What are we but a collection of memories? Not much. A body, some desires, occasional suffering and joy.

The memories give context to everything else. Change them, and you change everything.

This is why my chronic illness is so terrifying. It’s in my brain. Literal brain damage. It’s being treated, but I wake up every day with a low lying terror that I have forgotten something important.

“We can hurt the bad people until they tell us what we need to know to be safe.”

It’s nonsense, but it can feel true.

That’s called a taint squeeze.

I can say that unqualified judges generally cause the corruption more than the qualified ones.

Oil companies objectifying lesbians to pinkwash the tar sands.

Lesbians are great, this add is gross.

If it’s important enough that it can’t wait until tomorrow, it’s important enough to pay someone for.

To be fair to us, the brain worm guy dropped out.

Yeah, the naval base is the big thing.

For Ukraine, it’s about the principle of the matter. Taking Crimea back would mean “we are a real country and you can’t push us around.”

Just the dirt is worth a lot. Even if Russia conducted a genocide without anyone noticing, and all the buildings flat.

Most of us don’t worship our dads.

We have some good memories and some bad ones. I know I do. Walz reminds me, and I think a lot of other people, of the good memories of my dad. My dad is a flawed human being that struggled to do the right thing sometimes but he did struggle, and I love him for the things he taught me and the good memories he left me.

That’s warm fuzzies, not worship

Fair

Yeah world class really.

That rule was added in the 1950’s.

The founders were a gentleman’s club. Which is basically a fraternity. They made up rules that made sense to a bunch of frat boy farmers with enlightenment libraries.

True.

Dems won the house in 2020. They lost it in 2022 midterms. Biden deserves the star.

It’s not weird if you agree with the premise in general just not her in specific.

To the extent that talking about something can help, it can be helpful. It brings it to the top of mind so maybe individuals err on the side of safety when they otherwise wouldn’t. Or it reminds workers of policies already in place.

To the extent it conflicts with the bottom line, it’s a waste of time. Unless the company is willing to legit sacrifice profits for the benefits of HSE, it’s just a nothing bullshit paper you have to sign.

I actually disagree. Removing it is a democratic idea. We already have 2 houses of Congress which must agree to pass legislation and the president must sign it unless Congress can muster a supermajority.

Any voter has had 4 chances in the ballot box to represent their interest, we do not need to set artificially higher standards to prevent legislation from passing.

If voters sow the wind by electing lawmakers that support reckless or harmful policy, then voters should reap the whirlwind that results.

Harris healthcare plan in 2020 was to the left of Bidens, She called for Medicare for all. She dissagreed with Bernie about banning private insurance.

She was not against universal healthcare. I doubt she is now. If Dems sweep the house and somehow picked up 10 seats in the Senate (impossible) she might try to go for it.

It’s not impossible in 2026 for Dems to make big gains in the Senate, but it is very, very unlikely.