CommissarVulpin

I was about to disagree with you, but then I realized that some humans are certainly dumber than a mushroom

It’s a podcast, but yeah. It’s a fictional radio show that reports on events that are ostensibly supernatural, but presented matter-of-factly.

Welcome to Nightvale?

Because I’ve never heard of De la Cruz, or any of the other third-party candidates that people keep espousing. And even if I had, my vote would be split among the other dozen candidates. That’s the fundamental problem with anyone left of the Democrat party - they’re not unified. Everyone seems to have a different idea of what would be best, everyone seems to have a different favorite candidate. Now all the votes that might have gone D are lost in the noise, while the R’s just fall in line like they always do.

Moscow ID is a college town though, and is quite left-leaning because of that and the proximity with Pullman WA, another college town.

What I keep getting held up on is that if the science keeps pointing toward the same conclusion, how do you actually apply those to society? How to you convince the voting masses to institute these changes? Because the average person won’t accept repealing things like three strikes and minimum sentencing, they just assume that a “tough on crime” attitude is the way to go. If a politician comes along offering justice system reform, he’d never make it into office because people would assume he’d be letting criminals run rampant unpunished.

Related, I’ve heard people argue against UBI by saying that it would just make people lazy and not want to work at all.

People have been living off beer, bread, and vegetables for thousands of years. That’s the real paleo diet, people.

Imagine you got 3 job offers

I’m gonna stop you right there

At my workplace, the response time for text-based messages (eg via Teams) varies wildly. Sometimes I get a response promptly. Sometimes it’s same day, sometimes it’s later that week, and sometimes I don’t get a response at all. So unfortunately the best way to get an answer I need is to just call them. Do I need that information that instant? Not necessarily, but I can’t risk the message being put off/ignored/forgotten for a week or more.

Oh my god feta is amazing, why have I never thought about adding it to pizza

How do you build a system that doesn’t depend on voters not being morons? Everything I can think of, up to and including full-on authoritarianism, has human shittiness as a glaring weak point. The founding fathers assumed that people would, for the most part, act in good faith, and it kept us going for a couple hundred years, but all that is starting to fall apart.