the escalation to claim the other party is losing control, step in, and pretend to help while the other party solves the problem, then they take credit and walk away. It's a power grab. Bonus points if it distracts everyone else from the supposed leader's negligence, incompetence, and outright theft. The Big Beautiful Bill isn't drawing the same portion of the public's attention as it was before, is it?

The bullest of shit indeed: enacting cruelty on the vulnerable to enable robbing the overwhelming majority Americans.

This concludes the rant. Thanks for your post. I hope we never stop talking about this and never let future generations forget.

Good point. I guess that's what I'm trying to figure out.

Thank you. I'll put that on my agenda. Any suggestions for where to put a post about how the sales of AAA games for Windows is evidence of the superiority of capitalism?

https://www.verywellmind.com/the-7-chakras-and-what-they-mean-7106518

Edit: Did someone take this literally and sincerely? In a science community?

Please don't correct them. They're literally already willing to eat shit and die. There's hardly anything worse most of us would be willing to do to them. Let's just sit back, watch, and let nature take its course.

Popcorn?

Good call. I forgot about geocaching.

Also, thanks for the technical tips.

That looks really convenient in case I either need to lose my valuables or else take someone else's in one go.

I will say that it looks well made. They did a good job.

I don't know what to think anymore. I guess I'll have to ask ChatGPT what to do.

I don't have any data to support it, but I'd speculate that the middle class uses a lot less illicit drugs, lacking the desperation of the poor or the protections of the wealthy.

I like that one. I used to jokingly tell people I drove a classic car. It was technically correct, but no one was impressed by my rusted out, 1980s, economy sedan or its 115 horses.

Good point. I should have said, "illicit drugs."

That's a good point. I'd still argue that renting is buying a service, but I agree there may be some ambiguity here.

That's an intriguing take. Blackberries are expensive in some places. In others, you can just grab and eat them as you walk through the park.

Could we reframe it as rental services? The wealthy pay them to manage the property they own, and the poor poor pay them for the right to live there.

Legal services, fines, etc. I wish I had thought of that.

Financial services as a percent of income, yes. That's a good one. Being poor is relatively expensive.