The bar fits many many more people, some of whom you don’t already know!
For most of the world’s population, things have significantly improved by almost every conceivable measure.
I strongly recommend Roslings book, Factfulness. The difference between how people think things have changed and what’s happened is wild.
Edit: Just saw the (US tag, sorry.)
Economist news podcast.
Erin O’Toole was the most left leaving Conservative nominee in decades, if not ever. We still complained about him/the prospect of him winning, yeah?
I don’t think everyone has to have read the original source material to enjoy something made from that material.
But if you’re going to complain about it being faithful to the source material? Naw, that’s in no way legit.
Jesus, this person wrote a whole article based on their impression of a stage managed photo op? Really?
Conservatives: Local government knows best, unless we don’t agree!
“Well, as much as we like British Columbian shipbuilders, we felt it rude to ask the taxpayers to pay a few extra billion doars (a couple thousand per person) to subsidize them.”
Which of those groups do you routinely lie to?
“Sorry date/group of friends/family/work function, we can’t eat here. I don’t want to scan a QR code.”
My theatre let out a very audible sad sigh/exhale when the credits started.
So far at least, I’ve found this much more charming than culture war bait.
But I understand how a TypeScript or Java dev could think that the difference between 1 and 4 bytes is negligible.
Shots fired.
I feel like great dreams are the reward for everything else.
Sadly, I’d imagine most of that is Blue states missing out. (Cali, Hawaii, NYC etc. But Florida too!)
Judging by how many people wear clothes made by children in sweatshops, I’d say the wants of the many seem to outweigh the needs of the few.
I’m not sure what dishwasher spray is, but I used the Buy Beaver app in my grocery store and found Finish dishwasher detergent was about the same price and owned by a uk company not ideal but not American.
I tried to find out but need to make an account to see more than a couple lies.