Skyrmir

Send the supreme court to Guantanamo for a weekend interrogation. Then let them think about how immune a president is.

Right before 1990 as grunge became a thing.

Not according to DeSantis. Only he gets to decide what kind of sexual expression we're allowed.

Because I did that in the 80s, so now I don't, to protect the public from trauma.

And yet child beauty pageants will still be up and running.

Just in time, Trump needs a new water boy

It would be impossible to build today by any means. Not because of any technological problem. Physically it could be done rather quickly, as others have posited. The problem is that you could never combine the political and economic will to complete it.

It's the same reason it would be easier to colonize Mars than to fix climate change. There's a half dozen robots on Mars that will do whatever you tell them. On Earth, there's 7 billion assholes who think they have a better idea of what to do.

https://www.pgpf.org/blog/2022/11/social-security-reform-options-to-raise-revenues

There's a ton of right wing sites that would tell you eliminating the cap is a complete waste of time horrible for the economy, bringer of the end of days, etc.

Bezos, like many ultra wealthy, most likely paid himself some token amount in wages. Many CEO's used to pay themselves $1, just to say they had an income. They have accountants that decide how much he should claim as wages, just to maximize the returns from Social Security, without paying into it any more than needed.

Removing the cap would go a long way, but it's not enough by itself. We'll still need more people, or a time machine with a fertility clinic in it. From what I can tell, boomers seem to be thinking we're going to find that time machine somehow.

Long before wages create affordability, they have to out pace inflation. It's going to take a long period of wages slightly beating inflation for the public to be happy.

Or we could have another recession to make prices drop, but wages would lose ground to inflation when it returns.

Kinda sad really, but traveling up the east coast this year and we can see it in the towns we visit. The social gatherings are more segregated than usual, and they weren't integrated to begin with. Folks all looking at each other with a side eye, especially along the black/white divide.

There's too many shit stirrers in this stew.

Wall of acid, same as wall of fire, but acid damage.