Man is unironically the meme and doesn't see it. "Why aren't they showering me with gratitude for throwing 20 cents at them? They must've just wanted drugs!"

As always, if there's a question in the headline, you can safely assume the answer is "no". If every member of Congress showed up to vote, the result would've stayed the same, but because Democrats are the only party assumed to have agency, they're obviously at fault for anything that goes wrong even while they still don't have a majority. We're gonna be seeing this shit a lot until at least January as the powers that be try to chip away at the good will the Democrats bought themselves with the midterms.

Except this wasn't someone fixing up a piece of furniture that was going to get tossed. This was someone buying a cheap piece of furniture, touching it up, and selling it for a nearly 9x profit. Meanwhile removing it from the pool of cheap furniture available to someone who can only afford to buy the $25 piece.

That's not how that meme works. You were treating trust as a binary "do not trust" or "trust". They called you out on it because trust is obviously a multi-factor continuum. You might trust your coworker to do their job, but not trust them with your phone passcode. Meanwhile, you might trust a partner with your phone passcode (mileage may vary) but not trust them to make a doctor's appointment because they're anxious or something Obviously it depends on the person, but you get the idea. Trust isn't just a binary "trust" or "not trust".

That's not even taking into account that "the government" isn't actually one singular entity but rather a whole group of individuals who all have their own agendas, some for the better and some for the worse, and it's the citizenry's job to steer the group toward a desired outcome by electing people with similar ideals. For example, would I trust Donald Trump to have anyone's interest in mind but himself? No. But I would trust Mamdani to have people's best interest in mind. That doesn't mean I trust or distrust "the government" but rather that I trust people in government who've shown they deserve it and distrust those who've shown they don't. And I would trust neither with my phone passcode. Trust is not binary.

This is the question I keep asking when this comes up. How is this a legislative issue at all?

I know realistically it's because conservatives love big government when it's hurting people they don't like, but the sports associations already had rules based off of actual research and an understanding of the issue, so it makes no sense to put it to a vote for millions of knee-jerk reactions to control instead of leaving it to people who actually know what they're doing.

But it's just another part of the far-right's war on expertise that they've been waging since at least Nixon.

Being an adult, especially right now, just kinda sucks in a lot of ways. Bills, responsibilities, the general downward trend toward fascism that every major world power took post-covid, a fucked housing market, ever-widening wealth inequality, there's just kind of a lot that sucks right now.

If a driver hits someone without realizing it and drives off to continue their day, that's still legally fleeing the scene

How do you know they're manufactured locally? I can't seem to find any info on where they're located on their site

"I hate AI slop so much I use AI slop to show off how much I hate it." Why are people like this?

There is a world wherein the surplus value from automation is used to enrich everyone and we move from a labor-based society to a human-based one, but too many people are capitalism-brained to the point that they're fully incapable of even imagining what it might look like to live in a world where we're not forced to labor for 70+ years then die