The paradox of tolerance.

You cannot tolerate those who will not tolerate others. Those acting in bad faith will always work to tear down.

Fiscal responsibility always means “They’re not doing what I want.”

My heart is with you.

This was never my fight, but I was always vaguely supportive.

But about a year ago my wife and I invited someone into our home and lives, and we had no idea how terrifying that would get for them.

So yes, I echo some of your fears. How do I protect them should people show up wanting to disappear them?

How do I deal with that fear without projecting it onto them, when they’re dealing with enough?

I was never a parent and yet now I kinda am, and I have a tiny sense of what you’re going through - from Minnesota.

I remember, Sammy Jankis!

There’s a book called The Botany of Desire, by Michael Pollan, which is about this. Looking from the plants eye view of things, they have manipulated us into growing them in a huge variety of environments. The book focuses on tulips, cannabis, apples, and potatoes, iirc. Fascinating book.

Two quick examples from the book:

Pot gets us high, now we grow it in closets, warehouses, yards, basements, attics, etc.

Apples don’t reproduce true from seed, so Johnny Appleseed brought readily available cider to the Americas. (You need a cutting of an apple tree to grow that type of apple.)

And it won’t be recreating the mammoth, just giving mammoth-like features to an elephant.

It’s a truly strange project.

My guess is carbon monoxide poisoning.

It really does seem that the powers that be have forgotten. The right to strike is a compromise with management to avoid damage to company property and intentional sabotage. To quell the anger and violence.

These rights were paid for with blood, and they will be again if needed.

We are angry again. And they’re gonna test us.

Am I unaware of my own bias? No! It’s the women who are wrong!

How many people had concentration that high, and how did it get that high?

I would hope it wasn’t just from using Teflon pans every day.

But with a sample size of 30k, they would be unlikely to get people who might regularly come into contact with it in a manufacturing setting.

I prefer cast iron anyway.

I’m not that fortunate, but I recognize it’s better for everyone else anyway.

Home ownership isn’t my retirement plan, I just want to own where I live.

In the end I’m financially fucked, it’s remarkable I got a nice house at a good price anyway.

I can’t hold a generation hostage over my finances. What am I, a boomer?

I, for one, would not mind if my property value stagnated or decreased so that others could have a better life.

But I’m not most people, nor am I in a decision-making capacity.

It’s also worth saying that I live in a single family dwelling on a larger than normal city lot, so I recognize that I am a part of the problem and still wouldn’t want to change the way I live.

Ah yes, the free speech of blocking highways with semi trucks.

From the “It’s okay to run over protestors” crowd. That’s speech to them too.

Article makes it clear this is not Humble Bundle, which was what I had assumed.

She is a woman of color who was a cop and prosecutor when recent events call those first two qualities into question with the latter two.

But this is a time when Democrats, I believe, will say that this is a strong candidate with knowledge of the legal system in a time when we need to strike down right-wing supported terrorism and put the enemies of our nation away.

Let’s see how she campaigns, not that she can lose my vote.

The phrase is Democrats fall in love, Republicans fall in line.

But I don’t think it’s really all that accurate. It’s more like Republicans fall in line, Democrats come to terms with.

And we will.

Also, Biden was not bad at the job. Few had the knowledge of the levers of power to keep shit running with Republican/Sinema/Manchin obstruction.

But he is four years older, and I hope moving to a different candidate works out. Democrats should love a chance to vote for a totally new candidate who keeps most of the same mildly progressive agenda.

But I will say if she doesn’t stick with the plan to reform the Supreme Court I will be extremely disappointed.

To add to this, he had looked up several targets, including Biden. So it was likely as you say, a psychotic break followed by lashing out, rather than a partisan choice.

Law doesn’t work that way but I otherwise love the analogy.

The information takes little to reproduce, and information ‘wants’ to be reproduced.

Completely ludicrous.

They want to sell the product that, by nature, replicates itself, then charge their customers for their product continuing to do the thing it was meant to do, which is propagate itself.

These companies can go propagate themselves.

City of Lost Children, and to a slightly lesser extent, Delicatessen and Amelie, all directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet.

I’ve yet to see worldbuilding as effortless as it is in the first two movies.

Drop you in blind, explain nothing, get very weird, and tell a fantastic story.