snooggums@midwest.socialtoFuck Cars@lemmy.world•[article] Japan is inventing trainsEnglish
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2 hours agoThat’s why this sounds so ridiculous!
That’s why this sounds so ridiculous!
Incarcerating them is a benefit for multiple terrible reasons!
The goal is for regulations to be held up via congressional deadlock by the obstructionist party. Can’t make a good or bad decision if you can’t make a decision at all.
Removing the filibuster so those things can be accomplished even if the Republicans have 41 Senators will also be necessary. That is what led to the minor improvements in the ACA instead of actually implementing something better like single payer healthcare.
Dred Scott is the exception that proves the rule.
At a far higher rate than actually employing them at the median income would be as well.
the median state spent $64,865 per prisoner for the year.
The only reason that companies want prison labor is because it is cheap for them since the taxpayers are subsidizing the labor costs.
Overall it would be cheaper for states to just pay the homeless the median income than to incarcerate them. A lower rate that could be described as a basic income that is implemented universally would go pretty far in both increasing the opportunities for the homeless to afford housing and reduce the chance of people from becoming homeless.
Pretty sure they don’t grow their bicycles either!
These all sound like the same kind of aesthetic as ‘hand crafted’ where you can tell someone put on the finishing touches or details in a way that matched the materials or is a tiny bit uneven.
There’s a difference that I just can’t put into words.
It could also be from people who think that the people are fictional, because they haven’t personally met similar dysfunctional people.
I can confirm that people exist who fit these kinds of behaviors and personalities and they do tend to cluster together, especially around role playing games.
It sounds like he is struggling with trying to be an open minded and accepting person and the bigotry that often comes with a life that leads to being an aspiring catholic priest.
This is the best thing I have read this month, and I did not see the twist coming!
I assume their last name is Black and they find being racist hilarious.
I would be fine with that if it was free and didn’t reply the ads if I stop and resume.
If I am paying money, then ads are unacceptable.
It is a four door and not significantly smaller than other compact pickups like a Maverick or Ridgeline.
Satirizing requires doing the thing being satirized, in this case racists being racist.
All the grownups that downvoted you for being objectively wrong?
I really wish two seat utility vehicle format in the spirit of the El Camino would be a thing again. Basically a station wagon size, but with an open bed. These could easily have bed covers in the same shape as a wagon as well, but removable to allow for taller items and a bed that can be hosed out.
The market shifting all in to four door cabs sucks.
I think it is more about the fear of receiving harm from “others” outside their local group and placing the blame on those outsiders. Like blaming Gypsies/Travelers and other nomadic groups for things when they are around, or the antisemetic hatred based on myths of being society manipulated by Jews.
Pandemics remind people that there is a world out there that could affect them negatively and they want a group to be a part of and people outside that group to blame.
Obviously not universally true for all people, but a significant portion.
The real trap is assuming anything from a culture applies to everyone, or even the majority, of the culture.
America definitely has a “fuck it, good enough” worldview for a lot of things and institutions. It isn’t universal, but it does apply where you see a bunch of half assed infrastructure or shelves upon shelves of cheap low quality products that a ton of people spend money on knowing it is poor quality.