Unless it means they can use it as rationale for lowering interest rates to juice business returns while employee wages stagnate then it’s super important data

All we need is a Superman 3-style plot to collect all the extra inches of fabric at the midsection and we’ll be rich, rich I tell you!

The weight has changed much more in sizing than height is likely to since it’s easy to gain/lose weight compared to gaining or losing height; it’s why I mentioned my percentiles. The links seemed like decently recent data so you wouldn’t expect someone in my percentiles to be so strangely missized unless sizing was just flat wrong or targeted to certain body shapes in the last 10-ish years.

My basic experience and data seems to point to height determining size much less than weight now does, which for those of us not rapidly changing weights puts us in a strange spot. There are also many more different global clothes manufacturers than there used to be I’d guess and maybe the newer ones still have no idea how to size for new geographies/cultures? Just guessing.

Many, many vested interests have tried to stop, deflect, delay, refund or shape the project and work into whatever will be least used and successful. The auto industry and oil industry, now also the ev companies including Tesla have a huge stake in not having Americans experience how dependable, useful, quick, clean and pleasant HSR is.

Once you try it you can’t go back to short and mid-range car and plane trips.

You actually do look like your average horti-fucking-culturalist, Radagast…

The whole “end of free speech” issue comes not so much from the government sensor really (that’s still firmly restricted by the first amendment) but from companies themselves banning any content or accounts that might get them sued.

Really? The early major moves (so stupidly transparent and to reinforce the concern and urgency) was to go after Facebook who agreed to appoint a government representative to their board. Which is unprecedented except in state-controlled entities. Threats have been made and lawsuits filed by Trump personally or his new attack dog the “DOJ” against most major media organizations including those who produce content and/or control distribution and algorithms. Many of the orgs have paid “fines” or tributes to the government in power to remain in favor and altered their content, presentation and/or coverage. This is naked violation of freedom of speech and press.

Back to the point: if enormous and otherwise powerful companies so easily fold–in a matter of months into an administration–there is no “independence” and government censor is hardly theoretical as you would present it, but already in place, and as such puts who defines “dangerous” in an unsustainably temptingly powerful position ripe for future abuse. This is existentially concerning no matter your political stripes as it’s the end of the political experiment that was the US.

Would be a great name for a dispensary

Cliffhanger 2: half life

What you say sounds good, and this isn’t rhetorical, but who gets to decide what constitutes “harmful” then? Isn’t that still the same problem that could be weaponized against free speech?

“you thought you was Kobe” moment for those TSA folks who voted for Trump believing he would do anything to help union workers

Your co-workers are triangulating. It may be for a combination of various reasons:

1. They have tried and failed in the past
2. They are scared of rejection, retribution, etc. consciously or unconsciously and it’s easy to volunteer someone else
3. You are really charismatic and/or great at your job and they think you have new ideas that will work

Triangulation is used to avoid conflict. Many people come to others in life, looking to have that person take on yhrir problems through triangulation. It’s generally not effective: it disempowers the requestor/initiator by giving responsibility for resolution of the issue to someone else, who may not before likely to solve it, and can but actually make things much worse.

Encourage them to see how they can play a role in solving the problem. Do it together if you want to help but don’t be their “superman”.

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The onion continues to delve deeper and lower to find the humor ahead of where these clowns are, but when you look at what it takes to now establish the normal basis agsinst which the punchline lands, it’s so fucking depressing.

Interestingly, producing unbelievable amounts of bombs does help ammunition companies.

Consequences for thee

Sounds like a good chance to optimize capitalism to make sure they get the other 49% as well!

Never been to a game, always wanted to go Had planned to go since the cup was announced. Decided by March or April it was not only going to be unsafe due to potential ICE raids, trump being highly visible involved potentially enticing an attack, to say nothing of the price…forget about it, wont go.

Alternate plan: Golden visa program that went live today allowing the rich and powerful to buy citizenship that the fascist right claims has to be protected. Protected from the poor apparently while allowing criminals and thieves from everywhere else to buy their way in. Companies can buy on behalf of their employees, which will of course suppress wages, which is the whole point.

He’s deliberately making the point accessible because he’s writing for all levels of readers, including Americans.

He won the nobel prize for economics and was one of the few sane voices during the great recession.

So give the money to go toward funding roads and car infrastructure elsewhere in the state? How about door#4?