Jokes on you, it's only going to hurt 401ks and the remaining pension funds. Investment firms may get discounted real estate, but you and I are going to remain at the bottom of that barrel (or more appropriately, at the end of their barrels).

Look into any programs you can afford and maybe go in on a multifamily place with some other people if you can. That price dip we've been waiting for to get reasonably-priced housing is not coming in the US.

Are you telling me trans people can't actually double-jump?

It happens constantly in the US too.

They teach us about roundabouts in driver's education or at least the written tests to get a license. Most of us just shouldn't be allowed to drive without additional training at this point. Laws are suggestions and when the car can't go straight and fast without inhibition, it breaks our brains.

The NIH is doing similar with scientific groups. Essentially, "stop working with this material because the new politician in charge doesn't like it and this could threaten your funding even though this work was specifically written into the grant." These decisions are not based upon scientific evidence, but politics.

It could also be taken as "stop reporting that you are working with this material..."

Looks like my colon if I drank all that coffee.

Great point, fungus is the best among us. I never cease to be amazed by what they can accomplish!

I think for long-term solutions to the plastic problem, it would be better to use a replacement for petroleum-based plastics, such as natural polymers, than to try to make it so petroleum-based plastics were viable in the long term. There are a lot of challenges to overcome in the area of alternative plastics, but I know some people working on this problem and there seem to be promising candidates. I believe it's only a matter of time and research before we have viable alternatives that are affordable, biodegradable on a short time-scale, and viable replacements for the petroleum-based plastics currently used.

While I think it's a technology issue now, I also think it will largely become an issue of gaining widespread adoption across the vast diversity of industries using single-user plastics today. There's also the problem of how degradation of such polymers will affect the environment when used on such a large scale, but I'd include this in the technology phase as something we could probably figure out, but if adoption was quick enough, we may not have this figured out yet.

Did you read the article or am I missing something?

They are looking to make the laws more flexible for fringe cases that are accidentally being caught up by the law, not to reduce the minimum sentence for pedophiles and abusers. I'm sure there could be some instances where this will miss the target, but it seems like a reasonable justification to modify the law.

Bonus points: practice on your boss

Fuckin gottem! Good point with that Putin's dick line. I bet he'll totally rethink everything he said now.

You fucking debate pervert loser. Go read a book.

When was the last chattel slave in the US released again? 1942.

When did slavery end on a global scale again? Never.

Damn. Sounds like we traded the evils of merchantilism for the same evils under capitalism, but with a fresh coat of paint.

Go read some socialist theory if you truly support socialism. Your ignorance on the topic is palpable.

Thank you! What a reasonable take.

I don't post my dissent because I have no sense of humor or because I expect people to universally agree with my own sense of humor. I posted this because I hoped some people would think, "huh, maybe I shouldn't post jokes that further propagate the harms caused by patriarchy when there are plenty of other jokes I can make or ways I can phrase the same joke that aren't at the expense of those around me."

Maybe I want to live in a world where women are treated with the same respect as men. Part of making that change is not continuing to use language that is harmful towards them and calling out others for it when I see it.

TLDR: Do better OP. The bar is on the floor and you and everyone upvoting you still somehow missed it.