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But it’s a negative when his antics have helped erase more than $200 billion of shareholder value.

I'm guessing his reply to that is:

Disinflation is different than deflation. Prices aren’t changing, that’s good. Prices changed to be bad and aren’t changing, that’s bad.

Now, while I don’t think we want deflation amok, because that’s insanely bad for everyone, what I think we can all agree with is wages need to go up or there needs to be some price control the likes this country hasn’t seen before.

That’s the problem with the economy. This new normal isn’t comfortable. While we’re finally solidifying what this new normally is and volatility is going down, what we’re settling on isn’t good. And pretending that eventually wages will come to match, that’s not realistic. Playing the waiting game is going to wreck a lot of jobs.

If someone drove around and picked up everyone who has explicitly said they’d like to rape or kill her, and dropped them off at her doorstep with knives and guns, I hope we’d all agree that’s pretty fucked up and shouldn’t be condoned.

We have legal ramifications for that already. That's being an accomplice in the commission of attempted murder. And the rest of your comment is mostly the exact same thing, we have laws for when we cross a particular line.

The thing is the publishing flight information on a social media site isn't technically crossing a line. Now I'll tell everyone here the same thing I said with Musk's whole thing. As citizens, we have to lobby for any of those lines to be redrawn. That's the same thing here. Should we place that line elsewhere? Maybe, maybe not. But that's for us to dictate.

But as it stands, we can extrapolate all kinds of bad things that could come to pass and a lot of those are very illegal. But at the moment, what the person is doing is distinctly not illegal. Should it be? Maybe. But it is currently not. Can it lead to bad things? Yes. That's kind of with anything in terms of public information.

The balance that is traditionally struck, is a balance between the public's need to know and an individual's right to privacy. There's not hard and fast rules on where we put the line on that and finding the right spot today for that line, doesn't mean that it's the right spot for it tomorrow. Society changes and sometimes our laws must change with it. Sometimes it shouldn't change. But that's for us the Citizens to direct.

In the age of worldwide social media

And I'm just going to say this is with a LOT of things. At the moment our laws woefully handle social media because it's just so new and law takes so long to catch up. But that's what I was getting at with Elon Tracker back in the day. Musk can go to the Government to ask for laws to be updated, not get petty and ban folks off his social media site. Now Musk has every right to ban who he deems fit to be banned. It is absolutely his ship to wreck here. But it was pretty petty when Musk could have channeled a lot of that energy into getting new laws enacted and we could have avoided this whole thing with Swift. And Swift seems to be mulling litigation rather than actually reforming laws, which means this will inevitably happen again and again and again.

The solution is to get our laws up to speed with our society. And thus far from Musk and Swift there's been every indication that people with the means to actually get a face-to-face with members of select committees in the House and Senate, are opting to take the whole thing personally than an opportunity to do good for the Nation at large. That's my issue with the Rich on this. All of these folks thus far have taken these things personally, and rightly so because crazy people hunting you down can absolutely trigger that self preservation instinct, but there's also a chance for them to look past how this affects just them. But we have yet to see any move in that direction without it being like Musk in the first bits of it before he banned Elon Tracker, calling for the FAA to just be completely done away with. That's clearly not a solution that the public at large should be okay with. So for Musk, there's likely a middle ground he could reach between where we are and a complete dismantling of Government regulations.

And for the public discourse on this, that's my issue because it seems that public discussion on the matters related to this, start veering off into maximums and ignoring any kind of slight changes in current regulatory power. It starts becoming discussions of "oh my god so and so could be killed and here's a what if indicating the path one COULD take to cause harm." And yeah, those are interesting to say the least thought experiments, but they are not addressing the issue of widely disseminating that information. Something that could be resolved with new rules indicating that FAA transponder information and matchup databases operate under a limited distribution model. So one can reproduce the data for personal consumption, but cannot reproduce the data wide consumption. Much like the same way the NFL (because we're talking Swift here so apt entity to pull in) says you can have a Super Bowl party but you cannot have a projector for your entire neighborhood. There's a middle somewhere and I'm not going to pretend I have all the answers, but just running the extremes doesn't talk about that middle. That's my issue with the Public on this.

She is running for office in House District 75 of the State of Tennessee. The current incumbent is Jeff Burkhart who won in 2022 when Burkhart ran unopposed.

While abortion access is indeed important to Tennesseans, it is greatly diminished by poverty issues, cost of living, deteriorating education, medical debt, insurance cost, and opioid problems, in that particular order. Tennessee is having an exploding homeless population, ranking in the top 5 of the entire nation. Additionally, Tennessee has enjoyed a relative low cost of living, so when the pandemic inflation began, it hit Tennessee very hard.

I applaud her for running. I just wish more people could see that Governor HVAC and his crew's policies aren't helping this State. But 2024 for local elections, abortion is so far down on the list of priorities for Tennesseans in general. Homelessness and poverty has to be anyone running in 2024 top talking point.

Fueling that poverty is the sudden shock that the State received in the pandemic. Tennessee was in the top 10 States that people moved to during the pandemic. People from States with lots of wealth came to this State and the flood of cash coming into the State priced natives out of literally everything and dealing with that massive influx was just massively mishandled by Señor Air Duct. It hasn't washed evenly across the State (because what are taxes?) which has created pockets of massive wealth inequality.

Which of course leads to all of the other issues like education falling apart in this State, which it's crazy how it plays out, because you can go to one town where a lot of new people moved in, and they'll have one of the best schools in the State, and then drive not but ten minutes away and the school there is just happy the majority of the school is getting D as grade or better. For education in the State, there's not schools get worse as you travel away from the city. There's schools where everyone from out of State moved to that is doing wonderful, and then literally a school in the same town that's been there for ten-fifteen years is just in shambles. There's very little in-between.

Then of course with education going to shit, that plays into poor health, drug issues, and so forth. I live here, I assure you, most people think the State's current abortion policy is crap and want some exceptions carved out. But holy crap, that is so far off in the distance for a lot of people here. Like, even the secure border thing, that I know a lot of media likes to play up as an issue we have, that too is really low on the priorities here. Cost of living, homelessness, and education are pretty much dominating the political landscape here.

I honestly hope she wins, I don't live in Burkhart's district but all of those good ol' boys run government like crap and can't understand the basics of economic policy to save their lives. But she's going to need a very large platform outside of abortion to stand on. But I would highly caution folks who attempt to read anything Tennessee related in State elections as a referendum on abortion policy. There are just so many other fish to fry at the moment in this State.

And yes, anything anyone wants to say about "Republicans" and "Making people poor" trust me, you aren't going to say something that's not been clearly obvious to Liberal leaning folks in Tennessee since forever. It's all uphill, been that way since as long as I've been voting.

Only problem is they’re not around long enough for strong interactions and that makes it impossible for them to form Hardons.

See that’s actually all wrong. We’re going to need fewer people working with increasing automation. We’re just going to have an “unfortunate” situation where people who cannot work ALSO cannot afford to stay alive.

We’ll have 80 year olds that just die and gosh if there was only something we could of done to save them. Tots and pears.

This is actually known as the Air Bud principle. And there’s zero people I know that believe that such an argument would succeed.

The Air Bud principle is always this really fun exercise of ejusdem generis, but I think the number of times a case won with just that argument alone can be counted on less than half a hand.

TILA-RESPA of 2015. Extends only to banking institutions in limited situations related to home loans. 12 USC ch. 27.

You cannot just read a single sentence from that act, the three day period, and just randomly apply it everywhere. And I have no idea where the 45⁰ thing comes from but sounds right up there with bay leaves and candles.

Obey the law. #NotLegalAdvice

Yeah well, I still jerk off manually.

Literally from the article:

One person wrote on X (formerly Twitter)

And that's it for citations on this "backlash". "This story is fucking trash" and since one person on kbin said that, it must be true!

Sometimes I read this garbage and I feel like it's that part from Mean Girls.

Stop trying to make outrage happen!

Okay so for the person indicating cars, sure you can make a casual link to the two. But that misses the major point here.

Type 2 diabetes, which is the type we're talking about here with this article so I'm strictly sticking to just Type 2, is primarily caused by obesity which is the primary factor that leads to diabetes.

This is because of a combination of abdominal and intra-abdominal fat distribution AND increased intrahepatic and intramuscular triglyceride content. These two factors conspire to increase insulin resistance and β-cell dysfunction. So anything that leads to this kind of situation needs to be addressed, which gets to my point. We could literally list dozens of various things that contribute to this kind of situation, there's no ONE factor that just predominately contributes in meaningful ways more so than any other outside of diet and physical activity.

While cars have indeed contributed to a decline in physical activity it is important to remember that diet also plays a role in this. I'm not disagreeing with anyone here about cars contributing to the issue. But anywhere I go, I always remind folks that it is always diet AND physical activity. If this was fucksoda or something, I would still remind them that diet is indeed important but we must remember that it is diet AND physical activity.

I know it sounds pedantic, but given the strong message that all health agencies the world over have given, we need to always remember that it is both diet and physical activity that play a role in diabetes and prediabetes.

Wonder if this shift corresponds to the age of automobiles

So yes, I would agree that physical activity has decreased but also diets have become absolute trash at the same time. We absolutely should address the lack of physical activity along with encouraging better diets. Given how important health agencies have linked the two, I just think it would be a miss if we just solely spoke on JUST the physical activity.

See, all these fuckers want to bring religion back and mix it with government because they think it’s their flavor that’ll win.

Never do they think they’d be the ones suffering things like the Act of Uniformity 1558 or the Act of Supremacy 1558. Which is kind of the reason this nation wanted out of that business.

They’re fooling themselves that all the various forms of Christianity will keep playing nicely with each other forever. They’re only playing nicely because of their enemy of the enemy thinking with secularism. Second that’s gone they’ll be at each other’s throat as history has consistently shown.