Goats! You get milk and you can sell your lawnmower!

Perfect solution. Everyone who wants milk just needs to have their own cow.

At the same time, striving for monopoly is the only way some segments can survive. An independent hospital is doomed, but a health system has leverage to get better reimbursement rates from insurance providers.

We have before.

https://immigrationhistory.org/item/​mexican-repatriation/#:~:text=Demand for their labor dropped,million Mexicans and Mexican Americans.

Why should I have to deal with someone else’s dog poop? Just take it home and put it in your own trash.

I don’t. Just carry it home. Why are people so damn irresponsible?

If you don’t want to carry the poop to your own trash, either don’t have a dog, or let it shit in your yard.

Ah.

If it’s the night before collection, no one would notice or care. People who do that are not the people anyone complains about.

What happens is people dump their plastic bag of dog poop in the empty can. So it stays there.

Next pickup the resident’s trash bags go on top of it. The trash men never manage to get the poop bag out. After a couple weeks of hoping it will disappear next time, the person whose can it is has to dump it out and put it in a bag with their trash.

People who dump their dog’s poop bag in other people’s cans should be force fed the bag.

The video on the website talks about hiding cards where someone could find them.

I find that terrifying.

If we can see it, then the far-right Nationalist Christians can see it.

People who would bomb a Planned Parenthood clinic would think nothing of producing fake abortion cards and drugging or murdering women trying to give themselves an abortion.

I’m imagining a card prepared with an overdose of Tylenol on the cards instead of misoprostol.

How do you guarantee that the card you’re using is legitimate?

The poll worker is the one who has been arrested. He sent the bomb threat to himself to try to make it look like the voter he had an altercation with sent it.

I agree. Most of the security theater is a complete waste, or worse, an effort to numb us to the ever-increasing destruction of our rights.

I knew a guy who was friends with a bunch of muslim assholes who ended up in prison for planning a terrorist attack.

He kept arguing that the FBI informant encouraged them and it wasn’t their fault.

My counter was: if the FBI sent someone to me talking about doing a terrorist attack in order to “catch” me, it wouldn’t work because I’d report the guy to the police. You know, because I’m not a terrorist.

I also suggested if they were dumb enough to be caught by the FBIs nefarious plot (while being in the country illegally), then they were really too stupid to live and they were probably better off in prison having someone else do their thinking for them.

Jackasses like them are fucking things up for all the other undocumented immigrants who just want to do jobs we don’t want for slave wages.

Honestly, I might have had more sympathy for them if they had someone sympathetic to argue their side. The guy I knew was a pain in the ass.

What bets? The article said “white supremacist ideology”.

https://youtu.be/_o_pELPihIM?t=10

No! I don’t want a computer making the decisions!

A judge can be merciful. A judge can have empathy and understanding.

By virtue of being a human being, a judge can understand what it means to be human.

Although the current state of the Supreme Court is demoralizing, it should be noted judges get second-guessed all the time through the appeal process.

I see the judicial system as one of those things that may be terrible, but is still better than every alternative, much like democracy.

If you want to replace people with computers, start with the CEOs and work down from there.

It was a John Birch Society talking point at one time. It was condemned as a communist conspiracy. Of course. Just like civil rights are a communist conspiracy.

Anyway. A few years ago I discovered that my home town newspaper had digitized all the old issues and made them searchable online. I decided to search for family members.

Found my dad mentioned in a report of a hearing on fluoridation. He was talking about it being a communist plot.

Edit:

I just listened to this episode of revisionist history recently. If you aren’t familiar with the beginnings of the shit show we’re living in, you might find it interesting and/or horrifying.

https://www.pushkin.fm/podcasts/revisionist-history/john-birch-vs-the-pta

Always has been.

So, one more item in the “Pro” column for voting against Trump.

Then maybe we can work on fixing the problems here.

Wear gloves when they hand you that guideline because they might be pulling it out of their ass.

I’ve often thought LLMs could replace all of the C-suites and upper and middle management.

Funny how no companies push that as a possibility.

Not really related to the post, but I feel like sharing.

Big boss where I work wanted all managers to read a book. He had staff scour the Internet looking for copies of this book so that they could give every manager their own copy.

He said we were going to have meetings with the entire management team to review chapters of the book one at a time.

The gist of the book was: take the time to make sure you hire the right people for the job, retain the good ones, and get rid of the people who don’t work out.

I think we covered two chapters in meetings.

After that, an upcoming hiring freeze was announced, and everyone was told to fill all their open positions within two weeks or the position would be cancelled.