sensiblepuffin

If it costs the NYT money and buys the workers some bargaining power, I'm all for it.

It's extremely disappointing to me (admittedly in the US) that Covid seems to have obliterated any chance for a large-scale investigation on payment processors' stranglehold on our financial systems. The fees that Visa/Mastercard/etc. charge, especially for tiny merchants with insanely low transaction numbers, are criminal.

That makes a lot of sense, and very much tracks with what I've experienced of DHS. Scumbags.

I think they're funded just fine, but recent events have created some unusual expenditures for the SS.

It's a fair argument, especially given how much... entertainment he seems to derive from owning it.

A cable subscription isn't a depreciating asset, though.

I think the fact that you've spent a lot of time in liberal organizations is why you think that way about where it falls on the continuum between progressivism and conservatism.

Interesting that you characterize my statement as "both sides"ing. I would say the thrust of my statement is not "both sides" but "one side". America does not have a progressive party, only conservative and conservative-lite. Given the choice, of course I'll choose the latter, not least because the former is so far off the deep end it may never recover as a party. That does not mean I think that both parties are the same.

Visually:

--------Progressivism ------------------------ Center ------ Liberalism --------------------------- Conservatism.

Liberals and conservatives are more similar than liberals and progressives.

In order to pay your utility bill, you have to beat the Undertale Sans fight in Genocide mode

Because it makes it harder for advertisers to mine and sell your data. That's it.

I know. I was devastated when I first watched it, because I was so sure it was going to pass...

Also, if interested, check out this documentary: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Factory. Has a lot of interesting crosstalk between Chinese/American views on work and business.