BallsandBayonets

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 hours ago

It'll be fine, just install retractable roofs on the stadiums (at the taxpayers' expense of course), and air condition the whole field. You'll have to leave a gap at the back for home runs but it's ok if some air conditioning escapes, the taxpayers are paying to cool down the neighborhood!

[–] [email protected] 27 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

I'm of the opinion that in a few decades we'll see autism and ADHD dropped from the DSM as we recognize that for the majority of people it isn't a disorder, it's just our brains working differently. The conflict only happens because what we call neurotypicals made the rules for society (both "written" and "unwritten") and are best suited to follow those rules, so the rules never change.

Of course there are people on the non-functional end of the spectrum, and we may either come up with a new term for that, or just redraw the diagnostic line to be closer to the non-functional end.

Of course this assumes we as a species survive past the next couple decades, and that we continue to recognize and support neurodivergence, and start to uproot the neurotypical rules that only benefit neurotypicals.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 4 hours ago (5 children)

I know I certainly am. In the US, if a politician with a D next to their name is telling me something, I know they're trying to exploit me on behalf of the owner class. On the other hand, if it's an R politician, they're trying to exploit me on behalf of the owner class and murder me for not being exactly like them.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

By context I think the room temperature IQ poster is saying "something", but as I am one of The Olds, I cannot be sure. I know rizz as a noun, so it doesn't make sense in the context they used it in.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago

It's how billionaires shop! Didn't you see the 35 ads during the super bowl? Any company spending that much money on advertising has to have a good product!

[–] [email protected] 152 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (8 children)

"I'm going to teach your women to read, and encourage your children to go into a different profession than their fathers'!"

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Hanlon didn't encounter BMW owners.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Answering No is one of the few exceptions I make in my stance against the death penalty. One strike, no trial, instant death sentence to be carried out by the nearest available citizen using the most convenient method as picked by the executioner.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 days ago

I really like your take on this. So how is the switch going to get fixed, when the only time anyone pays attention to the fact that it's broken, is when lives are on the line?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

The owner class wrote the rules and will never give up one iota of power. If we want positive change, meaningful progress, it won't be from working within the system.

History only teaches one lesson and it teaches it very plainly: no progress is made without bloodshed. The blood of the worker class has already been spilled, millions of times over.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Bows can be roughly created from easily available materials, making it impossible to ban the ownership of.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago

"I fired hundreds of employees because a con artists sold me on this new technology, promote me."

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