every field trip i had had a permission form with the cost on it that had to be signed by a guardian or you were not allowed to go.

the last woman i dated was 100% against this type of thing, because she was 100% against taxes on the wealthy.

She was 100% for taxes on poor people though.

She was 34, and her father was still paying her rent, while she ranted against poor people and children who 'were getting hand outs'.

We broke up over it, and she pulled the 'you are too ugly for me anyways'.

The selfishness, cruelty, and immaturity of conservative types of people is beyond the pale. And they feel like they are the victims, that school children being fed is them being abused and stolen from.

His show is entertainment first and foremost. That means glorifying stupid bullshit for the entertainment value of it.

Most hard science is boring. Most fringe theory thinking is dramatic and thrilling.

the open web isn't as profitable as the walled garden where we can shovel ads and algorithms at unwitting consumers to extract money from them.

No.

This is about social conformity and giving the public an enemy to hate.

Bigger cars are more profitable. Small cars are not.

The average full size suv buying price is 80K. the average car buying price is like 30K.

this is also the same reason new starter homes are like 3000 sq ft today. and one from 30 years ago were 2000 sq ft.

the cost to produce a huge suv is not much more than it is to produce a small car, but the suv is commands 2-3x the price of the small car.

he's a TED talk basically.

most TED talks are like that. sophisticated sounding gibberish that has no real world merit, but sounds really cool and interesting.

lawmakers are not intelligent or discerning people

been here a month or so.

def seeing more abusive people show up, and nutcases who are spamming their ideological nonsense on every post who have think being first to post about their victim hood as misunderstood holders of THE TRUTH is some sort of relevant commentary and they are being oppressed by some other group of a different ideology.

this thread seems to be exhibit A.

also way more low quality shit posting and memes which i have to spend several minutes blocking each morning.

spez is going to bail on reddit the second his stock options vest.

all he has to do between now and then is make reddit as bullshitty as possible so idiot investors line up.

i sexually identify as nuclear armageddon. my pronouns are Minuteman III/Trident II

I can't turn on the radio TV without them talking about AI every 5 minutes. It's bitcoin bullshit allover again. Or Big Data, or 'new media' or etc etc.

Buzz buzz buzz.