What’s with America and refusing its workers basic comfort while they work? Does it really not know how to decouple slavery from paid labor?

I hope China’s considering the same for the US. Mutually assured AI destruction.

My initial thought. I’m sick of seeing the same desperate headline repeated ad nauseum. Either give me the news that he croaked, or I’m gonna stay assuming he’ll run in 2028, with a worryingly non-zero chance of winning. And he will continue not-dying throughout the remainder of that term.

Deeply disturbed by the fact that the title sounds like a haiku, but is definitely not a haiku.

Tbh nothing of value was lost. Once a site is sufficiently shit, blocking ads is just polishing a turd. I commend them for keeping it up this long.

These days, it’s used for emphasis to make sure you’re properly upset about it. Try using it in a context where age doesn’t matter, and you see how much implied severity it can add.

“I saw you speaking to a girl. What’s up with that?”

vs

“I saw you speaking to an underage girl. What’s up with that?”

One of them sounds much more like a crime.

This 100%. It’s the only demographic that can do any heavy lifting if we’re talking raw manpower, and they’re currently being heavily courted by fascists and death cults. That tide needs to turn.