It’s the welfare-queen strategy: if you can show that 995/1000 people use a safety net as intended, 50% of voters can be convinced that it’s a fraud-soaked boondoggle

Wiping your ass with silk is still significantly more friction than water

I’m just looking at nces statistics, specifically the percentage of parents that homeschool for moral or religious reasons, and drawing conclusions that may very well be bullshit. Glad it worked out for you, but I can’t help but feel sorry for kids I’ve known who would have benefited from a secular education. It’s pretty embarrassing to explain evolution to a twentysomething.

Homeschooling is child abuse, in the majority of cases. Kids need to interact with other kids, and be taught by people who are trained to do it effectively with curriculum that isn’t based on the invisible man in the sky’s alleged preferences.

If there is a conspiracy happening to stop these idiots from further footgunning the country, where do I sign up? Are there tryouts?

There’s nothing stopping you from operating a vpn on 443.

Oh the humanity. They might get deeply inaccurate ideas about the perks of pizza delivery.

Opium Wars 2, but China is smarter than England, because they’re letting Latin Americans take the blame.

Yeah, the genre of cyberpunk in general can be loosely summarized as “it’s the libertarian wet dream future and it sucks”

Bye Felicia

Exactly. This is like the pope making a dead baby joke, and all everyone in this thread can do is be a bummer about it.

Hear me out: this was tactless and in poor taste, but it is funny and I even think this might be a real Ted Cruz joke. You don’t often see self awareness in a politician at that level, and I almost respect it?

I felt really bad for Texans last winter when it got cold and their third world electrical grid shit out. This year, all I can think is “so why the fuck are you still living in Texas?”

Pesky democrats and their whole “charging murderers with murder” shtick.

Biden sucks though. If that’s the best candidate we can get, maybe America deserves Trump.

Save up. Save save save.

Moving is expensive, and any new job is risky to start. The places you’re looking at are expensive because most sane people want to live there.

If you can find a remote job, start there: once you’re a remote worker, you can establish yourself at the job before you move. Once you’re confident that you like the job and aren’t going to get laid off out of nowhere, you won’t have to stress about paying rent while looking for a job in a new place.

Visit a city before committing, make sure it has the vibe you want. Coastal cities all have their upsides and downsides.

SMS is dogshit mfa, this is known

Or the revolutionary war. Pretty fundamental.

There’s a time to think, and a time to act. And this, gentlemen, is no time to think.

Austin hasn’t been affordable since well before the pandemic, and has higher overall taxes for most of the people moving there. Also it’s hot, the electrical grid sucks, and you can’t get an abortion. I just don’t get it.

And it’d be illegal to provide education on why conflating those facts is inappropriate