Glonzo the Bureaucrat 🇬🇱 🌹

(When the Sun runs out of hydrogen, we have... other problems.)

You're absolutely right that we have to decarbonize to protect the planet's climate. But we can make those machines powered by electricity now. And we can generate practically infinite amounts of electricity for as long as the Sun has hydrogen to fuse.

If for no other reason that it prevents the polarization and demonization of these people as "takers, not makers."

Everyone contributes according to their ability, and receives according to their needs. Everyone has the ability to contribute something and the need to receive something.

Yes there is; everyone needs to pay taxes. Nobody should not pay taxes. It is a societal obligation to contribute to society.

Now, people who have low incomes will get more in benefits back than they pay in taxes - and this is good, to be clear. But they should still pay something.

I've read the article, and it is ludicrous nonsense.

a few thousand dollars less than the median household income in one of the wealthiest nations on Earth is not "desperate poverty." like, no, it isn't. you're making that up.

fuck yes. get 'em.

You're only supposed to process multiple ingredients where God intended: your stomach.

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Yep, they ran the circuit right across light rail tracks in downtown and it would launch the cars every time.

Did you like all the passing at Phoenix? No? You thought it was lame and you want the pole sitter to lead every lap? Well, we've got the race for you!

throwback to the saddest days of CART in its death throes, finding the hackiest promoters to put together the lowest-effort street courses known to man (remember San Jose, with the light rail ski jump?)

holy shit this cd box cover so immersive but from different cultural elements

I think this mindset is fairly limited to a small subset of academic PMCs, tbf.

And the constant efforts by humans to leave farms and move to cities - dating back to the dawn of agriculture in Mesopotamia - underscores the fact that in general, we would rather do just about anything else besides grow our own food.

The plow, the combine harvester, industrial fertilizers, tractors, GMOs, drones - they are each an attempt by humans to make it easier to grow food, because if you can't grow enough food, everyone starves to death.

Actually, the entire history of humanity is figuring out how to grow more food with less work, because growing food sucks.

Oh, OK, yep, this is definitely going to be done whenever Donny says so.

US told me Iran keeps blowing up its THAAD systems so I asked how many THAAD systems it has and it said it just goes to imperial outposts and gets a new THAAD system so I said it sounds like it’s just feeding THAAD systems to Iranian missiles and then Netanyahu started crying.

Yes it absolutely is. Do you think people on SSI are only getting back what they paid in? What if they've been on SSI for life? They never paid a dime into to the fund yet they get benefits.

That's because your taxes and my taxes pay for it (complimentary).

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Soviet military power : the Pentagon's propaganda document, annotated and corrected : Gervasi, Tom : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive vi, 159 p. : 30 cm

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Soviet military power : the annotated and corrected version of the Pentagon's guide : Gervasi, Tom : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive vi, 159 p. : 32 cm

As a late Cold War kid, I shit you not, my dad got me a copy of Soviet Military Power: The Pentagon's Propaganda Document, Annotated and Corrected.

I practically memorized Niehorster's WW2 orbats; it was so satisfying doing an HOI IV run building *exactly* the prewar Royal Navy, down to escort sloops and minesweepers, and modeling the RAF to the plane, even plunking down a bunch of obsolete Wellesleys in Kenya.

Chat, what do we call people who choose not to labor on their land but instead charge other people rent for the privilege of laboring on the land that they own?

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The entire history of humanity is trying to find ways to grow more food with less physical labor, because growing enough food to feed a society is a shit-ton of backbreaking work that basically nobody enjoys.

That's the way I do it - I generally only have one beer per night, but that beer's got enough to get me where I want to go.

It's just a few thousand dollars less than the median household income for all Americans.

A family that makes $75,000 is not likely to be "in desperate poverty."

Since when was raising taxes "austerity"?

Austerity is cutting government services, and cutting taxes to justify cutting government services.

I want higher taxes to fund more government services.