First off off, it’s not true, and second off, I don’t want to answer questions about that. Lets focus on Rampart people.

Humans evolved in the tropics. You’re just weird. It’s OK to be weird but you have kind of a strange superiority complex about it.

I don’t know what you’re referring to here.

Absolutely not please read up on what economists have to say about monopolies, they are very harmful.

My unpopular opinion is that this movie is just bad lol

Your assumption that all people who participate in charity oppose greater public services is false.

I have no idea about the bean thing, I assume there’s some missing context there. But charity runs are not about suffering, people do them because it’s a fun activity to organize around. It has nothing to do with forcing people to suffer lol that’s ridiculous.

Yes, I just thought it was an interesting historical fact. It’s also pretty ironic since today CR has friendly relations with the US and in some ways this is what enables them to not have an army.

Actually there was a time when some wealthy American businessmen hired a private army and tried to take the country over. They succeeded in conquering Nicaragua but the Costa Ricans fought them off. This is the basis of their main national holiday.

Unfortunately I don’t see any of the proposed reforms measurably improving things while the right has an equal or greater grip on power. Any reforms that are easily implemented are easily neutralized or turned against the left when republicans return to power. Which, in the current political system, is an inevitability.

More radical reforms could solve the problem but would require much greater political power. In my opinion this can only be achieved by forming a mass movement that completely overpowers the right’s institutional advantages. Whether this can or will happen remains to be seen but it won’t be easy.

Good point, I think of the change in court composition as a very recent thing but time flies. It has been a few years at this point.

I hope you’re right that the lower courts will make more similar rulings but I suspect the Supreme Court might overturn it if they went too far. We’re just lucky Fort Collins ran out of money here.

Unfortunately, the court’s composition could take decades to change. It’s a big problem with no easy solution.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/u-supreme-court-refuses-free-144949699.html

Unfortunately, though the problem has gotten much worse in recent years, the theocratic leanings of the Supreme Court has been an issue for decades now.

The argument that this is gender discrimination seems obviously true to me so it’s shocking to me that we’re still living in a society where this type of government violence is still widely accepted. I just have to hope that we’ll eventually evolve beyond this type of Puritanism.

Weak. To really say you’ve climbed Everest, you need to start from the Challenger Deep.

Could not agree more. I love the idea of live music but in practice it’s a miserable experience unless you’ve already suffered significant hearing loss.

Maybe someday people will stop putting up with this and I’ll be able to enjoy it but this idea seems a long way away.

Thanks. I love that we’ve got several active alternatives we can communicate with on the threadiverse now. I like Lemmy but I hope they continue to proliferate.

Interesting. Your instance is from another platform, right? Is it Piefed or mbin?

Is this just basically karma or what does it mean?

Oh I guess I missed that update. Thanks for the correction.

It exists, your total just isn’t visible to anyone but admins.