At least until the next pandemic

To be fair, our government then hired any Nazi they thought was smart enough to be useful.

It’s probably a chute for an old coal or wood heater. These are pretty common in houses built in the late 19th and early 20th century in the US.

We just elected someone who promised to fix everyone’s cost of living concerns by deporting 1/3 of our agriculture workforce and applying blanket tariffs. We are not a smart people.

I don’t remember how old I was when I figured it out, but I do remember being upset about being lied to about it. I’ve got 2 kids now, and whenever they would ask about Santa or the Tooth Fairy or anything like that, I would kind of turn the question around and ask how they thought it worked. Sometimes, I miss believing in that sort of magic, and I didn’t want to take that from them or lie to them, so that’s the balance I found. It seems to be working well. Our oldest had it pretty well figured out by around age 9…our youngest is almost 9 now, and she hasn’t straight up told me she knows it’s not real, but the kinds of questions she asks and how she reasons through her answers I think she’s figured it out mostly as well.

Neither. I’m actually pretty well aware of the harms caused by places I’ve worked, including in the US military. I’ve even left places when I couldn’t square that circle. I figured the comment would get some heavy down voting because I know how most of the world is looking at the scenario. I felt some schadenfreude watching the guy get gunned down, too. My perspective is that I see the left committing a lot of the same logical fallacies typically committed by the right in this scenario. It feels a little too close to “well, the cops wouldn’t have shot him in the back if he just complied” or “Palestinians elected terrorists so they’re all terrorists and gldeserve whatever they get” arguments to me. I try to practice the Principal of Charity, and I don’t have any good evidence that this man was cackling with glee while personally slamming a big red “DENIED” stamp on grannies chemo medicine claims. If he’d approved every claim, he would be fired, and they’d bring someone else in to deny the claims. I’m not defending the insurance industry or capitalism for-profit healthcare, but I worry more generally about society normalizing or celebrating violence.l and where that’s moght take us.

False dichotomy is a common tactic used to radicalize people and instigate violence.

Brian Thompson was the head executive of a corporation. He likely spent his days looking at spreadsheets and BI reports, going to meetings where he was held accountable for making a profit for the shareholders and playing golf. If he is responsible for deaths related to the 30-something percent of claims that the company he ran denied, then he is equally responsible for any lives saved by the 60-something percent of claims they approved.

I’m not mourning the guy, but I know his friends and family are. If his murder was justified, is mine justified for not feeling bad he died? Is my daughter’s murder by a Palestinian justified because I pay taxes that buy bombs my government sells to Israel?

There are lots of alternatives to murder (or whatever euphemism for murder you choose to use). Murder certainly feels easier in the short term, especially when you have no connection to the guy who pulled the trigger. His life is likely ruined now as well.

And how do we have NO DATA about the crops growing in any state?

No access badge clearly visible attached between neck and waist.

Just like everyone else.

Hell, include the hype, and it looks stupid

Yes, I’m very sorry to have misspoke…they only own the livestock farms, distribution centers, the land the restaurants are on, and they have exclusive partnerships with the potato growers and ranchers. They DO outsource the pickles from another supplier (who only supply McDonalds), onions (at least the whole ones, couldn’t confirm a source for the dehydrated), and other produce like tomatoes.

Especially in cases like McDonalds. They’ve owned their entire supply chain since at least the late 90s.

Missed opportunity with the fuel efficiency OP…so close to 42.0

Dead eyes…like a doll’s eyes.

You have to bear them against the right people.

Which is ironic…any company that would brag about employees working at their own wedding screams “burnt out employees and insider threats” to me.

Hey, look, I found the thing the US is still number 1 at!

Great…now they’re gonna crusade against the liberal zoos. There’ll be super successful “patriot zoos” which are really just paid tours of factory farms where the treatment of the animals will be landed as traditional, conservative, even biblical. People will eat it up.

This is the issue that prevented me from joining when I first heard about them.