This May, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency issued a revision to the Clean Water Act that requires states to consider tribal treaty rights when crafting water quality regulations. The rule could protect resources such as wild rice, sturgeon, salmon and shellfish.
Probably, but not necessarily. My understanding is that the overturning of Chevron means that the courts don’t have to defer to agency expertise anymore, but until EPA’s regulatory power is completely taken away, they can still implement these kinds of rules. Someone would have to bring a case against this particular regulation and argue that harm was caused by it, and that case would have to go through the courts and make it to the Supremes. At that point the Nine Robed High Priests of the Imperious Court could decide that they know better than the experts and then squash the regulation. So it’s not automatically nullified by the overturning of Chevron, but with a bit of work it definitely helps.
As a swan song after the election, Biden should issue and executive order arresting all of the conservative judges on the Supreme Court and jail them using the powers they have granted the executive branch. Literally show them the error of their ways. Then (maybe) issue another executive order releasing them. After 30 days or so of allowing them to mull over their decision.
Which is why it’s so insane when media/politicians talk about “the economy”.
The rich are squeezing everything they can out of the 99.9%, and are the only ones that can afford to save.
All that money is moving tho. Which is how we measure “the economy”. Which wasn’t a big deal 50 years ago when wealth inequality wasn’t as bad.
But the metrics are essentially useless these days. Either the people bragging about the economy have no idea what’s happening, or they’re just flat out lying.
Yeah, every time you see “the economy” mentioned in a news article, especialy business news, just replace it with “the 1%’s money” and it will make sense.
The rich are squeezing everything they can out of the 99.9%, and are the only ones that can afford to save.
That’s not entirely accurate. The rich use a system to their benefit that was created by politicians and bankers to make bankers richer, and that gives politicians access to unlimited money. Surplus spending and inflation can squeeze everything out of the 99.9% just fine.
“Although our unique open seating model has been a part of Southwest Airlines since our inception, our thoughtful and extensive research makes it clear this is the right choice — at the right time — for our Customers, our People, and our Shareholders,” CEO Bob Jordan said in a news release Thursday.
USA allows and celebrates a guy whose country is terrorising its neighbour to address Congress shortly after allowing another guy (Zelensky) whose country is being terrorised by its neighbour to address Congress.
Between 4 November 1925 and 31 October 1926, Tito Zaniboni, Violet Gibson, Gino Lucetti, and Anteo Zamboni all tried and failed to kill Benito Mussolini. The significance of these attempts on Mussolini’s life and their relationship to the establishment of Fascism has gone overlooked as much scholarship focuses almost exclusively on the consequences of socialist deputy Giacomo Matteotti’s murder in June 1924. In this article, I analyse the impact that these assassination attempts had on Mussolini’s construction of the Fascist state. The article asks two main questions: What role did these assassins, and the state of emergency that their acts generated, play in the establishment of Fascist control? And how did they contribute to Mussolini’s cult status and his consecration as a ‘man of providence’? I argue that the failed assassination attempts were instrumental in allowing the Fascist regime to create a state of emergency and to capitalize on a fabricated demand for crisis management. These attempts fundamentally structured the conditions for the regime’s consolidation of power, including a vast expansion of laws that dismantled the liberal state and established the Fascist dictatorship.
My shopping cart is only half as full and costs more on average.
Video entertainment sources have become fragmented walled gardens riddled with commercials.
Niche internet sites millennials used to cite on their homework have fully disappeared; the web has for the most part been swallowed by corporate giants.
Local Events that used to be niche and cheap have steadily become overcrowded and commercial; Every sort of local market now sells the same mass produced guff
I have to use a lot more benefits and tricks like couponing to afford things i could previously just pay full price.
Every kind of medical professional i need seems to be overworked with a full agenda.
I get to work from home which is nice, it took a pandemic to happen and they tried to take it back after which is not so nice.
There's a really comprehensive article by Eurostat, covering the situation in EU member states - I didn't read it entirely yet, but it seems general population is slightly better off, than a decade ago.
Hopefully the same idiots who notice and try (who also read Reuters) are so bad at their first time of making pharmaceuticals that they don’t have product - only expenses.
And that’s ignoring any law enforcement who start to take notice of the precursor ingredients. Wanna guess how many RVs in the desert became suspicious to law enforcement after Breaking Bad? Showing folks how to do stuff works for both sides.
I think much of this obscene wealth is kind of “fake.” Like, if I buy a house, and I do nothing to that house, no improvements, nothing, then turn around and sell that house for double what I bought it for, was any new wealth created? I now have more money, and the person I sold the house to now has an asset that is worth double what it once was, but where did all this new wealth come from? The house didn’t change at all.
I mean, let’s say I bought the house for $100,000, I wait a few years and sell it for $300,000, I just made $200,000. Then the person I sold it to sells it after a few more years for $500,000, making him $200,000. Then the person he sold it to sells after a few more years for $700,000, and he makes $200,000. That’s $600,000 thousand dollars generated from one asset. Isn’t that a little odd? It seems like at some point someone is going to buy the house but they’re not going to be able to sell it for more than they bought it for. I just don’t see how assets can just keep going up in value forever.
The last part of your first paragraph is what I truly don’t understand. If I pull a trash bike from the garbage pile and sell it to an idiot as a vintage bike and he pays me 50000 dollaroos for that, I just scammed that dude. The bike still belongs in the trash.
Two economists are walking in a forest when they come across a pile of shit.
The first economist says to the other “I’ll pay you $100 to eat that pile of shit.” The second economist takes the $100 and eats the pile of shit.
They continue walking until they come across a second pile of shit. The second economist turns to the first and says “I’ll pay you $100 to eat that pile of shit.” The first economist takes the $100 and eats a pile of shit.
Walking a little more, the first economist looks at the second and says, “You know, I gave you $100 to eat shit, then you gave me back the same $100 to eat shit. I can’t help but feel like we both just ate shit for nothing.”
“That’s not true”, responded the second economist. “We increased the GDP by $200!”
I get the idea here, but is there a suggestion that this was planned or that someone consulted such a playbook in the moments after he’d been shot?
It feels more natural to perhaps say this is a typical authoritarian response to escaping death, or tie it together in a way that that doesn’t seem so conspiratorial.
Why? The smart thing to do would be to cover yourself and get to safety. There could have been another shooter somewhere for all he knew. If this was done by smarter people, he’d be dead when he stood up like that. But adrenaline and his enormous ego got the better of him.
I don’t even see how his reaction was a “typical authoritarian response”. I think there are only a few reasonable responses after being shot. Defiance is a pretty reasonable response. Anger, fear, running away, and mental breakdown are all also reasonable responses.
I detest Trump, but his immediate reaction actually seemed like the best reaction that a presidential candidate could have. I don’t think it was planned and I do think that his reaction was genuine. I think it’s very hard to have a calculated response in a situation like that.
That’s really the gist of what I was saying. This article feels like it has the implications all wrong. My first take was definitely not the clearest way to communicate my thoughts. Thank you for expanding on it.
I think he didn’t do it for any reason relating to political philosophy, but it may resonate harder with authoritarians than others.
This is what I don’t get about people like Vance who criticize others for being childless. You don’t know what is going on in that person’s life. They may have chosen to not have kids for myriad reasons. They may not have had the choice due to health reasons. Maybe their partner had trauma in their childhood and they don’t want to continue generational trauma.
Idiots don’t care, they just get upset when others enjoy freedoms they do not or simply do not understand or share. Misery loves company and many people are cunts.
Warm, soft, and moist on the inside. Stuffed with meat like a nice thick savory sausage. Or maybe filled with sweet cream. At least spread with butter and covered with seed. Sesame is my favorite, while poppy is ok.
It all comes down to a lack of empathy. These people made their own life choices that worked out for them personally, but can’t get their head around the notion that other people can make different life choices (or have the choice made for them due to circumstances beyond their control).
It’s like they perceive only one path to happiness - the path they took - and look with disdain on anyone who is doing it differently.
I’m sure Vance read Aniston’s story and was secretly thinking to himself “Hah! That’s what you get when you promote your career over your family”, while booking several campaign trips which will take him away from his kids for weeks at a time.
It’s lack of empathy and lack of personal exposure. They live in bubbles where they only associate with people who think and act like themselves. It’s a fertile ground for disconnection with reality, and it breeds this withholding of empathy for those who live outside the bubble.
This is the nature of all Republicans that i know. It’s not just a disrespect for people from different backgrounds, they don’t even see people who live a life different from their own. They’re anti-abortion because bad things don’t happen in their world - there’s no rape or child abuse or mental health issues or addiction. Well, there are those things but they don’t talk about it.
I work in a public school with kids with severe disabilities. A Republican friend was shocked that these kids attend school. I explained that the other option (the old way) was going to an institution where the rate of abuse was outrageously high and they’re not making babies only because the girls go on birth control to stop their periods for easier hygiene. He said, “Oh my God! That’s disgusting!” No shit dude - that’s the world we live in - step outside of your own before you start telling others how to live theirs.
ETA: I kind of got on an angry tangent there. Sorry about that.
Dude, let those angry tangents out. It helps people empathize but it’s also a heavy weight to be carrying around inside your gut. Don’t apologize for being outraged by outrageous things.
To add to this, a lot of people don’t see individuals with intellectual/developmental disabilities (IDD) as people. To them, they’re something else.
A person with IDD has all the same rights, including voting, as any other person. To reinforce that, many (or maybe all) states have their rights specifically codified (e.g., Florida Statute 393.13). To remove those rights, it requires a court order, just like it does for you and me.
In Florida, the supports for individuals with IDD promotes and assists them with the voting process, especially with getting to the polls to cast their votes!
Yeah I mean it’s like bullying someone for not going into the finance field. It’s not the others that are stupid, you are just being a dick for no reason at that point. They should at least hate on her for acting if at all.
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