A recent one? Resident Alien. It has a lot of unexpected laughs. The female characters in it are also really well done and not one dimensional.

Do fists count?

Giving or receiving?

Also an article from the AP if you are not a fan of WaPo:

https://apnews.com/article/california-exxonmobil-lawsuit-plastic-8c5830696ffb02031c53c3077457ebc5

Not surprising. There has been a pretty successful campaign by the right to paint EVs as worse for the environment because we get our electricity from coal (we barely get anything from coal) and mining; more expensive to fuel up (using the highest priced fast charging vs lowest price of gas); and worse from a humanitarian perspective (cobalt mining).

Things to refute this: EVs, even with coal power as their energy source, emit less CO2 over the lifespan of the vehicle compared with gas vehicles. Mining sucks and is indeed environmentally damaging but oil is also fucking terrible. The benefit of EVs is that the vast majority of a battery can be recycled whereas oil is single use. So to meet a consistent demand, we do have to ramp up mining but once the demands is met, mining can be scaled back dramatically.

For fuel costs, it’s easy to do the basic math but many don’t. I’ve seen people complain that their electricity bill will just skyrocket. When I suggested my parents get a battery powered riding mower, my mom thought they would be more expensive and that the electricity bill would be just as much as the gas bill. The price of the mower is the same and the electricity cost was about 1/15th of what has is and you don’t have to be riding around in gas fumes.

As for the humanitarian angle, the right obviously does not really give a shit. You could easily point out the atrocities that oil companies have done over the years. You could also point out that cobalt is being phased out. We could also do the mining here instead of having our done abroad. And there is the previous point that most of this just had to be done once then mining can be scaled back.

He is an idiot but the price of eggs is definitely up quite a bit. Cheapest near me is $3.70/dozen. That is over double what it was a couple years ago. Bird flu is part of it but considering how much collusion there has been in the market (my AG sent people a decent check sadist of successful lawsuits against poultry and pork producers for price fixing), I wouldn’t be surprised if that was part of it.

But if he is trying to make it seem like there is massive inflation in the good market overall, he is wrong. Food price inflation has been lower than general inflation for a bit. Granted much of it is still much higher than it should be.

OMG. His kids must shit solid bricks.

Another “responsible” gun owner.

Sorry. Didn’t mean to sound condescending. When people say inflation may be low but prices are up generally means they think prices usually just fluctuate around a set number. As someone who also has a degree in economics, I tend to jump to informing people on what inflation is and who is on charge of dealing with it.

As for wages, those were indeed average increases which are not always or even usually the same as median. I do recall reading that median wages had finally gotten higher than pre-COVID levels a couple months ago adjusted for inflation. I’d provide a source but I’m currently at a children’s birthday party and don’t have great access to info at the moment.

YMMV depending on your state and region of course but most people are doing better than they were four years ago.

Republicans simply want to push the problem into other communities. Half of the Democrats want to do the same. There are a good chunk of faux progressive politicians that recognize a grift opportunity and then get money funneled to NGOs that have no oversight. But there is at least a small percentage of Democratic politicians wanting to actually solve the problem. In my county, the county bought up several hotels/motels and are housing a couple thousand homeless. In LA, they did something similar except they gave the money to an NGO that was supposed to buy up hotels and make them usable by the homeless. Instead, the NGO decided it would be a good idea to also borrow a bunch of money also to purchase the properties, couldn’t repay the loan and then the properties were repossessed and house zero homeless.

A culture that recognizes common sense.

Robinson was already like 15 points behind BEFORE this news. I’m not sure this will say many people. He has already publicly denied the Holocaust and called Jewish bankers “the fourth horseman.” The only thing I could see having an effect is that he jerks it to trans porn despite being anti trans and the fact that he paid for his girlfriend’s abortion despite calling abortion genocide.

Oy. Good old party of freedom…

Although it only bans ranked choice voting so at the very least approval voting would be an option. The STAR method might be iffy.

Regardless, changing local voting methods is much more likely than a 3rd party candidate getting elected to the presidency with no candidates at the local level.

Spend energy pushing for alternative voting methods like ranked choice, approval, or STAR voting. Those have seen success up to state levels.

The guy was not particularly discrete about it. He used his real name with several porn posts with that email address. Pretty easy to link things from there.

That’s not how AI works. AI cannot change things in the past. Did AI also scrub those posts after the CNN story came out?

He has publicly denied the Holocaust and has made many antisemitic remarks. Is anyone surprised that he considers himself a black Nazi?

But if they didn’t get free resources, they wouldn’t be profitable!

Sadly that is the excuse many AI companies use.

Inflation is the overall increase in prices. If I inflate a tire at 10 PSI/sec and then I slow the inflation to 5 PSI/sec, the tire is still inflating. Saying prices have not fallen is a given since that has not really happened since the Great Depression. If the Fed kept interest rates high despite lowering inflation we eventually would have gotten deflation which is something we absolutely, positively do not want. Wage increases have outpaced price inflation since early 2023. Inflation was greater than wage growth in 2021 and 2022 so your experience sucks but it doesn’t seem to be the norm.

Card and Kreuger found this out when they did a large study back in the 90s when each state could finally set its own minimum wage.