I love a good article, but sometimes the visualization is the easiest way to quickly show something to make a point for someone otherwise unfamiliar. I’m actually going to include this in an index for a presentation I’m going to do at my local city transportation and safety committee to show that the problem isn’t unique and there are choices to be made. If I go to try to make a change and provide a bunch of teams of paper, that makes a different impact.

There’s a reason propagandists generally use photos video(since film has existed): it can multiply the impact and in some cases make an impact and reach people who would ignore written content.

Pack in that pork. 🐷

When an article about VC-owned private car hailing apps not being convenient is considered failed “public transit”. Imagine how hard the lobby will be by VC owned Uber and the rest of its ill against developing transit near stadiums. Their dynamically priced margins depend on busses, rail and subways not existing.

/Star wars meme

Campaign “stop”

It’s global. Denmark just increased retirement age by 3 years. The UK is trying their best to serve their wealthy masters and worsen their system. The fascists running the US right now claim social security is “insolvent” but have passed decades of giveaways to wealthy and corporations instead of funding social security and many other basics…all on the eve of trillions in giveaways of their proposed budget.

So what are the reforms sought that the government is trying for force onto workers in lockstep with major declining states? Can I guess longer working years, reduced benefits…?

Big crayon and the paint cartel always come out ahead.

Neck and neck with US? As an American I feel like the UK is both better (some social protections and healthcare), worse (social mobility, pay, legacy monarchy shite like hereditary house of lords BS), and the same (private companies and the wealthy lobbying away what is right, elected officials selling the silverware by privatizing shit, debt, shooting themselves in the foot with economic suicides credit, tariffs…).

Anyone else have thoughts? Which is the worse country to live in for the average person?

Found the anti-feminist! /s

Classic blunder? What about getting involved in a land war in Asia?!?

Calvin would have made a great Chess player.

Oregon has bonding time for fathers as well and paid family leave, actually the most generous pay rates and broadest application in the US. 100% of pay up to ~$60k indexed to inflationary measure and benefits tapers down for higher earners.

And “which manufacturer’s constant recall notices do I want to receive while many other fixes to safety and consumer wellbeing are fought and argued against for profit?”

Please, elucidate on your point? It’s not clear to me what point you’re trying to make.

Welp, whatever you do, don’t Google it.

"McVeigh believed the US had no business extending its influence around the world or becoming entangled in foreign wars when white working-class Americans from industrial cities such as Buffalo, his home town, were suffering – an early expression of Trump’s America First ideology, which won him tens of millions of blue-collar votes last November.

McVeigh’s favourite book, a white supremacist power fantasy called The Turner Diaries, blamed a cabal of Jews, black people and internationalists for perverting America’s true destiny – a sentiment now finding coded expression in Trump’s twin wars on immigration and on diversity, equity and inclusion."

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/19/timothy-mcveigh-oklahoma-bombing-far-right-1995

It specifically wasn’t labeled as terrorism at the time as it was a military Vet, pro-gun, anti-government, racist, white dude from the Midwest. And we can’t call them terrorists because we have too many of them right? It would be an admission of the disgusting, rot at the core of many of our country men’s hearts. That is the very long explanation of why the comic above it captures so well the racists determination of whether an event is “terrorist” or not in our media. They struggled to label January 6th what it was.

Oklahoma City bombing was the most transparent, blantant systemic statement of this early in the current “what is terrorism” cycle 3 decades ago. White dude on a farm amass explosives, premeditate and take out a building. Terrorism not or hardly ever mentioned.

Meanwhile we’re to the point Trump’s new DOJ is saying people who shoot paintballs at Tesla dealerships should be tried as terrorists.

Beware anyone using the word as it’s now, more than ever, completely politicized.

Jack black isn’t funny at all. He’s worse, incredibly fucking irritating and annoying and a try hard. He epitomizes mainstream US “comedy”; obvious, loud, overstating the delivery of jokes with overwrought physical humor. He and Horatio Sanz must have studied under the same Sithlord. Can’t stand him.

And then one day the shareholders will wonder why they GE or Boeing or Sears.

Short-termism can be seen not only in corporate raider practices but embedded into “best practices” of management since the 80s. Sell anything for a short-term stock boost, bail before it implodes, the vacuum left behind us someone else’s problem. It’s wild that boardrooms, having this as fully visible, aren’t structured to have longer-term incentive pay packages. Pay them what they make now but have it wholly depend on variables outside of stock price. Do the right things and success often follow, it’s when “investors must be satisfied” becomes the management guidance that it all turns to shite.

Narrator: “they are all pointless, low-quality, demeaning-to-thr-original cash grabs”.