Not mine but two from my state? wtf?

Stop being obtuse. Giving up advancements in science and technology is stagnation. Thinking it’s a good idea to not do anything until people are fed and housed is stagnation. Again, it’s not a zero sum game. Those unfed and unhoused people are not that way because of investments in technology and science, and not doing those things will not affect those people

Focus your nonsense on corruption, exploitation, capitalistic excess, income disparities and most of all elected people with empathy …… that are the cause and could help

We put too much stock in training here, for things that should be obvious. How do we know you shouldn’t do that? I haven’t had any police training.

This is related to that “qualified immunity” bullshit. Somehow we let what could have been an appropriate thing turn into cops being above the law except in rare cases they were specifically trained for and there is existing case law. Bullshit. All too many of these look interesting headline cases start with “any sane person knows …” yet cops are above the law

But don’t you wish we had status quo now? I could go for a little stability and respect with a side of human rights and investment in the future

Smaller than many “no kings” protests, smaller than the Pope’s thing in Chicago.

“No Kings” protests are planned everywhere! I intended to go in my town, but now im tempted to go into Boston for the bigger one, to help those numbers

I don’t see it as a zero sum game. On the contrary, I see advancing science and technology as an investment in our future that makes it easier to take care of our people, and stagnation as making it harder to care for our people

We all have different battles. Ours are currently focussed on our colleges and universities, research and innovation. We recently won one where the court decided that mango Mussolini can’t prevent specific colleges from admitting foreign students out of spite. Of course there’s a major chilling effect but it’s a win.

Also, one of our senators has been extremely vocal and active. Not much Dems can do in Congress but speaking up is a start

And yes, we have many “No Kings”protests lined up that will get huge turnout for our population. Thoughts and prayers are on the way, but also gives encouragement for our representatives, our state, our law enforcement to do what they can.

The problem is we’re over-consuming now, over-populating now, but will feel the effects of lower birth rates in 50+ years. There’s extremely delayed feedback on population trends, but that doesn’t make it untrue.

Even conservatives sometime start from a point of truth. The problem is their solution is to turn back rights for women, opportunities for women. Technically correct, if you have no morals or empathy.

For the rest of us concerned about this possibility, society needs to change a lot to remove obstacles from people who do choose to have children. And this would take a couple generations to take effect so we need to start now, to stabilize the dropping population in 50-100 years

US has the cheap solution: higher immigration than most developed countries. I’m sure we’re going to encourage that while we try to figure out how to make having children more appealing. No one would mess that up, right?

I look at long term trends where the global population peaks in a few decades then heads down all too quickly, and find it important to act to stabilize that at a level a bit below here we are now

Yeah, what are those damn commies going to demand next, human rights?

That’s really cool. I haven’t seen anything like that Caldero since a college roommate many years ago.

Not at all. The people who are motivated by advancing technology, aren’t motivated to overcome corruption, incline equality, to replace economic systems, etc.

All you’d be doing is stifling innovation, improvement, a reason for hope in the future, for …… the same unmet needs, but now with less hope

That’s not a trade off.

Taking care of people basic needs is not a technology problem or even a resources problem. It’s political, economic, corruption, logistics, whatever variation decides who gets what and how it gets there. We already have the resources and technology to do this

Advanced research projects have no effect on whether the politico-economic system takes care of people’s basic needs. It does, however, help advance society, enhance our capabilities, create new opportunities to improve our lives

It will be interesting to learn the exact conditions for each of the tipping points, if only it wasn’t our environment. Tipping

Once jellyfish become the only remaining sea creature, just eat those

One of the reasons I moved away from cast aluminum is they can’t handle the heat. Over time they tended to warp pretty badly. I always cook at a fairly low setting so I don’t know if my ex was forgetting to turn off burners or something, but the pans warped.

But the major reason is I only see them with non-stick interior, which starts flaking off after ten years

I’m expecting my stainless and cast iron to be the last cookware I need to buy

#BuyItForLife

Huh, I’m opposite.

• I use cast iron 70% of the time because foods I cook go in a skillet and browned foods taste good
• stainless 20% of the time when there’s a reason (like simmering curry or any acidic stew). Or pasta, because the spaghetti pot is stainless
• carbon steel 1-2/week - gotta use it to cook breakfast on weekends
• Teflon occasionally (unless you count my rice cooker, but that’s on the list to replace with stainless steel when it dies)

Even if less-lethal ammunition were risk free, that should still be a crime. Even in the ideal risk-free case, how is this any different from assault, if the cop came up behind a reporter swinging his baton. There was clearly no justifiable reason, it was clearly assault for fun or intimidation, and any reasonable person would know that.

Pell grants are definitely a problem: they need to be much bigger. They need to grow to regain their initial “purchasing power” over an education