Average salary metrics are useless in an era of CEOs and executives getting paid millions a year.

No no, it's capitalized, so it's referring to the country of Türkiye and just hasn't caught up with the name change.

Sec 8 is hard in a lot of places too. Most times you get stuck with the most dogshit landlord in the most dogshit apartment building in the most dogshit area of the city.

My guess is they never ran power drops for them, or they never taught teachers how to use them. Happens a lot - "hey we got cool new tech, but the grant is hyper-specific that it has to be spent on new tech, NOT training for that new tech."

And all because none of his actual children give two shits about Apartheid Daddy.

Along with Britain, because let's not forget that Putin threatened to nuke London. I'm sure there's a large chunk of Central and Western Europe that wish a motherfucker would.

Yeah, this feels like some stupid neo-Nazi or Klan jump-in ritual.

You need to prove the money wasn't being used to conduct illegal business, which is awfully hard because you can't prove a negative when the cops can just say "yeah but you might've decided to".

Let me turn that around: why are you OK with letting an 18 year old bleed to death, painfully, from what is an absolutely treatable condition because nobody would perform care that was too legally close to an abortion? Why are you OK with women dying and being harmed irreparably?

https://publichealth.jhu.edu/2024/analysis-suggests-2021-texas-abortion-ban-resulted-in-increase-in-infant-deaths-in-state-in-year-after-law-went-into-effect

And on the subject, why are YOU ok with killing babies?

Also, "just" 3 deaths we know of. If you have read literally anything about abortions pre-Roe, I guarantee you that you're potentially missing at least one and maybe 2 zeros behind that. This also doesn't account for women who have been irreversibly harmed from attempting to access or perform off-the-books abortion care, or those who have to carry to term a child when pregnancy might harm them.

Also, "only" 3 deaths is still a tragedy. Those people had families. They had friends, coworkers, and lives. At least one of them was literally still a child. Trying to play a numbers game between people dead because of a law and the number of "babies saved" is ghoulish behavior.

Let's not overshadow the fact that people DO hate us just because they need someone to hate, or because their religion says to, or because their politics says to. Trying to pretty it up or make it "less bad" because they're all secretly gay doesn't help.

Actually, the trains aren't moving faster. I don't think there's a single significant span of passenger rail rated for more than 60mph in the US.

Kissinger made it past 100, too.

Fox and Friends didn't report on it.

When Trump and his team were effectively forced to respond by a deluge of other outlets covering it, Trump literally just got in an interview and said "I never read it". He didn't say he didn't know about it, he didn't say he didn't agree with it, just "I never read it, I don't know what it's about" - which I believe because the guy barely reads anything according to all the sources I can find.

Remember that really ever since 2000, a LARGE amount of voters have checked out entirely. They get their politics third-hand from people who watched Fox or read an article and many don't even do that, just going into a polling station and checking whoever's name they've heard more in the last month or two. They're not even low-information, they're zero-information, and some, like my mother, are even negative-information, digesting objectively untrue facts and regurgitating them onto their personal political canvas (mom got deep into the Qanon panic because "parts of it felt true").

Or else what, now? The threat of military and civilian justice doesn't work well in a system that will almost certainly be rigged to ignore anything illegal that a soldier does in the commission of Trump's orders. The entire indoctrination there relies heavily on the threat of military and DOJ proceedings, and once both of those are pretty well captured, there's really not much. We have a law that says the ICC can't prosecute American soldiers for war crimes - in fact, attempting to do so is considered an act of war.

I don't disagree that a lot of the military won't follow orders at first, but I think when some of them start realizing that their fellow soldiers are getting away with things that would normally be considered criminal, you'll see them starting to turn around on it. Corruption is a cancer and in this case, it's poised to be incredibly aggressive.

Sir, permission to leave the station.

Dammit, I even read it in his fucking voice.

Oh, I know what the ladies like.

Edit: From a different game.

"He's fucked in the head, the world's fucked in the head, and YOU'RE fucked in the head because MY fucked up head is inside it. Guess if you wanna save the world, that's the first step; get fucked in the head."

Might run...tests on the seashells.

Actually, his wife and his friends said they've only seen him actively read one book, which is a book of Hitler's speeches.