No one wants to vote to get punished for not doing what they should be doing.

Yeah. If it can’t be safely done directly by an official public system, there shouldn’t be age verification at all.

You can’t expect people who aren’t used to tipping and are used to correct prices in the menu to start paying 20%-50% extra out of nowhere. The disturbing situation of the US is not their fault.

Margaret Thatcher was UK’s Reagan. Everything she didn’t ruin herself; she readied to be ruined later.

It wasn’t because she was a woman. It was because she was a freaking neoliberal.

Well, you can’t be considered creative if all you do is accuse others of something you are actually doing. One thing is taking inspiration from reality, another is just to take reality as it is an alter what may point towards you.

Ain’t that right? At least leftist conspiracies could be more creative and entertaining than something as silly as “child molesting pizza parties in a pizza joint basement.”

All I read there is a “we investigated ourselves and saw no wrongdoing” kind of deal, with the extra steps of collusion between government organizations and judges in their pockets.

Nothing bad in having some variety.

Maybe they’ll come up with stuff the other team didn’t and both improve that way.

Power plants produce power. That’s an utility. A public service.

Public services can’t be privatized, or they inevitably enshitify. And they can’t be fully under government control, or a bad government can also ruin them, like when right wingers take over and start destroying public services to excuse privatization.

Without a benevolent AI like in the Culture books, the next best thing is public ownership with independent public oversight.

Yeah. The best possible outcome after a situation like this is the victim not being harmed in any way, so the perpetrator is denied the satisfaction of causing harm.

Generation IV power plants can be designed so that they are physically incapable of going into meltdown. And the technology is getting better and better at reusing the waste.

So, of course, one would prefer a nuclear power plant.

If anything, we really need to update old power plants and replace all other non-renewable plants with cleaner power, renewable or not.

After seeing the solar roofs in Aleppo, I think all cities should be like that.

Silver linings.

Good.

The more of this they do, the more people move to federated sites.

MAGA is great research on how much you can scam someone before they go full Bastille on your ass.

Gaming gatekeeping is just the old tribalism rearing its nasty mug. It’s all over the place in all sorts of environments.

The only celebrities I trust to be gamers are those like Henry Cavill who have the bills to show it. Not because what gender they happen to be.

We gotta rush the EU to pass legislation to prevent monopolies like this.

Oh, no. Not pro. The one for stuff like ticket dispensers.

UBI isn’t about stopping working and not earning more money. It’s about giving everyone a minimum so they can be picky, and jobs have to offer conditions that are literally better than nothing, as ‘nothing’ now comes with UBI.

There are also places where 1k is more than enough, and those places tend to be depopulated.

And the assholes only give me back like 2 bucks.

Tax them and turn that into a UBI.