If that same income was spread out amongst people in low paying jobs, they would be spending that money on rent, food utilities, and going out. There are a lot more of them so they will each have less to save which means the money is circulating more and stimulating a larger part of the economy.

To these people, “pushing a trans agenda” really means “not pushing a transphobic agenda”

If you’re driving short to medium distances there’s only so many feasible routes so you often just go the same way regardless. You usually also knew of it was rush hour or something to avoid certain roads at certain times of day.

For road closures, they usually post detours. Only difference is if there’s an emergency closure for an immediate accident.

That’s what I was going to put my hummus and peanut butter on!

I agree, superficially they’re similar but Hummus is emulsified in an external fat, the tahini, while peanut butter is emulsified in its own fat.

Tahini is closer to peanut butter than hummus, hummus is like making a peanut sauce from the peanut butter.

In my experience, the ones who tell you unprompted that they’re vegan are usually relatively new to the diet and are more likely to be treating it as a short term fad diet than the more dedicated ethical vegans.

I’ve known people 10+ years vegan and they’re super healthy and active. So its really just that the fortifications in the US food system are targeted at non-vegans so you need to be more intentional about your diet as a vegan in the US.

So, um, what happened to the impeachment bill from early april? Still trickling down to the Judiciary comittee? I feel like it didn’t take this long for Clinton’s impeachment hearing…

Maybe this is a weird semantic difference.

If she lost more people by being hawkish and right leaning than she lost by being too liberal with social policies that nominally leaned left then that means she was too far right as that lost her more votes than her left leaning policies.

Both parties are pro genocide either here or abroad, but one at least has a sizeable wing that is actually opposed to foreign wars instead of just paying lip service to a supposed world order based on rule of law.

Vote for the candidate not the party.

AOC vs Rubio, you’re getting someone of Hispanic heritage whether you like it or not!

Many believe Harris lost in 2024 because voters viewed her as too progressive

What are they talking about

Good call, more global unrest could result in another warehouse being burned down.

The issue with climate change isn’t the change, or the magnitude of the change, its the rate of change. Life as a whole will adapt, but its not hyperbolic to talk about civilization altering effects. We already have island nations being buried underwater in decades instead of millenia, this isn’t normal.

Sure, things are going to persevere, humanity probably will persevere, but we also persevered through the black plague, doesn’t mean we wouldn’t have tried to prevent the plague if we had the chance. Climate change is clearly brought about by human activities, and if we want to continue our historical upward trend in quality of life, we need to reduce our CO2 output.

If Andreeson believes that workers can be replaced by AI, why isn’t he taking his money and running a bunch of companies with AI C-Suites?

He has the hardest to get resource, money. Replacing a CEO that makes millions a year with a GPU and a dedicated engineer to maintain it is going to be 300-500k/ year, mostly for the dedicated engineer. A huge cost savings and let’s him leverage his money to scale out to a bunch of different companies.

When he does that, I’ll start believing what he says about worker automation.

Again, how is a public health campaign relevant to the discussion? You just like taking pot shots for no reason, I don’t post about Americans eating so much processed food we have wheelchairs to get around a grocery store but somehow can’t feed school children.

Can we maybe not put down minority groups while trying to support different minorities?

Over the years I think I care less about some public apology or statement to accept that a creator has moved past old behavior (I assume you’re talking about the bridge, I don’t really follow PewDiePie).

We see too many fake apologies and if it’s been some time, apologizing just gives an opportunity for viewers to dogpile when someone is trying to move past something.

I think if it’s been a few years and he’s clearly shown to have grown past it, that’s enough for me. You never really know what a content creator’s private beliefs are just how they choose to use their public persona.

It’s a case of “we do these things not because they are easy, but because we thought they would be easy”

The admin wants to be these lofty world changing leaders and refuse to listen to people who tell them things are more complicated than they are. They don’t read about other countries or governments outside of their own propaganda so they are really that dumb and flying blind.

As an NYC resident, cars will move over if there’s space, but there’s so much congestion that you physically can’t move, there’s no shoulder or anything.

And there’s also idiots who are fighting congestion pricing that helps with these kinds of problems by reducing the number of cars on the road. You can’t widen these roads without getting rid of sidewalks which just means even more cars and traffic so the only option is reduce the number of cars.

We tried that after WWI, let me know how that reparations turned out.