Recent content by Garraty_47

That's a squat. I already said I can. I always could. That's the not-so-secret trick: If you stay active and flexible you tend to be active and flexible. Funny how that works, eh? LoL

Politics is how policy is *marketed* to the public. Politicians don't write policy. Think tanks and lobbyists and industry reps write policy which is then given to politicians to sell as their or their party's "work" to the oblivious masses. What most people want, what's popular among voters...

:ORLY: Gee thanks for telling me what I think and prioritize and care about. I've always wondered.

Half-assed policy? I'm not sure I know exactly what you're asking.

Only if you never do more than float along on the surface. But it's the submerged areas where the decisions are made and the policies are written and the damage is done. I don't want to be a floater. Floaters are performative at best and obstructions in effect.

I'm not part of that club. I can't imagine needing a gold toilet or a boat that you can park another boat in or an elevator for your multi-level personal vehicle garage but these things exist. How should I know what someone like that wants or why? But they do.

They won't need to produce so much mindless consumer crap that they don't care about anyway and as a bonus it'll free up more resources to enhance their own lifestyles. After the initial investment in machinery and infrastructure the labor is basically free (minus energy costs). A cut in...

Once automation and AI take most of the jobs the elites won't need so many "useless eaters" around getting funny ideas about a world that prioritizes people instead of profit. That's all you need to explain a lot of what's happening.

<checks files> No. If things are already fucked up how is it *not* the status quo that's the real problem? If fixing the status quo also fixes the thing you're stuck on and not fixing the status quo only guarantees a recurrence of the type of thing you're stuck on how is it *not* the status...

That hasn't changed. Your interpretation of and disdain for it did though. Stuff happens.

Not to brag (okay maybe a little) but my legs are even stronger than my arms and I can still squat/kneel/etc. without having to hold onto anything to get back up. I don't even *like* living on this planet and as far as I can tell I'm going to be around for decades yet. The universe has a...

At my age still having functional arm muscles is something to crow about, thankyew. <obnoxious rooster noises>

https://valorinternational.globo.com/agribusiness/news/2024/04/11/surge-in-illegal-pesticide-seizures-sparks-industry-concerns.ghtml

From 2024:

Or what?