It's not just airlines.
Every industry is price gouging, screwing over customers, failing to deliver the product you paid for, funneling record profits to execs/shareholders, and hoarding cash for when the entire economy falls off a cliff within the next year.
NONE OF THIS IS NORMAL. NONE OF THIS IS OK.
The media and the corporations are using all their money, power, and sophisticated propaganda techniques to get you to believe that it's just normal and natural instead of criminal and corrupt.
Favorite thing in Dirk Gently fanfiction: when the author mentions cases in passing by saying three completely weird things it involved
“A park ranger (still on the lam), a black diamond and a gender reveal party”
There's literally nothing in recent Chinese history that suggests they're trying to be the next America. If anything the left criticism of Chinese foreign policy is that they'll work with anyone regardless of the country's politics.
My wife and I are on the couch watching TV. I hear my phone that I left in the kitchen get a text, so I get up to look. It came from my wife: "Please bring the chips on your way back."
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If you don’t think our society can afford to respond rapidly to the climate & ecological emergency remember we spend $1,800,000,000,000 every year subsidizing industries which are rendering our planet uninhabitable.
a lot of what Americans consider to be the inevitable losses of aging are really just an engineered lack of disability accommodations.
There are a lot of opportunities for connection, adventure, and mobility we deny our elders needlessly and we're conditioned to just accept it.