If we're going back to when we actually put ourselves at risk to fight back against our overlords, I'd rather we go all the way back to when we'd burn their houses down - often with them inside - instead.

While yes, they are doing some things, it ultimately doesn't really matter. If someone's house is on fire and the firefighter goes in for a minute, comes back out having done nothing, and says "Hoo, that's hot - I'm out." they're not a good enough firefighter.

Like, yeah, it's hard to do what they signed up to do, but they're the ones who signed up to do it, and in the case of politicians, they specifically went around making promises to be people to do it in order to get the job in the first place. Things need to get done, and they're the ones occupying the position.

I'm not a politician - I don't know how hard the left needs to work in order to undo what the right has done, but I know that they said they'd do it, so I expect them to do it. Anything less makes them a liar at this point - we can't afford mulligans this late in the game.

Their strategy is failing and yet they both make zero changes and denounce anyone else from coming in to try something new. Regardless of whether it's incompetence or malice, we need them out so we can get someone better in.

Everywhere is a low income area from the perspective of the people with all the money.

Steambot Chronicles! Still the best game I've ever played. Just finished up another playthrough a few weeks ago.

I was just in France a little while ago, and I can see why downings are up. I went swimming nearly every day just to beat the heat for a couple hours.

That's the issue - 1 billion sounds like a big enough number. Most people hear it and think "Hah! Just desserts!" but it's not. They make so much money that even 1 billion is something they can easily ignore. The average person has such a poor grasp on just how much money is being accumulated that its easy to fool them into thinking a fine is far more damaging to the company than it is.

I read "union problem" as "a problem that can be fixed with a union" such as low pay. But yeah, just because your company isn't currently choosing to exploit its workers doesn't mean they won't choose to later - the trick is to prevent them from having the choice in the first place.

A union doesn't have to be an antagonistic force, exclusively beating exploitative companies into submission - it can just be the voice of the workers to speak on equal terms with an attentive employer, working together to grow the business for the benefit of everyone, instead of just those in the executive suite.

Got the same view last week, haha!

There were already plenty of examples to show that making people viscerally hate an arbitrary group of people is incredibly easy. The Stanford prison experiment is so well-known because it perfectly outlines our own innate desire to fit in, even when it means becoming evil, despite how much we want to convince ourselves that we're above it.

Yeah, I'm a sucker for the "OP protagonist wins effortlessly all the time and everyone loves him" shows. Sometimes you just want to hear a feel-good story set in a world where the good guys just win like it's the only logical conclusion. There's enough suffering and uncertainty in the real world without it needing to be in the fake worlds I escape to; I want them to be low-stakes auto-success stories more often than not.

That's exactly it. I find most "improvements" do nothing but change my definition of what "normal" is, making the new thing feel just as normal as the old thing did, and making the old thing feel worse, without any real change in my level of satisfaction.

My wife's cousin is in a similar situation. She never left home or got a job or a driver's license because she was always too scared, and her mom always let that slide, since she didn't want to make her daughter scared or uncomfortable.

She thought her job was to protect her daughter from all the stresses of the world until she was ready, but failed to understand that she won't be ready until she's experienced some of those stresses in a controlled environment like most kids do when they're in their teens and their parents push them to get a job and a license.

It came from a place of kindness, but ended up being a major mistake that now both the kid and the parent are paying for.

Sure, but being independent is still an important general life skill. You can rely on other people under normal circumstances, and that's certainly not a bad thing, but there will always be scenarios in life where you need to figure things out for yourself. If you're paralyzed with anxiety when that happens, that means there's a skill you unfortunately were unable to learn that is now causing an issue.

America has only ever been about the freedom of the wealthy. They're just as American as everything else we've ever put out.

People like to think that happiness is simple: if you have more of a thing we've decided is "good," you should be happier. Our brains are sadly far more complicated than that.

This is perfect - my wife and I have both been limping along on old falling-apart phones, and have been looking for something new that doesn't make us feel gross for supporting a major company, and isn't overloaded with so many nearly-useless features. Decided to take the de-google plunge at the same time, and grabbed the eos ones!

I don't have any official heirlooms, but I like to bake, and have inherited a few quality vintage mixing bowls that my grandparents - and later my parents - used, so I consider them to be heirlooms at this point.

Good, things are finally getting bad enough for people to take action. Your response used to be the default even for much smaller offenses, and it worked wonders for the working class.

I won't argue any more than to implore you to get into the habit of spending time on what's important. Humanity is apathetic and stupid enough without us being too lazy to even read a single un-summarized tweet.

It's not just similar, it's the same symptom - they both kill you through damaging your cells' ability to create proteins, radiation through damage to the DNA itself, and amatoxins from deadly mushrooms through blocking of the cell's ability to read DNA to create mRNA, which is necessary for protein synthesis.