Kris Sargent, MD @kristofor@qoto.org

“The reason most public transportation is seen as ‘losing’ money is precisely because it charges for trips. If you don't charge fares, suddenly it can't ‘lose’ money. It just costs money, the same as the roads.”

This random comment has given me my new favourite argument for removing fares from public transit.

Their mom has been accused of parental alienation. The kids have been ordered to attend a reunification camp with their dad. And now they are barricading themselves in their room to keep police from forcibly removing them. Wild story by
@ProPublica

https://www.propublica.org/article/parental-alienation-utah-livestream-siblings

I feel like I’m being cancelled simply for having odious opinions.

BOSS: I need you to put these coupon stickers on all the Pick Me Up boxes

EMPLOYEE: Do you care where we place those stickers?

BOSS: Yeah, *on the box*. Don’t make me repeat myself. Idiots.

I’ve become old enough to realize Walter Peck from the EPA was 100% right to try to regulate the Ghostbusters’ storage containment unit.

Right on, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar https://kareem.substack.com/p/hannity-and-carlson-admit-lying-to?sd=pf

Amazing.

Good piece on the GOP POTUS field’s unpopular and harmful positions on Medicare and health care more broadly. This is why they want to talk about the Disney writers room or Dr. Seuss or basically anything other than policies that impact their constituents. https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnists/2023/02/20/medicaid-expansion-trump-desantis-haley-pence-2024/11281341002/

Roses are red.
Roses are blue.
Depending on their velocity
relative to you.

Did the NYT really publish an Opinion speculating that young girls today are more depressed than ever because of _phones_?

In a world where they lost the right to control their own reproductive healthcare? Where states are pondering making them report their periods? In a world debating genital inspections to play school sports? While banning books? Where they practice school shooting drills? With climate change? Where sexual assault isn’t disqualifying for public office?

Sure, it’s the phones.

Happy #Sunday

Really wild to lay off 8,000 people then go on a press tour about how you took a 10-day vacation and turned off your devices so you couldn't see the mean things people were saying about you. https://www.businessinsider.com/salesforce-ceo-benioff-10-day-digital-detox-after-layoffs-report-2023-2?utm_source=reddit.com

Truly, reality is even more pathetic than the theories we come up with as a joke. The billionaire threw a toddler tantrum because the president of the United States got more engagement than he did. And he even deleted the tweet that started this with, I can only assume, tears of impotent rage in his little eyes.

This might genuinely be the most pathetic thing I have ever seen.

The problem with capitalism is how it distorts the natural balance of Fucking Around & Finding Out by creating a class that is allowed nearly infinite fuckery with zero finding out

God Did the World a Favor by Destroying Twitter

https://www.wired.com/story/god-did-us-a-favor-by-destroying-twitter/

#scale #federation

77.7% of Black students borrow.

50% default within 12 years.

No one cares.

https://www.brookings.edu/research/black-white-disparity-in-student-loan-debt-more-than-triples-after-graduation/

Much of the $1.6 trillion debt is held by Black students. Yes, I said trillion. With a "T." And yes, I said "debt held by Black kids," who are hired less and paid less.

The unspoken part of the US student loan forgiveness "debate," is racists thinking "I am fundamentally opposed to anything that would lower the suffering of Black people or prevent the siphoning of their wealth."

The Supreme Court “is not an infallible institution whose decisions should be accepted without question. It is not a debating club that is just trying its best to figure out what the law is. And, most importantly, it is not a body that should be placed beyond public scrutiny.”

Exceptionally good piece from @chrisgeidner on how we should handle #SCOTUS #history #histodons

https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/supreme-court-think-s-special-s-not-rcna68567

The bots speak for all of us

Prior to 1982, stock buybacks were considered stock manipulation. It was Reagan's SEC that opened the floodgates to their abuse.

Stock buybacks don’t create more jobs. They don't increase wages. They don’t grow the economy.

They do one thing: Make corporate execs richer.