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541.
by vkou 7mo ago
If revolutions inevitably make government worse, humanity collectively must be in the worst form of government in human history.
542.
by vkou 7mo ago
> What's the path for that, really? Elect people who will make justice a priority.
543.
by vkou 7mo ago
Iran can't blow the gulf up in any meaningful sense, even if the war continues for a long time. It can blow up a few high ROI targets, but that ROI isn't from the cost of rebuilding - it's from the opportunity cost of not hav
544.
by vkou 7mo ago
You are missing something. Trump is open for business, and will happily give you an exemption in exchange for a large sum of cash.
545.
by vkou 7mo ago
Every other truck in the column immediately stopped when the call was made. Truck 1 was the only one that didn't.
546.
by vkou 7mo ago
> Iran will not stop harassing the region, and perhaps not even allow the strait to open, if Israel is still bombing them or fighting a proxy war in Lebanon. If Israel is still bombing them? Certainly. This will put incredible internati
547.
by vkou 7mo ago
> If airports were in control the the user experience, I bet you would see a lot better outcomes. Would you? It's not like I have a choice of which airport to fly out of. Maybe New Yorkers have options, but for the rest of us, there
548.
by vkou 7mo ago
> There is definitely a significant government-funded (and activist pushed) take where /any/ amount of alcohol /any/ time prior to driving is dangerous, which is obviously stupid and incorrect. Driving itself is dang
549.
by vkou 7mo ago
> The kicker is that this isn't even Trump's war That's quite possible. > and he likely lacks the capacity to end it if he wanted to. Nah, he could end it any time he wants. Iran will stop bombing its neighbors in a wee
550.
by vkou 7mo ago
> especially considering the risks. What risks? 1. This isn't insider trading of securities. 2. This administration is laughably corrupt.
551.
by vkou 7mo ago
We've also become a lot better at distilling high-proof alcohol, and at making it cheap enough that most people have the budget to get absolutely wasted on the regular. Most people don't do that, but the option is there for anyone
552.
by vkou 7mo ago
Because they are drunk and want to get home. Or because they are drunk and want to go somewhere. That's all there is to it.
553.
by vkou 7mo ago
Should nuclear weapons be kept out of the hands of people who threaten neighbouring and allied countries with military force? Who threaten distant countries with destruction if they don't comply with their demands, which change every d
554.
by vkou 7mo ago
1. Distracting from dom E stic P roblem S . Star T ing a r E g I o N al war is an effective way to do that. 2. Kidnapping Maduro made the rest of Venezuela's government roll over and play fetch, they are stupid enough to believe it wo
555.
by vkou 7mo ago
It shouldn't be defunded, because as stupid as it and the 2001 politics that spawned it were, anything MAGA will replace it with in 2026 would be way worse .
556.
by vkou 7mo ago
And that you can't print a trillion dollars and have half the country not go to work for a year without pain further down the road. Which was, by the way, a Trump policy... (Not that it was an incorrect one.)
557.
by vkou 7mo ago
Give them a clean FEMA bill, and they'll vote for it.
558.
by vkou 7mo ago
I'm sure they'll vote for a clean FEMA bill, too.
559.
by vkou 7mo ago
They'll vote for a clean TSA funding bill. Why are the reps tying all the star chamber shit they are doing with ICE to TSA funding?
560.
by vkou 7mo ago
Their bills are the clean bills. Yesterday's vote was a simple yea or nay for TSA funding. The Republicans voted against it. The GOP refuses to fund the TSA without tying a whole bunch of other fascist shit to it. This crisis is manu
561.
by vkou 7mo ago
Keep in mind that the Democrats have proposed five bills to fund the TSA, and the Republicans have shot them all down. This reichstag fire is manufactured.
562.
by vkou 7mo ago
> Maybe I didn't look hard enough, but there's no obvious switch to "just turn off all the legacy stuff, thnx". There is. Break compatibility for it, and whatever poor bastard that is still maintaining software that i
563.
by vkou 7mo ago
That ossifies intellectual monocultures, though. (Or, heaven forbid, if someone has a financial conflict of interest in the private sphere...)
564.
by vkou 7mo ago
You'll still need to convince the purseholders to pay you, and they'll want some objective metric to measure your output, and whatever metric they pick will be gamed.
565.
by vkou 7mo ago
They won't. Their demands before restoration of the status quo are just internal messaging and posturing. If Russia withdrew all its troops tomorrow, Ukraine wouldn't keep bombing Moscow.
566.
by vkou 7mo ago
Retreating is a viable option for the US. The world will return to the status quo in a week or three, and he will look every bit the fool that he is. Nobody wants to get involved when Iran is fighting back against US aggression. The world w
567.
by vkou 7mo ago
Money is speech, and is sacred, but books with gay people in them aren't speech, and need to be carefully controlled.
568.
by vkou 7mo ago
A war with no objective, no timeline, not authorized by congress, inflicting massive damage to the national and world economy, and the executive going cap in hand begging for more borrowed money to run it.
569.
by vkou 7mo ago
There's no duty of cities to do anything , yet they choose to do quite a bit. Some of them choose to have rent control.
570.
by vkou 7mo ago
> You have imaginary rules about who should be protected in a city (based on seniority??) Rent control is not imaginary (Any more than any other rules are), and yes, that is exactly how it functions, for the purpose that I have described

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