I’m pretty sure that simply putting a picture of eyes in the scene reduces theft. People are emotional creatures , and if they feel like they’re being watched by someone who doesn’t approve of stealing, they’re more likely to refrain.

As a result of this article, I learned the Faircloth Amendment exists, and seems like anti-social madness.

https://nationalhomeless.org/repeal-faircloth-amendment/

I thought about editing that article to reference Musk and this thing, but it would probably be reverted.

• A solid, reliable, trusted, friend group. I’ve got a handful of people but some folks I know have like a whole crew.
• At least one smart, hot, kind, loving, partner with at least one shared, actionable interest.
• Power. Like, give me the infinity stones and I’ll fix the world.

No other crisis at the moment, but you never know when you’re going to wake up with double cancer or whatever. I try to appreciate the nice moments.

The point is to make it harder for “those people” to vote and participate in society. If you came up with a magical, iron-clad, mechanism for everyone to have ID, the conservatives wouldn’t support it because that’s not what they want. They want minorities to suffer.

That’s not the point. The point is people spend most of their day under an authoritarian regime. Taxes and services are irrelevant to this.

It’s funny because the US is usually like “rah rah democracy!!” but also loves private corporations, which are extremely authoritarian.

Many people are kind of stupid. Not ignorant. But like, incapable or unwilling to evaluate what’s a good source and what’s nonsense. Also incapable of drawing plausible conclusions even when given good sources. It’s all emotional. It’s how you can have stuff like “the outgroup have all the money and power, but they’re also poor and taking all our welfare” at the same time. Feels truthy. Anti-vaxxers get the high of bonding with their anti-vax friends and feeling like they’re part of the in-group.

There’s not really an answer. Invest in public education for 100 years, maybe. But we’re going always going to have authoritarians shitting life up for everyone.

https://theauthoritarians.org/

They tend to be more authoritarian. That means they’re more likely to prioritize in-group above all else.

There’s a book about authoritarian personalities I was reading a while ago. It talks about an experiment where they did like a model UN, but secretly sorted all the authoritarian types into one game and everyone else into the other.

The authoritarians ruined the world. Like, nuclear war. When they got a do-over, they still fucked it up.

The other group basically cooperated and solved world hunger.

Authoritarians probably shouldn’t be allowed in positions of power. The GOP attracts a lot of them.

I would also accept a “pay what you want” system. Wasting money on enforcement of $3 fares is idiotic.

Every night he jumps onto the computer keyboard until it beeps. I tried turning the computer off and he turned it on somehow.

I don’t know why. It’s after I’ve fed him. I always pick him up and bring him to the bedroom after.

This is bad. I’m so tired of people doing bad things. Stop undermining public education you donkeys.

Unknown Armies is a tabletop RPG that has a school of magic predicated on a. Being drunk all the time and b. Drinking out of really cool cups.

Post reminded me of that. Good game (though I only know 2nd edition)

This was going to be my answer. Except we didn’t even read it as a class. We were doing some other boring stuff and I was flipping randomly through our textbook, where I found it and read it. I still think about it, and sometimes use it in RPGs.

It would’ve also been super appropriate if I could never find it again in the textbook, but I can’t remember if that’s true.

Well “love that dog” made me cry a little just now, so thanks for that.

New Jersey is fine. A lot of north jersey is overshadowed by NYC being right there. One of my friends moved here from florida, and one of her friends was like “Why don’t you move to jersey city? it’s cheaper” and she went “I didn’t move to new york to live in new jersey”. But even if you do live just outside the city and none of your friends want to visit, you’re still a short train ride away from it.

I don’t know as much about south jersey, but, like, it’s fine. And unlike, I don’t know, Iowa, you can usually get on a train to a world class city.

I also cannot recommend her novels The Left Hand of Darkness and The Dispossessed.

I hope you meant you can recommend them. They’re both very good.

I liked the dispossessed a lot

I don’t think you can eat deep dish pizza with one hand while riding the subway quite so easily.

I imagine it’s because the Republican party is “absolutely evil turds” and the Democratic party is “everyone else”. Unfortunately, “everyone else” includes some farts and sharts, too.