But that wasn’t your point at all. Your point was some weird pedantic shit about how “the planet” will outlive humanity. We’re all aware of that. How does that help the discussion of making the changes we need so that humanity survives?

I really don’t understand the point of these comments. Every single time climate change comes up, some weisenheimer has to pop up and say “the planet will be fine guys it’s just the humans who will die” as if that is in any way helpful. Like, you’re not even being clever, it’s such a tired talking point by now.

Never forget: Scott Walker killed a federal deal that would have built a high speed rail between Minneapolis, Madison, and Chicago. I hate that man.

you framed your opinion as the perspective of someone in healthcare and spouse of someone with insight into pharmaceuticals. Why else would you give the preamble with that background if not trying to frame it as if you have some insight that the average person doesn’t? That was all fluff to try to bolster others…

your former job and marriage gives you less than zero insight into how drug pricing works, just like my wife being a nurse gives me zero insight into patient care and my former job at a civil construction company gives me zero understanding of structural engineering.

I work for one of the world’s top pharmaceutical…

The total numbers reflect permitted brewing companies, so I suppose breweries that contract brew would be included, yes. 

Goddamn regulation. If the world is anything like NASCAR then the crashes are the best part. How are we going to get more crashes with all of this big gubment in the way?

/sarcasm
This is really sad. I hope we start taking antitrust legislation seriously again.

Antitrust laws are for active business. It seems weird to try and apply this to a circle-jerk like the Oscars (or to infer this might “hurt” Netflix somehow, whom are already pretty dominant at the moment). The Grammys, the VMAs, the Emmys, the Golden Globes...Isn’t it any industry’s prerogative to have guidelines…

If you’re a renter, you pay property tax. You don’t get a bill from the county tax assessor, but part of your rent pays your landlord’s property tax bill.

I mean, it sure *seems* like you’re the one obsessed with Bernie. Weird. This article was just about how Biden is a creepy fuck and how quick so many “WE BELIEVE WOMENNNN” liberals are to be like “Oh wait, a woman of color is accusing a white dude of doing something we literally have video of him doing repeatedly ...…

My recycling fills up twice as fast as my garbage, yet my garbage is picked up once a week and recycling only once every two weeks. This means that if I don’t crush my cans, I will just put them where there is space, my garbage. Change the size of city required bin, change the frequency that they pick it up, let me…

Don’t do this, don’t do that. Rules for how to be a good human.  Seriously, my own personal view here is that nothing will ever change the bulk of what people do - you need to work with how people are. We should work on having sorting robots and machines that can get the job done whether a can is crushed or not. And…

But...they weren’t corporate contributions - they were contributions from people employed by corporations in that sector. It isn’t the same thing. It’s apples and cucumbers.

Technically, yes. Realistically, no. Getting the traction on any issue almost invariably requires compromises somewhere else (often equal to or worse than the issues attempting to be solved in the first place). Moreover, there are DEFINITELY bigger and far more detrimental issues facing the US these days. The tech…

But most anti-vaxxers are also Trump supporters.

What do you want us to do - murder him?

This is so infuriating. His reasoning for not paying people a living wage is that they’re going to school as though they don’t need money to afford that. People can’t afford to go to school making 15 an hour let alone 7 this is disgusting.

Does the study separate out women by weight? Like, comparing overweight women who drink diet soda to overweight women who don’t, and non-overweight women who do and don’t? 

“It’s difficult to have laws forced upon you.”

Cool. Move somewhere else? This is a country of laws, the people of the state of Washington voted, democratically, to have these new laws, and it is YOUR job, as an employee of the state, to enforce THOSE laws.

Why is this so difficult? I left SC to get away from shit like…