Even better!

There are some very prominent instances where this is *NOT* the case, but I suppose they’re examples that prove the rule.

Well, for certain, we should probably stop arming local law enforcement agencies with military hardware. If you equip people with weapons of war, they’re going to act like they’re fighting a war.

But this is progressive, and progressives are the devil!

There are two sides to patents and intellectual property laws. The one side assures that the people and parties responsible for creating things of value for society get duly reward for their efforts. The other side is the people or parties who USE their ownership of valuable things to hold society hostage to their…

Don’t tell them that! I want to see all these anti-vaxxer, know-nothing, insurrectionist shitstains getting perp walked for a federal crime! They’ve made it abundantly clear that won’t stop their insanity voluntarily, so it’s time to make it NOT voluntary.

Arbitrary distinctions are — let me check — yup, still arbitrary.

Once again, it’s STILL an arbitrary distinction EMPLOYERS sets for themselves. It doesn’t HAVE to be that way. They are CHOOSING to make it that way.

They could CHOOSE to let employees set their own hours. They CHOOSE not to. Which makes it arbitrary and self-inflicted, an empty excuse, ie EXACTLY what I already said.

It’s a perversion of libertarianism, in the same way that America’s obsession with capitalism is a perversion of capitalism, too. Anything taken to extremes is destructive. Problem being, people don’t generally get the nuance of where any ‘good idea’ starts going off the rails and becomes something else entirely. This…

Nope. That’s an arbitrary and self-inflicted excuse. And a flimsy one at that. Nothing requires a business set an employee’s hours. In fact, there businesses that *DON’T* and their employees are still, yup, employees.

“Gig workers” or “Contractors” have always been a way for large businesses to skirt employee requirements and expenses to the detriment of said employees. Are they working for you? Are you paying them? Then they’re employees. Everything else is a bunch of self-inflicting arbitrary restrictions and excuses as to why…

Gimmicky approach to ‘climate change mitigation’ favored by businesses turns out to be bad for the climate and good for businesses with vested interests in not changing their business model.

Three options were presented. All of them were white. ALL OF THEM. They are forcing a choice on players ALREADY by refusing to acknowledge any other ethnicity but white. And it’s not as if they couldn’t have easily sidestepped this — one could have been black. Or asian. Or hispanic or latino. Or Middle-eastern. But…

Such edgy! So wow!

This touches on one of the longest-standing and thorniest issues of civilization: defining the ‘worth’ of someone’s contributions (be it an individual, a small group, or a large organization), the ‘value’ of the time for each person involved. Is what Microsoft’s storefront offers to developers and publishers ‘worth’…

The issue with this kind of approach is that it obscures the problem (something industries LOVE doing to maintain the status quo), resulting in consumers knowingly or unwittingly making bad decisions that escalate said problem.

The first problem is the amount of oil/gas-originated fertilizers and compounds used to *support* all those cows, directly or indirectly. And that is not a small amount. The second problem is all the oil/gas used getting those cows to the dinner plate. And that is also not a small amount.

The desperation, insanity, and depravity coming off the GOP is like the reek of a rotting corpse that’s been left in the scorching summer sun for a couple days. Which isn’t really a fair comparison if you think about it — a rotting corpse decomposes into something useful for the environment. The GOP is nothing but…

Getting a Falcon Heavy constructed is a moot point. Nothing needs to be built. There are multiples of them in waiting for use. Sure, many of them are slated for future launches already, but I would think averting a major disaster probably takes priority. But then again, we are talking about a world run by a collection…