Obama and Trump: both terrible negotiators. Just laughably bad, but in different ways. Obama’s strategy was to give away the whole shebang in advance as a good faith gesture, while Trump’s tendency is to act like a petulant three-year-old.
Both techniques work about as well as you’d expect.
What the hell will banning plastic straws do other than make aspects of my life and other people’s lives more inconvenient?
When I go to the grocery store tomorrow, I think I will buy 10 or 12 packs of straws — that should last me about 20 years, which is probably about as long as the plastic will last, anyway. That way, when I swing by for a sweet tea I can actually drink the goddamn thing without spilling it all over myself. Will keep a dozen or so straws in my car in a baggie (also plastic).
The problem with all this is that it is the neoliberal left’s idea of environmentalism — making people’s lives worse so corporations don’t have to take the heat.
Claiming that humans don’t have a “human nature” is only possible because there is a definable limit already present to delineate such a nature. That is to say, it is in human’s nature to make such claims as the presence or absence of human nature, and to insist that nothing/anything is impossible/possible, though the limits of both of those is of course (invisibly to most) proscribed and defined by those very boundaries of the human nature that all too many claim not to exist at all.
I recognize that leftist claims about the absence of human nature is in reaction to centuries of using the “nature” of various races to oppress and exploit them. However, to say that there is no human nature at all does not help any credible cause; it merely leads to doomed-to-fail utopian projects and the deaths of millions, much like the oppression they are nominally battling.
Human nature is amorphous, agreed, but is not all that changeable. Pretending it does not exist helps no one at all.
In which Apple destroys my daughter’s iPad forever.
If it’s not on your home network, stored on a device you control completely, it’s not yours. It belongs to someone else and they can do with it what they will.
Most of ya’ll are one day going to lose all your shit, and you don’t even know it. But it’ll be gone and I can say, “I told you so.” And I damn sure will — while I still have all of mine because I have it on hardware I control, and I back it up. The “cloud” is a con.
Obamacare premiums to rise an average of 15% next year, says CBO.
According to Kevin Drum and Amanda Marcotte, all horrendous, abhorrent lies as Obamacare is the most perfectest plan in the history of ever!