He doesn't understand the nuances of making policy decisions, so his default answer to stuff like this is to just impose tariffs because that's all he knows. He doesn't care to understand and would likely eat the crayons you use if you were to try to explain it to him. He's just incapable of that sort of mental growth.

I know Texas is backwards and regressive, but this headline is kinda clickbait.

A Texas middle school teacher has been fired after assigning an unapproved illustrated version of Anne Frank's Diary to her eighth grade reading class.

...While district officials claim the adaptation of Anne Frank's Diary was not approved, it was included on a reading list sent to parents at the start of the school year, KFDM reports. The investigation will determine if the teacher pivoted from the original approved curriculum or if administrators were aware of the book being part of the class.

She wasn't fired for reading Anne Frank, but for using a graphic novelization of it.

This is just disturbing. These people need psychological help.

I'm torn on this one. Obviously, the victims deserve to get payment and whatnot, but the other half of this is that the bankruptcy court agreement with the Sackler family would prevent them from future liability for similar cases. Supreme Court is saying the bankruptcy court didn't have the power to grant that, which, if excluded, would open the Sacklers to future lawsuits. I'm all for that family getting sued into oblivion, but we can't trust the Supreme Court to do what's right either. We have to treat everything they do with suspicion. This comes on the heels of the ruling of 'bribery is now basically legal', so it makes me wonder how much the Sackler family is paying them.

I'm always reminded of this book in these instances.

"In the university community, in your own community, you speak privately to your colleagues, some of whom certainly feel as you do; but what do they say? They say, ‘It’s not so bad’ or ‘You’re seeing things’ or ‘You’re an alarmist.’

"And you are an alarmist. You are saying that this must lead to this, and you can’t prove it. These are the beginnings, yes; but how do you know for sure when you don’t know the end, and how do you know, or even surmise, the end? On the one hand, your enemies, the law, the regime, the Party, intimidate you. On the other, your colleagues pooh-pooh you as pessimistic or even neurotic. You are left with your close friends, who are, naturally, people who have always thought as you have."

... It is clearer all the time that, if you are going to do anything, you must make an occasion to do it, and then you are obviously a troublemaker. So you wait, and you wait.

"But the one great shocking occasion, when tens or hundreds or thousands will join with you, never comes. That’s the difficulty. If the last and worst act of the whole regime had come immediately after the first and smallest, thousands, yes, millions would have been sufficiently shocked—if, let us say, the gassing of the Jews in ’43 had come immediately after the ‘German Firm’ stickers on the windows of non-Jewish shops in ’33. But of course this isn’t the way it happens. In between come all the hundreds of little steps, some of them imperceptible, each of them preparing you not to be shocked by the next. Step C is not so much worse than Step B, and, if you did not make a stand at Step B, why should you at Step C? And so on to Step D."

They Thought They Were Free The Germans, 1933-45 Milton Mayer

They can't even handle a basic meeting yet continuously think they can handle running the entire country. They would have been fired long ago from any normal job.

And AOC called them out for downplaying it as well.

Well, in Trumps case, it actually makes sense given the gross mishandling of the pandemic just to try and improve his election chances. These shit headlines are getting old.

We knew the IPO was going to destroy reddit, but the fact they decided to expedite the process is impressive, in its own dumb way.

Or maybe its the leftist that Faux news conjured up for him?

That's a legit insult to Forrest Gump. She's a corrupt judge in the pockets of the GOP and needs to be removed.

This just reeks of desperation and doesnt sound thought out in the slightest.

Dame la bala, tengo nada sin mi familia. Te veré en hell pájaro.

Didn't she just release economic plans recently about stopping price gouging?

We shouldn't even entertain the idea of third terms. It's starts normalizing it.

Nooo, I don't want to be trapped here.

From what I've read, Arrowhead doesn't control selling the game, Sony does. So it's on Sony's head for selling the game in regions that don't have PSN access, knowing that account linking would be a requirement even though it was temporarily disabled. The whole situation is a complete clusterfuck.

Something certainly feels off and when looking at the data, it's seems to throw some red flags. I'm going to toss these here because trying to rehash everything on this thread isn't helpful.

https://www.reddit.com/r/somethingiswrong2024

Feel like I'm being a conspiracy theorist here, but I feel it's better to at least say something or draw attention to it. Since I do data analytics, I'll be running the numbers myself if I can.

Something something unity, right? Republicans are hypocritical yet predictable sacks of shit.

Here, waiting for the first light of the fifth day. At dawn I will look to the east for the coming of Gandalf bot.