https://fair.org/home/a-for-profit-company-is-trying-to-privatize-as-many-public-libraries-as-they-can/
― papal hotwife (milo z), Sunday, 26 December 2021 21:45 (two years ago) link
i think it was around the time that i learned about ALEC, and realized it was clear and in the open what was happening and how the GOP was operating, and absolutely no one gave a fuck -- that was around 2 years after i realized the usa was a dystopia
― Karl Malone, Monday, 27 December 2021 04:23 (two years ago) link
GRETAYes, dead. An apt choice of words. Considering the public is convinced that cigarettes are poisonous. If we can't insist that they're not, I believe my most recent surveys have provided a solution.(re report)We can still suggest that cigarettes are "part of American life," or “Too good to give up,” and most appealing "an assertion of independence".DONSo basically if you love danger, you'll love smoking?SALVATOREWe could put a skull and crossbones on the label! I love it!GRETABefore the war, when I studied with Adler in Vienna, we postulated that what Freud called "the Death Wish" is as powerful a drive as those for sexual reproduction and physical sustenance.DON: Freud, you say-- which agency is he with?
DONSo basically if you love danger, you'll love smoking?
SALVATOREWe could put a skull and crossbones on the label! I love it!
GRETABefore the war, when I studied with Adler in Vienna, we postulated that what Freud called "the Death Wish" is as powerful a drive as those for sexual reproduction and physical sustenance.
DON: Freud, you say-- which agency is he with?
― Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, 28 December 2021 05:34 (two years ago) link
There's another covid outbreak on my prison unit. DOC has plenty of N95 masks now, but prisoners will get a disciplinary infraction if they're caught with one. Why? Because N95s also protect us from their tear gas, which they still freely use during a respiratory pandemic.— ChristopherBlackwell (@ChrisWBlackwell) December 28, 2021
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 28 December 2021 22:16 (two years ago) link
'The government and your boss put you in harms way. We took away paid sick days and unemployment supplements. Better get vaccinated so you don't starve.'I'm not a health comms person so I can't evaluate how effective this message is. pic.twitter.com/rHtsD4McYP— Justin Feldman (@jfeldman_epi) December 29, 2021
― papal hotwife (milo z), Wednesday, 29 December 2021 18:58 (two years ago) link
For the sake of my own sanity and well-being, I'd rather not immerse myself in a poisonous sea of ill-feeling for no discernible larger benefit aside from self-promotion. The world doesn't need another smug, self-satisfied pundit trying to brand-build off political collapse.— Patrick Wyman (@Patrick_Wyman) January 6, 2022
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 6 January 2022 22:34 (two years ago) link
opened my fortune cookie and i have so few words pic.twitter.com/b5roOyRR1Z— krista! (@madeup_artist) January 6, 2022
― Nedlene Grendel as Basenji Holmo (map), Thursday, 6 January 2022 23:46 (two years ago) link
That seems like low pay for a hitman
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Thursday, 6 January 2022 23:49 (two years ago) link
but the 401k has a 5% company match
― they were written with a ouija board and a rhyming dictionary (Neanderthal), Thursday, 6 January 2022 23:51 (two years ago) link
Reflecting on January 6, people are justifiably concerned about election subversion. But given the state of Biden’s presidency, the more likely scenario is a popularly elected, and therefore empowered, second Trump administration. https://t.co/ElodhslLPK— Adam Serwer 🍝 (@AdamSerwer) January 6, 2022
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 7 January 2022 15:21 (two years ago) link
long on doomsaying, short on what to do about it
― nonsensei (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 7 January 2022 16:32 (two years ago) link
I believe Nero was an incredible fiddler and some people sang along
― Karl Malone, Friday, 7 January 2022 16:33 (two years ago) link
little known fact - the friction from him fiddling too fast is what caused the fire
― they were written with a ouija board and a rhyming dictionary (Neanderthal), Friday, 7 January 2022 16:34 (two years ago) link
nero fiddling 'everlong'
― Karl Malone, Friday, 7 January 2022 16:52 (two years ago) link
the drum part to everlong - ziggidiggidiggidiggiziggidiggidiggidiggi - on the fiddle
― Karl Malone, Friday, 7 January 2022 16:54 (two years ago) link
I can’t believe this one guy doesn’t have a plan to fix the entire economic and political system!!!
― papal hotwife (milo z), Friday, 7 January 2022 17:19 (two years ago) link
fascists hate this one simple trick
― rob, Friday, 7 January 2022 17:21 (two years ago) link
Trump winning outright is both totally possible and also a better scenario than losing outright and being installed by Congress anyway. Of course the end result would probably be the same, no more fair elections ever.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Friday, 7 January 2022 17:55 (two years ago) link
xxpost I think the point is "we endured people saying 'Trump is totally getting re-elected' as some defeatist foregone conclusion, and that doesn't exactly inspire people to take action." and then it didn't happen. and I reject that the reason it didn't happen was scaremongering by tweeters/bloggers/journalists, it's because the people who took action knew it wasn't a foregone conclusion and ignored all of that noise.
― they were written with a ouija board and a rhyming dictionary (Neanderthal), Friday, 7 January 2022 17:58 (two years ago) link
You didn’t have to endure that sentiment you had to go looking for it. Trump was incredibly unpopular his entire term and had half a million people die in an election year, it was always the Democrats’ election to lose.
Now Biden is the not-quite-as-unpopular incumbent with people dying. It’s not scaremongering to suggest that unless things change bigly it will be Republicans’ election to lose.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Friday, 7 January 2022 18:25 (two years ago) link
Republican, maybe, but I'm doubtful that Trump could get it done: https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/trump-approval-ratings/
― DJI, Friday, 7 January 2022 18:31 (two years ago) link
2.9 years is a long time when you’re an ancient speed freak, Trump being dead is about as likely as either being elected or defeated.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Friday, 7 January 2022 18:38 (two years ago) link
nice placement for that fortune cookie btw
― i cannot help if you made yourself not funny (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 8 January 2022 06:28 (two years ago) link
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Friday, January 7, 2022 5:55 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink
― DJI, Friday, January 7, 2022 6:31 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink
His ratings took a dive recently but seems like they average in the low/mid-40s. Considering their primary tactic is preventing black/poor people from voting, even low-40s approval rating overall could easily translate to a majority of likely voters in a few key swing states.
― recovering internet addict/shitposter (viborg), Saturday, 8 January 2022 18:50 (two years ago) link
Long on doomsaying again yes. My best plan to address the issue would probably get me put on a list if I articulated it clearly, but suffice to say that if Manchin and Sinema were removed from the equation it would greatly improve the probability of preserving some semblance of American democracy.
― recovering internet addict/shitposter (viborg), Saturday, 8 January 2022 18:52 (two years ago) link
https://www.vice.com/en/article/bvndja/amazon-paid-for-a-high-school-course-heres-what-they-teach
― towards fungal computer (harbl), Wednesday, 26 January 2022 16:02 (two years ago) link
well fuck
― i cannot help if you made yourself not funny (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 26 January 2022 19:02 (two years ago) link
Questions for an Amazon Pathways class called Business Management and Entrepreneurship asks students ... “What can Uber do to ensure its competitors are not chipping away at its dominant market share as a result of such bad press?”
― Lavator Shemmelpennick, Wednesday, 26 January 2022 19:09 (two years ago) link
62 percent of Amazon employees in the greater Los Angeles region rely on some sort of government assistance.
― Lavator Shemmelpennick, Wednesday, 26 January 2022 19:10 (two years ago) link
https://www.texastribune.org/2022/02/02/national-butterfly-center-conspiracy-threats/
A South Texas butterfly sanctuary has closed after it was the target of conspiracy theories that escalated into credible threats.The National Butterfly Center, along the U.S.-Mexico border in Mission, has long been the target of QAnon conspiracy theories falsely tying the organization to human trafficking.The center is a 20-year-old nature conservatory for wild butterflies. There are no law enforcement investigations into the organization or its staff for human trafficking.
― recovering internet addict/shitposter (viborg), Sunday, 6 February 2022 19:59 (two years ago) link
Meanwhile in Techtopia (motto: “Don’t be a dystopia”):
In a Jan. 27 memo, Woodside’s planning director wrote, "Given that Woodside – in its entirety – is habitat for a candidate species (to go on the endangered list), no parcel within Woodside is currently eligible for an SB 9 project."The species in question is the mountain lion. Each year, Bay Area residents come face-to-face with the mercurial cats. Numerous pets have been attacked and killed in encounters.Woodside leaders say duplexes can’t be built as long as mountain lions could go on the state’s endangered species list.
― recovering internet addict/shitposter (viborg), Sunday, 6 February 2022 20:04 (two years ago) link
Good job, CEQA
― Johnny Mathis der Maler (Boring, Maryland), Monday, 7 February 2022 04:01 (two years ago) link
rename thread "prove the US is a dystopia" now i guess
― DT, Monday, 7 February 2022 05:27 (two years ago) link
I think that's been settled already
― bad milk blood robot (sleeve), Monday, 7 February 2022 06:36 (two years ago) link
This is still a question?
― recovering internet addict/shitposter (viborg), Monday, 7 February 2022 08:20 (two years ago) link
https://www.reddit.com/r/AmazonFC/comments/stu2g5/yo_wtf_is_this
― bad milk blood robot (sleeve), Thursday, 17 February 2022 00:15 (two years ago) link
hahahaaa
― dig your way out of the shit with a gold magic shovel! (Karl Malone), Thursday, 17 February 2022 01:20 (two years ago) link
if you meet Jeff Bezos on the road, kill him
― rob, Thursday, 17 February 2022 14:45 (two years ago) link
touching JB—or really any of our oligarchs—is virtually impossible. but there’s a guy, or more likely a committee, who came up with the cry box. bet you could find them ;)
― concentrating on Rationality (the book) (will), Thursday, 17 February 2022 14:55 (two years ago) link
rob was probably less advocating murder and more naming a zen precept
― i cannot help if you made yourself not funny (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 17 February 2022 19:02 (two years ago) link
https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/c_fit,f_auto,g_center,pg_1,q_60,w_965/df1a3a33278a0788e5dae76e1f516387.png
― mookieproof, Monday, 11 April 2022 23:19 (two years ago) link
'If they weren't mentally ill before, they sure are now!!'
― Andy the Grasshopper, Monday, 11 April 2022 23:36 (two years ago) link
that recruitment ad seems more fitting for internet ads that raise an eyebrow
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Monday, 11 April 2022 23:58 (two years ago) link
Took me a sec to realize they didn't mean the guards
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Tuesday, 12 April 2022 00:43 (two years ago) link
Leave it to the @WSJopinion to look for the “unintended consequences” of financially freeing millions. pic.twitter.com/uT7xWyllIv— Hector Oseguera, Esq. (@Oseguera2020) April 14, 2022
― the cat needs to start paying for its own cbd (map), Thursday, 14 April 2022 15:30 (two years ago) link
time to introduce Service Guarantees Citizenship
― a spectre is haunting your mom (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 14 April 2022 15:35 (two years ago) link
american suburbs have always been dystopic
Slovakian sees a video about American suburbs and posts questions to Reddit. The level of bafflement is hilarious and appropriate. pic.twitter.com/f6X5CzeYuE— Tristan Cleveland (@LUrbaniste) May 11, 2022
― rob, Thursday, 12 May 2022 13:26 (two years ago) link
I’m bored and sick so I looked at accounts of the big mad responses you’re not going to believe this but they get straight racist in their most recent couple of tweets/ retweets, if not right in the bio.
― OG Bob Sacamano (will), Thursday, 12 May 2022 14:02 (two years ago) link
I thought it was kind of funny how so many big mad replies ignored the existence of American cities
― rob, Thursday, 12 May 2022 14:20 (two years ago) link
I live in an American suburb that has almost all of the things that people don't think exist in American suburbs
Like sidewalks, public transit, apartments, row houses, businesses and mixed-use new urban stuff, plus vegetable gardens
This just seems like a really limited thing where you pick the worst example of something and decide that all of that thing is like that
― may the florist be with you (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 12 May 2022 15:17 (two years ago) link