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my sister frequently sends me reddit memes and tried for years to get me to play league of legends

i mean, it wouldn't be such a pervasive trope if it wasn't true

this is a law in the scientific sense, where its function is to describe a phenomenon that occurs in nature (or in society), not as in an authority is decreeing it so

Steve McCarthy? Tim Apple?

The article says the order came from the corporation that owns the facility and says nothing about the government. Do you have evidence that the government was behind it?

Your opinion is fair. Mine is that because as far as I can tell the government wasn't involved, I support this action. It just seems like the kinder thing to do, to me.

As far as I can see from the article, the government didn't have anything to do with it.

Not every group of people has recently, within the last year, had to contend with two of their members being murdered and thrown in a landfill, and then it becoming a major national political campaign issue.

There's a rail station in my neighborhood (in the middle of the freeway that also runs through my neighborhood, fucking awesome thanks California) that has some five-story apartment buildings near it, but the nearest grocer is 1.7 miles away. It would literally be faster to walk to the train station, take the train to the city, get your groceries, and then take the train back than to walk to the one that's actually close. Whose fucking idea was this?

I can leave the house if I wanna see that

too bloody right

hey man, people have struggles. just because you don't have those struggles, and i don't have those struggles, doesn't mean they're not valid struggles for the people who do have them. a bit of understanding can go a long way. or as one of my favorite musicians once said, "a little goddamn compassion never hurt a motherfucker."

and regardless of my personal opinion on having kids, i don't see what it has to do with this conversation.

Yeah, like I said, I didn't see any concrete evidence of what I would expect from the name of their organization, and the actual policies they support are mostly things that I also support (increasing density, investing in infrastructure, generally pro-transit, stuff about healthcare, education, allowing remote work, etc). I guess I just find it weird that they're supporting all of that specifically because it gets more people to have kids, and not because they just make people's lives better, which is my reasoning. Maybe it's my personal bias as somebody who doesn't want kids.