this makes me wonder how much longer a towel could be used if it were promptly dried after use, rather than put up on a hook where some of it dries sorta and the rest of it clumps.

even when you are clean from showering, you are still covered in delicious skin, refreshing moisture, and things that thrive in the presence of both.

How many times in U.S. History have the 3rd or 4th options been elected to the office of President? When the answer is zero, how do you count them as options?

You are literally more likely to win the lottery than you are to elect a third party to U.S. President.

prices will be raised regardless. record profits? raise prices. record growth? raise prices. cost of production goes down? raise prices.

no need, i’ll simply keep the surplus value of my labor

For those that supposedly champion capitalism, this should be a win win in demonstrating what the market does when you are no longer competitive.

Yes, absolutely. Unfortunately it’s quite traditional only to tolerate markets as long as we’re happy with their behavior. The moment a market starts worrying or upsetting us is never “oh man, maybe this ‘markets’ thing isn’t all it’s cracked up to be”, it’s “obviously some regulation or policy is ruining this market, or it would never do this thing i don’t like”.

So we’re stuck with the lose-lose-lose of:

• keeping markets, their volatility, and all the shit that comes with that

• giving up the fringe benefit of markets redistributing wealth when they collapse

• denying anyone a chance to see clearly what it means to trust markets to manage our economy for us.

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This is really a both-sides situation.

Hamas isn’t Palestine. Israeli gov isn’t Israel.

When you make simple distinctions like this, things get less complicated.

vote for people that will help build the middle class up again

The point of the middle class is to split the working class in terms of income and wealth, so they spend their time antagonizing each other and mostly ignoring how the upper class is stealing everything.

We don’t need a middle class; we need a strong working class.

You want a class that’s got more education? Educate the working class. You want a class that’s got more wealth? Enrich the working class. You want a class that’s got the time and inclination to make informed political decisions? Deliver workday/workweek reform for the working class.

If the Republican party ever becomes irrelevant, Democrats will be stuck waiting to find out what their new opposition party will be. If it winds up being an actual progressive party, I don’t really see what options Democrats would be left with. Either they try to gain support from people leaving the Republican party, or they try to be “progressive enough” without losing corporate support?

If Democrats share that uncertainty about a post-Republican future, and if they think the way most status quo actors seem to, then I imagine they’d prefer the Republican party to hang on as long as possible.

What I think that strategy would look like: Democrats going as fiscally conservative as they can while still remaining left of Republicans. Democrats lamenting their inability to make progressive changes, all the while not investing much more than lip service towards advancing said progressive changes.

Better still, use passive scores since this is what they’re for. If you want your players to make active checks, give them a narrative reason.

But I’m also of the opinion that the more you run your D&D like you’d run anything Powered by the Apocalypse, the better it becomes.

it’s hard to know the extent to which the comment represents the marriage. otoh, if one were to read their comment and leave thinking “sounds like a normal, healthy marriage to me”, that imo would be a premium red flag on the reader.

communist because u want a commune = communist

communist because u want tanks and gulag = tankie

Maybe in a sous vide? But a separate issue will be already-quite-hot food being put into plastic. Think they let your takeout noodles/soup cool before putting it in a plastic container?

Why the hell should i do that?

Read any chapter of history, particularly in the last several hundred years, and you’ll find no end of answers to this question.

“A revolution without dancing sexual assault is a revolution not worth having.”