You can also cure UV glue in sunlight. It’s a bit of a pain and can take longer, but it’s an option.

Also bribes, I mean PACs and lobbying campaigns.

I would argue that in a lot of cases compassionate use policies are a good thing. I have a distant relative who was part of the study of the use of lung surfactant for premature infants. It was so effective that they cut the testing short to roll it out nation wide and has saved thousands and thousands of lives.

I’m not saying I trust pharmaceutical companies to not be bastards the vast majority of the time, but sometimes they do the right thing.

If only there were other methods for generating and storing electricity! Imagine if we could, say, use water to turn turbines, or the wind to spin generators, and then we could store that in grid level batteries.

Piss off

We can only hope

Nah man, that’s not the purpose of unrestrained capitalism. The point is to get big enough that you can buy out all the competition, then make your product cheaper and cheaper once there’s no one to compete against. It’s a bit like an economical algae bloom.

Tell me you never served in the military without telling me you never served in the military.

Rhymes with schmevolution

Also, it will take weeks for the whole process to get started again. Once deals are made, factories start production again, and containers are loaded onto ships, which will then take weeks to make it across the ocean. We’re talking months of supply chain shocks in the best possible case.

Cascadia baby!

I don’t think that’s correct. Plenty of us on the left have firearms, we just don’t make it our entire personality.

“no, see, the plane which crashed into my house was full of rich people”

I mean, if the alternative is getting shipped to a torture prison in El Salvador with no due process? Not saying it’s a good alternative, but it is an alternative.

Hey hey, we also want people not to starve or go into horrific debt because of medical issues. Super clear indicators of fascism or something.

From all the reporting I’ve read CECOT is significantly worse than the Japanese internment camps. What America did to Japanese Americans was cruel and unjust, and I wouldn’t say conditions in the camps were good, but CECOT seems to be on a whole other level. Prisoners are confined in crowded bunk rooms, outside time is limited to one hour per day, and physical violence from the other prisoners and the guards seems to be the rule rather than the exception.