Yeah? How many people just completely cut off their family and friends simply because they voted for the guy? Seems like lots of people hold their political party info as truth above what their family and friends think. This isn’t news.
I don't see what they are going to accomplish outside of a brain drain. Its not like college capable people are not going to go to college. They are just now going to more likely go out of state.
But that’s what they want. The smart folks will leave the state, and their left-leaning votes with them. That’ll leave the state voting red, and those electoral college votes staying red as well. This is simply a grab for power, nothing more. Yes, it will lead to more folks being less educated, but that’s what the right wants: people too dumb to think for themselves.
I just went to one of the big nearby malls. It is just off a major highway across the state line, where there is no sales tax. It used to have a guaranteed customer base from my city, just based on tax savings. Admittedly I haven’t been there in 15 years, as driving a pan hour for shopping is something we no longer did with kids. However this weekend I went up there and found boarded up stores and weeds growing in the parking lot.
However the interesting thing was there was tons of surrounding retail built up, so the area is still doing well for shopping, but not the mall. Before anyone asks, no, there were no sidewalks or paths connecting shopping centers.
Anyhow, I think it’s all much simpler than headlines seem to make it: we built out too many malls. Now we have other options from plazas to online, so don’t need so many. I expect the number of malls to stabilize at a point where everyone can still get to one, but that’s not the only place
If there’s retail growth around the mall but not inside it, then it means the mall is overcharging for rent. I’ve seen similar things, and the malls tend to have plenty of empty spaces.
Maybe treating airline passengers like people would help. Some self defense courses wouldn’t hurt, but there’s a definite slippery slope of escalating violence even more.
No amount of treating a belligerent anti-masker with empathy will help.
That’s just an example, but if a person chooses to actively ignore society’s rules and reacts violently when you try to stop them, there’s nothing treating them “like people” will do.
How much leeway are we giving? Right now people just get violent and we have to tolerate it until a federally approved person comes on the plane and deals with it.
If you intervene, you get charged. If you fight back, you get charged. If you get pushed by the violent person into a flight attendant, you get charged and no fly listed.
We have given conservatives so much runway, how much more do we have to build before they fly away and leave us the fuck alone?
How accurate are polls these days? If you can't call people with cell phones, you're forced to call landlines, and those are owned by septuagenarians and octogenarians who lean hard to the right. It's had an effect on the accuracy of polls, as the recently fired Nate Silver will tell you. His analyses used to be eerily accurate, but then cell phones happened.
So I don’t know about this poll specifically (and I think you’d be right when who they are polling if they’re calling landlines). But I get polls to my email.
Yeah, in my experience, unless you’re really close to the epicenter, it’s not bad at all. I’m about 100 miles from this one and didn’t feel a thing, although a couple friends said they did feel a little shake.
In California generally? Sure; you get a jolt every 1-2 years. Typically they’re over within seconds; you have enough time to register that an earthquake is happening and that it isn’t your imagination, then it ends. A really big one will go on for about a minute or two before it stops; last time we had one of those was back in 2019. Usually they last less than 30 seconds.
This specific area isn’t typically the epicenter of many earthquakes, though. They’re usually to the west (San Andreas Fault) or to the south (San Gabriel Fault, San Jacinto Fault).
The large ‘malls’ here are all seeing to do very well, and those that were previously struggling have seemed to have seen success pivoting away from being just a place to go and ‘buy’ things and into places to ‘do’ and ‘experience’ things.
We millennials have a fascination with mixing alcohol and activities we did growing up, with bowling, mini-golf and ticket arcades doing well by feeding off our nostalgia.
You don’t want things falling on you. Having nothing above you kinda negates all that danger. Absent that, being in a sturdy structure is best. In California, most structures are built to withstand quakes.
Yes there is. Some people are more susceptible to cultish shit than others, these are the people who apparently are the most shitty of people who are the most susceptible
This isn’t meant to be argumentative, and intended more for you to clarify.
One of my special interests is cults, and from my understanding anyone is susceptible to tactics used by a cult. Generally, people need to be in a pretty vulerable state at the time, which is why Scientology sets up shop across the street from a Hospital, for example. Imagine someone recieved bad news or had someone pass, and then the members can provide something that makes someone more likely to join. This property is why cults spanned levels of education, affluence, and influence. Now how "Maga"ism intersects with cultish stuff makes it hard for me to parse.
So when you say “these are people…” are you talking about the sets of people who are attracted by the cult are the “most shitty” or the “most shitty” people are most susceptible?
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