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I wonder what wonder material they replace plastics with in the future. Sometimes I think of how much plastic is in everything and how entire things (like takeout) would be impractical or at least a lot more difficult without the cheap durability of plastic.

If the argument for the ban is that depiction normalizes it, then there should be a ban on violence in all media, right?

Dr. Oz is a heart surgeon, but that doesn't prevent him from selling bullshit.

Unpopular opinion but I agree. Maybe I don't hang around enough stinky people, but I've encountered far more instances of punch-in-the-face perfume/cologne than body odor.

This is why I always check the ingredients list.

Advancing tech was sold as a way to make all our lives better. Here is an instance of tech making our lives better, but instead companies dismiss it because the real purpose of tech for the capital class is control.

Biden is israel's bitch.

Here is the site: https://impressive.net/games/barney/fun.cgi

It uses the isMap image element to send the coordinates of where you clicked on the image and then returns an updated image created by the server.

"The good cop and the bad cop aren't 100% the same!"

You're so right, support for genocide was just a minor mark against perfection. Keep compromising, soon you'll be agreeing that democrats shouldn't fight for marriage equality because some other issue is on the table and we shouldn't let perfect be the enemy of slightly better than rabid nazis.

Not just Bill Gates, huh?

"900 corporate staffers were also laid off as part of a $1 billion restructuring following six straight quarters of sales decline.".

The idea that spending on coffee or avocado toast or whatever single food/drink item is causing a widespread drop in home ownership is idiotic enough, but this absolute moron managed to pick something with hard evidence of declining sales.

That's because the democrats are not much of an opposition and when they've been given votes, they don't do much with them, which is one reason why they have trouble getting those votes in the first place. They insist on catering to republican-lites (i.e. moderate fascists) and insist that when in power they should "work with" (i.e. bend over for) republicans.

Just take a look at the recent run with Harris: https://www.newsweek.com/kamala-harris-view-republican-cabinet-1965824

Vice President Kamala Harris was asked by the co-hosts of The View on Tuesday whether she would have done anything differently than President Biden, responding "not a thing comes to mind," before coming back to the question and adding that she plans to appoint a Republican to her Cabinet if she is elected in November.

So she was fine with all the support for genocide, but thought we needed more republican influence in government. Even when democrats spell this out clearly, you insist that the problem is we're just not voting hard enough.

The non-corrupt ones are a tiny minority and get drowned out by well-funded opposition. If the tide even hints at turning then the billionaires turn to straight-up fascism, as we're seeing now.

In 2016 both Hillary and Trump had a lower than 50% approval rating and yet they were the frontrunners: https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2018/08/09/an-examination-of-the-2016-electorate-based-on-validated-voters/

Congress has a less than 50% approval rating and it's made up of elected politicians: https://www.statista.com/statistics/207579/public-approval-rating-of-the-us-congress/

We don't have a democracy, we have a system where you can only choose which representative for billionaires you dislike the least. They're all corrupt, any that aren't are quickly drowned out by well-funded opposition.

What we need is a wealth tax. If you don't want wealth to be hoarded, then you tax it. The rich and their stooges online will parrot that "wealth taxes don't work" precisely because it is the only tax that does work and that is why they oppose it.

I don't understand what part you're saying doesn't work. Obviously paying down the debt doesn't work if someone does the opposite right after, that's true of everything.

I wouldn't say manageable, it was only a matter of time before the debt would topple over since it compounds. That's just what happens with anything that has assumed infinite growth. Deliberately burning down the economy of course accelerates the collapse.

Slowly? Isn't just the interest payment on the debt like $1 trillion a year now?

I'm not driving between neighborhoods much, but I do see for sale signs here and there. What I notice a lot more, however, are tons of for lease signs in front of business real estate.