How do we know its a “design flaw” and not a murder via remote car control? These kind of crashes should be treated as potential murders until it can be shown otherwise.

Vigilantism has 3 common sources:

1. lawless ‘I am the law not you’ narcissist types who think rules don’t apply to them (ex: rich people, republicans, sovereign citizens etc)

2. dumbasses who think they know shit because they’re insane (ex: pizzagate guy, qanon murders)

3. people with real grievances the law can’t or won’t address. (Luigi Mangione, Charlie Kirk’s killer)

Imo, #3 is the only kind that I’ve seen people who aren’t psychopaths express support for and its not just because #3 is more valid but its also because #3 is often carried out against the folks who are in the #1 group so its often a type of vigilante vs vigilante crime.

Plus everybody I’ve seen expressing support for #3 would be far happier if the legal system did the work instead of a vigilante.

Fuck the economy. It can eat my ass.

Also with moore’s law’s death, why the fuck would anybody believe this productivity bullshit? Any device from 5 years ago can do what a device today can.

One more thing, wtf is this entitlement from electronics importers. Apple, google, samsung, etc can all fuck off until they move manufacturing back to north america.

Republicans don’t “appeal” to the religious, they own and operate the churches. When Roe Vs Wade happened abortion was at like 80% among non catholic churches.

The Republican party and their donors made anti abortion a central party plank as a wedge issue after Roe vs Wade and basically floated it between their donors and church leaders as a method to split christians from supporting welfare etc. Similar to how they used the media to float “welfare queens” to racists.

Like the wealth republican donor policies come first then they drag church leaders along by threatening donations. Then they appeal to racists. Its lead to an exodus of people from US churches.

Nobody wants that weird little insincere toady.

Not a christian, but this is Galatians 3:28 where the bible says everyone is equal under the eyes of god. Its an admission that all these things are essentially social constructs

Nationality, gender, social classes, these things are all useless to god and it doesn’t abide by them. I’d argue the correct pronouns for a christian are “it” not “he” or “she”.

There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is no male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus

I think if I wanted to fix christianity I’d drop the old testament entirely. Too many ‘biblical literalists’ today who abuse the allegories.

Unrelated but I always found it funny how ‘protestant work ethic’ was a thing even though it was also a major southern denomination during slavery.

If politics were a card game playing chuck schumer would lose you the game every time.

But I’ll also stand by: protected watershed makes a difference, filtered water makes a difference, organic food makes a difference. We’re already at the point of these chemicals being unavoidable in the environment, but we can take actions to reduce our personal exposure

Sure but its expensive and only certain sources are controllable. Do what you can to avoid it and especially do what you can to avoid helping these companies profit off this because that will ensure less of these chemicals get made in the long term.

I do sometimes think part of the problem that the people who are now in control of the FDA are the same people that made millions selling people home water filtration kits because government water was scawy (Alex Jones for instance used to sell water filtration kits and now his politicians are making them more necessary)

I feel like this is imperialism coming home to roost

Nobody said “don’t watch what you eat” so don’t bullshit yourself about what’s being said here.

I’ve worked on PFAS filtration system designs that the US military funded for cities near airbases. Firefighting PFAS materials made their way into a lot of well water systems and municipal systems sometimes very far way. Its very difficult to reliably remove them from water.

These materials are hard to control once they’re out in the wild.

Filtration of PFAS depends on the individual makeup of each chemical. The cross section of a organic fluoride containing compound is about the same as water so I would expect for chemicals without aromatic rings or branches a membrane would not be as effective and even then what’s happening is a time bomb where when these chemicals do eventually break down they break down into things that are harder to filter.

We should be blanket restricting organohalides except iodine based ones.

You can’t filter out PFAS from the food chain.

Agricultural runoff gets into water supplies. In water supplies it gets used for irrigation, drinking water for animals, or goes out to sea.

In each case forever chemicals will just build up.

So even like that wagyu beef or wild caught fish eventually is just poisoning you.

Plus PFAS are notorious for being difficult to filter and when they do break down they break down into smaller halomethanes/haloalkanes which are also typically toxic and even harder to filter conventionally. The main way to eliminate halomethanes is to bubble water to evaporate them into the air. A slow process which will make the contaminants airborne.

Of course what does it matter if you get a new beach house courtesy of Bayer or Monsanto

I feel like states should just ban this shit.

The options were always:

A) go along with the affordability guy and upset maga grifters who will eventually fall in line. Plus if you switch later they will also.

B) say affordability is a democrat hoax and get Joe Biden’d by the media (which to be fair is 90% of what trump has done so far. )

Trump being a narcissist probably saw A as better because it also upsets chuck shumer / hakeem jeffries.

Saying an expensive product that requires servers to run is the only thing exempt from copyright is just handing a bunch of giant corporations a get out of jail free card.

Either reform copyright so more things are public domain or require AI companies to pursue licenses to training data.

Giving an unfair exemption to copyright laws solely to giant tech companies is just another corporate handout.

Yeah it would really help to have a plan like “tax rich people” “decommodify housing” “trade deals that punish outsourcing” “ban medical debt.” “College that is so cheap it doesn’t need loans” “Corporations posting profits after job cuts and layoffs will have higher taxes” “discourage corporations from selling products in multiple markets” “reduce corporate price fixing through third parties” “force corporations to compete in markets” “disallow investors to buy companies when they hold substantial investment in a corporation that produces any competing product”

One final edit: “Break up regional monopolies”

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