I completely agree, and I’ve been saying this for years. And to counter the “But there’s good people there and we can’t abandon them” argument, here’s how I look at the southern states: If you have 5 kids and one of them is a junkie and keeps stealing your and your other kids’ stuff and selling it to get drugs, you…

I look forward to when all those states down there are that vehemently opposed to doing anything about climate change just pull themselves up by their bootstraps and don’t ask for federal money when they get their shit pushed in by one storm after another. I mean, it would be pretty hypocritical for people like Abbot…

Not a complete solution of course, and maybe not the best use of the money at this point, but hopefully it’ll lead to better and better CCS technologies. If we compare this to computers, this is like a TRS-80 and we need a Macbook Pro. But without the TRS-80 we don’t get where we are today nearly as quickly.

Camry wagon - nailed it. Can’t unsee.

“I’m changing the climate. Ask me how!”

This is incredibly unjust. The purpose of punitive damages is not only to punish but also to deter harmful conduct. This does neither. Instead it gives companies a green light to continue mistreating employees.

A 2:1 ratio of punitives:compensatory. What hot bullshit is that? What happened to State Farm v. Campbell’s 9:1 presumptive constitutional max (which is, on its own, bullshit)? What about BMW v. Gore’s note that more punitives may be warranted for a “recidivist” defendant?

And this happens with gas prices about every 10 years it seems. Apparently people forget very quickly, go buy the biggest, thirstiest truck they can finance for 96 months, and then freak out when gas prices go up. Then it’s rinse and repeat.

Dogwhistle alert! Dogwhistle alert!

Yes, but nothing is consequence free. For example, the research also shows there can be big financial problems resulting from the use of psychedelics. As one example, a statistically significant portion of people treated with psilocybin/LSD become profligate spenders on things like black light posters. So although…

Why would you steal Bing source code? So you could make your own search engine and use the source code to say “don’t do this”?

What’s weird is that when I’ve gotten bills for like $4.22 for some b.s. and I send them $4.32, they never send me my ten cents back. The rats! (I do this whenever I can because I think it’s funny)

Since Russia is so obviously and thoroughly suppressing news of its invasion within Russia, could Musk/Starlink (“Musklink” [gross]) give everyone in Russia access to the interwebs so they can stream news, plan protests, research the most comfortable way to survive the gulag for having impure thoughts, etc? Or make…

Hornet Sexnado

And then when covid surges like crazy again in a few months and the CDC re-recommends masks, all the idjiots will scream “But yew said we didn’t need masks before so yew must be rong now. Ima eat horse dewormer tho because thats good. Yee haw!”

Congrats!

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“cars”???

You are correct.

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