He just got a text that they finished replacing references to his name with Clinton, no need to delay anymore

I think reinforced digital isolation is a big part of the problem. This is something that could be solved by calling the service phone number or asking at the library or a help group, a doctor’s office etc… It might be extra hoops to jump through but there’s not any physical or communication barrier completely blocking her. Instead she clicks a button and gets a form and automatically feels completely helpless.

A 20 page form should take like ~30-45 minutes with help, it’s not a huge ask and doesn’t require as strong of a support network as some people in this thread are claiming. She’s got a phone and can read and talk, the only thing that could lower this hurdle further is support information being stapled to the front of the form.

Now it’s a different issue once the bureaucracy requires multiple followups, workday visits, transportation for evaluation, etc…

This + abolish corporate personhood mitigates half our problems. Hold C-suites criminally liable for company misconduct, remove lobbying, and ban stock trading for lawmakers and we’re 80% fine.

Nobody confirmed it was consensual or with a guy tbf. Could have been that horse

Is crude an essential oil? 🇺🇸🇺🇸🦅

Is there a race that is statistically more violent then the others?

…

…

…White supremacists use this argument verbatim against certain ethnicities. It’s literally the poster child for statistic-fluffed racism.

Do I have to link the meme or are going to figure this out on your own?..

It takes 4 full grown man-children (in full military surplus kit) with 6 guns between them to kidnap one ~130lb woman. And at a snails pace too. They have to realize how fucking stupid they look…

Maybe it’s just a guy trying to steal a giant coin

The solution is to aggressively regulate the platforms, not the people posting. Saying dumb shit like “drink horse dewormer” is free speech; providing a platform to push that awful advice to millions of people is not a protected right.

So? How many die in those vs traditional methods? Why pretend to care about harm reduction and then shit on tech that could reduce it?

It doesn’t need to; market forces do that.

https://www.justice.gov/archives/opa/pr/justice-department-sues-realpage-algorithmic-pricing-scheme-harms-millions-american-renters

I don’t claim to be an economist but I’m doubtful that pulling indirect levers and letting the market regulate itself works. If it did we’d already be 45 years into a Reaganomic utopia.

What I don’t get is the assumption that a fixed stipend of currency will provide for basic necessities.

If the society was committed to universal housing, food and healthcare access then just make that the stated goal and get those funds involved directly in housing/food/healthcare. Just giving someone $1000 doesn’t stop their landlord from increasing rent by $900 to match; a government owned housing alternative does.

Someone correct me if I’m wrong, but I read somewhere a long while back that UBI is a non-solution to wealth inequality. IIRC if you don’t also radically change the rest of the regressive tax structures then the supply of cash still gets funneled upward. Most of the hype is from PR and the inherent good vibes of getting a check in the mail.

Pretty funny that the article and the reply both implicitly assume adulthood is owning things or doing certain activities. Adulthood is being able to navigate life through adversity. Every young person I know treading water with unstable income and no support is way more ‘grown up’ than boomers complaining about having to cut back on retirement cruises.

I’ve never seen people more mad that a stranger paid a few thousand extra amortized over 14 years.

Your nose is 200,000x more sensitive to rain than a shark is sensitive to blood.

Would it be possible/easier to slap a Faraday cage around it instead of disconnecting anything?

Not if we stop tracking it 🤠

Don’t get me wrong, they signed up to ooh-rah bomb brown people. But it hits a little different when, statistically, a portion of them are literally from these cities. There’s an insular camaraderie in the military and they’re pulled from a diverse background by design. You can’t just drop a battalion on a city and expect them to behave themselves like a Texas National Guard in Oregon.

I’m also not claiming this is a good thing. A military junta doesn’t make for kind and benevolent rulers, but wouldn’t be bad in the same ways as the current administration.