consumptionone

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Do the bike lanes you mention happen to be little painted bikes on the other side of the white line next to the road with no actual protection from the giant trucks inches away? Cause those aren't bike lanes, and cyclists not riding there doesn't make them assholes.

I always felt like that argument doesn't survive critical thought. I think it comes down to the velocity of money. Poor people spend their social welfare dollars nearly immediately on things they need to survive, like food, housing, or medicine, returning it to the economy instantly, to be spent again. Meanwhile billionaires hoard their earnings and it does nobody any more good ever. It certainly doesn't 'trickle down'.

Why are you moving the goalposts? In your first post the goal was without further deforestation of rainforests, but in your reply, you changed the goal to without environmental impact. As long as global population growth is a thing, the former is possible, the latter not so much.

I'll admit I'm not terribly interested in this topic. I only replied to your comment (at the same time as another commenter making a similar argument) because you come off as a shill for palm oil, which is odd.

Aren't some of those plants grown in plains? I don't think the yield per hectare is the whole story. Palm oil is tropical, leading to deforestation, but at least some of the others you listed are not.

April 30th 2011 is the turning point. Obama roasted Trump so hard at the White House Correspondent's dinner that night that Trump locked in on running for president out of nothing more than pure spite.

Donald Trump is here tonight! Now, I know that he's taken some flak lately, but no one is happier, no one is prouder to put this birth certificate matter to rest than the Donald. And that's because he can finally get back to focusing on the issues that matter—like, did we fake the moon landing? What really happened in Roswell? And where are Biggie and Tupac?

But all kidding aside, obviously, we all know about your credentials and breadth of experience. For example—no, seriously, just recently, in an episode of Celebrity Apprentice—at the steakhouse, the men's cooking team cooking did not impress the judges from Omaha Steaks. And there was a lot of blame to go around. But you, Mr. Trump, recognized that the real problem was a lack of leadership. And so ultimately, you didn't blame Lil Jon or Meatloaf. You fired Gary Busey. And these are the kind of decisions that would keep me up at night.

on Rule-follower · c/humor · 26 pts · 154d

If only management had the capability to assess performance of WFH employees through metrics other than time in the seat. Impossible without managers doing more work though, so I guess the only solution is to make everyobe come to the office every day.

The only reason I stop at Buc-ees when I'm driving past is because they actually clean the bathrooms. Worst part of many road trips is stopping at normal gas stations where the bathroom hasn't been touched by a cleaning product in a very long time.

The last Ubisoft games I played to the end were AC: Black Flag and Watch Dogs, which were both like 12-13 years ago. Neither game was GOOD, but they seemed decent to me at the time. I've play tested a few titles since then since then, all of which were hot garbage. Ubisoft is as dead to me as EA these days.

No. You could always travel a bit further to a different store, given the idea is that there are many. Let's say you want to pick up food at an specialty store, but it's too far to walk. Maybe you can bike or take a tram or a subway or a bus. Failing that, there are delivery services that can bring you literally anything you want.

SDOT posted a response to this protest.

https://sdotblog.seattle.gov/2025/08/28/route-8-updates-supporting-reliable-travel/

Basically, their justification for not listening to the community boils down to, "but it will slow down car traffic!"

They completely ignored the fact that reliable public transit and cycling/walking infrastructure are basically the only ways to reduce car traffic, by getting drivers out of their cars and into the far more efficient options.

on So glad ICE is in Chicago · c/aiop · 3 pts · 1y

Doctors murdering their wives and blaming it on one-armed men, then going on the lam. Assistant district attorneys murdering their secret lovers. The chaos is endless!