This is conspiracy nutjob thinking.

The federal government does not control university curricula. It doesn’t control what professors teach or how they teach it. Professors often have tenure, and can barely be fired by their own university for being subversive.

Yeah, you can see southern spain in the bottom left as well. Weird, since it is a different angle than most maps

You were watching ragebait. Almost no one cares about age gaps in the real world - and if they do care, they only talk about it in whispers, because they know they are being judgemental assholes.

Are both people legal adults of sound mind who are willingly engaged in the relationship? Yes? Then its not creepy.

If you spend it eating out, drinking, getting your house renovated, flying somewhere - then you end up paying tax and spending money and there’s some trickle down. If it sits in a bank account or in stocks or real estate, less so.

This is a fundamental misunderstanding of how an individual’s wealth can be useful to society. Societies become prosperous when they do things that are good for people, and that is what the money is best spent on - making society better. Sure, if they go to the bar every night and spend $200k getting hammered, maybe we netted a little extra tax revenue. And the bar is certainly doing better. But it is far better for everyone if that money becomes the startup capital for, say, a new plumbing business or taco restaurant or law firm or real estate development. Put it into something that actually does something

And that’s essentially what buying stocks is. Putting your money in stocks is good for the economy.

If it is that easy, why don’t you prove it by purchasing zombo.comm and reviving the original? Anything is possible

So, are ya Chinese or Japanese?

Holy shit the doomerism is off the charts here.

I was literally in an arena filled with thousands Mexicans and Mexican Americans last night, watching a Mexican band absolutely bring the house down. There was a big Mexican flag on stage while they sang about their amor, their pickup trucks, and how much they love being vaqueros. Everyone was having a good time, the show went off without a hitch, and everyone went home happy except anyone who died in a drunk driving accident.

Obviously what ICE is doing is bullshit, and they and their leaders should be sent to an El Salvadorian prison. But jesus tittyfucking christ - if you actually believe the shit you just said, then you either aren’t actually in America - in which case, shut the fuck up - or you havent left your house in 6 months and are surviving by doomscrolling and stockpiling your own urine - in which case, also shut the fuck up.

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!

Literally on the website:

Welcome to… New Management. This domain was purchased openly via GoDaddy. We come in peace (and with a wallet): we’d love to also purchase the rights to the former site’s content to help revive the infinite. Until then, everything here is new & unique. Old content rights owners, please reach out. Anything is possible.

It sounds like the old owners allowed their domain ownership to expire. So someone with an interest in keeping it alive bought the domain and threw up something similar, since they didnt have the original. They are trying to reach the original owners to enable them to host the original content.

No.

I mean, various people and institutions do their best to track very rich people and successful companies. So they are typically known by someone (with the obvious caveat that if these institutions don’t know they exist, then, almost by definition, they are not well known, and are almost certainly doing a lot to hide their wealth and identity).

But if you aren’t a regular reader of Fortune or Forbes with a penchant for remembering arbitrary names, then you are unlikely to know all billionaires or fortune 500 companies off the top of your head.

Yes, if they go to a public gala event, they might get their photo taken. A photog would be doing a bad job if they missed a shot of a billionaire showing up at an event they were shooting. But that doesn’t mean that if they just wander into a Wendy’s that everyone in the store would know who they are.

Similarly, I haven’t reviewed the fortune 500 list recently, but I would be completely unsurprised if large chunks of it were made up of multinational conglomerates which own the brands you know but which you’ve never heard of, financial firms that make money by investing in other firms, and companies that make a lot of money doing things that are incredibly boring to the average person.

Especially if the CEO is a person of color who came from a middle class background

What? I mean, I don’t know who you are talking about.

I mean, if the point is to remove street parking, I’m in favor of that.

I don’t think there should be any real government intervention to then create additional parking, though. Seems like a move in the wrong direction.

What I think would be good instead, though, is ending parking minimums and then declaring that businesses cannot restrict who parks in their lots to only customers. They can charge a fee for the use of their lot, but otherwise anyone can park there for any amount of time. This would vastly expand the amount of long term parking, drastically driving down the price, while also incentivizing landowners to now redevelop their parking lots into something useful

Yes and no.

I lived without a car for about 5 years and never missed it, since I could consistently bum rides with friends who had cars.

To your point about the convenience of having a car and being able to travel - with better infrastructure and built environments, these things would not be issues. Daily necessities within walking distance + transit frequent enough that you don’t need to plan for it + high speed intercity rail covers about the same use case. More pleasant to run daily errands, since no traffic. High speed rail is faster than driving, plus you can get up and walk around whenever you feel like it, and even get a bunk in a sleeper car to travel while you sleep. Of course, it is still less private, and you are on the train’s schedule - but you also never have to change the oil or stop for gas.

I currently can’t imagine living my life the way I want to live it without a car. For example, today I am returning home from a weekend trip climbing in the desert. To do this, I wrapped up the work I was doing (late), threw all my shit in my car, and drove for several hours into the night before sleeping in my car at a highway pull off. Then I finished the drive early in the morning, going from interstate to rural highway to rural desert road to dirt road to get to the random patch of dirt my friends were camped at. And doing this, I had a car full of water, food, camping gear, and climbing gear. Making this trip without a car would be literally impossible with our current transit infrastructure. And even with some futuristic infrastructure, the trip would take significantly longer since any transit to remote areas will always be less frequent than you want it to be.

At the same time - maybe I could catch a night train to the desert. Wake in the morning in a small desert town, and strap my haul bag onto my back and mosey over to a sunblasted diner, drinking a cup or two of cheap, weak coffee (the kind that makes Mormon Jesus cry as little as possible), before catching the twice daily NP shuttle to a remote desert outpost. Watching the barren scrub plains roll by until I’m just about there, then tapping the driver on the shoulder and asking to be let off at the unmarked dirt road so I can hump my 100lb load a 1/4 mile to camp. Certainly, the trip would be less convenient and a bit longer. But at the same time, being without a car could enhance the quality of the adventure - which is kind of the point in the first place

I mean, if you search around you can probably find someone willing to rent out driveway or garage space for cheap. Or else if you head to the outskirts of your city or near the industrial areas, you’ll find car/rv storage lots - usually near or part of storage units. So the solution already exists.

I think it’ll be a hard sell to get people to, say, approve government subsidies for parking garages to make it cheaper for people to store cars that they arent even using. Especially if street parking is already free

Very fair. In my case I just wanna have abs so hot girls will fuck me, but I don’t have type 1 and am nowhere near getting type 2, so the consequences arent nearly as dire for me.

Noticed the same thing on low carb. unfortunately, beer and pizza are delicious

I was talking to a Polish friend about Polish politics. He said in Poland, like in the US, they had both conservative and liberal parties - but that the topics for debate were different. In Poland, the conservatives agreed with the liberals on things like healthcare funding, supporting higher education, and funding transit projects. All these things were non-issues in Polish politics.

“Well,” says I, “Then I’m confused. If the conservatives and liberals agree on all those things, then what makes them different? What makes the conservatives, conservative?”

“Ah, you see,” he says, “They’re racist. That’s the whole thing - they’re just racist.”

I just instance blocked them

How do?

Dreaming Spanish, if you are trying to learn Spanish. I seriously think it is the future of language learning, bar none.