PrincessLeiasCat

I did not know this - it definitely adds context. Thank you!

I don’t disagree that war is a horrendous fact of life, but survival is not at stake in all wars and we’ve shown that it will be used unnecessarily and disproportionately against the poor and other disadvantaged groups.

It’s sometimes even used as an alternative to prison, which doesn’t really “help” your cause. If the people doing the fighting don’t want to be there, and aren’t wanted there, that could ultimately do more harm than good and work against the point of the draft altogether.

Then after the war, the drafted troops who return will have PTSD and other health problems being stuffed into a healthcare system that isn’t properly funded and will already be strained. And then there are the ones who never return, putting additional burdens on families who have to figure out where to go from there.

I think the point could be argued that it’s used as a short term fix that ultimately creates more problems than it solves and it’s used without thinking of the long term repercussions. It’s also not used responsibly (I know that’s subjective) so it just becomes a card to play when someone has a vendetta that’s not going well and the sunk cost fallacy becomes the ultimate justification.

Why? Serious question.

Or we could just…not require anyone to sign up and get rid of the fucking draft altogether.

What was the fucking point of this? It seems so stupid and petty. Like why even go through the trouble?

I know there have been maritime issues between China and others within the last few years or so, but seriously - what is the fucking point of doing this?

It sounds like it didn’t get reviewed By the publisher and he seems genuinely apologetic.

Miami New Times publisher Adam Simon tells Axios the ad is unacceptable and he's changing the alt weekly's ad review process.

• Normally, he said, staffers — including himself — review ads prior to publication. But in this case, the ad came in past their deadline and Simon did not review it.
• The New Times will no longer take ads so late that they can't be reviewed, he said.
• "Naturally, had I seen it, which I should have, I would not have let it run as is."

Who knows for sure, but I was expecting whoever ran the ad to either be a supporter or completely indifferent. It was a nice surprise to see them also be upset instead.

This is a hard one. I think we can all agree that the people who need it should have it and the people who don’t…don’t…especially if their easy access to the drug pretty much guarantees a shortage of the drug for those who do need it.

I need it. And when there was a shortage just as we were forced to return to the office after Covid wfh, it was a nightmare. I don’t know for sure that this company was handing out prescriptions to whoever would pay or if they were mostly legitimate, but I imagine that it’s somewhere in between the two. And I do know that we will never be able to have a rational discussion about it between health professionals and the DEA/FDA, etc.

So, a lot of people who need it won’t get it either due to shortages or due to not being able to access a prescription for whatever reason.

Some people will continue to access it who don’t need it, but on a level that guarantees sporadic shortages for others.

No one wins other than those profiting either by selling prescriptions or by selling the drugs themselves at a much higher price than they paid for it using said prescriptions.

Rinse, wash, repeat.

My partner is a high school administrator. They said that at the hotel chain ballroom they rented this year for prom they were charged for the number of electrical outlets the DJ used.

I was floored to find out this was a thing. Maybe it’s been around awhile, I don’t know, but they seemed surprised about it so I assumed it was new.

I never knew about the prosciutto/ham, but tajin makes everything better!

My mom eats it with salt. It’s actually not bad, I enjoy it either way. The salt does give it an interesting flavor, so maybe try that if it might enable you to like it more.

Are they still using COPV’s? The engineer in me needs to know.

The irony here is that south Louisiana is still very segregated when it comes to education - those who can afford it send their kids to Catholic school. So a decent amount of students already have this. He’s just trying to “own the libs” in a PR stunt.