I mean, if I have to choose between a genocidal neoliberal and a genocidal fascist, I’ll take the neoliberal.
What I really want to know is why can’t we have a party with popular, mainstream, progressive policies? Just sitting here hoping that Mamdani can hammer some sense into those morons.
Lol. You think this court cares what happened in 2013?
Absolutely. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brutalist_architecture Uncommon for small residential projects, even then. Now, I feel like it’s more common to build poured-concrete floors supported by columns, which gives them a lot more flexibility in what the facade looks like - more glass & natural light, shiny metal patterns, fancy colors. There’s a couple buildings I remember thinking, “Wow, they put a really realistic wood grain pattern in that concrete - is that supposed to fool us into thinking it is wood?” before I realized it’s just that they were too lazy to cover up the molding texture.
Build a form strong enough to hold the concrete, pour the concrete, take down the form. Essentially, you build two wooden walls, make the concrete wall between then, then remove the wooden walls. ICF lets you build the form like LEGO and leave it mostly in place after.
Everyone wants more than they have. Labor wants to be paid more this year than last, producers want to get paid more this year than last. In the money treadmill of the economy, that means everyone raises prices to pay for the rising prices.
It comes from excess production or profits. Labor creates more value than it gets paid; businesses charge more than their products cost; banks loan more money than they hold. There’s just extra money floating around competing to buy finite resources. The extra money accumulates over time, which makes money itself less valuable.
Leather? You want to kill a cow just so you can walk around? A few days barefoot and you’ll grow your own self-replenishing leather. If you really must waste resources on your feet, I recommend cutting up an old, used tire. Same techniques as leather footwear, but re-use rather than murder.
Spawning my own enclave of ‘glitter bat’ users.
People will accept either intelligence or stupidity. They will pay for a flattering sycophant.
I’m used to ‘Packaged in the USA’ labeling on Made in [somewhere else] products. ‘Designed’…same-same, definitely since NAFTA, maybe before. The bible verses are new to me.
If something were to happen, and you couldn’t make rent, you might get evicted, which would be inconvenient.
If something were to happen, and you couldn’t make the mortgage, the bank might lose money, which is unconscionable.
Genocide is not a good solution to high food prices.
Sausage has the extra benefit that it’s already seasoned, so you don’t have to add extra.
I think they mean Navy SEALs, not pinnipeds.
While only ~10% of corn is human food (including corn syrup), the rest is about evenly split between ethanol production and animal feed (~45% each). https://www.ers.usda.gov/topics/crops/corn-and-other-feed-grains/feed-grains-sector-at-a-glance
I mean, ethanol for fuel isn’t great, and it represents most of the new corn consumption over the last 20 years, but an enormous amount of US corn goes to pigs and cattle.
There was a big kerfuffle in the US at the time, one particular senator - Jesse Helms - went on a special crusade to revoke funding for the National Endowment for the Arts and restrict obscene works, generally. Maybe triggered by, certainly exasperated by Piss Christ. US obscenity law at the time was basically, “I know it when I see it,” and Simpsons itself was occasionally threatened for its ‘obscenity.’
Back in the day, I shopped at the one grocery store in a bit of a food desert. They’d have all…I don’t remember 10? 12?..checkout lines open all day, and you’re still guaranteed to spend half an hour in line. If they could have replaced 2 checkout lines with 6 self-check kiosks, or 4 & 12, it would have helped a lot, but they hadn’t been invented yet.
Now, I shop in a better neighborhood where they have 6 kiosks, one staffed checkout, and 8 lanes closed. Start with a technical solution to a real problem, and some MBA is going to come in and figure out how to turn it back into a problem.
I don’t hate self checkouts, I hate the people who use self-checkouts. The mom with a cart filled with food to feed 4 people for a week, holding a baby in one hand and trying to scan and bag with the other. The guy apparently shopping for his whole apartment complex, scanning 4 items, paying for them, then scanning 6 different items, slowly working his way through an overloaded cart. The Gen-Z narrating each item into their phone for some reason, also struggling to bag items single-handed.
One of them isn’t bad, but two of them will strangle the entire kiosk farm, and make it seem like everyone is a self-absorbed idiot. Never go grocery shopping on a weekend morning.
Not just one orca and one yacht. Yacht bumping seems to be turning into an orca game.
Yeah, I would have thought student loan debt to be disqualifying for thugs. Maybe they’re focused on dropouts.
So, the same reason I have a dog and not a unicorn.