Numberone

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[–] Numberone@startrek.website 3 points 8 months ago

"Damn, there's just not enough shopping centers", ain't it the truth.

[–] Numberone@startrek.website 4 points 8 months ago

Here is a wiki source (insert error bars here) discussion of his stance on his work being officially licensed. He thought that use of his work outside of a comic strip would cheapen the value of the strip itself. This was frusterating as a child (who wouldn't want a fucking Hobbes plushy) but now later I can see that it was at the very least a very defensible choice. Compare how people feel about C&H vs something that was commercialized to death like Garfield. Anyway, hope it's useful.

[–] Numberone@startrek.website 18 points 8 months ago (10 children)

Is this not the shit that American cops use on American civilians like...all the time? Genuine question, would like to know if I'm wrong about that.

[–] Numberone@startrek.website 55 points 8 months ago (16 children)

The word rape doesn't show up in that entire article. Must be some kind of mistake. I wonder why that would happen?

[–] Numberone@startrek.website 23 points 9 months ago

There's something wonderful about the delight on Seven's face❤️

[–] Numberone@startrek.website -2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

"Generic Democrat" polls better than Biden. You can argue he has a chance, but you can't argue that he's popular, or polling well against Trump. I kind of take issue with "crushed" a descriptor of 2020 too. Skin of his teeth seems more reasonable, and in an environment that's completely different from right now. They did it with Hillary, another very unpopular candidate and we got Trump. They're doing it again now, and it seems nuts to go so balls out against actual voters rather than the people who are literally deciding who the candidate is. But what do I know🤷‍♂️

[–] Numberone@startrek.website 0 points 9 months ago

A measured response...

[–] Numberone@startrek.website 42 points 9 months ago

And the US Immediatly stops weapons shipments....the US immediately stops weopons shipments....right?

[–] Numberone@startrek.website -4 points 9 months ago

Purity test😂

You'd be better off yelling at the people who are pushing the worst possible candidate against Trump. Let's pretend you convince me to vote, congrats you've convinced 1 person in the interwebs. Write to your reps...ramp up the pressure and forget about me. Biden's losing with or without my vote, it's a good bet. When that happens you can blame people that didn't want to vote , or you can blame the party that's shooting itself in the dick...over...and over again. I know who will get blamed, and I don't give a fuck.

[–] Numberone@startrek.website 5 points 10 months ago

In the book "Highrisers", which is about the Cabrini-Greens housing developement in Chicago, there's a short section talking about how certain buildings were turned over to the tennents in a management capacity. It didn't fix all of the problems, and it didn't save Cabrini-Greens, but it did have some measure of success over beurocratic management by CHA, which was a joke. (FWIW I read this several years ago, so take it with a grain of salt)

That model has stuck out in my mind since. Why not have a simple budget for each building and let the work of maintenance be managed by the people who live there, with resources from the appropriate housing authority. The US is so fucking paternalistic about poverty and the people living in it. We build huge beurocracies incapable of truly scaling that then result in obsene waste like shown above. With some management some of that could be put on tennents, with them keeping some of benefits as well.

[–] Numberone@startrek.website 9 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Biden isn't the only one who could win, and seems to be worse off than a generic dem in swing States, by a long shot. They're choosing the candidate again, like they did with Hillary, from the ranks of the least popular people in the US. They're shooting themselves and blaming the left and Muslims in MI already.

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