I liked Horace okay at first, but it definitely gets bastard hard in a hurry.
monotremata
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Alright, how about the fact that the TFR in the US has been below replacement since the 1970's, then. (It got close to 2.1 during the 2010s and then dropped again, and is currently around 1.6-1.7.) Is that relevant enough for you? Antinatalism is just as toxic as pronatalism these days. I swear, neither side is willing to actually look at facts.
The US population in 1980 was around 226 million, and in 2020 it was around 330 million. That's an increase of about 50%. By comparison, the GDP in 1980 was about $2.75 trillion; in 2020 it was over $20 trillion, an increase of more than 600%.
The problem isn't that we're spreading out the same amount of money over too many people. It's that we're making much, much more money, but concentrating it in the hands of a tiny number of people and letting everyone else scramble for scraps.
He actually does have one positive trait: he's open to the idea of psychedelics for the treatment of mental health disorders. Past administrations have had way too much love for the Nixon-era "War on Drugs" DEA schedule, which treats magic mushrooms as more dangerous than fentanyl. It doesn't make up for all the other damage he's doing, and even this one thing he probably won't handle in an appropriate way, since he's also, y'know, incompetent. But it's conceivable that this one thing could move in a good direction despite his leadership.
There will probably be some slant in that direction, but there'll be a much bigger slant towards killing the elderly, the immunocompromised, those who can't afford medical care and time off, etc. As usual.
It's an episode of "The Climate Denier's Playbook" entitled "Let's Just Plant a Trillion Trees."
As far as I know there's not a way to just add it to the house supply, like they do with water softeners in some places, but you can get drops you can add to an individual glass of water. There are also tablets you can take. What I do at this point is use a fluoride mouthwash in the evening (the purple listerine; you have to avoid eating or drinking for 30 minutes after using it, so the evening is convenient that way) and also get the fluoride treatment at my dental hygienist appointments, along with using a fluoride toothpaste (which you're most likely already using).
It's a hassle, though, especially during the transition. When I moved out here, my teeth got worse in a hurry until I adapted to this new routine.
Yeah, I started to write about that, but it's unclear that this guy would have actually gained anything by getting out of the courtroom. A lot of folks are released pending trial, in which case there's really no advantage to getting your friends to grab you out of court, rather than just, y'know, skipping town. If he was already in police custody, I imagine there actually would have been more checking of the authority.
But yeah, making court a place where your enemies know you'll be there and they're free to come and grab you is a terrible precedent anyway. If you can't expect due process even in the courts, what does the rule of law even mean anymore?
Yeah, this was the part that really got me:
“Show us a warrant,” the video shows one of the two women demanding as they attempt to get between the detainers and the detainee.
“Do not touch me or impede me in my lawful duties,” the man in the pink shirt responds. “We are officers from Homeland Security.”
That's a real bully-logic move right there. How are we supposed to know that these are your lawful duties if you're refusing to show us your warrant or even your badge? Like, if she had blocked them at this point and the issue were brought to court (and yes, it's ironic that this is happening in a court), then I can't imagine a jury saying "well yeah, you can't prevent a guy from abducting someone just because he won't give you any indication other than a pinky swear that he has the legal authority to do it." But, of course, the obvious implication in the moment was that since he was from the "abduct people in an unmarked van with unlimited authority" branch of the government, this wasn't going to a jury trial, and she was either getting out of the way or she was going in the van too.
I dunno, man. It's scary.
Does it really? That's batshit.
Especially since he's already been on TV talking about how "these are people who will never pay taxes. they'll never hold a job. they'll never play baseball. they'll never write a poem. they'll never go on a date. many of them will never use a toilet unassisted." He's explicitly pushing the narrative that autistic people are useless.
Seriously, I was thinking about getting evaluated, and this gives me the chills. I will not be seeking an evaluation at this time.
I'm pretty excited about the upcoming "Free Stars: Children of Infinity." I backed them on Kickstarter.