This article is sanewashing the situation.
There are no talks. There are no negotiations. There are no deals. Americans are bad-faith absolutists with no checks and balances in congress or rule of law with courts. Nothing will be honoured.
This is worth less than two dogs barking.
It’s not nuts. It is uncalibrated and counterproductive. It’s also what I’ve called the “curse of the intellectual”, and why they rarely become polliticians, let alone successful ones. It’s what happens when ideas are carried further than their utility justifies.
Good point. It has utility as a shibboleth. Careful though, a weapon like this can burn friend and foe alike.
Remember when the neo-pronoun thing landed on:
co/cos
e/em/eir
e/em/es
hu/hum
ne/nem
ne/nir
per/per
s/he/hir
thon/thons
ve/ver
vi/vir
vi/vim
zhe/zher
I’m all for being inclusive and a completionist. But the community had to learn the difference between what belongs in academic and reference litterature, and what belongs in casual conversation. A well intentioned idea was badly introduced to the public causing blowback and faned the flames of the culture wars and energized the maga chuds. It’s weakness was not its specificity. It was trying to start at the end and forcing the language everybody’s been learning since birth to be rewritten. It’s unweildy.
To your exact point. Naming each group IS important. Specificity and identity has a power of its own. Let the acronym grow! But know where it belongs. This is already past the point of needing a shorter simpler umbrella term for conversation and is going into reference material.
When even your allies are getting tripped up, it’s time to rethink and pivot.
This is called Leadership.
Threaten me with a good time will you?
I am usually skeptical about you tubers, but this one was good. Clear thinking right on the spot.
One observation that surfaces from this video and has merit for Canadians to watch as policymakers decide what to do about the obvious unsustainable nature of the Canadian housing market:
Problem: the housing ladder has been pulled up and Canada’s youth effectively can’t access it. How can aging Canadians’ housing assets maintain that value if future generations can’t support its value?
Solution 1: Restoration - Policy supports gently rebalance to where housing declines eventually catch up to a reinvigored youth workforce and the population has a continuum of property succession. I.e. we lower the property ladder back to within reach.
Solution 2: Acceleration - We continue the disastrous path of the last 25 years and continue down the path of financialization of housing. Pension Funds, REITs, Hedge Funds end everyone between large corporate players to wealthy mom and pop investors will consolidate housing forever. I.e. The property ladder is burned forever.
Where things get interesting, is considering the global demographic decline of aging populations, both options aren’t far away from a major reckoning in absolute terms. #2, in my personal opinion is the more vulnerable. Holding onto declining housing asset and rental prices inside a demographic collapse is going to hot-potato hard. We would see a period of crushing rentierism, tearing the social fabric of the country resulting in severe withdrawl symptoms when such egregious malinvestments reveal their consequences.
Edit: spelling and clarity.
Hard disagree. That was a delightful accurate, sober, honest and concise assessment of where we are.
Your bias, however warranted against AI, is throwing the baby out with the bath water.
Good. Surefire proof it’s the right thing. Double down hard.
We’ll always have each other.
They say misery Loves company We can build a company That makes misery
Frustrated Incorporated.
Por qué no los dos.
Or join the draft (selective service). Honour the oath and defend the constitution against ALL ENEMIES foreign AND DOMESTIC.
Biometrics are a username not a password. Authentication is not authorization. This sounds like trying to stop man in the middle attacks with something susceptable to man in the middle attacks.
Maybe I’m just not getting the idea.
For what? Using? Selling? Producing?Doping garlic butter that goes on your lobster tails?
Which is hillarious because I’ve been kicked out of Karaoke bars for laughing too hard at my own rendition of Islands in the stream by Dolly Parton with my drunk buddy as Kenny Rogers. It was magical and hillarious. I am a respectable Karaoke singer drunk or sober.
Karaoke bars are often polluted with a pestillence of people who think they are undiscovered musical geniuses who are minutes away from being discovered by a record label executive trolling the depths of karaoke shitholes looking for the next great pop-star. Anything that fucks with their discoverability makes them go coocoo.
Not really. Ground meats with shit in them with casings (sausage) will cook roughly the same as other ground meats with shit in them without casings. (Patties) Very similar.
That’s what all the fatties say. I’m JuSt BiG BoNed! Source: Am fatty.
Classic Business Model. Make a problem. Sell it and its solution.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Young_(baseball)
6’5" and 322 lbs =
Also for age: Fifty-fucking-nine!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_oldest_Major_League_Baseball_players
It’s not fundamentaly different than the Heritage Foundation trying to find ways to bring back lynchings. People pick a position that suits their narrative and groups eventually evolve extremists. It exists everywhere. This only appears absurd because you’re getting a rare glimpse of LGBTQ+ and neurodivergents trying to self govern.
It’s not absurd. It’s inevitable. These groups have never had a voice before, let alone the freedom to try and self-assemble power.
You judge a nascent phenomena in human civilization with a lense that was forged, refined and normalized watching the dominant power groups who have had fewer of the particularities of these minorities and a lot longer to work out the kinks of governance.
The real kicker here - tell me this well intentioned but unproductive spectacle here is “nuts” while I look at the dominant form of conventional politics in the news daily. It makes me want to pull out a lawnchair, sit naked on the frontlawn, crack a cold one and wait for the nuclear blastwave to free me.