I get that.

That’s why I say there are no perfect solutions. We can only ever get most of the way there, which is what California and the US should shoot for.

Absolutely. The people in power always think they can control their pet authoritarian until they can’t.

(Also, side note, it’s interesting to see this article in the Guardian, a publication that has been whitewashing the rhetoric around the rise of neo-fascism in Europe of late.)

Everyone should read up on the Polish Resistance. They’re just fascinating, and one of the badest-ass groups in history.

they’d rather live in a tent in the park, what options are left?

Finland has, essentially, solved the problem of homelessness. They still have approximately 1000 willfully homeless people.

There is no perfect solution, but we can get really, really close, and that’s what California (and the US) need to do.

TLDR: Fred Trump was a slumlord.

I hate Gavin Newsom as much as the next guy, and I saw these headlines earlier and was pissed.

But…

…if you actually read the articles, he’s following that with trying to appropriate 3 billion to address the problem of homelessness in a more practical way. And, that’s the smart thing to do, because letting them live on the street and addressing it through policing and prisons is not only ineffective, but vastly more expensive.

Though, ideologically, I agree that criminalizing homelessness is a step backward.

So far it seems only California, New York, and Europe have had the balls to try and hold these AI content thieves to account, and apparently, we’re going to continue to have to pin our hopes on the EU that the regulations they enact will have some kind of downstream beneficial effect here in America.

And that’s what the minimum wage was intended to be, a living wage no matter how bullshit your job is. FDR even wrote about it publicly, confirming that yes, even if you’re pumping gas, the intent was for you to be able to live well.

Instead, we chose to impoverish everyone so we can have 700 billionaires, and we can’t change it, because our government caters to those 700 billionaires and couldn’t care less about the working class and poor.

People opposed to a living wage honestly don’t give a shit about the math.

They’re not thinking. They’re just regurgitating something they saw on social media or their preferred news agency.

I really don’t like how, whenever there is an article on something that works, people feel the need to post whatever solution they prefer and say it’s better.

Agreed. What a silly reply.

This is a wildly successful change in a city that really, really needs solutions to several problems related to cars. The peanut gallery needs to shut their pie hole and absorb the article.

It very clearly advocates for and instructs people in child abuse.

Goddamn, I hope all this material gets properly cataloged by professionals and published. I would love to read about it, as someone with an interest in WWII and the hunt for escaped Nazis.

Yes, but not quite as worried as if they had a copy of ‘To Raise Up A Child’, so there’s that.

Sexually active

I mean, wouldn’t that be all of them?

Even the ones who claim to be celibate are wanking day in and day out. Let’s be honest here.

That could be. My first thought was… what’s he doing in there that not having the light on is a necessity?

Now that we’re solidly in the era of alternative facts, all that seems to register is what a politician says in the moment. It’s really depressing to watch both political parties and 99% of voters just shrug their shoulders and go along with the utter stupidity of our political culture, even in full knowledge of its deleterious effects on their own lives.

I wouldn’t do it in public though…

By all means, do your thing in the privacy of your own home. No shame in that.

In my old gym there was a guy who liked to turn the lights off and then take showers in the mens locker room.

Neurodivergent or not, that’s really weird.

This has ‘and the whole train clapped’ energy.

But, hopefully this legend really did this and has a great new gig lined up.

Abso-fucking-lutely.