Okay. But…

People with superpowers are still people, and most people are a mix of good and bad.

And some people are absolutely vile (see maga, Johnson, Theil, Trump,)

And some are positively saintly. (See most dogs.)

You would expect superpeople to be similar. So if we see fascist people getting power occasionally and ruining the world; you’d expect superpeople to do so too

or rampant fascism. I don’t think Superman is a particularly realistic character- all powerful and only mildly a dick?

same reason expanding the highways doesn’t relieve congestion. Induced Demand.

FWIW, he basically did double it. I mean, if you have x resources for a population, and you halve the population… they now have twice the resources…

reach out to the respective mods and report them. this isn’t trolling. it’s targeted harassment. you can report the entire acount on bsky, by going to their profile page and clicking the three-dot menu and selecting “report account.” that’s probably the best way to start. I think if there was no more dialog, or the account didn’t go poof, I’d follow that up with their support form asking for a status update. (and maybe dropping screenshots. If you don’t have screenshots, get them. )

So, you can speak to a public defender at any time you’re interacting with the criminal legal courts…this includes as a victim- under your right to legal counsel.

I would suggest asking someone at the court house.

They can assist you with far better advice navigating the shitshow that is the courts and may be willing to help get photos taken down.

Well, those kinds of ladies tend to buy their own, heh.

Except their dicks. S’why they compensate so much, with all their guns and general assholeishness.

Costs will go down. Even if staffing increases, which likely, if staffing increases, I’d see that as an even better scenario. I certainly don’t see medical staffing going down- it’s the insurance ghouls losing their jobs… and i rather see that as a good thing, too. (we’ll need some admin anyways, so we can keep the not-ghouls.)

staffing issues aside, generally, “free” healthcare (or rather, government provided healthcare) generally reduces the over all costs- in part, as you noted, by allowing far more prevention and efficiency. Also remember, in places with health insurance like the US, you also have staffing for the insurance agency, and the half-dozen agencies providing support to them, as well.

And there were still plenty of people who took the class to watch porn, I imagine.

“Religions are abuse” is a bit more abstract than “this guy used his position of power to sexually harass, maybe even rape women he had authority over”.

Not that I disagree, it’s just I haven’t looked at all religions.

Guarantee you the Catholic Church knew he was a problem and is only acting now because it’d cost too much to protect him further.

Also, I’d be willing to bet this asshole would have been a problem anywhere.

So “some” of the “mistresses” were too scared to come forward because he would threaten him.

Sounds like maybe they weren’t willingly his mistresses.

The record, the GOP could, if they wanted to, have a simple-majority vote to change the rules for this particular vote, such that it would only require a simple majority to pass.

They don’t want to do that, because this shut down gives trump extreme power to determine what is or isn’t “essential”. So, ICE, FBI, law enforcement, the Military will continue working/operating without pay. same with the fuckers building the ballroom. people who are not essential- like national parks, the government’s cybersecurity guys, people that support wick or snap or HUD etc… the courts…

yeah. So. basically it’s all just a giant cash and power grab. Nazis doing Nazis shit.

In any case, if somehow they manage to not ever get a bill past, yes, eventually the government collapses and shit gets real fucked real quick.

Thats more or less what the GOP want, though. which is why they made it incredibly objectionable and refused to negotiate with the Dems.

and yes, if the government gets funded again, you will still owe taxes.

The email accounts are owned by the government. If this was their personal email, sure, but it’s not.

Edit to add: doesn’t make it right or justifiable, but there probably no legal recourse here.

Eh.

There’s levels of “bad thing”. Stealing a cookie might be a bad thing, but it’s mostly harmless. Stealing, I dunno, someone’s life saving medication…? Probably makes the thief a bad person.

(If some one were to steal, I dunno, putin’s meds, I don’t think anyone here would be particularly inclined to accuse them, but, details.)

Keeping a single corner of a room tidy isn’t that hard, and these are professionals, frequently making some very good money to keep that corner of a room neat and tidy. it isn’t any more of an accident, seeing something in the camera frame, than, say, all the times you see an MS laptop and it’s logo, or an apple laptop with that logo. or all the coke bottles and cans in movies and tv shows.

If you see a logo, it’s because someone paid them to show it.

did I say it was fox?

No?

Kay. Would like a list of shit Labour is up to, too? we might be falling faster but you’re still falling to fascism, too.

Naw. Cone ‘em and then tow them- at owner’s expense.

Nope. This dribble is because they don’t want to talk about what’s really going on.

Portland, Chicago. LA. DC.

A senate that’s protecting a fascist kiddy-diddler, probably because they are too, while at the same time we have the fucking military invading our cities.

I suggest “World Domination.” If you start in the US now, all anyone will ever say is, “Well, at least he’s not trump.”

The only real advice I have to give is depressing as fuck: You don’t actually have to like your career. “do what you love and you’ll never work a day in your life” is a lie. It can- and will- still be work. If you’re very lucky, you won’t come to hate it, if you’re doing what you love. but eh, yeah. The number of people I know who’ve stopped being passionate about it by forty far outweigh those that stay passionate.

Look at your options for stability in the short term, with long term goals to develop into the other things you want to work towards. (Writing, for example.)