If ads weren’t obtrusive and deceptive, I wouldn’t feel the need to block them.

Ok, you’re ill-informed.

Considering we only know it’s there because it slightly dims the light from its star as it crosses during its orbit, you would be correct. At that distance, we would never see light bouncing off the actual planet. Even the star is basically a single pixel. We can estimate its size and orbit based on how quickly it crosses in front of the star and how much the light dims, and using those two numbers we can estimate its distance from Kepler 452.

Like Nazis don’t have money to spend?

Probably C) they don’t give a shit because profit.

It’s not even as good as it used to be. The quality of the buns and the chicken have dramatically changed. Even the pickles are worse than they used to be. Their sodas have always been mostly ice, and the quality of the waffle fries has always been location dependent. How hasn’t another chain taken over their market share?

Anything happining to my kids. Like, I’ve always been afraid of things. Heights, small spaces, diseases, global catastrophies, etc, but having kids flipped those fears around from “What would happen to me?” to “What would happen to them?” Even the things that could happen to me, like what if I fell from a height is now “What if my kids lost their dad because I fell from a height?”

And the worst part is I know bad things will happen to them in their lives. It’s not a matter of If I die, it’s when. They are going to have that experience some day, and the best I can do to prepare them for it is delay it as long as possible while raising them to be emotionally secure and rational adults.

It’s sort of like a cancer patient having a tumor removed. There’s still a long road ahead to recovery, and plenty of opportunities for new tumors to replace it.

So I’m going to breathe a sigh of relief, take a few moments to enjoy the reduced weight of the world, and then prepare for the next steps.

I hope they do an American version that takes place in the same universe but with games more common in America, and an entirely new story. I don’t want a rehash of the same show in English. I saw Squid Games already. Maybe it could be “Squid Games International” because it was so popular among the oligarchy, they brought it to North America.

It’s also important to fight a bunch of battles that don’t really matter to you. Trump does not give a flying fuck about PBS or the arts or wasting federal spending. He just knows his opponents do care, and will have to spend bandwidth fighting him on it. If and when he loses, he will use it to paint the picture of moderation, and insist things are unfair to him to lose every time.

Think bigger picture. If you don’t have the threat of poverty, you can’t convince workers to sell their time for less than it’s worth. That’s the entire basis for an investment economy. I pay you and sell your work product for more than I paid you, and you can’t say no because you’ll die ina gutter without my investment capital.

The thing you said is how they keep the masses working, by convincing them that 1) they need to buy stuff, and 2) they will deserve it if they work hard enough.

Who said homelessness is unsolvable? We don’t want to solve homelessness because poverty is the lynchpin for capitalism.

I love my dog, but I’ve never had to clean potato vomit out of a carpet at 3 am.

My theory was that he dipped out of the GOP spotlight to plan his return post-Trump and play the part of the reasonable conservative.

Yeah, I’m usually one of those people to jump on a conspiracy. I just don’t believe there’s any meat on this particular bone.

It’s just a progressive conspiracy and brown people are at fault.

It’s not even that complicated. A comservative doesn’t care if anyone else loses, as long as they feel like they win.

He had plenty of time to redeem his failures as a human being. No reason to assassinate him now.

That’s because Conservativism isn’t really am ideology. It’s psychological cover for being selfish. Conservatives define their core values based on whatever is good for the people within the Conservative group. They believe that they are the good people, the special people, and that they are entitled to whatever they want. Anyone that stands in their way is evil. Any facts that challenge their world view are lies. Any crimes they commit in service to their goals are justified.

Conservatives don’t care about gas prices or unborn babies or racism unless those issues help them get elected. Conservatives get abortions when they want them. They will even blame other people getting abortions “for no reason” as the reason why they can’t get their own “totally justified and moral” abortion.

They start wars, make trade agreements, and deregulate inustries that raise gas prices, because someone is getting rich from the high gas prices. When Conservatives are in charge and prices go up, they will tell you it is your patriotic duty to fuel up you SUV and drive around.

Even the racism is entirely user dependent. Black conservatives, Latino conservatives, Asian conservatives, Jewish conservatives, Islamic conservatives, Russian conservatives, they all hate someone and they all pretend to be the most persecuted people. It doesn’t matter if they all hate the same people, as long as they hate somebody.

This is not politics. It’s pathological narcissism.

Sure, take your pick. I like the school comparison because it’s easier to visualize. But you’re right, spending at the federal level would be more distributed across all programs.