There’s vanishingly few places where the use of the word female is correct. The test is generally if the word male would also be correct and not weird there. If the speaker is talking about men and females then we have a problem.

There’s also a couple exceptions where the misogynist language got assimilated but it’s so normal that you can’t tell just by their use of the word. Like the military talking about female soldiers. For example there is a need to distinguish between male and female body armor. But also they talk about the needs of soldiers and female soldiers without a hint of disparagement. It’s just how they make it clear there needs to be a second latrine ditch and the camp shower needs to have at least canvas walls. The only fix most of us can see for this is persistently referring to men as male soldiers too because women soldiers sounds weird and doesn’t solve the problem of default soldier vs qualifier soldier.

The Civil War was that way. I’m not going to say everything the military has done was morally justified in the strictest defensive sense.

Uh yeah.

That’s kind of what you pay the Army for. To kill those people before they kill you.

If you’re going to use a line like that you absolutely must have a plan for what. Like come drink with my friends, or dancing, or games, or self deprecating humor. Not having something is on anon.

If you put it on my computer then I control it.

Oh look. AI task killer 4 found another one.

Apparently I was supposed to get a million dollar loan from my parents? I didn’t ask at the end of the tutorial and now I think the game just skipped that part.

If you can handle the upfront cost Factor has been a lifesaver for me. I’m in the exact same boat. I love to cook but on bad days I can’t even look at the stove or oven. Factor heats up in a couple minutes and while it’s not health food, it’s healthier than most delivery.

Most are actually just two pieces of leather with an optimistic outline of a pistol stamped into one side. No special devices at all.

Women are only in conjunction with actual time.

Every system has to be enforced at some level. Even if it’s just the mobs. Having an unenforced system that doesn’t fall to bad faith actors will take a complete change of human psychology.

I’m not sure that holds without the CIA coming in to facilitate that in a relatively new democracy. If a large country with good institutions voted that way it would be a lot harder to pull off a military coup.

What if I told you we could vote ourselves into socialism?

The blacklist is legal in most states. The price cartel is not.

It’s the second.

With vacancy and short term rental rates rising that’s just not true. They’re raising prices because it makes sense for their business model and because they’re operating in price cartels. The business model works because there’s enough people who can afford it to cover costs on the rest of the units and have a profit still. The cartel works together to make sure there’s no one undercutting with enough units to affect the market price.

Then they can go back to wall street and say they have x number of units worth y amount. Which is worth millions to the large rental corporations.

The idea of a million rental units all operating at market cost is outdated. It’s more like 126 blocks of units with 8 of them at 100,000 and the rest spread between small landlords. It’s the 8 blocks that set the market. Working together they’re effectively a monopoly.

Renting black lists are another example of this. If you’ve ever taken your slum lord to court there is a chance the big corporations will never rent to you again. Which is like 90 percent of the market.

You’d be surprised what the human body is capable of.

I was going to be all proud and then I realized you said “most”…

Oof.

Politicians should have to live on the federal minimum wage. Their jobs and staff can be managed by an office manager. Any personal wealth has to go into a blind trust so there’s no cheating.

Let’s see how fast that wage comes up.

The entire SSI/SSDI system is fucked. It’s arbitrary and unnecessarily complex. Linking disability benefits to time worked is also cruel and arbitrary to younger workers who become disabled. And especially to people who never have the chance to build a work history at all. Then the idea that it has to be capped to an even outcome instead of a livable floor plus medical expenses…

That last part might just be why the younger people get paid more. They have less assets that count against the monthly pay.

But there is one thing SSI/SSDI have in common. The pay drops in step with money earned. So if you go get a job then you’re not going to get much of an SSI check, if any at all. And SSDI can be outright revoked for working.

We’re all just looking for some kind of escape. Sometimes it’s the Pirates of Penzance and sometimes it’s cheering for the orb.