…half the wearer’s remaining health rounded down.

Payment processors shouldn’t be acting as a moral authority.

Gimme back my crystal ball!

The frame rusted out where the leaf spring shackle attached, and there’s no real way to fix that.

There is always a solution that involves welding, but unless someone is able to do it themselves odds are it would be far more expensive than finding another used vehicle in better shape.

The dissent on the “it’s a gratuity, not a bribe lol” decision shows that ambiguity isn’t even necessary. Same with the bump stocks ruling. And seceral before that.

The conservatives will pretend there is ambiguity and write pages of rambling pseudo logic no matter how clear the law is.

Incarcerating them is a benefit for multiple terrible reasons!

• Cheap, state subsidized labor.
• Gets undesirables out of public spaces so fragile people don’t have to acknowledge their existence.
• Gives those in power ammunition in the form of incarceration rates for riling up the masses about ‘crime’.
• Gives undesirables a history of incarceration so they can be denied other things if they somehow get out of their situation.
• Gives undesirables a history of incarceration so they can be an easy suspect for criminal activity.

The goal is for regulations to be held up via congressional deadlock by the obstructionist party. Can’t make a good or bad decision if you can’t make a decision at all.

Removing the filibuster so those things can be accomplished even if the Republicans have 41 Senators will also be necessary. That is what led to the minor improvements in the ACA instead of actually implementing something better like single payer healthcare.

Dred Scott is the exception that proves the rule.

At a far higher rate than actually employing them at the median income would be as well.

the median state spent $64,865 per prisoner for the year.

The only reason that companies want prison labor is because it is cheap for them since the taxpayers are subsidizing the labor costs.

Overall it would be cheaper for states to just pay the homeless the median income than to incarcerate them. A lower rate that could be described as a basic income that is implemented universally would go pretty far in both increasing the opportunities for the homeless to afford housing and reduce the chance of people from becoming homeless.

It could also be from people who think that the people are fictional, because they haven’t personally met similar dysfunctional people.

I can confirm that people exist who fit these kinds of behaviors and personalities and they do tend to cluster together, especially around role playing games.

It sounds like he is struggling with trying to be an open minded and accepting person and the bigotry that often comes with a life that leads to being an aspiring catholic priest.

This is the best thing I have read this month, and I did not see the twist coming!

I would be fine with that if it was free and didn’t reply the ads if I stop and resume.

If I am paying money, then ads are unacceptable.

I think it is more about the fear of receiving harm from “others” outside their local group and placing the blame on those outsiders. Like blaming Gypsies/Travelers and other nomadic groups for things when they are around, or the antisemetic hatred based on myths of being society manipulated by Jews.

Pandemics remind people that there is a world out there that could affect them negatively and they want a group to be a part of and people outside that group to blame.

Obviously not universally true for all people, but a significant portion.

We could also learn something from that and the other genocides and not force the conflict to escalate in the hope that the future survivors work things out.

Ok tankie.

Yeah I’m just really confused by how you’re at the same time able to oppose colonialism as a concept but also not willing to acknowledge that whatever happened to other people is happening in the exact same way to Palestinians.

You are confused because you keep ignoring my statements that the same thing is happening to Palestinians, apparently because I don’t agree that the solution is wiping a country off a map.

Instead, they should stop being a colonial state which was the solution to all of the other colonial states.

If Serbs and Muslims can coexist in Bosnia

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bosnian_genocide

Forcing them to live together would be creating the same conditions that led to the genocide! Do you think they will just skip past the genocide this time?

Rolling coal is this exact mindeset in transportation form.