@gildilinie @riley ...and ye gods, but also this was totally predictable. I hope it turns out nobody actually got infected... but that won't stop this from happening again, until we get Pestilence away from being in charge of anything to do with health (which probably won't happen until we get Greed out of office).
proposal: contest to name the other 2 Horsemen of the Trumpocalypse
This mini shelter made to protect cats during rainy weather, spotted in Japan.
If they rename it "The Trump Memorial Center for the Performing Arts", can we then perform the necessary action to retroactively make the name accurate?
(...and then rename it again to get the stench off.)
@dthompson "Well, my broker is G.P.T. Hutton, and G.P.T. Hutton says..." [pauses to see who's listening] [FX: crickets]
@MichaelTBacon I don't remember the chart... :blobcatthinking:
@MichaelTBacon The taste was sorta like rubberized iron or something, iirc. Yeah, very weirdly awful... in a way that builds up.
@MichaelTBacon I do remember some kind of dietary restrictions starting 5 days out when I did mine, but I don't remember the details; it's been awhile and I'm probably due for another. >.>
In any case, I decided to just be stoic about it and go on a fast. (...or was that at three days?...)
proposal to make a point of rewriting Betteridge headlines to be more accurate
"Zionist IYD Party Pretends to be Leftist in Naked Attempt at Credibility" is what comes to my mind, but perhaps others can do better. (I wanted to work in the phrase "false flag", but it came out okkwurd.)
@somecat sure, but why exclude amateurs
(are there any converbs out there? or is everyone pretty much proverbial?)
@juliepagano My paranoid conspiracy theory about that is that it is done deliberately by the anti-taxers to drive popular sentiment against taxation -- it's the kind of legislative sabotage that one can get away with unnoticed, and leads to people being more supportive of reducing or eliminating taxes in general.
(...but that's just a pat diagnosis made without first obtaining a full legislative history...)
@rnd Yeah, good point. In my hot analysis, there are two parts to that shift, one of which is honest: once upon a time, technology had not advanced to the point where business had the potential to be anywhere near as dangerous as it is now, so it made a lot more sense to oppose regulation. I can allow some room for failure to update a philosophy in the face of changing circumstances. (This is making the perhaps overly-charitable assumption that it was accidental.)
According to Wikipedia, though, opposition to regulation was just one item on a list -- the rest of which are, as you say, much more egalitarian/lefty (and things I pretty much agree with, too). Quietly forgetting those items is the dishonest part of the shift.
(...but I probably don't really know what I'm talking about, and a random LLM could probably provide a more accurate insight.)
I should maybe note that in my view, Left and Right are fundamentally about power-concentration: right-wingers see concentrated power as inherently desirable (e.g. the "unitary executive theory"), while left-wingers oppose that and would prefer to delete all unearned privilege.
@alisynthesis @williampietri "It's more likely than you think!" -- though to be fair, I've only ever heard that one in advertising, which is almost always condescending.
