You see this (or used to, anyway) from time to time with gas strikes.

If it’s just a month of “don’t buy,” it wouldn’t do much in the long run. All that does is time-shift demand to when the strike is over. If the company can anticipate well enough, they’d raise prices when the demand comes back and come out ahead in the long run.

You have to use/consume less, and for an extended time period, not just change when that purchase happens.

But yes, with that caveat, use less, and choose the lesser evil when you do need to buy something. The individual effect is small, but small things add up.

I was working tech support at my university when all these search engines first started appearing. It was also the era of aggressive typo squatting domains.

AskJeebes dot com was a hardcore porn site.

I can’t give a first-hand account, but I’d think it should be enough to say you aren’t close with your family. The details don’t have to come unless things start to get serious, and even then, only what and when you’re comfortable sharing.

So what I’m hearing is that we need to throw 99% of our garbage away at the north pole.

“My God thinks I should drink, and do drugs, and rob the blind and sick. I’m not entirely sure if that’s right, but I should do those things just in case I have to to get into his good graces.”

Even they have to think it sounds pretty silly when you turn it around on them.

The question I get asked by religious people all the time is, without God, what’s to stop me from raping all I want? And my answer is: I do rape all I want. And the amount I want is zero. And I do murder all I want, and the amount I want is zero. The fact that these people think that if they didn’t have this person watching over them that they would go on killing, raping rampages is the most self-damning thing I can imagine. I don’t want to do that. Right now, without any god, I don’t want to jump across this table and strangle you. I have no desire to strangle you. I have no desire to flip you over and rape you. – Penn Jillette

Shout out to my mom, who really drove us as a digital family when I was growing up.

She just turned 80 this week.

“Dealership” may be the wrong word, but they have “showrooms,” with plenty of stock, all over the country.

One that’s already purchased? I could go either way.

A lot full of cars at the dealership? All bets are off.

What Trump and his lackeys are doing is illegal. The thing is, people get away with illegal things all the time. Being illegal is only a deterrent if there are consequences.

So it’s up to the people to show Congress that there will be electoral consequences in 2026 if they don’t do anything in 2025. The Presidential election is over, and it’s incredibly unlikely that enough representatives/senators would do their plain duty to convict the guy. The people have to let them know that if they don’t at least keep things happening within the rules, they won’t be back.

Protests are more visible to the media, so they keep up the morale of the resistance, but it’s every bit as important to write, call, and otherwise contact your representatives in DC to let them know this is NOT OK. Be polite, but firm.

https://www.house.gov/representatives/find-your-representative
https://www.senate.gov/senators/senators-contact.htm

Causing a complete collapse of society to own the libs.

In addition to the others this is also an association fallacy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_fallacy

For example, a fallacious arguer may claim that “bears are animals, and bears are dangerous; therefore your dog, which is also an animal, must be dangerous.”

Nothing about being a mod is hard.

Would you like to play a game?

https://trustandsafety.fun/

Thesis_v5_Final_revised_final_complete_v2_(2).pdf

Australia is on the underside of the earth. “Down Under” isn’t just some funny saying.

The flip over the edge happens near the island from Lost. New Zealand is in a superposition, existing on the top and the bottom, and also neither. That’s why some maps don’t include it at all.

Regardless of ideology, there are just some people with whom you will never be able to have a rational discussion.

Tankie authoritarians…maga incels…the block button works on them all.

Best - find a new job and quit when the new one is all lined up.
Next - get laid off and collect any severance and unemployment benefits while you search.
Worst - quit with nothing else lined up, struggle while you get back on your feet.

Bob Barker only died a year ago. I thought for a long time he had gone in, like, 2010 or so.

That graph plots gross pay (x-axis) against take-home cash (y-axis). The far left of the graph (in green) shows people making under 20k taking home more than their “earned” pay. At the extreme bottom is somebody making 1,000/year taking home 10,000. The progressive income tax starts at 20,000.

Not labeling the axises does make it hard to read.

The US doesn’t technically have a negative tax, but the EITC accomplishes the same basic thing. Whether it’s efficient enough, or needs expansion is another story.