running_ragged

joined 2 years ago
[–] running_ragged@lemmy.world 13 points 6 days ago

My favourite is the ‘carve out’ to just ignore the tanker ban bill.

Its not a carve out if you’re going to do to the exact thing the bill was put in place for.

[–] running_ragged@lemmy.world 9 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

No, the whole system found a new way to block it, so now Trump could say 'Release the files!' without worrying about it actually happening.

This way his thralls can point to him being 'open and transparent', and no evidence is ever released.

The grift never ends.

[–] running_ragged@lemmy.world 13 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Swim Shady is a leading manufacturer of high-quality beach shades, bags, towels, and swim shorts. Our products are designed to protect you from the sun's harmful rays while providing comfort and style. Swim Shady products are perfect for sun-safe travellers seeking adventure.

That makes the name pretty clear and meaningful entirely outside of the existence of a Slim Shady.

[–] running_ragged@lemmy.world 6 points 3 weeks ago

If they choose to not vaccinate their child, fine. But they shouldn’t then expose other people to their children’s infections.

It gets messier when they are communicable before symptoms are showing. But if my Sally and your Bobby were at a party with 10 other kids, and the next day bobby is showing symtoms, and then a week later a binch of kids at the party are as well, then they should be held responsible.

Especially if they had reason to believe Bobby had been exposed to it days prior.

Make your choices, but if your religious choices are that important to you, then account for how that impacts other choices you make, and don’t put other people at risk.

[–] running_ragged@lemmy.world 14 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

To be fair, if a product isn’t properly regulated, there’s nothing to stop producers from printing good looking lab results on the labels and say good enough. Doesn’t mean its been tested, or the data on the labels and say matches the contents at all..

Seems like there has been report after report on this problem being prevalent in the supplement industry.

[–] running_ragged@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

Its a viable strategy.

Get a career going in a blue state when you've got supports to help you make it.

Make a good amount of money, or get a decent wage/salary.

Then transfer that all to a lower cost area to rest on your laurels and skip out on having to pay into support for the next generation.

Its a perfectly conservative thing to do, pulling up the ladder after you've succeeded with it.

[–] running_ragged@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago

I don’t know for sure, but I imagine settling out of court, specifically avoids setting a precedent. Which in this case means if they want to run it, they’d not have the precedent to protect them, but also have to choose settling, or paying to fight an overtly partisan court system right up to the supreme court.

They’ve capitulated enough for us to know that was never going to be N option.

No network is going to do more to draw the attention of the administration, than allow late night hosts to make jokes about him, and even that isn’t going to last much longer I expect.

[–] running_ragged@lemmy.world 21 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Even better: the pizza dude and the handler are both on the take, and its how they get the drugs through security.

[–] running_ragged@lemmy.world 28 points 1 month ago (3 children)

He does care about the law, just in the conservative way.

“Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.”

  • Frank Wilhoit
[–] running_ragged@lemmy.world 20 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Covid 19 has fever as a symptom,

Fever is a risk factor for neuro development disorders.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8449704/

Thats at least one causal link.

[–] running_ragged@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I think that is a tough one. As long as we accept the value of a thing is what people are willing to pay for it, the prices will always climb.

For essential products and services, the value should be based only on the effort required to provide or produce it.

The main reason we’re dealing with our current inflation has everything to do with the amount of cash flowing upwards from the working class to the boardroom and shareholders.

The prices are going up on essential items because people can’t afford to not buy gas, or not eat, or not rent. They need those to stay employable, and they slowly sacrificed everything else to keep those. So the price goes up, and people keep buying it, telling the heartless corporations that they can raise the prices more.

Now we have significant portions of the population using short term loans or payment plans to buy their next weeks groceries.

[–] running_ragged@lemmy.world 12 points 1 month ago (3 children)

I think the idea is if you’re guaranteed a subsistence pay, then you are free to devote your time to creating something. Art, a business, a community, whatever that makes your life meaningful, rather than devoting 90% of your time working for someone elses profit, travelling to work, resting to be able to work, and eating to continue to work.

You want to talk about bare subsistence, that is what most people are doing now in terms of time as a resource.

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