It really should be a law that Congress can only get a pay raise if they raise the federal minimum wage by a proportionate amount.

It doesn’t depend on an ever growing population. It depends on a certain percentage of people dying before they collect.

It would be supremely ironic if Mangione goes free because the prosecution can’t prove the terrorism part of the charge.

Yeah, I would think bolt cutters would be more useful.

Not if there isn’t sufficient infrastructure to charge them they wont

Not as easy as it sounds. What people want and what they need are often different. Americans want gas powered cars (69%), not EV cars. But we need to switch to electric ASAP.

The latest genetic tracing points to the origin being the animals sold at the market in Wuhan.

https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(24)00901-2

There is still a good chance their plans will fail due to incompetence or greed. If that doesn’t happen, there will be a lot of people without much left to lose.

It was definitely uninhabited. It was the Vikings who founded it. It’s pretty interesting. The icelandic language has changed so little, they can read the original Beowulf text as easily as they read a bus schedule. It’s a really hard land to survive in. The early settlers had to resort to cannibalism several times.

I agree. I didn’t mean they would be voted out.

Sounds like something that would be really hard to enforce once they get rid of the department of education.

It’s a lot easier when you find a land that is actually uninhabited. Anyone who has played Civ knows that it is hard to come by late-game.

If they actually start doing this, none of them will be in office in 4 years.

Big missed opportunity to call it a shit-in.

Yes. These truths are things like the economy is improving but will take time, prices will never go back to what they were before Covid, man-made climate change is a real existential threat to human civilization, legalizing abortion results in fewer deaths than banning it, trans people exist, and institutional racism exists.

Some of the comfortable lies are that tariffs will fix everything, fuel prices will drop if we drill more, wars in Ukraine and Palestine can be easily ended with simple negotiation, and Project 2025 isn’t the working plan for the Trump presidency.

Explaining the election result is simple: people picked comfortable lies over uncomfortable truths.

Ah, but drone strikes could rid us of a bunch of his cronies as well if you time them to coincide with big meetings.

Just snapped right in half.

Personally I think Biden should drone strike Mar-a-Lago into a smoking crater.

They always think their expertise in one area makes them an expert at everything, when in reality they are below average.