I think their hands would toughen up.

No, a satyr walks upright and had goat hooves.

Every single study that compared the benefits of directed support vs cash has found that cash is far more effective at helping people escape poverty, even when you account for fraud and substance abuse. Most poor people are poor because of circumstances, not bad decisions.

Sure, but now make a movie they all like. And then go ahead and order a pizza with their favorite toppings.

Why don’t you ever see a centaur with four appendages? Like the first one would make more sense if the arms were the front legs and he was walking on his hands, and the neck was normal length.

One of the many reasons you don’t ride anything on the sidewalk is that you cross driveways and crosswalks too quickly to be seen by drivers. Even a standard bike should be ridden in the road, because 15 mph is fast enough to “come out of nowhere” and be hit by a car. All bikes are road vehicles.

Bullshit. Participation trophies are good for kids.

Encouraging children to win promotes the idea that you have to measure success in relation to other people. Competition can be fun, but when winning becomes the only goal, kids stop trying new things and focus on the things they are “good at.”

Boomers would be better people, and we would share a better world if their parents had given out some participation trophies.

The minimum wage in 1981 when Reagan took office was $3.35 or $6,867.50 per year. In today’s dollars, that would be $11.27 or $23,103.50 per year. When he left office at the end of 1988, it was $3.35, which in today’s dollars would be $8.66 or $17,753 per year.

In 1981, the poverty level for a family of four was $9,287, or 35% more than the minimum wage. By 1988, the poverty level had risen to $12,090, or 76% more than the minimum wage.

So you’re right, at the time Reagan was sworn in, the minimum wage was higher than it is today, but by the time he left office its value had dropped significantly. At no point during his presidency was a job guaranteed to provide a living wage, and he was the first two-term president to not raise the minimum wage at all.

He was a bad President and a bad person.

Oh No

School shootings are entirely preventable, though. It doesn’t really matter statistically how likely it is, because we could prevent children from suffering violent trauma and death.

We could also prevent many cases of diabetes related to high sugar intake.

I’m not sure why you mentioned falls, but we do have a wide variety of building codes and workplace regulations that are intended to reduce fall injuries and deaths.

Obviously, we do quite a bit to prevent terrorism.

We could do better, of course, in all things. But the other bad things aren’t a justification to not care about a bad thing. That’s jut stupid.

They’re measuring success in brides. They are experiencing an ecological and economic disaster, and they’re complaining that their sons can’t afford to buy women.

It sort of feels like their priorities are in the wrong place. Fix the misogyny and focus on lifeskills and a labor market that isn’t dependent on crop yields.

The biggest barrier is cost, because you still need a standard heater and AC for times when it is either too hot or too cold for the heat pump to function.

It’s definitely more efficient, and most of the time you won’t need the backup. But when you need it, you really need it.

Edit: I stand corrected.

I don’t have the cilantro gene, but my wife does. So in our sample size of three…

Maybe if your sons weren’t relying on their agricultural prospects to win the hearts of women, they would have better luck with the ladies?

Honestly, we’re all worn out. Anyone over the age of thirty that cares about climate change has cared about climate for most of our lives. We’ve been banging our heads against the wall, watching capitalists and conservatives and neoliberals stall, deny, and obstruct as we crossed every red line we could set.

The human race is fucked. We fucked it up. We weren’t strong enough to stop ourselves from fucking it up. I hope the next generation will figure out ways to survive, but if it starts with online videos trying to mobilize populist anger over the climate crisis, it feels like deja vu.

I can’t stand fake sugar, and it never is not noticeable. But I often find I’m alone in that. We will get popsicles or some new fangled soda, and I’ll immediately taste the bitter alcohol flavor and it ruins the food. My kids and my wife don’t mind, and I haven’t met others who notice. I would rather have something unsweetened than have it taste like stevia or monk fruit or aspartame or sucralose. It all tastes bad.

You would have another leap day every however many years (roughly ten?) required by the discrepancy. So like if we have one for 2020, 2024, 2028, 2032, 2036, etc, you could also add a leap day in 2030 or 2034, whenever it makes sense.

The deficiency is in society’s treament of marginalized classes, not in the classes themselves. Affirmative action, for example, is an indictment of society’s inherent racism and our collective inability to see past race.

If you look at exceptions for race, religion, or gender and see deficiencies in the race, religion, or gender, you are the deficiency.

People in general struggle with empathy and being objective. It’s extremely easy to assume that your own experience is universal, and overcoming your biases is probably about as hard as changing your eating habits.

The imaginary ones that conservatives warn everyone about.