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I know they did it before climate change was a big issue, but you’d still think someone would have said, “maybe we shouldn’t build a city in the middle of a desert?”

Of course, there’s also Phoenix, Salt Lake City, etc…

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Hey, it’s just like an American city! All the right-wingers moved to the suburbs but probably still bitch about how unsafe Paris is.

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FlyingSquid ,
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If they didn’t want to be hungry, they should have eaten their bootstraps and cooked a small business.

FlyingSquid ,
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Also, you can’t feed Trump questions because it doesn’t matter what you ask him, he’s not going to answer it anyway.

FlyingSquid ,
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I realize they simulated the whole trip from beginning to end, but it’s still funny to read the words ‘flight engineer’ when they didn’t actually go anywhere.

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I feel like “the right gets a big showing early on but ends up losing” is a regular feature of modern French elections. It seems like it’s happened multiple times in my lifetime.

FlyingSquid ,
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I definitely wouldn’t extrapolate anything about the rest of the world from this. I just remember “Le Pen is going to be the next president of France” being said more than once in my lifetime.

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Thank you for giving more info, I appreciate it!

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You are more optimistic than I am, but I hope you’re right. At this point, my hope is that at least Democrats will retain the congressional power to do something about a Trump regime I am seeing as an increasing inevitability.

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“Here’s the ceasefire deal. You cease firing, we kill you.” – Netanyahu

He needs a forever war to maintain his dictatorship. When he’s done with Palestine, he will move on to Lebanon and Syria and Iran.

FlyingSquid ,
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Unlike virtually every other war ever?

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I don’t doubt it, but it still seems like a waste of time if you don’t believe in its legitimacy in the first place.

I guess some people need catharsis.

FlyingSquid ,
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So you’re saying Iran has yet to master 16th century technology?

What the 3.2 Million-Year-Old Lucy Fossil Reveals About Nudity and Shame - Ms. Magazine (msmagazine.com)

Popular renderings dress her in thick, reddish-brown fur, with her face, hands, feet and breasts peeking out of denser thickets.This hairy picture of Lucy, it turns out, might be wrong.Technological advancements in genetic analysis suggest that Lucy may have been naked, or at least much more thinly veiled.

FlyingSquid ,
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I don’t know if I’m really on board with the idea that a pre-genus homo hominid who existed before the concept of clothing existed teaches something about modern human clothing and shame.

There is a discussion to be had about shame and nudity, but it’s silly to go to Lucy as an example when there are living human beings in that part of the world right now who don’t seem to have much shame when it comes to nudity. I would think they would be better to use as a lesson.

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If that was what I was supposed to take from the story, they seriously buried the lede by putting that at the very end of the article.

FlyingSquid ,
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Those living people I was talking about have been depicted the same ways. They mostly show such people clothed because showing what they actually look like is too much. Even the link I gave, there is one photo where you can see a penis. Every other photo is taken in ways where penises are hidden.

We don’t need to go to a non-human to show examples of this when it’s done to humans who eschew clothing already.

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No, I’m just not really on board with this one. As I said.

I don’t care what articles Ms. Magazine decides to publish. It’s not my magazine.

FlyingSquid ,
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You’re one year older than me and we’re the two oldest people here so far, which makes me feel super old.

I hope the minor heart attack is the only one you ever have to suffer through.

Fun thing about being this old: I thought I was turning 48 until my wife told me I was turning 47 a few days before my birthday.

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I was with you until you called her misguided. She is way beyond misguided at this point. She’s gotten so hateful that even Elon Musk told her to tone down the anti-trans bigotry.

msnbc.com/…/elon-musk-jk-rowling-trans-obsession-…

FlyingSquid ,
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I wouldn’t substitute any word in that case because there is absolutely no excusing her at this point. Her actions are indefensible. Love her books, fine, but she is a horrible, horrible person and her bigotry does not deserve to be excused by calling it misguided or anything else but bigotry. If she said about black people what she says about trans people, that wouldn’t even be a consideration in terms of talking about her.

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Love her books, fine, but she is a horrible, horrible person

I am literally talking about separating someone from her work. I don’t know how I could have been clearer on that point. But that doesn’t mean what she says is in any way excusable or defensible. Bigotry is bigotry.

FlyingSquid ,
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Yes. I feel that if someone has done good work, even if they are a horrible person, acknowledging the good work is the right thing to do. Even if they wrong you personally. That makes it much more difficult, but I still think it’s something that needs to be done.

My former best friend ripped my mom off for drug money by lying about what he needed it for and is now in prison for possessing meth lab equipment. He’s a horrible person in a lot of ways. But I will still acknowledge the good things he did as good things (he was always willing to give someone a place to stay if they needed it and for as long as they needed it, for example) even if he has done things I can’t forgive him for.

I guess in my view, the bad has to far outweigh the good if you’re going to ignore the good and I think that, while I also have a lot of criticisms about what he has done with Wikileaks, especially around the 2016 election, I also think that Wikileaks- at least when it began- did a lot of good. And credit does go to him for that despite anything else. His victim in the article seems to agree.

Hawaii governor says Biden could decide within days whether to remain in the presidential race (apnews.com)

President Joe Biden could make a decision within days whether to remain a candidate for reelection, said Hawaii’s governor who participated in a recent meeting with Biden and other Democratic governors and whose family has known the president for years....

FlyingSquid ,
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Are they willing to run? Because otherwise it doesn’t matter. And I have seen no indication that they are.

Also, Buttigieg used to work for McKinsey and they are fucking evil. I’d rather have either Harris or Biden than that.

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There is absolutely no reason to assume an 82-year-old man would be willing to be president. It is a lot more work than Senator. And I personally think he deserves to say no if he doesn’t want to. It sort of sounds like you don’t.

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If she doesn’t, tell me who does that is also willing to run.

FlyingSquid ,
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I’m not the one saying not to vote for them. I will vote for whoever the nominee is.

FlyingSquid ,
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I’m sure he would decline without hesitation. And that was my point- we have no idea whether or not he’d say yes.

But some people here seem to think that’s a horrible thing to say.

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Well this is the first time anyone has ever suggested I was privileged for having a minimum wage fast food job where sometimes customers didn’t come in so we didn’t have to work for a while.

You have a very strange idea of privilege if you think you can be privileged to have a job that doesn’t pay a livable wage. Or a fast food job at all.

FlyingSquid ,
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I have literally never heard anyone call a fast food job privileged before just because sometimes there’s downtime. That’s the weirdest claim I have ever heard.

Those people took those jobs because the pay structure & work requirements suit their needs.

Cool, so we better not pay them more money because giving the disabled more money to spend would be bad for some reason.

Really, paying them what anyone non-disabled would have to legally be paid for the exact same job would just be an insult to them. I know I get insulted every time I get paid more money at my very privileged jobs that you are certain I have had.

FlyingSquid ,
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Did you ever think maybe they agreed to the contract because they didn’t think that Goodwill would give them any more money even if they wanted it?

FlyingSquid ,
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No, my argument is that no one should be paid less than minimum wage for any reason.

FlyingSquid ,
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Nope, I just want people to be paid for their time and not what they’re able to do within that time.

Paying people for productivity is ultracapitalist and Protestant work ethic cruelty.

But I guess that’s just the privileged outlook I took away from that privileged fast food job I worked.

FlyingSquid ,
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Okay, then why pay people an hourly wage at all? Let’s just pay everyone on how much they are able to accomplish. The harder you work, the more you get paid.

FlyingSquid ,
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Correct, that’s why I asked them and not you.

And they answered it, unlike your claim to have answered it.

FlyingSquid ,
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That is not in any way a response to my point.

FlyingSquid ,
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So you’re criticizing the sad state of journalism without evaluating the actual journalism?

FlyingSquid ,
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Not according to any dictionary I’ve ever seen.

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That’s like saying newspaper classified ads are journalism.

FlyingSquid ,
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The ad part? No.

Hence it saying “writing for newspapers” not just newspapers.

Again, based on your claim, classified ads are journalism. Absolutely no one but you would even suggest such nonsense.

FlyingSquid OP ,
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Yes. An iceberg.

FlyingSquid OP ,
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But the inside of his can is infinitely large, so he could just farm livestock down there.

FlyingSquid ,
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No, I’m just addressing the search part. How can you trust it?

Head of group responsible for Project 2025 threatens violence if people challenge their "revolution" (www.salon.com)

“And so I come full circle on this response and just want to encourage you with some substance that we are in the process of the second American Revolution, which will remain bloodless if the left allows it to be,” he said.

FlyingSquid OP ,
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I thought we were talking about people using having to work and pay bills as an excuse to not go out on the street and protest. You can’t do any of those things from a cell, which is what they’re risking. I don’t blame anyone for not risking that, especially if they have people who depend on them like small children.

But sure, they can do other things like organize and write. That’s true.

FlyingSquid OP ,
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but Americans still have the right to assemble peacefully and some freedom of speech left

Sure. Tell that to all the BLM protestors that got rounded up. Or the college students protesting Israel this year for that matter.

FlyingSquid OP ,
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The ones with children to feed? Yes. Do you have children who rely on you to survive?

FlyingSquid ,
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To me, the Cybertruck looks like someone put a fiberglass shell over an El Camino for a bad straight-to-video 1980s Mad Max ripoff.

Like this sort of thing, from the movie appropriately titled Battletruck:

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FlyingSquid ,
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A woman married me, so apparently not always.

FlyingSquid ,
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We saw one in person last week and couldn’t stop laughing at how ridiculous it looked.

FlyingSquid OP ,
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So if I say you’re pro-corporate, that’s beyond the pale, but you’re allowed to say I enjoy being berated?

Also, as I have said many times, I am stupid. Calling me stupid is factual. You just think it’s okay to take advantage of stupid people.

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