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.

Having a parade for a country that has allowed itself to become what Israel has become does not make any sense.

Nothing bad in having some variety.

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

They vote whoever their priests tell them to vote for, because apparently, church-state separation was something made up by woke liberals or something.

Let’s kill the mothers, that’ll save the children.

Makes perfect sense.

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.

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.

They can just invade the Bahamas after Cuba.

It is really worrisome news.

The media manipulation of the rich works too well.

No free country can survive without publicly funded independent media.

The grabbing hands grab all they can
All for themselves - after all

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.