meeeeetch @ meeeeetch @lemmy.world

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Switch focus to US wars

Because if you thought the kids hated America when they found out about the racism and sexism, wait till they find out about My Lai and Haditha.

Because maintaining a train length vacuum is really difficult and doesn't really provide that big of a benefit.

Atmospheric rail has been attempted with varying degrees of success (but never to a 'replaces traditional rail' degree) for 200 years.

Source appears to be called 'Art News', so they probably have a particular interest in arts and culture.

His hell is their (and Bourdain's) heaven. It's a cost saving measure.

My dude, flappers could have bought some of the first country records. It's been a genre since before they switched from wax cylinders to vinyl records.

Command and control? What's that?

He killed my ma, he killed my pa, but I will vote for him.

Seems like suggesting that you want to physically fight the Teamsters is good way to end up more missing than Jimmy Hoffa.

Manchin (much as I loathe to cite him in an arguably positive way) never ran against a black guy in WV and kept winning despite his party losing every other race. Sometimes there's just a guy who gets how to win elections in his state.

While obviously Chansley deserves to face punishment for his crimes, let's not pretend that it wasn't an obscenity that Eugene Debs had to run for office from prison for suggesting that the US had no business throwing lives away in the trenches of World War I

No Kessler Syndrome today

Yeah, but depraved as TV has a reputation for being, there's still a bit of a taboo against showing someone getting turned into pink mist on live TV.

It's a prion disease. Mad Cow, Creutzfeldt-Jacob, Chronic Wasting (so far only seen in deer), and Scrapies (known of for a long time and so far limited to sheep and goats) all start with a misfolded protein and gradually break down the brain till it looks like a sponge.

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/3194162-one-gratifying-aspect-of-our-rise-to-some-prominence-is

She's only OG if you disregard the fifty some odd years of the word libertarian referring to anarchists like Emma Goldman. Back before Murray Rothbard hijacked the term.

Signing the contract to build the empire's new wunderwaffe moves you from "working class" to "ACAB means you too".

That the shareholders push for things in their interest over that of the company doesn't exactly strike me as conspiratorial thinking. Nearly everyone in an organization will push for what's best for them.

Maintaining a healthy organization is in nearly everyone's best interest, but if you have a small group of decision makers who are not invested in the health of the organization, they'll be willing to make decisions at the expense of the organization.

The domestic producers are plenty active too.

And while inflation has come down (prices have stopped climbing), a lot of prices have not (they are still where they climbed up to) nor will they. So people are still facing sticker shock at the grocery store and gas station (keep in mind that until the COVID supply chain inflation hit, we'd spent over a decade with the Fed unable to get inflation up to 2%). Until wages come up enough to counter that sticker shock (they've come up some, but not this much), insisting that the economy is in good shape is going to come across as 'pissing on my leg and telling me it's raining' even to people who don't seek out reactionary disinformation.

When your political project is 'make everyone as miserable as I am', whining about every goddamn thing is actually a kind of praxis.

This looks to have taken place when Jack was still in charge there. Not that Elon hasn't spent every waking hour since the buyout proving himself to be terrible, but it's useful to remember that just because the current guy is really bad doesn't retroactively make the guy before him good.