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The missing link here is they want you to enter voluntary slavery when you realize it’s the only remaining way to afford healthcare.

The case you’re referring to is the murder of Bob Lee. Time seems to fly, for sure, but that was actually just last year. The trial of suspect Nima Momeni is ongoing; I believe the closing arguments were made just a couple of days ago.

Guaifenesin works very very well for me as an expectorant.

A day or so after I first read about this, I saw The Independent’s coverage of the same story. They dug into the assailant’s background and he turns out to be the leader of an Ayahuasca (plant-based shamanic psychedelic) ‘church’ in Florida.

They also gave further confirmation that the attack appeared to be completely unprovoked, and that there was no known relationship between the attacker and victim, nor did they even seem to know each other.

Also the victim appears to be a person who is deaf and does not speak, if I remember the article correctly.

Sink like a stone – float like a feather 😥🎶❤️

Now is that better or worse than being raccooned by up to 100 hounds?

The trick is learning not to hate what you live, but to live what you hate.

You may have forgotten, in this party, winning is less important than pleasing the billionaires.

I’m sorry I have to ask, but, serious or kidding?

I get for vacation areas this is less of an issue but for places like ny city, San Francisco, etc it’s taking homes out of use.

It’s every bit as big of an issue for vacation areas / areas where tourism is the primary driver of the economy.

Take Tahoe or Mammoth Lakes for example: until the early 2010s it was still possible to move there without knowing anyone or having any other inside track, get a job (not your favorite or first choice, usually, but something to work from while you get established) and find your crappy first apartment or half-a-cabin or rundown shack or basement or ADU to rent.

That scenario is almost completely gone now and has been for ten years, plus or minus – depending on where each person sees the line that divides difficult from impossible. People making far less than a living wage now commute to both of those areas from an hour or more away. The sense of how “connected” or privileged one has to be to make it or even just scrape by in areas such as these has relentlessly risen to a level that has had an enormous impact on mental and emotional health and life outcomes in these areas too.

All of these factors were already big in the negative column balancing the very real positives of living so close to nature and preferred sporting activities, before the rise of the short term rental blight. But nowadays those negatives are practically off the meter.

holy shit. everybody should read this.

Also weird that just one of their archbishops can be described as an ally of sex abuse victims, instead of all of them.

I get a funny feeling that the decarbonization plans of the other 75%+ are worthless or nearly worthless in terms of actually helping humanity in any significant way with the polycrisis at hand. The very existence of a worldwide brand of anything is nowhere near sustainable.

Concrete production is one of the big culprits in climate change. But maybe this could be done with rammed earth, sustainably harvested timber, and dry-stone masonry.

I have my own photo of that same thing, took it in Chicago in 2013!

Are we sure they didn’t beam instructions into the shooter using some combination of chemtrails and HAARP?

Right, and he didn’t resign from anything, he dropped out of the race / he chose not to seek or accept the nomination.

The mayor’s pronouns are she/her. But I agree with your point, and so do a very great number of San Francisco residents. The current/upcoming mayoral election is being predictably pushed as a big fight over law and order issues by big-money organizations (a lot of the money coming from silicon valley, outside of SF) and also by corporate-owned local media. The mayor is cynically playing to that tune in her uphill battle to get reelected. As if that weren’t bad enough she had to springboard this off of a cruel Supreme court decision at a time when her constituents are mostly disgusted with the court.

I think you may be mistaken if you’re implying that the DNC is the entity that is trying to get Biden to step aside.

The DNC is currently engaged in an all-out effort to lock Biden in by getting delegates to commit before convention. Those who are trying to get him to step aside, on the other hand, are a bunch of Democratic congressional representatives, donors, and other party figures – not the national party committee itself.

Edit – just since yesterday, apparently the DNC has dropped its plan to hold the “roll call” by which they were going to get their delegates committed before August. A group of Democratic senators who had written and co-signed a letter in protest of that activity have withdrawn the letter, saying their purpose is achieved (i.e., saying the DNC isn’t going ahead with the bullshit). But now maybe all bets are off since the president has contracted COVID?

“They hit each other, like fucking Christ intended”