(Actual News Article—>) They arrested an 84 year old minister because she was protesting the genocide in gaza. Is this seriously what humanity has come to?

[Her statement] resulted in their arrests under section 12 of the Terrorism Act, punishable with up to 14 years’ imprisonment.

I have an idea for peace, I call it the One-State Solution. Just Palestine.

You wouldn’t get sunlight

Mad skylights, my dude.

it can get hot when you’re underground

It is almost universally known that being underground is cooler.

flooding will be a significant issue to tackle. Earthquakes might exacerbate the issue as well

Basements typically have sump pumps, and drainage. We build buildings that can withstand earthquakes, why couldn’t the structure of the underground dwelling be similarly strengthened?

you need to build all the infrastructure for somebody to move and live on the surface

Bro we already built that.

pedophiles protecting pedophiles. The GOP is just a bunch of pedophile rapists in a trench coat.

“kalshi trader”

bro, what the actual fuck. go back to the stock market or the casino. why do we even need more fucking gambling. Does anyone want to bet on the amount of lint in my belly button? might as fucking well.

This week, the situation hit a boiling point when the song “Earrings” by Malcolm Todd surged to number one on a Spotify chart. In a series of X posts, Davies outlined his suspected culprit: “botting,” or scammers who purchase bots to juice streaming numbers.

Oh, can people manipulate the stupid bullshit you’re betting on? damn, sounds like a “you’re a fucking moron with a gambling problem” problem to me.

Literally teaching ignorance.

I went to The Ohio State University, this sickens me. What a fucking joke. They are shoving literal republican propaganda into higher education, and when nobody signed up for it, they’re now going to force them.

One of the “teachers” there was already fired for attacking a student.

They’re evil, they’re stupid, and they’re going to force your children to sit down and “learn” their ignorance. I truly despise republicans.

You know, we could just, actually train the police officers…

Average US cop gets 3.5 months of training before going on patrol.

Meanwhile the average European cop gets 2-3 years of training before they go on patrol.

The ignorance is the point. They began as slave catchers, and they haven’t advanced past that.

…the assumption was simple, that solar belongs low and warm, on sunny roofs and flat fields, not up in the freezing thin air of the mountains.

Well that’s a stupid assumption. what other kind of electronic works better when it’s super hot??

The country makes plenty of power in summer, but runs short in winter, when demand climbs and it has to import electricity.

That gap is set to grow as the nation closes its nuclear plants.

Damn, two stupid ideas from the Swiss. At least the fabled “someone” put those solar panels up there. 🙄

I’m not saying that we should pull the money from crop insurance subsidies, just that we pay like $20 billion a year for a thing that most people have never heard about. We could similarly pay for this with as much gusto.

A vestigial holiday that no longer holds meaning the further we drift from the free and open society that the founders envisaged.

It now stands for the act of burying ones head in the sand while we ignore the rise of fascism and the corporate capture of our government.

The only truly patriotic way to celebrate this holiday would be through public acts of civil disobedience and protest.

Pull down a flock camera for the fourth, and in so doing, align yourself with the true ideals of our once great country.

In a recent video posted as she neared Oahu, she reflected on the meaning of her accomplishment and what she hoped others would take from it.

“If any part of this made at least one person feel a little bit more powerful in their own skin, I couldn’t ask for anything else and I’m happy,” she said. “Think about trying to find your own big, hard, scary thing. You might not think that you are strong enough to finish it right now, but you’re definitely strong enough to start it, and you’ll find everything else along the way. I’m going to go finish my big, hard scary thing.”

Fuck yeah

It is unclear if Gatz was living in the national forest because he was experiencing homelessness.

…Yeah, I think we can safely assume that, yes.

In 2023, the National Homelessness Law Center called on the feds to stop arresting people for living on public lands and shift to a housing- and services-only approach, after undercover Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management police officers shot a disabled man in the back during a removal operation and left (him) paralyzed from the waist down.

He and his family had been living in the Payette National Forest near Boise, Idah, after their landlord reportedly evicted them from their home and they were unable to find space in area shelters.

Just a big reminder that we could end homelessness in America for about $20 billion per year.

That’s about the same amount the federal government pays every year to give farmers super cheap crop insurance.

So, it’s a choice we’re making. Allowing homelessness, and abject poverty to exist, as a cudgel to those who would otherwise seek to drop out of the rat race.

How comfortable people are dragging their nice clothes/long coats/shoes into water and mud. How many times you see a woman in a period piece with this long flowing dress, traipsing through a big muddy area and not even attempting to hold her dress up out of it. like, c’mon, man. People in movies just don’t care about having wet socks I guess.

Not one to defend China

Sounds like you’re just doing a whole lot of whataboutism to me.

Hey look, a Tibetan man just self-immolated in protest of the policies that you’re trying to downplay.

more money, more bribery, longer campaigns, more ads, whoopeee! Nobody but billionaires and their political lapdogs want this! hoorayy!

Won’t let me read the article because it “suspects I’m a robot.”

jesus fucking christ do I despise you, new york times.

brother, what?

Nah, he’s gotta live long enough to be impeached, removed, and imprisoned. Gotta live ling enough to rot in jail and watch his empire crumble into nothingness. Gotta live long enough to see every instance of his name removed, his children jailed and broke, his legacy ash.

…then he can die.

While the text of the law doesn’t seem especially egregious, we’ll have to wait and see how it is enforced. The treatment of minorities by China in the past has been fraught with… well imprisonment, torture, and erasure of their communities. Kind of like the US and Canada, but worse and on a bigger scale.

Probably just more of the same, honestly. My biggest concern is this:

and gives Beijing the right to target people outside of its borders that it believes violate its rules.

So, uh, any Chinese national, anywhere in the world, does something they don’t like, they come after you? yeeeeeeah, that’s gonna be a No from me, dog.

Umberto Eco has beautiful prose, I wish I knew enough Italian to read it in the original text