Peanut butter typically has a serving size of one or two tablespoons. That's entirely reasonable.

Or they're watching the Orioles play.

Wouldn't the material be that cats want to kill birds?

Tis a joke

Part of the problem is just how available it is. One doesn't have to make a pilgrimage to a casino anymore. Just download an app. It's advertised as a fun game to play rather than a highly addictive and crippling behavior.

Believe it or not, people talk to one another in their communities.

Not sure how you got that out of what I said. What they want (and what they're promised) is material wellbeing. Few people in the military directly kill anyone. As far as indirect killings go, the private sector isn't much better.

More like they want what every other Western nation has: free healthcare, living wages, free education, etc. Only way to consistently get it is to sign up for the military.

As I've heard one person say, "your right of way doesn't matter if I run you over." As a pedestrian, I always wait until I see the car slowing down before I step out in front of it.

I don’t see the evangelical brand of Christianity persisting into the future. It’s an odd lot anyway, but I think it’s the end of the rope.

Always good to give more access to software. I have no use for it, but I very well could in the future.

The same was said in 2024. And 2020. And 2016. And every election before that.

I’ll wait and see which way the Democrats decide to go. If it’s another “come together, let’s bring back bipartisanship” deal, then it’s a waste to cast a blue ballot.

Within the Green Party, she's always present at the Annual National Meeting. She's typically present at any major state-level conventions (e.g., NJ). A quick search shows she's involved with Lifeline for Palestine and People's Conference for Palestine. I also see she's done at least one speaking event at a university (https://dailynorthwestern.com/2025/03/07/campus/jill-stein-talks-oligarchy-foreign-policy-at-political-union-winter-speaker-event/).

Not only does it make sense from a global perspective, but it also makes sense economically. China would still be in the gutter if they didn’t have market engagement. The USSR, for example, failed dramatically at trying to have a strictly command-based economy.

I don't disagree with you at all. I think the corporate class ought to be held responsible. However, I'm not a fan of individuals being the judge, jury, and executioner. Part of the power of the Nuremberg trials, for example, was the exposing of evil and proving the individuals were tied to it. It would've been quite different had the Allied forces simple shot the Nazi leaders dead without any sort of trial.

Word of advice: Don’t consume YouTube at all if you don’t want to support bad people.

For most people it’s still about material benefits. The guy in office doesn’t really change that.

I believe so, yes. Other to a the well-documented issues that arose from the information problem, Vivek Chibber has done some recent work on the incentive problems that also plague Soviet-style command economies. https://confrontingcapitalism.substack.com/p/why-soviet-style-planning-fails

Those escapes are often drugs. Also, the military is one of the most difficult.