Reminds me of this

They can’t unionize and they can’t interfere with the states indoctrination of children by inserting their own values.

“If this is your entire personality it makes sense that the only place you have to talk about it is with people who think they have no choice but to invite you.”

“If you don’t learn how to read the room you may not be invited back into it.”

Also, If I understand it correctly it’s also called this because caulking requires jamming pitch soaked rope into the joints so it’s still about rope!

Paid : give money for

Payed: nautical term meaning to let out some slack on the rope or to cover the deck in tar/pitch for sealing it

The only naive oversimplification here is believing that when the USDA is ordered to do something by a judge that means Trump automatically does it.

Snap is dark. There was a court order to turn on the lights. Those lights have not turned on yet. Don’t be pedantic if you can’t bring the receipts.

Fascism is extremely well-funded and these assholes band together just look at the bailout of Argentina.

Terminal velocity for a human is not fast enough to cause air to heat up. You’d probably get frostburn instead.

Yes. We are subsidizing the wealthiest corporations in the world to underpay their workers and then we’re subsidizing those workers to pay full retail price for the food that we are subsidizing farmers to produce. Yet no one who works for a living is making any money.

Farmers aren’t making any money, retail workers aren’t making any money, train workers aren’t making any money, truck drivers aren’t making any money, but Walmart, Monsanto and Union Pacific are doing fantastic.

It doesn’t dictate how they grow the food but the number one recipient of those dollars are the owners of retail food sellers and the biggest of these are companies like Walmart.

Kind of yea.

Within snap are some programs (like food stamps) that are another way to funnel government money to private business while using the very real needs people have to excuse the tremendous graft inherent in having the government pay retail price for store goods that it already subsidized the production and transportation of.

There are much more efficient ways to get people food and we used to actually do it but alas there is more money to be captured this way so no more government cheese or federally organized food transportation logistics. …and don’t you dare talk about strategic reserves, stock rotation or paying farmers to dispose of “excess” production…

I thought this was an AI forum for casual hookups, did I misunderstand the name of the community entirely?

This looks exactly like the picture I drew of a dog when I was in kindergarten that everybody said looked like a black man with bunny ears.

I feel vindicated but I’m still a terrible artist.

That’s why we gave them nukes, so we could continue to act with impunity and deflect all of the guilt onto a madman that nobody wants to challenge because he claims he’s on a mission from God.

All of us are expendable in his mission.

They will cater more and more to each other until they turn inward and start hoarding and rearranging resources into their compartmentalized cocoons while they attempt to transform their empires into launch pads that will let them escape the planet like some sort of fungal spore to infect and consume another world.
They will fail to develop a way to sustain humans off world and will leave behind a polluted hellscape of toxic nonsense and dysfunction.

I hope someone still has the resources to pour concrete over the entrances of these billionaire fallout shelters when the front finally falls off the whole yacht.

Stuff only burns for so long. We might learn more about the geometry of space and that there is more out there at greater distances where maybe even other Big bangs are possible but there is a certain maximum amount of time that a star can exist.

Over the time scales of the life of a proton the maximum variability in the amount of time a star can burn is a rounding error against the scale of numbers needed to express the amount of time it takes for hawking radiation to reduce black holes to ultra long wavelengths of infrared radiation.