I have that same problem. I feel like nobody else I talk to understands what I’m saying.

https://www.boycott-wendys.org/why-boycott-wendys

If you’re getting rid of the bags due to microplastics then I don’t see how it would help if you add them back in to your diet via compost.

Would be a lot better to terminate US operations entirely rather than let them continue.

The difference is that bugs like the one linked are an inconvenience and irritation to people without diabetes. They are life threatening to people with diabetes. Unfortunately CGMs don’t seem to be as reliable as they should be, and need to be double checked when they alarm (using a standard finger prick) which doesn’t seem to be getting communicated.

Catholic… Catholic… Catholic! POPE!

Weak headline. Should read:

Cop gets 20 years for murdering woman who called 911 for help.

My cat did this for years with two exceptions (blueberries and peas, which must be stolen, played with, and lost under the couch). Then one day I had brisket. His eyes got huge and he immediately tried too steal it and eat it, so I guess after four years I finally passed his test for “this is food”.

No, they aren’t. They’re using it for targeting, but since they are targeting legal immigrants as much as undocumented ones, it isn’t reasonable to say this is for targeting “illegal immigrants”.

If he’s that uninformed about the national security apparatus, then I guess he must be unqualified for the job. Reject him.

One of you is using the monkey’s paw again, aren’t you?

Paywall

I fell in the shower and ended up Methodist for the rest of my life 😭

Porcupine!

It was argued, yes, but that is a state supreme court decision, not binding in any other state, and there is still no law that says this is true. Friedman wouldn’t have bothered arguing about it in 1962 if it was unquestionably federal law or already settled by 1919. It is only convention.

It really isn’t. Smith argued (I agree wrongly) that the invisible hand of a free market would correct everything, but that monopolies and restrictions distort the market and that the worst thing we could do would be to allow corporations to dictate law. That was my point. The US has set up too many barriers to entry to reasonably claim it is free market, and corporations have absolute control over the current government.

Any reasonable reading of Smith’s Wealth of Nations would be socialist anyway. He outright stated that the capital class had a responsibility to entirely pay for the expenses of the state in caring for the populace.

The better discussion of Smith would be what industries could reasonably be capable of sustaining an actually free market. I would argue that housing, communications, agriculture, and healthcare are impossible to de-monopolize due to practical spatial limitations and therefore would have to be under state control, given Smith’s statement that capitalism’s invisible hand only works in a free market.

The USA is not capitalist in the sense most people (e.g. Adam Smith) mean. It is a protectionist oligarchy, that is capitalist only in the sense that it protects those with capital over all else. Monopolies and trade restrictions protect the capital class at the cost of the populace, and most laws are now written by corporations who hand them to their sponsored representatives. It is exactly what Adam Smith warned against.

Publicly traded companies are legally bound to prioritize shareholder demands ahead of any other duties.

This is actually a myth. They are expected to be responsible with their money, but they are not in any way required to maximize profit from a legal perspective. They repeat the lie because it is a good excuse to be evil. If a company doesn’t do what it’s shareholders like, they may vote out the board, or they might sue if the prospective was fraudulent (said they were working on something that they weren’t for example… But remember also that American companies don’t make forward statements like European ones do, so those cases are going to be things like “last year we spent 10 million on R&D” when they actually spent the money on plane trips to cocaine parties) but those are the recourses available to shareholders.

Yes, the inability to close the community list page and go back to the main page is really the only problem I ever have with this app. I’ve tried everything I can think of, but once you accidentally open the communities list there is no going back no matter how much you want to.

Setup is that a mom brings her new boyfriend over to see meet child. Child is dressed up as a fortune teller, and tells mom’s boyfriend that he is in danger. He looks at the “crystal ball”, sees a classic “snow globe” scene, and laughs at it… mom says how good he is with the child, and he gets ready to leave as the child looks on sadly. Man steps outside and gets run over (injured/killed) by a sleigh in a scene that looks just like what was visible in the crystal ball earlier.