misanthropocene

I suspect the loophole is in some states marijuana is still not legal for recreational use or at all. Like does almost anyone in a marijuana legal state actually want Delta-8 instead, or is that just something people use places where the real thing isn't legal?

I read that they became big in the west when watering down a driveway was discouraged due to drought. I understand the water issues the west has, but producing massive amounts of pollution, noise, and destroying the soil is not in any way an improvement.

good idea though, adults do not need gifts.

probably a lottery of every citizen in this country would have picked someone better, and this country has a lot of idiots, and still.

I thought it was some kind of climate change prediction and I was mortified, but also like welp things going about as badly as expected 🤷. Then realized it was electoral politics. 🤣

locks in how much rents can increases (rent control does the same thing). Maybe more freedom in what you can do to a property?

yes that's what I see as the advantage too, rent stabilization. The other way to get that is rent control. But of course rent control also makes people reluctant to move, or sure they are free too, for 100s more a month in housing costs.

renting: leaky roof, landlord refuses to fix it (literally happened to me with a roof, ended up moving). Need other repairs, landlord procrastinates, blames you, threatens to charge you and maybe if they are a somewhat tolerable landlord *eventually* fixes it in the cheapest way possible.

And I still don't see why I should care as I am renting for life anyway, because of housing prices. And maybe it would actually be AN IMPROVEMENT to have a 50 year mortgage over renting? Has anyone done that comparison?
Orthogonal to what would really help: build more multifamily housing

classic American cooking, lots of butter etc.. Lactose intolerance may be less of an issue in a white, and specifically northern-western European population. Or it's at it's lowest prevalence but still 28% of the population or so.

oh good grief, I know it's too much to hope for an L.A. Mamdami, but can someone from the left please please run? Kenneth Mejia how about it?

I'm not sure anyone pays to see him live, they give the tickets away for free, have for years.

seizing the oil for private companies

they certainly have never met a war they didn't like.

he wants a war for oil for his fossil fuel donors

it's a war for oil.

and it was already such a declining world post-Reagan, pre W.

isn't the problem that right wingers from other states keep moving there, like conservatives in California. I mean as a Californian I say: don't let the golden gate hit you on the way out. But it is obviously not going to improve things in Texas.

I always hear it contrasted with degrowth, but degrowth also wants a good quality of life for all (it just may not match middle class western expectations, which is a minority of humanity) and is also opposed to current policies of distribution.

and it hardly even matters which country. Housing shortages are very widespread etc.. Transportation somewhat better some places.

There is no accounting for tastes, and never will be. There is accounting for ethics, mostly journalistic ethics.

geez
"Wong died of an infection in a San Francisco hospital on November 14, 2025, at the age of 51"

they'll have to propagandize really hard to cancel an election over that one. We can't have an election because of a war in a country few American's care about or see much importance in (it does have oil).

I fully hope the U.S. gets bogged down in a decade long plus war. But then I don't really want war for anyone, I just want this stupid country to not have an easy victory.

Venezuela would still have oil though.

but why should anyone serious attend conferences that were already 12% fossil fuel lobbyists? But they are going to reform it from the inside see ...
LOL. Just stop. Stop having farcical COP conferences. They probably aren't even worth the waste that goes into producing them, the flights there.

yes same

at least the robopods will be EVs, which is more than we are likely to get otherwise as we can't seem to get off gas cars.

"I don't care about basketball, who are you having sex with?" "Grandma, I am 10 years old ..."

taxing the rich would work