I mean, the guy who perfected drone strikes on American citizens was never going to suggest that.

There was a game a few years ago called ScreenCheat. Four-player splitscreen shooter, and everyone is invisible. So you find your target by looking at their screen to figure out where they are in the level.

Schenectady is "the place beyond the pines" because there was a big old pine barren between it and the next settlement over.

It's blatant price-gouging. Any stock in the store has already been sold to them at an agreed price. They can set a number and make their set margin.

Updating prices after each delivery might make sense (if their procurement department is absolute dogshit at negotiating contracts), but updating prices throughout the day is just someone trying to see how hard they can push their margins to drain every cent out of their customers.

Property taxes paying for schools is a remnant of redlining. More affluent districts with nicer houses end up with more funding per student, and "bad" areas where minorities live because of literal centuries of economic disadvantage continue to get shafted.

I think we should ditch property taxes and replace them with much higher state-level progressive taxes that are distributed so that every public school student gets the a good education.

Uh... The dude already tried to stay in office unelected. That's what the Jan 6 riot was. He faced no consequences, and then got elected again.

In February 2024, she reportedly went undercover as nonbinary to “expose” best practices at a gender-affirming care clinic associated with UC Davis.

Very weird.

Oh no, filler is a good thing. Filler gives you time to know the characters, and adds depth and color to the world. Filler is where writers actually get to stretch and try out ideas. Filler is what makes a show feel full.

Imagine the X-Files with no filler. We'd lose the Jose Chung episodes, "Home," "the Post-Modern Prometheus," and so many other great episodes. Without the filler, it's just an endless slog through Chris Carter's poorly planned mythology. Just the smoking man and vanishing babies for ~~eleven~~ nine seasons.

Kodak has been circling the drain for decades. I'm shocked they've lasted this long.

If you can't put aside your differences to fight a common enemy, you'll lose.

You're absolutely correct here. It's just that Democrats and Republicans have spent the last forty years putting aside their differences to fight leftists.

NPR as a national organization might be fine, but regional stations have smaller operating budgets and also get funding, and their programming gets picked up. Member stations will suffer or fail under this update, and that will feed back to national programming when something like WAMC's On the Media or WBEZ's Wait Wait gets axed.

"I think the system is unfair and could be dramatically improved."

"This is the improved version! No further progress shall be made! Work your 9-5 and be glad you're not locked in the shirtwaist factory for twelve hours a day!"