Well, the 1970s was a time before:

• Corporate greed really took root and got a financial stranglehold on both employees and consumers.

• Our educational system failed, resulting in people stupid and mean enough to vote for Donald Trump.

• Social media became a huge force behind spreading disinformation.

• People respected the science that pertained to things like human health and environmental issues.

• Climate change and other elements of environmental decay threated to destroy the planet.

• The gap between rich and poor widened to the point that 60% of Americans live paycheck-to-paycheck.

• Congress abandoned its support of laws that were good for the constituent and focused exclusively on pleasing large donors.

• The United States became threated with the prospect of becoming an authoritarian state.

There’s good reason that the American people aren’t as happy as we were 50 years ago.

 

 

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The very best thing to be said about what Pete Hegseth is doing is that’s he solving a problem that doesn’t exist, while appealing to gullible MAGA idiots.

Who in the hell is stupid enough to believe that the fitness standards to which our soldiers are held are inadequate and an alcoholic Fox News commentator has arrived to save the day?

Jesus.

 

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Canadians have conservatives.

I’m not sure what they believe in, but this is for certain: none of them thinks that an unscreened and potential criminal psychopath has an absolute right to buy and use a weapon of war so powerful that its only purpose is to kill as many people as possible in the shortest possible period of time, making it perfect to take out whole schoolrooms of children.

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Does anyone believe that Bill Gates actually said this?

He co-founded a company that partnered with IBM to provide the earliest, core software for the personal computer that exploded into the most important industry in human history.

There was no “proven system.”

Had he bought hundreds of Little Caesars Pizza and Jiffy Lube franchises, this would have been credible.

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To the reader who sent me this:

Do you think those adjudicating this matter are going to be so stupid they think “reminding soldiers that have the right and duty to disobey illegal orders” and “sedition by the military” are the same thing? Seems unlikely.

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There is nothing new about this idea, and there is most certainly no “new research.” The density of air is so far below that of water that anybody could have told you that ocean current energy would have made a great deal of sense, were it not so expensive: installation, maintenance, the transfer of energy to the shore, etc.

Fifteen years ago, this concept held some promise, but now it’s lost its appeal to everyone but hobbyists.

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Look, if you’re going to make up complete bullshit about the science of dealing with homelessness, don’t pick Japan, as they have the lowest homelessness rate in the world at 0.003%, which is approximately 1 homeless person out of every 34,000 citizens, according to a 2022 study by the UK’s Greater Change Foundation which measures homelessness globally.

If you want to make your point, chose the U.S., where homelessness has increased from 1.75 per 1,000 people in 2022 to 2.3 per 1,000 people in 2024, a 30 percent increase, and about 77 times Japan’s rate. Of course, our government doesn’t care any more about caring for our homeless population that it does about rounding up lost canaries.

 

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To the guy who sent me this:

He’s our savior! And just in time, too! The U.S. Constitution was approved in 1789, stipulating this law, but now Antifa wants to ensure that only registered communists may cast ballots.

You believe that, right?

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This from Senior Energy Analyst Glenn Doty:
One trait that is shared among almost ALL of the *PROFESSIONS* listed here is that they are all facing a labor shortage. For nursing, PA, and therapy professions, that labor shortage is so critical that it threatens the entire health care industry over the next two decades.
But the fascist trash has chosen that all of these professions should not have access to sufficient student loans that would pay for their degree.
Note that none of these professions have significant difficulty securing work or paying for their degrees (again, there are labor shortages in these degrees).
The only possible goal for such a move is to strangle the industries at large. It’s an act of sabotage: You strangle health care, and then you can restrict access to health care. You strangle engineering, and then you can justify further offshoring of all manufacturing industry… you strangle teaching, and then you can gut access to schooling opportunity.
The only goal that one could imagine from such an effort is to engineer a systemic collapse.
Very few intelligent Americans remain who can’t see that Trump is ruining our country, economically and morally.
Now, is all this damage going to take effect while Trump is still in office? Not at all.  Take the effects of the tariffs?
The short-term effects

LOL! Where is it going?  Mars?

One commenter said: “Why are our scientists scaring us like this?”

What do you think is more likely: a) a team of scientists actually said this, or b) some jackass who writes clickbait claims that “scientists” have made these findings?

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