Would be pretty fun to mess with people, just dissolve the shell so it's a white capsule and then when you're having a bad day say "THAT'S IT" and eat the skittle.
Bonus points if you convulse and froth at the mouth.
It's more and more common to see private religious schools opening up to me and they've relaxed how closely they need to follow federal guidance on outcomes. I'm so worried for those children, literally having their future sold away because of a culture war.
well we experienced different posts at different times then I know obviously it's not a homogeneous board, nowhere is, but I can tell you that the subset I dealt with did.
that being said I'm not so interested in laying blame as I am with getting people to engage with the Democratic process outside of major elections.
Remember during the election when the Trump admin was supposed to be good for Palestine. So many people on ML specifically were convinced that Trump was going to solve the crisis.
it's almost like the issues with the United States government run deeper than the President.
The issue is not that there are no jobs, it's that the jobs that are available aren't worth working because of the low pay, no benefits and no opportunity for advancement.
This is a direct result of the erosion of workers rights and neoliberal policy.
Who could have possibly predicted that Trump would side with Putin? What an utterly shocking development if only there had been years of obsequious praise, leaked intelligence to Russian officials, and repeated calls to dismantle NATO as clues! Truly, nobody saw this coming.
Honestly I don't mind trucks or SUVs specifically but vehicles are getting way too big on average, I mean the F150 is North America's best selling vehicle (*edit: I have since learned as of 2024 that spot actually belongs to the RAV4) since forever. It's a problem of misaligned incentives.
There's an exception carved out for large vehicles in the EPA guidelines that hold them to less stringent emissions standards which incentivizes building larger vehicles 1
Large cars are also incentivized by our crash safety rating system which only takes into account the mortality rate of those inside the car as apposed to average related fatalities. This means it will prioritize safety of those in the vehicle, which has led to our average fatalities increasing. 2
As an unintended side effect this also damages roads much faster because vehicle weight per axle determines the magnitude of the damage a vehicle does to the road. 3 anecdotally this makes me concerned for the additional weight that electric cars add.
Also as vehicles increase in weight the amount of microplastics put into the air as a by product of tire wear increase. 4
As cars increase in size (and therefore weight) the downsides are exponential.
it's amazing how Republicans keep proving they're just the worst people imaginable and every four to eight years after they're ousted for being the horrible people that they are people forget and let them back in
I understand it's a consequence of the first past the post system but it just sucks.
Honestly social housing fell out of fashion it used to be way more common but NIMBYs made them impossible to build, hell even now could you imagine trying to build them with the conservative crowd?
Conflating the Conservatives and Liberals because of some ideological overlap isn't useful.
Let's lay it out plainly, we prevented the worst case scenario but it still moved us to the right. We need to advocate for left wing policies and do our best to keep our politician's honest. However we won't see results until we can apply direct pressure with votes, neglecting the adoption of a more progressive voting system was the true failure of the Trudeau government.
The world is so fucked, they could create a machine that grinds orphans into bullets to kill single mothers and 45% of the population would support it if it was pitched by Their Guy ™️
Would be pretty fun to mess with people, just dissolve the shell so it's a white capsule and then when you're having a bad day say "THAT'S IT" and eat the skittle.
Bonus points if you convulse and froth at the mouth.