So build more. Yes, that takes time. So start now.

This is only difficult because we make it difficult.

It’s actually nothing like that at all. What you’re describing is putting a societal problem on the shoulders of individuals. What I’m suggesting is that society should actually fix the problems it has created.

Every place that has taken a “housing first” approach has seen success out of it. But people insist on making the problem more complicated than it is, because we’ve built an entire society on the false idea that poor people somehow deserve to be poor and anything done to help them is somehow unjust.

We could just house them. That seems to work.

“The law, in its majestic equality, forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal their bread.” - Anatole France

I’ve been seeing more and more of those stickers around the last couple of years. I think this is just the media catching up

And now he gets to dictate public health policy.

Yes, we can all see Elon is embracing his heritage of brutal apartheid.

I mean, if you’re the asshole for suggesting it, then I’m right there being an asshole with you. I still tip, because I want the people who serve me to be able to take care of themselves, but ideally, that shouldn’t be my fucking responsibility. It should be their employer’s. It’s a fucking barbaric system that puts service workers’ ability to put food on the table in the hands of entitled Karens and reduces them to begging for a decent wage.

There’s a cider bar that opened in my town recently with a strict no-tipping policy, and holy shit, is it ever refreshing to not have to deal with that rigamarole.

I’ve been avoiding them for decades now. What they do to labor, what they do to suppliers, now this. And to top it all off, it’s just a really unpleasant place to shop.

The major reason is that the Parkland families agreed to take a smaller payout as part of the Onion deal. Therefore, it enables more of the creditors to actually get paid (as opposed to the other deal, where the Parkland families would get almost all the money and the rest of the creditors would be left hat-in-hand).

Unfortunately, there’s a lot of those happening on Bluesky lately. Growing pains, I suppose.

At least the admins have been responding quickly to take them down.

I mean, coming into the office also has additional costs associated. Fuel, mileage, commute time, etc.

Elon has the ear of the president-elect now (for the time being anyway, until he gets Scaramucci’d). Of course they’re going to try to make him happy.

Corporations are sociopaths. They don’t care about what’s right, they car about what creates the most value for the stockholders.

How many Scaramuccis do you think she’ll last?

Yes. And Costco (inadvertently) broke them here. Hence the recall.

That was the point. If we let companies ignore the law when it “should be obvious”, that gives them a lot of wiggle room to really fuck us over. And nobody wants that

If the Democrats were communists, instead of milquetoast centrist corporatists, you might have a point.

I don’t blame FEMA workers for not wanting to help people who are literally trying to kill them, frankly.

No one criticizes men for choosing celibacy or choosing to remain single.

I agree with a lot of what you are saying, but I have to take issue with this. Men do get criticized for choosing not to have sex, or choosing not to marry. A man who chooses not to have sex constantly has his manhood questioned. And any single man who has not been asked when he’s gonna find a nice girl and settle down is a man without family.

He was pretty open about his disdain for religion before he became a Republican, and has shown little beyond lip service to Christianity after.

And as for the pedophilia stuff, he hung out with Epstein a lot and was known for barging into the Miss Teen USA dressing room unannounced, so…

I think the specter of RBG is still looming large.