Covid hasn't changed the damage it does just because people stopped masking. If you wonder why so many young people are having heart attacks and strokes in the last 5 years it's not actually a mystery. The science is right there clear as day.
IMO you can’t date someone who believes in capitalism & expect a genuine loving relationship. Capitalism is built on commodification & transactions. Capitalist relationships leave no room for genuine love.
As we hear American celebrities are dying of AIDS in their 30s:
“Aside from cuts to Medicaid, the US House has also proposed cutting $225m from the Ryan White HIV/Aids program, which delivers low-cost care to about half of all people with HIV in the US.” https://t.co/QmpwE6vCfJ
Politicians no longer see themselves as public servants and are quietly canceling your ability to hold them accountable. Most have stopped hosting public forums, no longer show up to debates, block people on social media, and now believe that being yelled at crosses the line.
So a bunch of rich people killed and/or raped a bunch of kids and got even more rich and are still not in jail and are still running our country and we are in more debt than ever since WWII?
i hate how the current conversation around heatwaves is planting trees for shade and getting aircon rather than how are we gonna stop the temperatures from increasing even further
Very, very popular opinion btw. This level of wealth and influence concentrated into so few hands is completely anti-democratic. You can have billionaires or a functioning democracy. You can't have both.
Unfortunately, after being surrounded with normies at work for a couple years, I can say that neurotypicals actually love to scrutinize other people's "oddities" and bond over gossip & mockery. The point is to not give a fuck about their opinions
one of the reasons to get into cinema (or the history of any art form) is to marvel at the physical lengths people used to go to to realize a vision. I think this will get harder and harder to understand in an AI “art-on-demand” culture. It won’t be intuitive how they did this
Remember that these are people who have not been convicted of any crimes, they're being held without being found guilty, put in inhumane conditions, forced labor and violence from officers.
+/-40% of people held in jails are there because they cannot afford bail.