mrginger

Gonna get downvoted to hell by saying this, but I didn't see anything about the books being banned in the linked article or the source article. As a matter of fact the school in question doubled down on keeping them. But, you could argue by pulling kids out of classes as a protest against said books being included in a curriculum is effectively trying to get them banned.

What I did read was a judge basically told some bigoted ass parents that no you can't opt your kids out of the classes whose curriculum go against your religious "morals". That, I don't agree with. That is a very sharp double edged sword that could be abused in so many ways.

Which everything you just said is encompassed by one flaw that is almost impossible to fix. Our (at least in the US) profit driven mentality, and fuck you I got mine. We will cut off our nose to spite our face in the name of profit making. We will create social programs to essentially subsidize paychecks to help people who don't make enough to survive working 2 or 3 jobs (and then complain about those very same social programs impact on our taxes) because profits. Then we'll move these companies to other countries in the name of profits. Then we'll allow small businesses to get squashed by larger businesses because profits. Then we will gladly allow our retirements to be inextricably tied to the profits of these very same larger companies by giving our money back to them in our 401k's, IRAs which creates demand for ... more profits.

So no, it's not just a jobs issue. That's just a symptom of the larger issue. Now queue the "you're just a dirty communist/socialist" retorts.

I don't think you quite grasp how enormously big space is.

No, that is literally solving the problem. You can't make it clean. What exactly would we need to protect out in space or say the moon? The space whales, or moon frogs? You're protecting nothing but the vacuum of space and some rocks.

No one give a shit about iMessage. I've watched my kids exclusively communicate with their friends via Snapchat and discord.

Have a buddy that will buy 24 packs of that hot garbage for parties or get togethers. Either that or Keystone light. Not really sure why I'm friends with him...

I've also been a subscriber for the last 4 years or so and seeing all of this is making me wonder if I'm subscribed to the same Spotify they are. I've had none of these issues.

Same. I've seen multiple people say this here and I've yet to experience it. Makes me wonder if the particular podcasters they're listening to have opted in to some sort of ad revenue thing from Spotify.

Tax write off perhaps?

Chop one head off...

While technically correct,

I'm old enough to remember when we were all gonna get cancer and die by being fried with UV rays because we were making huge holes in the ozone by dumping metric fucktons of CFCs into the atmosphere. I also remember there being a huge push that we stop doing the thing that was causing the problem, you know before we all die from cancer.

Saving the ozone, and therefore climate wasn't in the constitution then either, but we (at least as far as the US's involvement) did it because it was the right goddamn thing to do.

We shouldn't have to have children essentially begging the government to make decisions to protect their future. Who keeps electing these assholes?

All this talk of state-sponsored/subsidized news/media gives me the wiggins, at least as someone who lives in the US. I'm sure people smarter than myself could come up with a bullet proof system to prevent abuse, but really, I would have little faith it would stand the test of time. I feel like any protections you put in place would be eroded eventually. All it takes is one "emergency" or "disaster". Maybe I'm wrong. It just feels so 1984ish.