Mr Yoder said that one of his friends was in the middle of a visit with community elders to discuss a shunning for different reasons when the alert on his phone went off.

I know this is a terrible day for that person, but it is really hard not to find the humor in this little snippet of the story.

“You’re already” makes sense as a sentence and I don’t like it lol

It's like they think the only way to make money is to drown us in ads based off the telemetry they scoop up and we're entitled brats for wanting to have a say in how our data is harvested/used against us.

Racism? In my NFL!?

Whether we like the Atlantic or not, I feel like at some point if we want quality journalism we need to fund it.

I’m reading this book called Conservatize Me by an NPR/McSweeny writer from back in 2006. Ignore the title, remember everybody was doing that kind of stuff after Super Size Me.

Anyway, for a month he had to stick to only “conservative culture.” He could only watch conservative news shows, listen to AM radio, etc. He met with folks at New Republic and the first thing guy said to him was “you have to ignore hypocrisy, liberals care about that. It’s just a distraction.”

Almost 20 years ago, and here is this dude just openly saying what we all kind of know. Not that liberals are somehow better and always consistent. But we really do obsess over it, and this guy is sitting here telling him “it is a waste of time to play that game, and conservatives are almost fueled by it.”

I agree that Boebert is a hypocrite. But they don’t care. This stuff just reads as “slander by the media” to them. No one had their mind changed about Boebert. We have to focus on their bad policies and leadership or their voters aren’t going to be swayed.

The reason they like to point out the “hypocrisy of the left” so much is because it makes them feel like they have the moral highground, and because they know the left cares about it. It’s a cudgel, it’s a tool. It’s not a shared value. Google “learjet liberal” and take a look at the results from the 2000’s/2010’s. It’s the same nonsense today.

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No need to shame honest hard working sex workers

Bro you literally don’t have to be there lmfao

Smoking age is specifically the ability to purchase. There are no criminal/civil charges for underage smoking. The crimes are specifically 1) selling to minors 2) buying for minors.

TL;DR: No one goes/will go to jail for underage smoking. They won’t even get in trouble for buying. The onus is on the vendor OR the legal purchaser who handed them off.

Get New York and California to pass it. Might be enough. California has sort of done it lol

I don’t see monkey bars at the Grand Canyon. What’s even the point?

I think many of us would stand up to help someone far away if we had some way of actually clearly doing it immediately. Most people do the right thing when given the opportunity and understanding of a situation. It’s hard to convince somebody to suddenly drop access to 90% of the products available to them and to change their entire lifestyle/spend more time and money with the vague promise of “if you and everyone else do it then some day sweat shops will end.”

However, if you went to that same person today and said “if you stop buying Nike products, this person right here will get an education, a decent job, and have a bright future. They will stop working at a sweat shop today,” I bet they’d stop.

It’s just really hard to give people a clear path to helping sometimes. That doesn’t mean we shouldn’t stop participating in unethical industries, but I think it’s important to remember that it’s not purely apathy. It’s just hard to not only connect the dots for people, but give them an option that feels like it actually makes a difference.

It’s a tough challenge and it’s why advocates of any cause of have to work so hard to demonstrate the path of your dollars or time to helping those in need.

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It’s the boomer humor of my generation and I hate it lol

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If you’re a drunk idiot “jokingly” doing nazi salutes as an adult in Germany, you’re just being a nazi. At best nazi-adjacent.

I didn’t say they can’t serve any ads. I said they’re drowning us in them - which even then I could tolerate except all the data they mine from us is ridiculous. Then they use opaque terms to weaponize it back at us to make us into little addicts who can’t look away and/or sell it to third parties. I do not agree with that so I do everything I can to make my telemetry worthless or otherwise inaccessible.