If you know anything about beer or fermentation or the industrial history of yeast, this is stunning news.

This was avoidable...

Sometimes the trash takes itself out.

This isn’t talked enough about as the violent and abusive act it is .

My kingdom for another New York Times subscription that i could promptly cancel

65 Years Ago,,, History was made. #RubyBridges

same.

it's hard to enjoy the schadenfreude when it comes at the cost of trafficking and raping children.

when people find themselves attempting to draw a distinction among children's ages as to when trafficking them for old powerful men to rape is objectionable, you'd hope they'd realize they've lost the goddamned plot, but here we are.

the hope for humanity meter is on "E" today.

“The government is allowed to post real death threats on social media but you’re not allowed to post sarcastic death threats on social media” is actually a pretty apt distillation of power and violence

The idea that sexual abuse is part of “private” life instead of a public crisis has done incalculable damage. Anti-rape activists have to fight to even make it possible to expose sexual abuse as a wrongdoing in public without being silenced and undermined. That fight is far from won

She’s a hateful attention seeking nitwit, whose going to bait him his entire career

Because outside of being hateful she does nothing and benefits greatly from the refusal of people to adress racist xenophobic violent women

And I’m tired of her nonsense

what the fuck, @moderation.bsky.app ???

It’s a way of them controlling what is and isn’t crime .

Imagine an Optimus powered by Grok that tells you killing the homeless isn’t a crime .

Or an Optimus with tiered membership where the person with the most expensive subscription is automatically granted preference

i agree, and further think that the penalty for falsifying inculpatory/hiding exculpatory evidence by the prosecution should automatically be the sentence they were seeking for the defendant.

assessing performance by conviction rate is antithetical to justice or "corrections."

This is a great idea. I think one of the biggest things about the current carceral system is out of sight, out of mind so when folks fight for their freedom we don't know what they're fighting only the characterization that they are criminals.

you're missing the point; we vilify minimum wage earners for asking for a living wage, as if they're greedy, yet allow corporations to engage in profligate wage theft, grossly overpaying their c-suite.

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if the hypothetical barista in this example can afford all of those things, i doubt they'd qualify for federal assistance programs (that aren't tax breaks), and certainly isn't using their barista income to afford that lifestyle.

i know what that feels like, lol.

i'd argue that we're still riding upon the largesse of slavery.

yep. interestingly, it's not like that everywhere i. the world. i studied in japan in undergrad, and their attitude toward service jobs is wildly different than ours.

i think capitalism is a terminal condition, but even if one purports to be for it, what we have in the US is not it.

it's almost as if none of the purported "adults in the room" have ever seen a campaign from the inside, worked on one, or understand how much success relies on the relationships built through the hard work and creativity of the ground level folks who do most of the work and you never hear about.

more importantly, it's using depressed wages/increased prices to maintain an artificially high percentage of profit.

this is the other side of the coin from artificially suppressing minimum wage, and conning you into thinking the person who isn't paid enough to afford rent in is being greedy.

and before you raise the "but coffee will cost too much if we pay the barista enough to live on" argument, you should know that if we hadn't artificially suppressed minimum wage, you'd never have noticed.

you should want as many people as possible to be paid enough to meaningfully participate in the economy, to be able to afford basic living. not because it's right an just (it is) but because it makes the economy better for you, for small business, for everyone.

when you decry the demand for a living wage by a barista, you're caping for billionaires, private equity, CEOs, at the expense of the basic ability to live of the barista.

you're also shooting yourself in the foot, by advocating for that money to be siphoned out of the economy.

and people were either oblivious, or took comfort in thinking that "welfare" would make sure no one starved. except now they want that money, too, and have systematically villainized the working poor for being underpaid.

you live in an economic system where the value of labor has been artificially and intentionally suppressed. organized labor has been largely neutered, minimum wage intentionally stagnated, etc., all efforts to keep the system out of balance.

"flipping burgers" or "serving coffee" are devalued because the business can get away with pocketing the difference more easily, and you've been conditioned to agree with it.

if you're thinking that you believe in "capitalism," then you should be advocating for these jobs to earn a living wage.