How many times in U.S. History have the 3rd or 4th options been elected to the office of President? When the answer is zero, how do you count them as options?
You are literally more likely to win the lottery than you are to elect a third party to U.S. President.
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This is such a common phenomenon that it has a name: cognitive dissonance. If you already knew what that was, then your comment suggests another example of it.
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no need, i'll simply keep the surplus value of my labor
Could you give some details? Maybe an invite link? I can only seem to find expired links to any EV Nova discord that google turns up.
that's not the point. the point is that there are people who can't afford to save money in the long run. not like metaphorically can't afford, like literally mathematically cannot afford.
they are trapped by their existing financial burdens which they already cannot meet and which are getting larger every month thanks to compound interest.
inflation, which normally has the effect of reducing the value of debts over time, is instead making their financial burdens effectively larger too. as inflation drives up the cost of living, wages stay the same and they have ever less of their income available to make debt payments as a result.
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A Greek proverb says a society grows when old men plant trees whose shade they shall never know. What’s the exact opposite of that?
Well what's happening right now is old men are actively uprooting anything that won't grow to shade tree size in their lifetimes. It's as if their aim is to one day build their own coffin out of the absolute last tree on Earth.
fwiw, chemical energy batteries (aka typical batteries) are also potential energy batteries.
I don't know a simple or correct label that differentiates batteries whose potential energy is gravity-dependent from batteries whose potential energy is chemical-reaction-dependent, but the concept of gravity-based energy storage absolutely is cool as heck.
vote for people that will help build the middle class up again
The point of the middle class is to split the working class in terms of income and wealth, so they spend their time antagonizing each other and mostly ignoring how the upper class is stealing everything.
We don't need a middle class; we need a strong working class.
You want a class that's got more education? Educate the working class. You want a class that's got more wealth? Enrich the working class. You want a class that's got the time and inclination to make informed political decisions? Deliver workday/workweek reform for the working class.
For one, it's not an either-or thing. Reporting on lead in chocolate isn't detracting from awareness of lead in water.
Sure, but you can just not eat Hershey bars.
And second: that. There's lead in this chocolate? Okay I won't eat this chocolate. Lead intake reduced.
If the Republican party ever becomes irrelevant, Democrats will be stuck waiting to find out what their new opposition party will be. If it winds up being an actual progressive party, I don't really see what options Democrats would be left with. Either they try to gain support from people leaving the Republican party, or they try to be "progressive enough" without losing corporate support?
If Democrats share that uncertainty about a post-Republican future, and if they think the way most status quo actors seem to, then I imagine they'd prefer the Republican party to hang on as long as possible.
What I think that strategy would look like: Democrats going as fiscally conservative as they can while still remaining left of Republicans. Democrats lamenting their inability to make progressive changes, all the while not investing much more than lip service towards advancing said progressive changes.
Even if the arrest is unlawful, resisting arrest is clearly illegal.
And the punishment for breaking any law is death? Or from your prior comment:
They tried to stun him twice, use a baton, the only option left was to use the gun.
Yeah, the gun was the only option. You definitely can't just let someone run away for resisting arrest at a traffic stop. Even if you impound their now-abandoned car, they might go on a whole spree of resisting arrests or something.
In case you can't tell my tone is past sarcasm and well into disgust.
Maybe in a sous vide? But a separate issue will be already-quite-hot food being put into plastic. Think they let your takeout noodles/soup cool before putting it in a plastic container?
Hello Games had a similar issue with No Man’s Sky.
Having played at release, Hello Game's issue was much less "large scope games take long to make" and much more "we explicitly lied about features that are strictly not in the game".
Then the school district told him he had to cut a key point from his presentation — that the artist he helped rescue from obscurity had a gay son. Rather than acquiesce, he canceled the last of his talks.
“We’re long past the point where we should be policing people talking about who they love,” Nobleman said in a telephone interview. “And that’s what I’m hoping will happen in this community.”
They didn't ask him not to "say 'gay'", as the title all but claims. They asked him to participate in the erasure of a relevant gay person from a story he was teaching to children.
"A revolution without dancing sexual assault is a revolution not worth having."
Better education and better cultural norms that didn’t prioritize “things” and consumerism would go a long way.
So on the one hand I agree with you. On the other hand, consumer spending is 70% of U.S. GDP. If consumer spending takes a hit, we’re all going to feel it.
If this sounds awful it’s because it is. Our economy is not designed to benefit all, or even most.
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