Grumble

It's an epic rap beef between two no talent no-names for attention.

I wish the mouthpieces of rich assholes, like these tools from NNU, would support teaching factual history. It's nice that a Scotsman from the 1770s thinks parents need to pay for school or else they won't care about educating their kids. I don't find Smith's opinions binding, or particularly actionable in 2023.

When I went through Idaho public schools, our history class never mentioned the fighting and midnight flight of the Idaho state capital from Lewiston to Boise in the 1860s. No mention was made of the Army called out to illegally imprison hundreds of miners in the 1890s to help break the many strikes. No mention was made of the mining union, or the IWW, organizing thousands of Idahoans for fair wages and treatment. No mention was made of former governor Stuenenberg being blown up with a bomb in his mailbox in 1905.

The monied interests have been corrupting politics, exploiting workers, rewriting history, and lining their pockets in Idaho as long as there have been monied interests. They continue to do so today, as witnessed by these 3rd tier Chicago-school pudknockers from Nampa.

The monied interests are still here, fucking over the Idaho political and education systems. It's no wonder that 2/3 of the U of Idaho students leave the state after graduation.

Ron can't pull off "night of the long knives"; instead, he presents "midmorning of a short dick".

He got his ass kicked in the jail where he was being held. So now the wanna be assassin is in isolation. Yum - nutraloaf.

Next up, Trump will challenge that Willis cheated on a junior high math test and therefore the grand jury report is invalid.

"successful" debaters win a second term.

Trying to keep it PG...

The congresspukes who bitch the loudest about the military are cowards who never set foot in a MEPS station themselves.

I'm not saying that you have to have served to have a valid opinion, but I am saying that this guy is talking out his ass.

Y'all should read the article. The issue is that a professor who studies digital media can't search TikTok, and can't have her grad students search videos on TikTok. This ends her research because TikTok is where people post videos.

We've tried training, we've tried internal affairs, we've tried civilian oversight boards - nothing works.

If you want to fix broken policing, the answer is civil tort law:

• mandatory personal malpractice insurance for each cop
• abolish qualified immunity

Let victims sue, and make insurance pay huge settlements.

Implications:

• cop salary will have to go up to cover basic insurance premiums. That's ok - it's good incentive for cities to find alternatives to cops, the way paramedics are an alternative to licensed doctors
• after a few lawsuits, bad cops will have their premiums go up; that's less take home pay for them, and that history will follow them if they try to change departments; really shitty cops will find they can't afford to be cops and find new careers
• insurance companies will get good at cop lawsuits like they are with medical lawsuits; there will be a lot of out of court settlements, and over time, insurance companies will know which departments and which policies lead to lawsuits, and set premiums accordingly

This is how society turned barbers into surgeons; it's not rocket science.

Well, those yield gains are from capitalism subsidized with government-sponsored ag research at hundreds of college campuses, and subsidized by intellectual property protections for patents and copyrights, and government price supports, and government crop insurance, and government land-bank programs to pay farmers to not overuse the land, and ag labor subsidized by special exemptions for minimum wage and citizenship verifications, as well as tight border controls and political vilification of the immigrant labor force to keep the wages low.

But yeah, when society throws enough money into capitalism and soaks up the external costs, it sometimes delivers results.

In short, modern US agriculture is hardly a good example of either unfettered markets or unfettered capitalism. Big US ag is privatized profits and socialized losses, like a lot of other US industry, albeit with much better PR than (for instance) the banking industry.

One company I worked at had more full-time collections people than sales people. Our products were a lot cheaper than our competitors, and it attracted a lot of customers with no money.

Another company I worked at ignored all "first notice" bills they ran up. CFO told me that if a company wanted paid, they needed to send a second notice.