Half sarcastic. This ranks as one of the least harmful things he's ever done, by far. Mostly because everything else he does is so fucking harmful.
But also, since we're on the subject: plastic straws don't have a significant impact on the environment. I'm not saying plastic isn't bad for the environment, but straws are a rounding error. A single pair of sneakers introduces more plastic into the environment than a lifetime of straws.
The crusade against plastic straws has always been pure virtue signaling. It pisses some people off, makes some people feel good about themselves, and has no measurable impact on the environment.
What Trump is doing is the opposite of virtue signaling. Vice signaling, I guess. But compared to the Gitmo concentration camps, it almost feels like I'm reading good news.
When I go to a restaurant, I don't read the whole menu anymore. As soon as I find something I'd like, I stop reading and order it. Occasionally my wife will point out something on the next page that she thinks I'd like more, but I don't do it myself.
It's made my dining experience so much better over the years. I don't stress about the food I'd rather eat and just enjoy what's in front of me.
It works because in that situation, like many situations, there's more than one right answer. If I get the omelette, I'll be happy. If I get the pancakes, I'll be happy. If I get the omelette while I'm thinking about the pancakes (or vice versa), that's the only wrong answer.
So that's something I like to remind myself of. Sometimes you're stressing yourself out between two right answers, so it's ok to just pick one and run with it.
They say microplastics are in every organism, everywhere. Seems like a large enough sample size that we should have an idea of what kind of damage they do?
AOC can build coalitions. She even wrote legislation with Ted Cruz. She only stopped working with him after he effectively tried to have her killed on January 6th.
I had a social life in college, but in my early 20s I moved across the country and had to start from scratch. So I knew how to be friends with people but not how to make friends.
Of course it's possible. You can make friends at any age. Just don't look to tv and movies to define what a "social life" is. It'll probably be more sparse and less stable than sitcoms would have you believe.
The best way to start is to take up a hobby that involves interacting with real people.
The first part of doing this intellectual exercise should be to eliminate the obviously unacceptable options. For example we can pretty definitively say, right off the bat, that a concentration camp in Guantanamo Bay is not worth considering even for a moment.
Giving everyone a reasonable path to citizenship. Immigration is good. It's good economically, culturally, and morally. The only argument against immigration is bigotry.
My wife works in medical research for a company you've probably heard of. Talking about diversity is a big part of her job, not just because it's the right thing to do, but because it's scientifically necessary. If they don't have a diverse population on a study, the data will be skewed.
She's no longer allowed to talk about diversity. She's not even allowed to say the word. She had to remove slides from a presentation she was giving.
Imprisonment until when? Because at some point you'd have to let them out, and then you're back to square one. Crossing a border to seek a better life isn't a crime worthy of lifetime imprisonment.
They won't give them a path to citizenship because of xenophobia, plain and simple. Immigration is good for the economy, and there's no such thing as "stealing jobs", so it only comes down to wanting to maintain cultural (or ethnic) purity.
Texas. $7.50, but I buy the organic, pasture-raised, fair trade, small batch, artisinal eggs where the chickens are all partial owners of the egg-laying co-op. It's a chicken coop co-op.
The price has gone up significantly, like $2 or more, since last month. I don't remember what it was exactly, but I've never spent $7.50 for fucking eggs.
Regular cage-free was like $5.50. Didn't see any of the normal sad chicken eggs last time I went.
Not exactly this, but it reminds me of my first job. I used to work in finance, and I was given the task of automating cash flow reports that were sent out to hundreds of clients.
The problem was that they were made manually in Excel, and most of them were unique. So every couple years they'd get a bunch of smart people in a conference room, and tell them to figure out how to automate the cash flows. The first step was always to create a standard cash flow template, and convince everyone to adopt it.
Some users would adopt the new template, but most of them would say that the client didn't like it, so they'd stop using it and the project would fall apart.
By the time I got there, there were still hundreds of unique cash flows, but then there were a few dozen that shared the same handful of templates, like a graveyard of failed attempts to automate this process.
I just made the output customizable. The reports looked the same as what the client was used to, but it saved hundreds of man hours for the users. A lot of people got laid off.
Half sarcastic. This ranks as one of the least harmful things he's ever done, by far. Mostly because everything else he does is so fucking harmful.
But also, since we're on the subject: plastic straws don't have a significant impact on the environment. I'm not saying plastic isn't bad for the environment, but straws are a rounding error. A single pair of sneakers introduces more plastic into the environment than a lifetime of straws.
The crusade against plastic straws has always been pure virtue signaling. It pisses some people off, makes some people feel good about themselves, and has no measurable impact on the environment.
What Trump is doing is the opposite of virtue signaling. Vice signaling, I guess. But compared to the Gitmo concentration camps, it almost feels like I'm reading good news.