Mass shootings go down, mass truckings go up. If they want to kill they will find a way. Mass shootings are EXTREMELY rare, statistically, compared to other firms of murder and there is no way in hell that you can implement “assault weapon” bans federally… Hell, band are getting overturned as unconstitutional As We Speak!
Yeah, since there is no combustion there is no carbon deposition and thus the oil basically lasts forever. We just filter it and add occasionally to make up for leaks.
Ha. Related but unrelated, we have this song that we pull up at work from time to time called Fuck This Place that describes our outlook pretty well. It’s actually about abatoirs, and it’s pretty poor quality, but it’s quite apropos.
The White House hopes that a "one-and-done" funding package will bypass the deadlock with congressional Republicans and free up enough aid for Ukraine to last until the 2024 presidential election.
Trucks and suvs are very commonly written off by buyers as “business expenses.” Think of Dudebro over there claiming his Ram for his lawn or handyman business or "hobby farm"because it can pull a trailer and tools… That’s one large reason why they are so ridiculously expensive.
During the trial it was revealed that McDonald’s knew that heating their coffee to this temperature would be dangerous, but they did it anyways because it would save them money. When you serve coffee that is too hot to drink, it will take much longer for a person to drink their coffee, which means that McDonald’s will not...
One of the key demands by the United Auto Workers (UAW) union, which is in the fourth day of its historic strike against the so-called “big three” car manufacturers in the U.S., is a reduced workweek to achieve what its leader described as better work-life balance....
In another significant moment for the movement against caste discrimination in the United States, a Bill to make caste discrimination illegal was passed by the California State Assembly on Monday, August 28, with 50 votes in its favour and only three against it. It was earlier passed by the state's Senate in May this year. With...
I find this article to be fascinating. I am an XC, having been deeply steeped in the SBC and having a full understanding of how the Church “works” and the mindset of many of its members and leadership. This article nails it on its head that the American Evangelical Christian church is very much responsible for the plight of the working class, having diligently labored for so many decades in lock-step with capitalist interests in the undermining of social works and protections, the alienation of the citizenry from themselves, and the division of societal bonds through ideas such a racism, elitism, and exclusion of the Other.
Sunday after Sunday the pastors and leaders of the different congregations that I had attended would lament how the Church just needed to be more SOLD OUT for Jesus and give Him their all… That a new Revival or Awakening was coming just around the corner and that an “Early Church” lifestyle would be possible, one in which the Church would be all encompassing to the daily lives and needs of the people… though it was always out of reach because there was just too much sinning going on in the Church. All the while they lacked even a modicum of the introspection necessary to grasp that there was never going to be a way to actually fulfill this mission given that the Church was continually undermining its own self-interests by supporting politics and economics that are in diametric opposition to what the Church SHOULD stand for and exemplify.
Millions have fled the church as fast as their internet connection have allowed them to. They, like myself, have grown tired and bitter at the hypocrisy, the lies, the cover-ups, and the steady Onward march of Christian Soldiers towards the villainy of Christo-Fascism. Attending “church” was becoming an ever more grueling ritual which no longer made any sense in the modern world. This passage describes the beginning of my EX-odus quite succinctly:
[A] 30-something woman who grew up in a suburban megachurch, was heavily invested in a campus ministry while in college, then after graduating moved into a full-time job and began attending a young-adults group in a local church. In her 20s, she meets a guy who is less religiously engaged, they get married, and, at some point early in their marriage, after their first or second child is born, they stop going to church. [. . .] Soon it actually sounds like it’d be harder to attend than to skip, even if some part of you still wants to go. The underlying challenge for many is that their lives are stretched like a rubber band about to snap—and church attendance ends up feeling like an item on a checklist that’s already too long.
Once we discovered another world out there full of people who, just like us, had the same questions about life, the universe, and futility of religion and had been able to conclude that it was all just a farce we were finally able to loosen those “Ties that Bind” and progress forward.
Thank… Glob?
However, while I’m so glad that my eyes have been opened to the truth of the universe, something that I cannot shake to this day is this incredibly salient desire to regain that sense of oneness and fellowship, flawed and fruitless as it was, that I used to feel when I was a church-goer. I have been searching for a contemporary and humanist replacement for that “communal” sense of togetherness and belonging.
I suppose that was pains me the most about all of this is that life COULD be like that “Utopian” vision of the Reign Christ on Earth were everyone’s needs are met, where people are entitled to the full fruits of their labor, where the world is a:
community marked by sincere love, sharing what they have from each according to their ability and to each according to their need, eating together regularly, generously serving neighbors, and living lives of quiet virtue
…under communism, which the corporate church cannot allow to happen.
My parents were recently lamenting all of the recently shuttered very large churches in the metro Atlanta area following a road trip a while back… I found it very hard not to laugh out loud at their sentiment. Would sure be a shame if a lot of them became low income housing or concert venues or direct action HQs.
Maine's mass shooter found dead (www.cbsnews.com)
Can we please just have both? (startrek.website)
Biden-Harris Administration Announces $3.5 Billion for Largest Ever Investment in America’s Electric Grid, Deploying More Clean Energy, Lowering Costs, and Creating Union Jobs (www.energy.gov)
Coal industry faces 1 million job losses from global energy transition - research (www.reuters.com)
I wonder how/if the states of these workers will reemploy them
Germany to Bring Back Coal-Fired Power Plants (www.ntd.com)
Live your best life Germany, don’t let the haters tell you otherwise
Fuck This Job - Wheeler Walker, Jr. (soundcloud.com)
Biden may seek $100 billion aid package for Ukraine (kyivindependent.com)
The White House hopes that a "one-and-done" funding package will bypass the deadlock with congressional Republicans and free up enough aid for Ukraine to last until the 2024 presidential election.
Target says it's closing 9 stores due to theft. The crime data tells a different story. (popular.info)
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115 bodies found improperly stored at Colorado funeral home offering environmentally friendly burials (abcnews.go.com)
Police did not disclose what the funeral home was doing with the human remains....
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US expands probe into Ford engine failures to include two motors and nearly 709,000 vehicles (apnews.com)
U.S. auto safety investigators have expanded a probe into Ford Motor Co. engine failures to include nearly 709,000 vehicles....
California governor rejects bill to give unemployment checks to striking workers (thehill.com)
TIL In the Hot Coffee lawsuit against McDonalds,punitive damages were given due to McDonalds intentionally overheating coffee to save money on refills (www.poolelg.com)
During the trial it was revealed that McDonald’s knew that heating their coffee to this temperature would be dangerous, but they did it anyways because it would save them money. When you serve coffee that is too hot to drink, it will take much longer for a person to drink their coffee, which means that McDonald’s will not...
How UAW Strike Could Push America to 4-Day Workweek (www.newsweek.com)
One of the key demands by the United Auto Workers (UAW) union, which is in the fourth day of its historic strike against the so-called “big three” car manufacturers in the U.S., is a reduced workweek to achieve what its leader described as better work-life balance....
Play “DECKD,” The Free Weekly ‘Star Trek: Lower Decks’ Word Game (trekmovie.com)
How cops lie to coerce false confessions from kids (www.teenvogue.com)
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and then they called Moses a socialist (i.ibb.co)
Caste matters : California Assembly passes anti-caste Bill, soon to make it official state law (www.thenewsminute.com)
In another significant moment for the movement against caste discrimination in the United States, a Bill to make caste discrimination illegal was passed by the California State Assembly on Monday, August 28, with 50 votes in its favour and only three against it. It was earlier passed by the state's Senate in May this year. With...
“Big Three” Auto Workers Vote To Strike By 97% (peoplesdispatch.org)
The Atlantic accidentally reveals Christianity's growing irrelevance (onlysky.media)