yoused @yoused@talkedabout.social

@CoachMark In fact, a large swath of religions are fundamentally incompatible with capitalism. Asceticism is a frequent component of religious teaching, and capitalism itself is atheistic.

OTOH, there is Scientology …

@cturnbow @MarkRNay@ravenation.club @Lizette603_23 @GottaLaff I am thinking some sort of strategy that was used in a very different way. Allow citizens to “prosecute” media outlets for dangerous content. The citizens would not be required to demonstrate standing (“I was harmed”) or even falsehood, merely that the content is potentially dangerous. It would be a tricky needle to thread.

@MarkRNay@ravenation.club @Lizette603_23 @GottaLaff “radically reform the news”
This is problematic, as 1A guarantees freedom of the press. The intent is that the press should be able to report on the government without repercussions. Ultimately it means that the press – private business – can publish whatever the fuck they want to, to advance their agenda, and not publish (suppress) stuff that they do not want to.

How can we safely reform that?

@chetHendrickson @georgetakei dammit, man, wording – you made me think his network was offline

@NailClippings @georgetakei no, because he killed the bear

@LaNaehForaday @georgetakei Who?
He appears to be a one-headed Zaphod Beeblebrox.

@georgetakei But gingerbread has nothing to do with architecture. It is a style of shingling.

@CaptAntagonist Do Not try to rickroll us

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mpw9lxCZmKY

@Ed_Carley Well, and? Safeway/Albertsons is owner by Cerberus Capital which has J. Danforth Quayle in the ranks of its upper management.

@mazouzi That they have better things to do than hang out on these fora all day long?

@tomiahonen Bear Wars?

@hazz223 It would be a difficult thing to calculate, but there should be an impact tax on *all* air travel. Commercial flights might get a break, but non-commercial flights should pay a lot more. Fuel tax and runway tolls.

@Basmitharts Are WaPo and the Grey Lady even worth bothering with? They have been promoting the Orange Menace for most of this year (promoting as in cutting him way too much slack – Biden was old, but Individual-ONE’s steep decline is being ignored).

As of today, August 25, we have had 365 shoot-em-ups this year (incidents in which 4 or more people have taken a bullet). The really sad part is that is more than a hundred less than this time last year. The ugly news is the good news, or something.

@LifeTimeCooking @EllenInEdmonton in the US, it is “chili” powder. And in the US state of New Mexico, they are called “chile” peppers.

@hazz223 just make these people pay the appropriate impact tax