Every rich person is a libertarian right up until they realize the only mechanism for contract enforcement without the rule of law is drug cartels killing each other’s entire families
A lot of the reason we are in this mess is elites saying "this is horrible, someone ought to do something. Not me tho. But someone"
Clean indoor air the kind of no-brainer, basic component of civil society that future generations will be aghast we neglected this long
HEPA filters in classrooms: "HEPA filters... predicted to reduce PM2.5 by 40–60 % and viral RNA by 30–50 % depending on... classroom design and window opening... The energy cost of... HEPA filters is likely to be only 1 %–2 % of the classroom heating costs. " www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
The quality of the classroom environment, including ventilation, air quality and thermal conditions, has an important impact on children’s health and …
Refusing to vote because no one meets your idealistic standards is childish and obtuse. Either Harris or Trump will be president, and you increase the likelihood that it will be Trump if you don't vote for Harris. So, in effect, you are helping evil win.
Donald Trump: *slowly drools a thick viscous cream colored substance* Elton John: 🎶 But the biggest kick I ever got Was doing a thing called the Crocodile Rock 🎶 50 year old who bought a 130,000 dollar truck and owes 135,000 on it: we are taking this country back
The only documented pet killings incidents this campaign cycle were carried out by prominent figures in the conservative movement and Republican Party. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
NRA CEO Doug Hamlin once pleaded no contest to brutally murdering a pet cat with his fraternity brothers as a student at the University of Michigan.
There's a lot to this. Folks inevitably live their lives inside a mentally-constrained model of what society *is*; what it can do; how it changes. For most folks, war, civil unrest, depositism, mass-detentions etc are things that happen to other people on the same screens that you watch fiction on.
Hear me out: loaded Doritos.
Actual reporters have actual things to do and actual places to be, which costs a lot of money. Pundits may seem ungodly expensive, but they bring in more views. People have parasocial relationships with them. They tell people what they want to hear. So they’re worth it.