@SwiftOnSecurity Afaik, value of a life according to govt. agencies avgs out to about 8.5 million. That should be the floor for penalties involving death caused by corporate malfeasance or negligence.
I miss when the internet was fun. And no I don’t mean “wah wah everyone is too preachy and mean” I mean there’s nothing to do online anymore except shop and watch videos.
Flash is dead, interactive gathering sites are dead, there’s no more interesting websites to visit.
There’s a bunch of really complicated theories about why right-wing politics have gone insane, and then there’s the simple, correct theory, which is that we have countless media and social media sources doing saturation broadcasts of fascist incitement, totally unchecked.
bums me out to see how much less connective the net has become in the last 15 yrs. fashion discourse has migrated from blogs to discord and slack, which are not searchable through google. more content behind paywalls (i know, understandable). and now twitter is less link friendly
The problem with this is the speed with which costs are going up is not a compelling argument. Expecting people who are concerned about gross cost to understand what amounts to a 2nd derivative argument is a losing proposition when anti-aca arguments point at rising cost
It took like three days for Democrats to let a manufactured Fox News controversy bully them into effectively censuring one of their own senators, a legitimate national celebrity, for his lovable habit of dressing down. THIS IS WHY THIS PARTY SUCKS AND FAILS
When tackling the "All we need is STEM!" attitude, my response: Developing the vaccine was the STEM problem; distribution & getting shots in arms was the Social Science problem; getting people to trust it & combatting misinformation was the Humanities problem--which did we fail?