"Iran is piddly compared with America in every way. Except killing their own people/protesters."

Hold my Diet Coke.

If you don't think coercion is force then you cannot be reasoned with

Quotas are crap whether positive or negative.

Grading standards should be based on something sensible, not comparison to the class, but to an objective standard. It's not sensible to penalize people for being in an exceptional class.

UCSC had it right when they refused to issue grades. Alas these days they will if you ask them to, which defeats the purpose of not doing it.

Every time I have someone else's tobacco smoke come into my car in traffic I wanna puke. I don't get a chance to object to their face. If smoking is so fucking great, why don't they roll the windows up?

I want companies to think before hiring so that they do less firing. That naturally means they're going to do less hiring. But firing causes chaos and overhiring masks actual unemployment. If you're not employed for long enough to get out of a hole, it doesn't count in terms of the nation's economic health, but it looks like it does because it reduces unemployment statistics.

Because people have been convinced that having people pay for things, let alone necessities, is the natural order. But before money was invented, there was another natural order, and it was equity — not equality. We know this because we've studied hominid skeletons from prehistoric times and found that people were caring for each other, they didn't just abandon the inconvenient, despite health insurance not having been invented either.

I have this but not with mosquitoes, instead it's with these bastard ants you find in Panama. They live on specific thorn bushes and their bites raise welts on most people... but not me, I accidentally brushed one and got about a dozen bites and they were nothing, less than mosquito bites.

Alas, mosquitoes adore me.

You know we can all read your posts, right?

Yeah, he was paranoid about it turning into MechaHitler when someone else was controlling it, because he wants to be in control of MechaHitler.

Obviously she needs to get Starlink, it's the American way. Heil Musk!

When you're driving, you should expect slowdowns. If you're not sufficiently aware to handle them, you're not sufficiently aware to drive. Also, if you don't know you can proceed to an exit or another safe place when being pulled over, same. This is what happens when we don't expect basic competence from drivers. Which, again, is because we want to maximize profit. In this case it's related to the war on public transportation still being waged by Big Oil, Big Auto, and Big Rubber. None of this has anything to do with serving the public.

This is one of those times when the handclaps between ever word are actually warranted, not to try to wake you up which is impossible, but just for fun. WE *clap* HAD *clap* A *clap* NUCLEAR *clap* DEAL *clap* BEFORE *clap* CHEETO *clap* BENITO *clap* BURNED *clap* IT *clap* DOWN.

In this scenario, the hostage is the company who's data was stolen... the data is the gun being held to their head and the victims are the people identifiable by the data.

Your negotiation strategy would kill both the hostage and irreparably harm the victims.

A better strategy is to ensure that your dangerous gun is kept secure and away from children. Prevention is always better than cure.

Why is it, when my wealth is transferred to the already wealthy it's never called "wealth redistribution". Like class warfare... it's only called that when we fight back.

If you don't punish companies for firing, you end up with both less hiring and more firing... And those that are left have to do the work of 3 people because if they don't, they'll be fired too.

Countries with strong labour protection tend not to have higher unemployment but they do have a better quality of life.