Kind of get the feeling that Bezos may be on Epstein’s list

Well I guess maybe people change with maturity. He is certainly putting some good people into positions where they can do some good

There is also a great deal of negative press out regarding Biden. Honestly if you look at policy and accomplishments he’s done quite a lot of good things. It is an uphill battle of course with Congress and the Supreme Court being what they are. We are a big country and it takes constant action to push it to a more equitable place for the majority of us.

Frankly, I think Biden has done a lot to start that push. It will take a lot more though and we could backslide terribly if we don’t keep pushing.

It probably won’t be hard to find out what her family background is. Some reporter will likely get on that

Israel builds their own weapons and have for many years. The US and many others but them though and that supports them.

That’s what I was thinking… Here come the bots

I’m sure government agencies buy commercially available products all the time. The problem is that we are no longer just consumers in the market, we are also unwillingly the product.

I’ll see the same post on 2 or 3 subs and it will just be something I saw a year or more ago.

A lot of decriminalization has started with justice department changes. But honestly don’t we want something that will stick and not be taken away as soon as a different party is in charge?

I get that the FDA could reclassify marijuana, but the real issue i think is that Congress needs to get on the ball and deal with legalizing it . There are laws on the books that have to be dealt with regarding sale and distribution and banking issues.

I guess there is good and bad with either style. I generally prefer the self checkout because I can bag my own stuff

True. I remember thinking it was a load of crap, but it certainly got the message across that I’d be alone and out of a job if I tried to form a union.

And I also remember lessons in class where the textbook weren’t l went into great detail about the corruption and mob ties of some unions, but very little about anything positive. There has definitely been an effort on the part of powerful folks to denigrate unions.

I remember reading The Jungle in college and getting a much different perspective of labor laws and union value

Depending on where you lived you were plied with anti-union rhetoric. I remember back in the '80s and working at a department store and they had us watch “training” videos about how we were a big family and how unions broke up that family and made us adversaries. I thought it was a bunch of bull, but I’m sure there were plenty of folks that bought into it.

When has there not been a genocide going on there?

Developers won’t do it though. Otherwise, we’d already have this happening. What they do now is call it a loss and get a break on their taxes.

I’ve been looking to replace my car this year. The used cars I’m looking at (2-3 years old) are almost as expensive as the new cars. Maybe I will save $5000-7000 on it. So why buy a used car with dubious history?

Maybe I’ll stop getting those “He Gets Us” ads if I cruise the atheist subreddits.

Lately it is getting more like we are not just the consumers, we are the product. It is very uncomfortable.

I hate to say it, but 90% of the articles on Gizmodo could be written by AI and we’d not know it.

Pretty much what I’m thinking. Wagner Group is essentially Nazis.