Take a bag, fill it with water, and grip it loosely at the top so all your fingers wrap around like a loose fist.

Now, without turning the bag, use your other hand to empty it by squeezing out the water.

You get most of it out, but there’s still some in there, even if you squeeze violently and it seems like nothing else can come out.

Also, for most of human history, if you’ve poisoned yourself ingesting something, chances are the next thing you’re ingesting is still poisoned. It’s only recently we’ve worked out distilled poison and purified water. So, biologically speaking, better to just be sick for a day so you can get to a different water/food source.

Classic Ronco politics

Don’t worry about it! Some intrepid American entrepreneur will simply begin producing American EVs immediately.

If modern politics has taught us anything, all you need to do is drop-kick the first domino and the Free Market will do exactly what you want it to do every time with zero follow-up. Society is completely linear like that.

You won’t come after me if I right click? Legally, I mean.

Sound like entrapment tbh

People using ‘infuriating’ when they should be using ‘irritating’

Another chapter in Discoveries Through Inadequacy!

In the batter. Eggs, milk, sugar.

We all need to write to the companies in the ads and tell them we’re boycotting them for their participation in this scheme.

Make advertising with Prime a bad idea

Why does the real world keep reading like satire?!

The problem with this is it takes a while to normalize and self regulate. It demonstrably works, but it takes a long time for the dickheads and edgelords to stop making poorly drawn swastikas every day. Longer than any institution is willing to commit to anything.

That’s the important distinction. It’s not a black hole. The money isn’t gone. Google keeps the money.

Scary that it’s in their best interest to either let monsters grow a following, then demonetize them, and reap the reward, or occasionally whip up a controversy to steal from a popular creator.

And that’s exactly why we should be talking about banning HFCS content.

You know chlorine gas is bad, and that’s just a risk you think people should be allowed to take. But you clearly don’t fully understand just what chlorine gas is or what it does to your body. And that notion that a the ‘risk’ part of ‘health risk’ diminishes its severity is like believing the ‘thoery’ part of gravitational theory means we shouldn’t take that seriously.

That’s a bit glib. A pest control company can sell a chlorine gas spray just because it says it on the label?

Makes sense to me too: a bunch of self-absorbed, uneducated, man-children lashing out with impotent rage as contrarians just to feel important and relevant. Source: me. It was me. I was one of those man-children.

Its important to remember that rich assholes buying expensive things is not a reason to hate them: that’s envy. Rich assholes spending their money on expensive luxuries fund the luxury economy, which finds its way to the regular economy. That’s how economies work, the money moves. The spending isn’t the issue. It’s the hoarding. You can’t spend a trillion dollars. You can’t spend a billion dollars. But you can keep it out of the economy. That’s what keeps everyone else down.

It’s like if the top 70% of the ocean was just fucking cement.

Folks aren’t themselves capital (anymore (mostly)) and just end up costing capital to keep them alive.

A true capitalist recognises this and despises folk for it.