If politicians want people to have more children, maybe they could do something to make having kids less ruinously-expensive.

There is no red line. Netanyahu could literally kill and eat a Palestinian baby on live TV and nothing would change.

The worst thing about the campus protests is that there are no universities left in Gaza.

Note the framing: it’s the PROTESTS that are creating the rifts, not the support for genocide. Everything would be fine if the plebians sat down and shut up.

For their sake, I hope they’ve read one of those posts of advice for this situation or otherwise have a good plan. Their life getting fucked seems the more likely outcome, though.

Okay that’s something. I’d like more, obviously, but it’s nice to hear.

That’s great. Are they actually going to do anything about it?

Actually, it is. The owner decided to match the wage increase to dodge the controversy, though it seems the question of whether the law actually covers Panera will need to be settled in court for a definitive answer.

https://www.restaurantbusinessonline.com/operations/hype-aside-panera-exempt-californias-wage-bill

Actually the battle lines have hardly moved at all since Ukraine withdrew from Avdiivka.

https://phillipspobrien.substack.com/p/can-either-side-actually-advance

Lol, no one’s putting a gun to people’s heads to make them act bigoted. If your response to being accused of racism is “Oh, yeah? I’ll show you racism!” then you’re just showing your true colors.

Great. That always works out well. /s

Right, a smaller country can never successfully resist a larger one. That’s why Vietnam has been under US occupation (or was it French? I can never remember for some reason) all these years since Ho Cho Minh wisely surrendered to spare his people’s lives.

Even if he can’t formally quit, he could effectively quit by just refusing to meet the obligations of the treaty. Who would stop him?

Remember: the cruelty is the point. No amount of logical argument about the uselessness of executions for deterring crime, or about how often innocent people are convicted of serious crimes or especially appeals to basic human mercy will sway a dedicated conservative from their desire to inflict suffering on those they deem lesser than themselves.

The official FAQ says at least 25k karma (or a mod with at least 500 mod actions). Open registration isn’t supposed to be until the first. If you don’t meet either of those criteria then I guess that’s just a lie.

https://redditforcommunity.com/Directed-Share-Program

I’m not holding my breath. The idea that work=morality is too strong here. People working fewer hours would be seen as laziness no matter how much sense it makes.

Good thing Ukraine isn’t fighting the USSR, then.

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I’m always skeptical of any story about a bill being submitted. There’s a lot of steps between that and it even getting a vote. Is this really newsworthy? Let me know if it gets through committee, then I’ll care.

It’s because of the lack of party discipline in the US political system. There’s no party whip to bring everyone in line, so bills need to cater to the whims of many individual politicians to get votes rather than being negotiated strictly at the leadership level.