Let's give the photographer credit. This is from Ethan Beckler.

Saw this posted somewhere. Not my words, but I and many Americans I know agree with this:

"To everyone outside the US who's angry at Americans right now, especially those of us who hate Trump and feel trapped: Please understand this. We do not elect our president the way you think we do. Millions of us voted against him. Millions of us are terrified of the damage being done. We are not cheering this on. We are living inside it. If you're wondering why we don't just "revolt like the French" or "fix it" here is the reality of being an American right now:

Our system is rigid, slow, and stacked in ways that make "just revolt" a fantasy. We don't have a culture where mass strikes shut the country down overnight. We don't have a centralized government you can pressure in one city. We have fifty states, militarized policing, surveillance, debt, and jobs tied to health insurance. For many people, losing a job for protesting means losing healthcare and housing.

France is smaller than Texas. Organizing a "national" revolt across 3.8 million square miles (9.8 million square km) and 330 million people isn't just difficult, it's logistically close to impossible. That doesn't mean we're complacent. It means we're constrained. Anger at US power is fair. Fear of US decisions is fair. But blaming every American, especially those who are fighting, exhausted, and scared alongside you, misses the mark.

We're not watching this from the sidelines. We're stuck in the same burning house. Just closer to the fire."

Edit: I believe credit goes to Jason Gervase, ASL Pinnacle

Didn't ISPs just get tens of billions of dollars to expand high-speed connections to rural areas? For the second time?

There are currently lawsuits against them, but it takes time. This is from NC Attorney General Jeff Jackson's newsletter earlier this year:

"The People vs. Ticketmaster/Live Nation

I’m forcing myself to only pick one case to go into detail about - but it’s a great one.

Let’s say you want to make a bunch of money by supplying live entertainment, primarily the music industry.

Well, the three big pieces in that business are:

The venue

The right to promote the event

The right to sell the tickets

Now imagine you control each of those. You own venues, and you promote the events, and you sell the tickets.

Congratulations - you’re a monopoly.

You’ve achieved vertical integration within your business, which means the sum of those parts has unlocked the ability to gouge customers with the confidence that they won’t be able to find a competitor to offer them a better deal. And using your monopoly to further entrench your power to charge customers higher prices is against the law.

This is exactly what I, along with a bipartisan group of AGs, allege that Ticketmaster/Live Nation has done.

They've turned concert ticket fees into something fans call the “Ticketmaster Tax.” These are the “convenience fees,” “processing fees,” and “handling fees” that add up quickly, inflating ticket prices by huge margins.

Why can they get away with it? Because they've locked venues into exclusive contracts, squeezing out any chance of competition.

But it gets worse. If venues try to resist and explore other options, Live Nation retaliates by threatening to strip venues of popular acts. The internal emails from Live Nation executives detailed in our lawsuit are explicit and awful.

Which means, if you’re an independent venue that doesn't use Ticketmaster, good luck booking artists. Ticketmaster controls ticket sales and Live Nation controls promotion, so artists who are promoted by Live Nation typically won't be allowed to perform at venues that refuse to use Ticketmaster for ticketing.

This is textbook unlawful monopoly behavior. Consumers are paying higher prices and artists and venues are suffering from reduced competition and income.

The good news is that Live Nation just tried - but failed - to get our lawsuit dismissed. That’s a big step toward accountability, including our ultimate request that Live Nation be required to divest Ticketmaster, which it acquired in 2011 and which became the linchpin for much of their monopolistic behavior."

If you like Inglorious Bastards, you'll probably like The Ministry Of Ungentlemanly Warfare

Was it not the end consumer who paid those tariffs?? Frankly, I'd rather it be given back to the business at least, but let's not pretend that they didn't extract it from their customers. End it so that other companies can't as easily gouge based on the idea of tariffs.

According to the government, "Corporations are people too."

Excludes cannabis products and requires both refillable and rechargeable vapes. I get that this lessens the amount going into a landfill, but it doesn't solve any problem. As long as disposable batteries are on the market, where is the infrastructure to safely recycle or dispose of those batteries?

She's buying sex toys. Honestly, I think it's okay to normalize it. Self sex is the safest and teaches a person a lot about themselves. At least he's not being raised Southern Baptist (I hope.)

Edit: what perspective is the person who took the picture coming from? Feels judgy

Dante's Divine Comedy is read similarly. Inferno, Purgatorio, Paradiso

Bet that money doesn't go towards the national debt

Scales are important. You can make anything look extreme by manipulating the x or y axis.

Just a reminder that Clarence Thomas is a former Monsanto lawyer and has never recused himself from a case involving them. Not that anyone actually thinks he has an iota of ethics anyways.

To add to your comment: SawStop tried to sell their technology to all major saw producers originally. They all refused. That's when SawStop started making their own saws and did a pretty good job of it. They're high quality. It was at this point that SawStop had to protect their patent. Bosch tried to make their own and violated it. Ultimately, their goal has always been to save people from table saw accidents. It's pretty generous to give up their patent if implemented industry-wide and speaks to the authenticity of their mission.

The technology is not without faults. Cutting wet wood, like pressure treated, might trip the brake. I believe there's a way to turn off the mechanism for these instances. In that case, you have to replace the blade and brake. The blade could be recovered, but won't be ready to continue working right away. You'd need back up blades and brakes on hand. But still, erring on the side of caution is better than not.

No, that's rot. I'm a woodworker who has reclaimed thousands of board feet of barnwood and also has lived in a house that had termites. That is rot.

He was a former Monsanto lawyer who never recused himself from any case involving them and always ruled in their favor.

She really is a troll though, just rotten. She's shitty to her neighbors, mean to those in her community, and cowardly to her constituents.

I'm surprised the kid even got a response. I only ever get form letters, if that, when I've contacted her. I'll again be voting against her in November.

Why do they even have nuclear weapons? They've only been a country since 1948. It's a tiny country that has continuously abused everyone else. 25 years ago I was wondering why the US funded them and assumed it's because of the strategic military stronghold in the region, but they've controlled so much of the US. There are laws in places in the US to prohibit criticizing them. How the fuck? I remember when they sued (somehow? Maybe sued is the wrong term) the US because the US wasn't giving them enough "allowance" every year. They wanted more money. Fifteen years ago my friend asked if I heard about the four Israeli kids that were kidnapped or killed at the time, but there were 28 or so Palestinian kids that week that had had the same fate. I just didn't/don't get it. I largely stay out of it because I didn't understand the nuances, or at least don't think I do, but how can an 70ish year old country come in and tell people who have been there for a thousand years that they need to just go ahead and die?

As I'm typing this out, I'm now thinking of the indigenous people in North America and I realize I've answered my own question.

I'll never forget. I got engaged that day.

Is this that derangement syndrome I've heard about? Something something rent free?