Every layer of the legal system is broken, and lots of people benefit from not fixing it.

Allowing religion to continue to fester is a mistake, people.

They did a pretty good job in that lane during the xbox/360 era.

Respect your employee more, let them have a decent night’s sleep.

As does Association Football but people tend to drop extraneous words when context fills in the gaps.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_types_of_football

Good grief, there’s more! Absolutely unacceptable that something could develop from an earlier version and keep any fragment of identity.

Easily. Combination of pet insurance and normal medical bills plus a canned diet with occasional toys, treats, litter, specialty furniture, and cleaning supplies. You can do with less and gamble with health problems, unexpected emergencies, and boredom-linked destructiveness.

(I had a diabetic cat. Between him, a girl that can’t eat dry food or cheap canned without getting bladder stones, and a third cat that eats whatever but isn’t worth the effort of separating at meal times I was spending $400+/month just on food. It’s less now without the diabetes to manage but still not cheap.)

Very glad to see a take that isn’t more depressed doomerism, the world needs more of that.

Yep, find one you trust and stick to them. We followed our vet when they left a Big Clinic and started their own practice and it’s been completely worth it.

A long-lasting ideology recognizes enemies and how to defend against them, and sometimes the best defense is a good offense.

There’s obviously a difference between people benefitting from social services and people enriching themsleves by hoarding capital.

There’s the additional cost that my whole family and all my friends live in the “Greater Seattle area” where housing is outrageous and climbing. If I were to move somewhere more affordable it would mean losing my entire social support system.

Tell that to the Communist Control Act of 1954.

Buckle up, it’s time for Red Scare 3! This time with even more government surveillance!

It combines the normalization of magical thinking with the belief in an absolute moral authority. So you get people that aren’t concerned with provable reality and are sure they’re doing the right thing.

It didn’t look terrible on Michael Jordan with the matching soul patch. It didn’t look good but it wasn’t terrible.

That’s not “strange” that’s just contrarian anti-establishmentarianism. No positive stances, only negarive ones.

There’s “pick up a rat” and there’s “crush a rat in your hand.” Most of the time people are actively trying not to injure animals when we handle them, even if they’re being aggressive. Instinctively we don’t try to grab because hand injuries are likely and possibly debilitating, but if you can ignore that you should have no problem dealing with anything smaller than a dog. (And should then swiftly seek medical care)

If you rely on your lane assist, adaptive cruise control, and proximity sensors, you aren’t prepared to react when they fail.

Yes! They’re making people lazy and inattentive behind the wheel.

By letting horrible bigots have power, by not having actual protections against bad-faith actors, by tolerating hateful rhetoric despite the obvious cost to society.