I’m sure after a crisis of that magnitude we put robust safeguards in place that have only been strengthened over time.
Right? panic right?!?!
immutable
joined 2 years ago
We gave out risky and predatory loans to people with bad credit and now they aren’t repaying them
Shocked pikachu
Live by the DoorDash bnpl die by the DoorDash bnpl
Pretty hard form trump to physically kneel and kiss Xi’s ass over the phone.
Fart of the deal
Gru meme
- Gain power by being a reality tv star who denigrates immigrants
- make immigrants reality tv stars
- Make immigrants popular and relatable
- make immigrants popular and relatable
The best defense against hate is familiarity. Please go forward with your stupid plan, show hardworking dedicated immigrants, tell their inspiring backstories, put them on week after week for people to root for and cheer on, then deny all but one citizenship and see how people react.
It is easy to hate an abstract caricature of an immigrant. It’s a hell of a lot harder to hate Jose, who you’ve watched struggle and succeed for the last 8 weeks only to be shipped off to CECOT because he lost the immunity challenge.
I think the Simpsons summarized this best
Marge holding up a new baby on board sticker
Look what I got. Now people will stop intentionally ramming our car.
This second puddle is MUCH DEEPER!!
Look at cameraman who appears to be standing in roughly the same depth of water.
It’s a real shame we have no way to measure the depth of water beside la how much of a beast and tank something is.
I think there is something of a concerted effort to lionize these boring jobs that used to support a family.
It is amazing how many country / blue grass songs are about coal mining.
The thing the wealthy don’t seem to understand is that what made these jobs worth identifying with was that they could support a family. People were proud to provide a good life for their loved ones.
They are hoping they can get people to identify with the jobs, be proud of them, without having to hold up their end of the bargain.
The entire world right now seems to be the wealthiest people going “can’t I have a little bit more though?”
I wonder what kind of plane Syria gave him
I get sometimes going “I’ll roll the dice”
- Me: I’d like my steak medium rare
- Government: That could expose you to some health risks because it’s not cooked well done.
- Me: Yep, I’d rather enjoy a medium rare steak and take my chances.
What the fuck was the logic on this one though?!
- RFK: I want to swim in sewage
- Government: it’s a bad idea to swim in sewage
- RFK: I LOVE SEWAGE!!!
- Government: you are a Kennedy right? You all dont have a pool?
- RFK: worm in brain need poop, poop in water, yum yum poop
Good thing we are saving so much money we can afford to hire 20,000 brown shirts.
The median annual salary for DHS personnel is $72k
That’s an annual expense of $1.4B in payroll alone. Billions of taxpayer dollars so trump can have his own little army.
Not to sound like a starry eyed idealist, but it’s both.
It sucks that it’s just a weird mandatory box, but if you don’t cheat your way through college you should better yourself in lots of ways. Learning how to independently organize tasks and time and research and challenging your preconceptions and struggling to really grasp complex ideas.
It should be all those things.
I’ve decided the best way to deal with someone asking an XY question is the following.
I have found this to be infinitely more well received. I think because by answering the question upfront without any annoying back and forth about why exactly they need to OCR a pdf in JavaScript, they are much more likely to be willing to have a dialog if their immediate question has been met.
The only danger is that some noob might stop reading after the answer and not engage with the deeper design issue, but by gatekeeping the answer behind a “you must convince the council of elders that you are doing something reasonable first” all we’ve done is push those people into ChatGPTs cheery answer first even if you have to make it up hands.