Unfortunately I paid a stupid amount on Etsy for like a dozen stickers.

Same. I save them for when I’m out in the suburbs, or ideally for rural areas when I’m on a road trip.

That’s true, but in many cases these leaders bypass any democratic process, and instead use executive orders and military coups to force policy changes.

I highly recommend Naomi Klein’s book The Shock Doctrine. Milton Friedman trained these motherfuckers to pitch deregulation and privatization as the solution to economic issues. Without exception it accelerates inflation and poverty, and lets the government sell the country for parts. Chile, Argentina (again), Iraq, Russia. The US has gotten the shock treatment like 6 different times this millennium.

Thank you.

Regarding a conspiracy or prior knowledge, I don’t have strong beliefs either way, so I’m asking this question sincerely. What would it look like to respond appropriately to this information? Don’t these agencies have a list of 1000 potential threats at all times?

Exactly. The article doesn’t explicitly make that point, but it’s like… Lots of people are willing to pay higher rent for an apartment complex with a pool, even if their neighbors also get to enjoy the pool.

This seems like a good thing.

Alex Gibney has covered Enron, Guantanamo, Wikileaks, Scientology, Theranos, Netanyahu, etc. He has never played it safe and has very good lawyers.

If it helps, Alex Gibney has made some of the best documentaries of all time, about some of of the most important crimes and scandals. Enron, Guantanamo, Wikileaks, church sex abuse, Scientology, Theranos, opioids, Netanyahu. He never misses.

But I accept and respect your position.

No problem. It’s Episode 10 from 5/26/2020.

There’s an episode of the Drug Science Podcast about using MDMA to treat alcoholism. It was a small sample size, but the rate of sobriety at 1yr post-treatment was something like 85%, compared to 15% with treatment-as-usual.

Bless you for thinking of the music!

I’m imagining the scene in Succession where Kendall’s on the phone, trying to play hardball with an investor like his dad did. Turned out he wasn’t good at it, and the investor never appreciated being hardballed in the first place.

You’ll have to be more specific.

“We have concepts of a plan”

If public transport is important, CityMapper can’t be beat IMO.

I agree that’s the ethically correct way to do things. To your first point, in the US we’ve found a workaround where we pay poverty wages and tie health insurance to your employment, so when you get sick, you’ll return to work out of necessity so you don’t lose your job.

It was a joke.

I thought I read years ago that airlines responded to Skiplagged by penalizing people who didn’t complete every leg of the trip they booked. I’m not sure why they would care.