Brooks Brothers riot

I wish people would spend 10% of the time that they doomscroll towards activism. 15-30 minutes a day in real life. Join groups that align with your worldviews. Meet face to face, donate, call representatives, volunteer.

If we all did that across the country, our numbers would be so overwhelming that the people pulling this shit would be put back in whatever hole they crawled out of.

But instead, we all sit here, reading this, wringing our hands, doing nothing but worrying, and they pick us off one by one, among the nearly silent tap tap taps of our fingers on our phones.

Perhaps be more descriptive and abstract?

“The clouds cry tears unto the land.”

This seems like a tragedy of the commons line of thinking, with a dash of whataboutism.

I’m reminded of the quote “be the change you wish to see in the world.”

If you wish to reduce plastic consumption, perhaps the single step along that journey begins with you.

And if that journey includes sacrifices that you are not willing to make, then it’s good to be cognizant of that, so that you understand your impact on the world and the consequences your decisions have upon your future self.

Distilling this to an example you mentioned above, if you are unwilling to use bar soap, then perhaps look for bath products where some of the company profits go towards environmental restoration. Depending on the company, it may not mitigate your full impact, but reduce is one of the 3 tenets of sustainability.

I think it’s important that consider that, for now, we only have this one spaceship.

Analysis …

You should eat more fiber. You wipe too hard but somehow also not enough? You sat 23.64 minutes longer than required, you’re at risk for a hemorrhoid. You have a 22.5% chance of acquiring cancer.

There’s protein in the specimen. I caught a glimpse of the images displayed on your phone. Disregard previous assessment, why did you acquire me when you already provide such thorough analysis?

You have 4 more Throne™ iCUPs remaining. Ordering more for you now. Rent is due on the 5th and you no longer have the funds available to pay. Stop killing kittens and go get a third job.

This analysis concluded, brought to you by Bridgefjord smoked beef jerky.

Not to answer why, but I just thought to add this excerpt as I thought it relevant to the conversation.

The excerpt is from Napoleon’s era. This sort of debt borrowing has been happening for a long time. The carousel stops when the borrower can no longer afford the interest and has nothing left of valuable assets to sell off.

Despite Count Bezúkhov’s enormous wealth, since he had come into an income which was said to amount to five hundred thousand rubles a year, Pierre felt himself far poorer than when his father had made him an allowance of ten thousand rubles. He had a dim perception of the following budget: About 80,000 went in payments on all the estates to the Land Bank, about 30,000 went for the upkeep of the estate near Moscow, the town house, and the allowance to the three princesses; about 15,000 was given in pensions and the same amount for asylums; 150,000 alimony was sent to the countess; about 70,000 went for interest on debts. The building of a new church, previously begun, had cost about 10,000 in each of the last two years, and he did not know how the rest, about 100,000 rubles, was spent, and almost every year he was obliged to borrow. Besides this the chief steward wrote every year telling him of fires and bad harvests, or of the necessity of rebuilding factories and workshops. So the first task Pierre had to face was one for which he had very little aptitude or inclination—practical business. He discussed estate affairs every day with his chief steward. But he felt that this did not forward matters at all. He felt that these consultations were detached from real affairs and did not link up with them or make them move. On the one hand, the chief steward put the state of things to him in the very worst light, pointing out the necessity of paying off the debts and undertaking new activities with serf labor, to which Pierre did not agree. On the other hand, Pierre demanded that steps should be taken to liberate the serfs, which the steward met by showing the necessity of first paying off the loans from the Land Bank, and the consequent impossibility of a speedy emancipation. The steward did not say it was quite impossible, but suggested selling the forests in the province of Kostromá, the land lower down the river, and the Crimean estate, in order to make it possible: all of which operations according to him were connected with such complicated measures—the removal of injunctions, petitions, permits, and so on—that Pierre became quite bewildered and only replied: “Yes, yes, do so.” Pierre had none of the practical persistence that would have enabled him to attend to the business himself and so he disliked it and only tried to pretend to the steward that he was attending to it. The steward for his part tried to pretend to the count that he considered these consultations very valuable for the proprietor and troublesome to himself.

Or perhaps the dollars are being factored into to other workstreams in the system. We may be comparing apples to oranges here.

• Do other countries use student busing? If not, are they considering that impact into their public transportation?
• Do other counties have school meal programs?
• Do other countries factor out athletics into its own separate budget?
• what’s the average age of a public school?
• Is sexual education separated into health budgets?
• Physical Plants just cost more in America than most places, as we contract out both the design and construction and sometimes even the planning/permitting. Are these costs being factored in?
• Are the average class sizes per teacher similar?
• Are special needs costs factored in?

I’d first like to understand the diffs of what comprises that 30% more calculation, from there we can explore why the fundraisers are needed.

Damn you got this whole angry dude who puts down people and their ideas schtick down.

I already told you why. You have a very narrow, Disne-esque perception of what living under a monarchy is, and I’m telling you, often the “serfs” had more autonomy and authority than that perception.

We must not attribute a modern context to historical times. Rather, we should strive to look at history through a historical lens.

Got to have the right location, resources, timing and motivation. It’s not like wealth falls from the sky. It’s not like workers/constituents will work for the sake of working, at least not most of them. They have to get something out of the deal.

Get some knowledge in your head, read a book. Think for yourself and stop getting your info from the Disney channel.

I think you’ve bought into the Disney trope a bit too much, or at best viewing history from a myopic perspective.

Monarchs provided defense for their constituents, they provided city planning. Wealth extraction was an outcome, not unlike a business. Not all kings were Ivan IV’s, there are far more who served their people well who are not as infamous.

That isn’t to say I’m a monarchist, not by a long shot, just that monarchy serves its place in history.

I was with you until “stolen from the people.” Monarchs back in their heyday served a purpose. It took centuries to build up nation-states and common law.

Hell, it took Germany until the late 1800s to get their shit together, and even after then, it took another 100 years still.

I agree. Lots of “blame the victim” going on in this thread.

Dude said easy and with health insurance, it checks the boxes. They may even be able to do it at home, without a lot of social interaction.

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Oh, come on and search me (whoa, whoa) I got my problems (whoa, whoa) You got your eyes wide My bags of McDs… And raccoon with a meth pipe

A quorum of forums.

Same place as nearly everything else, the Sun.

News at 11. Site known for clickbait posts clickbait.

Dude reaches out for community, in the right forum for that matter, and you cast a stone. Why are you here stranger?

John, I highly recommend that you do not use that beeper.

Or do.