It'll be fine, just install retractable roofs on the stadiums (at the taxpayers' expense of course), and air condition the whole field. You'll have to leave a gap at the back for home runs but it's ok if some air conditioning escapes, the taxpayers are paying to cool down the neighborhood!

[-] BallsandBayonets@lemmings.world 27 points 5 hours ago

I'm of the opinion that in a few decades we'll see autism and ADHD dropped from the DSM as we recognize that for the majority of people it isn't a disorder, it's just our brains working differently. The conflict only happens because what we call neurotypicals made the rules for society (both "written" and "unwritten") and are best suited to follow those rules, so the rules never change.

Of course there are people on the non-functional end of the spectrum, and we may either come up with a new term for that, or just redraw the diagnostic line to be closer to the non-functional end.

Of course this assumes we as a species survive past the next couple decades, and that we continue to recognize and support neurodivergence, and start to uproot the neurotypical rules that only benefit neurotypicals.

That's the first time I've seen "vote for the lesser evil" phrased in a way to make it actually appealing.

[-] BallsandBayonets@lemmings.world 25 points 5 hours ago

I know I certainly am. In the US, if a politician with a D next to their name is telling me something, I know they're trying to exploit me on behalf of the owner class. On the other hand, if it's an R politician, they're trying to exploit me on behalf of the owner class and murder me for not being exactly like them.

[-] BallsandBayonets@lemmings.world 17 points 5 hours ago

By context I think the room temperature IQ poster is saying "something", but as I am one of The Olds, I cannot be sure. I know rizz as a noun, so it doesn't make sense in the context they used it in.

It's how billionaires shop! Didn't you see the 35 ads during the super bowl? Any company spending that much money on advertising has to have a good product!

[-] BallsandBayonets@lemmings.world 149 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

"I'm going to teach your women to read, and encourage your children to go into a different profession than their fathers'!"

Hanlon didn't encounter BMW owners.

Answering No is one of the few exceptions I make in my stance against the death penalty. One strike, no trial, instant death sentence to be carried out by the nearest available citizen using the most convenient method as picked by the executioner.

Bows can be roughly created from easily available materials, making it impossible to ban the ownership of.

"I fired hundreds of employees because a con artists sold me on this new technology, promote me."

What part of their post made you think they were looking for advice? Sometimes, most times, when things are this shitty, people just want to vent. I've been where they were, and unless you were writing me a no-strings-attached check for my rent money, I wouldn't want to hear a damn word.

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