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Ah, midtown. How I love you.
Pop-up business on my street corner apparently. A gentleman and his cleaning tray, filling pre-rolls (with filters), Panda Express corner of 46th at 9th.
#NYC #NewYorkCity #midtown #Manhattan #PandaExpress #Chinese #takeout #rolling #paper #inflatable #blunt #joint w #filter

Ah, midtown. How I love you.
Pop-up business on my street corner apparently. A gentleman and his cleaning tray, filling pre-rolls (with filters), Panda Express corner of 46th at 9th.
#NYC #NewYorkCity #midtown #Manhattan #PandaExpress #Chinese #takeout #rolling #paper #inflatable #blunt #joint w #filter

Ah, midtown. How I love you.
Pop-up business on my street corner apparently. A gentleman and his cleaning tray, filling pre-rolls (with filters), Panda Express corner of 46th at 9th.
#NYC #NewYorkCity #midtown #Manhattan #PandaExpress #Chinese #takeout #rolling #paper #inflatable #blunt #joint w #filter

Ah, midtown. How I love you.
Pop-up business on my street corner apparently. A gentleman and his cleaning tray, filling pre-rolls (with filters), Panda Express corner of 46th at 9th.
#NYC #NewYorkCity #midtown #Manhattan #PandaExpress #Chinese #takeout #rolling #paper #inflatable #blunt #joint w #filter

https://www.europesays.com/es/535930/ Los Rolling Stones presentan ‘Foreign Tongues’, su disco 25º, pero la gira sigue sin confirmarse | El PAÍS Exprés #Artistas #DiscosMúsica #Entertainment #Entretenimiento #ES #España #KeithRichards #MickJagger #Música #rolling #Spain

https://www.fogolf.com/1238374/perfect-cg-rolling-wilsons-infinite-zero-torque-putters/ Perfect CG! Rolling Wilson’s Infinite Zero Torque Putters #GolfClubs #GolfClubsPutters #GolfClubsPuttersVideos #GolfClubsPuttersVlog #GolfClubsPuttersYouTube #GolfClubsVideos #GolfClubsVlog #GolfClubsYouTube #GolfEquipment #GolfEquipmentVideos #GolfEquipmentVlog #GolfEquipmentYouTube #GolfPutters #GolfPuttersVideos #GolfPuttersVlog #GolfPuttersYouTube #infinite #PERFECT #putters #Rolling #TORQUE #Wilsons

https://www.fogolf.com/1238374/perfect-cg-rolling-wilsons-infinite-zero-torque-putters/ Perfect CG! Rolling Wilson’s Infinite Zero Torque Putters #GolfClubs #GolfClubsPutters #GolfClubsPuttersVideos #GolfClubsPuttersVlog #GolfClubsPuttersYouTube #GolfClubsVideos #GolfClubsVlog #GolfClubsYouTube #GolfEquipment #GolfEquipmentVideos #GolfEquipmentVlog #GolfEquipmentYouTube #GolfPutters #GolfPuttersVideos #GolfPuttersVlog #GolfPuttersYouTube #infinite #PERFECT #putters #Rolling #TORQUE #Wilsons

New entry of AI-generated #comics and #jokes added to our #website:

#Rolling #Back #Growth

comics.lucentinian.com/15033
#Comedy #AILaughs #AIComedy #DailyJokes #AIGeneratedJokes

Trump has begun to address affordability a bit more
—rhetorically, that is.
He’s never fully acknowledged that the affordability problem has continued into his administration,
nor how his own policies
—from tariffs raising prices on myriad goods to the chaotic interruptions in crucial benefits like food stamps
—have contributed to Americans’ economic sufferings.
But he has been making more claims about what he’s supposedly doing to bring down the cost of living, a tacit nod to the polling.

He says inflation has “stopped.”
He sayshis policies will cut drug prices by “400, 500, even 600 percent.”
He says he has brought down the price of food and gas.
He says that electricity costs “will fall dramatically.”
He says that wages are up and that manufacturing jobs are flooding back to the United States.
Trouble is, none of that is true.
Inflation has not “stopped.”
Grocery pricesare up even from the Biden era.
His claims about drug prices are not only false but, as CNN points out, “mathematically impossible.”  
Wage growth for workers without college degrees slowed, from January to September, and within the same time frame, workers lost 361,000 jobs.
From April—the month Trump announcedhis “liberation day” tariffs—to September, manufacturing in the U.S. fell by 58,000 jobs.
On gas, his claims are exaggerated, as are his claims on egg prices.
Electricity has spiked by 9 percent during his administration,
and while it’s impossible to predict the future, there’s certainly no reason to believe his claim that he’s just about to bring it down.

⭐️But an equally big problem is that Americans’ struggles just don’t interest him. -- That’s why he can’t stay focused on them.
That’s why he rolls his eyes when he says the word “affordability.”
It’s also why in every recent speech, when he’s not lying about the affordability problem, he’s changing the subject.

Trump raises the issue only to pivot to his preferred topics:
tariffs (which he said recently was his “favorite word”),
immigration,
his personal beefs,
himself,
Ilhan Omar,
Somalians in Minnesota, and so on. 

In his December 17 speech on the economy, he opened with three sentences on the cost of living,
and immediately after saying the word “affordability,” he launched a rant about immigrants -- as if to wake himself up.
Two days later, in a speech in Rocky Mount, North Carolina, he shifted from affordability to his weird obsession with immigrants coming from insane asylums
(presumably he is equating those seeking “asylum” with mental patients, a long-standing Trumpian muddle)
without even the pretense of a logical transition, just because he couldn’t wait to get there.

Hardship bores Trump.
And why wouldn’t it?
He’s a rich guy who likes to hang out at Mar-a-Lago with other rich guys.
He doesn’t have any answers to the affordability crisis because he doesn’t care
—he really should borrow his wife’s infamous jacket
—and because some of the easiest and most obvious solutions to the crisis involve #rolling #back his own policies -- not to mention #alienating Republican #donors.
No wonder he’d rather rant about Somalis in Minnesota—or reminisce about the good old days of his #attempted #assassination.
Trump’s utter disengagement and mendacity on the affordability crisis create a huge opportunity for Democrats,
✅and some have been running with it.
On Thursday, democratic socialist #Zohran #Mamdani was sworn in as the new mayor of New York City.
He campaigned on making New York more affordable through universal childcare,
free buses,
a rent freeze for rent-stabilized buildings,
as well as increasing the supply of housing for poor, working-class, and middle-class New Yorkers.
He is backed by a grassroots campaign to tax the rich to make all this possible.
On January 20, #Mikie #Sherill, the Democratic governor-elect of New Jersey, will also be sworn in.
She too campaigned on lowering costs
-- while also 💥strongly opposing the construction of new data centers, which will increase energy bills, line tech billionaires’ pockets, and only flood the world with more slo
In a sense, they will face the same challenge that Trump is facing:
how to deliver on their campaign promises to address the affordability crisis.
🔥The difference is that they have actual policies they plan to advance in their respective legislative bodies.
All Trump ever had was his favorite word, and every respected economist knew back in 2024 that astronomical tariffs were certain to accomplish one thing:
higher prices on American consumers.
But the president is not one to acknowledge his mistakes, let alone learn from them.
So it’s a safe bet that he’s not going to suddenly find any solutions to the affordability crisis ... not when he can barely bring himself to say those words. 
https://newrepublic.com/article/204856/trump-affordability-crisis-bored-death

https://www.europesays.com/it/267163/ malato e sparito da un anno. I Rolling Stones sono costretti a fermarsi #ce #costretti #Entertainment #fermarsi #Intrattenimento #IT #Italia #Italy #keith #malato #Music #Musica #richards #rolling #sparito #stones

TARS-Like Robot Both Rolls, and Walks https://hackaday.com/2025/12/01/tars-like-robot-both-rolls-and-walks/ #reinforcementlearning #interstellar #RobotsHacks #rolling #walking #robot #gait #TARS

Painting on paper: Ambiguous impulses for mental cinema!
#contemporaryArt #mentalCinema #analogArt #painting #rubberStamp #reliefPrinting #saveBioDiversity #climateActionNow #systemChange #endFossilFuels #makeArtNotWar #noAFD #NoRacism #NoFascism #humanRights #humanDignity #Нетвойны #astronaut #dancing #spaceSuit #spaceTravel #outerSpace #circles #innerCircle #innerLife #introspection #circling #rolling #rotating #rotation #skull #death #mementomori #vanitas #fragilitas #finiteness #mortality

Painting on paper: Ambiguous impulses for mental cinema!
#contemporaryArt #mentalCinema #analogArt #painting #rubberStamp #reliefPrinting #saveBioDiversity #climateActionNow #systemChange #endFossilFuels #makeArtNotWar #noAFD #NoRacism #NoFascism #humanRights #humanDignity #Нетвойны #astronaut #dancing #spaceSuit #spaceTravel #outerSpace #circles #innerCircle #innerLife #introspection #circling #rolling #rotating #rotation #skull #death #mementomori #vanitas #fragilitas #finiteness #mortality

https://nkvsspsundaycomics.thecomicseries.com/comics/379/

Perilous Meme: trapped in a #Videogame
#KatamariDamacy

#Ralph #rolling #sundayvibes #webcomics #webcomicchat #comicbookhour #comics #recovery #ouch #continue #sketches #sundaycomics #sunday #vibecheck

The chase
Project i did 4 years ago with blender 2.92 and cycles rendering engine.

Artstation: https://www.artstation.com/nishant_neeraj

#art #artist #mastodon #mastoart #car #needforspeed #racing #racinggames #porsche #police #chase #chasescene #helicopter #red #b3d #3d #highway #rolling #hotwheels #mostwanted #digitalart

The chase
Project i did 4 years ago with blender 2.92 and cycles rendering engine.

Artstation: https://www.artstation.com/nishant_neeraj

#art #artist #mastodon #mastoart #car #needforspeed #racing #racinggames #porsche #police #chase #chasescene #helicopter #red #b3d #3d #highway #rolling #hotwheels #mostwanted #digitalart

#FunnyCat Wiggle and roll, wiggle and roll, wiggle and roll the afternoon away.
Tigger the Savannah cat is being silly this afternoon.

#funnycats #silly #sillycat #wiggle #rolling #savannah #savannahcat #tigger #TCWR #TurpentineCreek #GFAS #GlobalFederationAnimalSanctuaries #RescueToRefuge #Sanctuary #BigCat #Cats #refuge #cutecat #reels #animalvideo #shorts #shortvideo #catvideo

#FunnyCat Wiggle and roll, wiggle and roll, wiggle and roll the afternoon away.
Tigger the Savannah cat is being silly this afternoon.

#funnycats #silly #sillycat #wiggle #rolling #savannah #savannahcat #tigger #TCWR #TurpentineCreek #GFAS #GlobalFederationAnimalSanctuaries #RescueToRefuge #Sanctuary #BigCat #Cats #refuge #cutecat #reels #animalvideo #shorts #shortvideo #catvideo

Zum Wochenende: Rotten Rolling Releases?

Halten Rolling-Releases länger als LTS-Releases? Dieser Artikel stellt Thesen auf, liefert aber keine Antworten.

#Rolling #Rolling_Release #LTS #Update #Upgrade #Distributionen #Linux

https://gnulinux.ch/zum-wochenende-rotten-rolling-releases

Zum Wochenende: Rotten Rolling Releases?

Halten Rolling-Releases länger als LTS-Releases? Dieser Artikel stellt Thesen auf, liefert aber keine Antworten.

#Rolling #Rolling_Release #LTS #Update #Upgrade #Distributionen #Linux

https://gnulinux.ch/zum-wochenende-rotten-rolling-releases

Zum Wochenende: Rotten Rolling Releases?

Halten Rolling-Releases länger als LTS-Releases? Dieser Artikel stellt Thesen auf, liefert aber keine Antworten.

#Rolling #Rolling_Release #LTS #Update #Upgrade #Distributionen #Linux

https://gnulinux.ch/zum-wochenende-rotten-rolling-releases

هو إصدار متجدد أو متدحرج بسبب اقترانه ديبيان الغير مستقرة. على وجه التحديد، هذا يعني أن صدور إصدار جديد لا يتطلب إعادة تثبيت النظام للحصول على الحزم المحدثة. وبدلاً من ذلك، يتم دمج التحديثات بانتظام في النظام من خلال تحديثات البرامج.

#Siduction
is a rolling release due to its coupling with Debian sid. Specifically, this means that the release of a new version does not require reinstalling the system to get updated packages. Instead, updates are regularly incorporated into the system through software updates.

https://siduction.org/

#gnutux #linux #debian #foss #gnu #rolling #لينكس #ديبيان #kde #xfce #xorg

Chimera Linux is a distinct Linux distribution that diverges from traditional GNU/Linux systems by using a blend of FreeBSD userland tools, the musl C library with Scudo allocator, and the LLVM/Clang toolchain.

This is my Chimera Linux setup using GNOME on Raspberry Pi 400.

A promising rolling Linux Distro in the following years. Dinit, FreeBSD Userland, Clang/LLVM toolchain and more.

https://chimera-linux.org

#Chimera #Linux #General #Propose #Kernel #FreeBSD #Clang #GNOME #Rolling #Distro

Dear Friends and converts, 🦞

As we may have #gathered, a stone heart turns to Moss, whilst a #rolling stone #gathers and disperses moss. In other words, most of us #change. :thinkSpin:

Personally, I change from one dimension and hour to the next. :paganverify: :mindblown: :success:

Dear Friends and converts, 🦞

As we may have #gathered, a stone heart turns to Moss, whilst a #rolling stone #gathers and disperses moss. In other words, most of us #change. :thinkSpin:

Personally, I change from one dimension and hour to the next. :paganverify: :mindblown: :success:

Dear Friends and converts, 🦞

As we may have #gathered, a stone heart turns to Moss, whilst a #rolling stone #gathers and disperses moss. In other words, most of us #change. :thinkSpin:

Personally, I change from one dimension and hour to the next. :paganverify: :mindblown: :success:

The top 10 most impactful #weather events of 2023

From powerful #hurricanes and #tornadoes to drought-busting storms and the deadliest #wildfire in the US in a century, here is a look back at the most unforgettable weather events of 2023.

By Monica Danielle, AccuWeather senior producer

Published Dec 26, 2023

1. Record-breaking January tornado outbreak

In a month typically clocking inches of snow, there were a whopping 168 tornadoes reported over two outbreaks, more than triple the historical average for January, setting a new record for the month.

An outbreak on January 12 produced 70 tornado reports across seven states. This date included two EF3 tornadoes that resulted in at least 9 deaths and 34 injuries across #Alabama and #Georgia. An EF2 tornado also caused devastation in the historic city of #SelmaAlabama, about 40 miles west of Montgomery.

2. Violent EF4 tornado rips through #Mississippi, killing 17

On March 24, two dozen twisters touched down across the Southeast, including the deadliest and one of the year’s most violent tornadoes. The EF4 tornado ripped through #Rolling ForkMississippi, and claimed the lives of 17 people, including a couple killed by a large semi-truck that was tossed into their home.

3. The most notable tornado outbreak of the year

The most notable tornado outbreak of 2023 was the deadly and now historic outbreak that impacted large portions of the Midwest, South, and East U.S. on March 31 and April 1. The year's second and final EF4 tornado was one of 122 twisters reported across multiple states. AccuWeather's own storm tracker and meteorologist, Tony Laubach, captured incredible footage of one of the strongest tornadoes of the year when he intercepted the twister in southeast #Iowa near the city of #Ottumwa.

4. Drought-busting #AtmosphericRivers unload record-breaking #snow

Coming into 2023, drought was a major concern for #California and other parts of the West. "This is a #megadrought," California Governor Gavin Newsom said. "Some scientists argue it's the most significant in 1200 years of human history." But it wouldn't be long until the #drought was wiped out completely.

5. Smoke from #Canada's worst-ever wildfire season blankets US cities

Canada experienced its worst wildfire season on record, obliterating all other years in terms of area burned. Over the course of the fire season, flames scorched an estimated 18.4 million hectares—an area roughly the size of North Dakota. According to NASA, on average, just 2.5 million hectares burn in Canada each year.

6. Deadliest US wildfire in more than a century sweeps through #Maui, #Hawaii

The wildfire that ignited in Maui on August 8 was the deadliest in the U.S. in more than a century, killing at least 106 people and all but incinerating #Lahaina, destroying every building in the town of 13,000.

7. #HurricaneIdalia slams #Florida's Nature Coast

The above-normal 2023 Atlantic hurricane season was characterized by record-warm #AtlanticSeaSurfaceTemperatures and a strong #ElNiño. A total of 20 storms were named in 2023, along with a tropical depression and an unnamed subtropical storm. This ranks fourth for the most-named storms in a year since 1950 and the most on record during an El Niño-influenced season. Seven storms were hurricanes, three intensifying to major #hurricanes.

8. #HurricaneLee stirs up rough surf, and dangerous rip currents along East Coast

Before making landfall in far western #NovaScotia, Hurricane Lee caused dangerous surf and rip currents along the Atlantic Coast of the United States. Lee claimed two victims, a 51-year-old man who was killed by a falling tree branch in #Maine and a teenager who drowned off the coast of Florida amid rough seas churned up by the hurricane. The monstrous storm cut power to more than 280,000 electric customers across Maine, Nova Scotia and New Brunswick as it roared ashore.

9. The hottest year in recorded history

Six record-breaking months and two seasons – summer and autumn – were recorded in 2023, making it the hottest year ever recorded.

10. El Niño nears historic strength

The global weather phenomenon El Niño, in which surface waters are abnormally warm in the eastern tropical Pacific, was a major player in many of the top weather events in 2023. The major shift to El Niño following three years of La Niña, could evolve into one of the strongest El Niño events observed over the past 75 years, new data shows.

https://www.accuweather.com/en/weather-news/the-top-10-most-impactful-weather-events-of-2023/1603146

#ClimateCrisis #ClimateCatastrophe #USWx #USWeather #Weather2023 #WeatherExtremes #ExtremeHeat

A World of Slaves:
Most Americans haven’t seen what’s coming.

Nancy MacLean notes that when the #Kochs’ control of the GOP kicked into high gear after the financial crisis of 2007-08, many were so stunned by the “shock-and-awe” tactics of #shutting #down government, #destroying #labor unions, and #rolling #back #services that meet citizens’ basic necessities that few realized that many leading the charge had been trained in economics at Virginia institutions, especially George Mason University.

Wasn’t it just a new, particularly vicious wave of partisan politics?
It wasn’t.

MacLean convincingly illustrates that it was something far more disturbing.
MacLean is not the only scholar to sound the alarm that the country is experiencing a #hostile #takeover that is well on its way to radically, and perhaps permanently, altering the society.

Peter #Temin, former head of the MIT economics department, INET grantee, and author of "The Vanishing Middle Class", as well as economist Gordon #Lafer of the University of Oregon and author of "The One Percent Solution", have provided eye-opening analyses of where America is headed and why.

MacLean adds another dimension to this dystopian big picture, acquainting us with what has been overlooked in the capitalist right wing’s playbook.

She observes, for example, that many liberals have missed the point of strategies like #privatization.

Efforts to “reform” #public #education and #Social #Security are not just about a preference for the private sector over the public sector, she argues. You can wrap your head around those, even if you don’t agree.

Instead, MacLean contends, the goal of these strategies is to radically alter power relations, #weakening pro-public forces and #enhancing the #lobbying #power and commitment of the corporations that take over public services and resources, thus advancing the plans to #dismantle #democracy and make way for a return to #oligarchy.

The majority will be held captive so that the wealthy can finally be free to do as they please, no matter how destructive.

MacLean argues that despite the rhetoric of Virginia school acolytes, shrinking big government is not really the point.

The #oligarchs require a government with tremendous new powers so that they can bypass the will of the people.
This, as MacLean points out, requires greatly #expanding #police #powers “to control the resultant popular anger.”
The spreading use of pre-emption by GOP-controlled state legislatures to suppress local progressive victories such as living wage ordinances is another example of the right’s #aggressive use of #state #power.

👉Could these right-wing capitalists allow private companies to fill #prisons with helpless citizens—or, more profitable still, right-less undocumented #immigrants? ☑️They could, and have.

👉Might they engineer a #retirement #crisis by moving Americans to inadequate 401(k)s? ☑️Done.

👉Take away the rights of consumers and workers to bring grievances to court by making them sign #forced #arbitration agreements? ☑️Check.

👉Gut #public #education to the point where ordinary people have such bleak prospects that they have no energy to fight back? ☑️Getting it done.

👉Would they even refuse children #clean #water? ☑️Actually, yes.

MacLean notes that in #Flint, Michigan, Americans got a taste of what the emerging oligarchy will look like — it tastes like #poisoned #water. There, the Koch-funded Mackinac Center pushed for legislation that would allow the governor to take control of communities facing emergency and put unelected managers in charge.
In Flint, one such manager switched the city’s water supply to a polluted river, but the Mackinac Center’s lobbyists ensured that the law was fortified by protections against lawsuits that poisoned inhabitants might bring. Tens of thousands of children were exposed to #lead, a substance known to cause serious health problems including brain damage.

Libertarian economist Tyler #Cowen has provided an economic #justification for this kind of #brutality, stating that where it is difficult to get clean water, private companies should take over and make people pay for it. “This includes giving them the right to cut off people who don’t—or can’t—pay their bills,” he explains.

To many this sounds grotesquely #inhumane, but it is a way of thinking that has deep roots in America.

In "Why I, Too, Am Not a Conservative" (2005), Buchanan considers the charge of #heartlessness made against the kind of classic liberal that he took himself to be.

MacLean interprets his discussion to mean that people who “failed to foresee and save money for their future needs” are to be treated, as Buchanan put it, “as #subordinate members of the species, akin to…#animals who are dependent.’”

Do you have your education, health care, and retirement personally funded against all possible exigencies?
Then that means #you.

https://www.ineteconomics.org/perspectives/blog/meet-the-economist-behind-the-one-percents-stealth-takeover-of-america

A World of Slaves:
Most Americans haven’t seen what’s coming.

Nancy MacLean notes that when the #Kochs’ control of the GOP kicked into high gear after the financial crisis of 2007-08, many were so stunned by the “shock-and-awe” tactics of #shutting #down government, #destroying #labor unions, and #rolling #back #services that meet citizens’ basic necessities that few realized that many leading the charge had been trained in economics at Virginia institutions, especially George Mason University.

Wasn’t it just a new, particularly vicious wave of partisan politics?
It wasn’t.

MacLean convincingly illustrates that it was something far more disturbing.
MacLean is not the only scholar to sound the alarm that the country is experiencing a #hostile #takeover that is well on its way to radically, and perhaps permanently, altering the society.

Peter #Temin, former head of the MIT economics department, INET grantee, and author of "The Vanishing Middle Class", as well as economist Gordon #Lafer of the University of Oregon and author of "The One Percent Solution", have provided eye-opening analyses of where America is headed and why.

MacLean adds another dimension to this dystopian big picture, acquainting us with what has been overlooked in the capitalist right wing’s playbook.

She observes, for example, that many liberals have missed the point of strategies like #privatization.

Efforts to “reform” #public #education and #Social #Security are not just about a preference for the private sector over the public sector, she argues. You can wrap your head around those, even if you don’t agree.

Instead, MacLean contends, the goal of these strategies is to radically alter power relations, #weakening pro-public forces and #enhancing the #lobbying #power and commitment of the corporations that take over public services and resources, thus advancing the plans to #dismantle #democracy and make way for a return to #oligarchy.

The majority will be held captive so that the wealthy can finally be free to do as they please, no matter how destructive.

MacLean argues that despite the rhetoric of Virginia school acolytes, shrinking big government is not really the point.

The #oligarchs require a government with tremendous new powers so that they can bypass the will of the people.
This, as MacLean points out, requires greatly #expanding #police #powers “to control the resultant popular anger.”
The spreading use of pre-emption by GOP-controlled state legislatures to suppress local progressive victories such as living wage ordinances is another example of the right’s #aggressive use of #state #power.

👉Could these right-wing capitalists allow private companies to fill #prisons with helpless citizens—or, more profitable still, right-less undocumented #immigrants? ☑️They could, and have.

👉Might they engineer a #retirement #crisis by moving Americans to inadequate 401(k)s? ☑️Done.

👉Take away the rights of consumers and workers to bring grievances to court by making them sign #forced #arbitration agreements? ☑️Check.

👉Gut #public #education to the point where ordinary people have such bleak prospects that they have no energy to fight back? ☑️Getting it done.

👉Would they even refuse children #clean #water? ☑️Actually, yes.

MacLean notes that in #Flint, Michigan, Americans got a taste of what the emerging oligarchy will look like — it tastes like #poisoned #water. There, the Koch-funded Mackinac Center pushed for legislation that would allow the governor to take control of communities facing emergency and put unelected managers in charge.
In Flint, one such manager switched the city’s water supply to a polluted river, but the Mackinac Center’s lobbyists ensured that the law was fortified by protections against lawsuits that poisoned inhabitants might bring. Tens of thousands of children were exposed to #lead, a substance known to cause serious health problems including brain damage.

Libertarian economist Tyler #Cowen has provided an economic #justification for this kind of #brutality, stating that where it is difficult to get clean water, private companies should take over and make people pay for it. “This includes giving them the right to cut off people who don’t—or can’t—pay their bills,” he explains.

To many this sounds grotesquely #inhumane, but it is a way of thinking that has deep roots in America.

In "Why I, Too, Am Not a Conservative" (2005), Buchanan considers the charge of #heartlessness made against the kind of classic liberal that he took himself to be.

MacLean interprets his discussion to mean that people who “failed to foresee and save money for their future needs” are to be treated, as Buchanan put it, “as #subordinate members of the species, akin to…#animals who are dependent.’”

Do you have your education, health care, and retirement personally funded against all possible exigencies?
Then that means #you.

https://www.ineteconomics.org/perspectives/blog/meet-the-economist-behind-the-one-percents-stealth-takeover-of-america

A World of Slaves:
Most Americans haven’t seen what’s coming.

Nancy MacLean notes that when the #Kochs’ control of the GOP kicked into high gear after the financial crisis of 2007-08, many were so stunned by the “shock-and-awe” tactics of #shutting #down government, #destroying #labor unions, and #rolling #back #services that meet citizens’ basic necessities that few realized that many leading the charge had been trained in economics at Virginia institutions, especially George Mason University.

Wasn’t it just a new, particularly vicious wave of partisan politics?
It wasn’t.

MacLean convincingly illustrates that it was something far more disturbing.
MacLean is not the only scholar to sound the alarm that the country is experiencing a #hostile #takeover that is well on its way to radically, and perhaps permanently, altering the society.

Peter #Temin, former head of the MIT economics department, INET grantee, and author of "The Vanishing Middle Class", as well as economist Gordon #Lafer of the University of Oregon and author of "The One Percent Solution", have provided eye-opening analyses of where America is headed and why.

MacLean adds another dimension to this dystopian big picture, acquainting us with what has been overlooked in the capitalist right wing’s playbook.

She observes, for example, that many liberals have missed the point of strategies like #privatization.

Efforts to “reform” #public #education and #Social #Security are not just about a preference for the private sector over the public sector, she argues. You can wrap your head around those, even if you don’t agree.

Instead, MacLean contends, the goal of these strategies is to radically alter power relations, #weakening pro-public forces and #enhancing the #lobbying #power and commitment of the corporations that take over public services and resources, thus advancing the plans to #dismantle #democracy and make way for a return to #oligarchy.

The majority will be held captive so that the wealthy can finally be free to do as they please, no matter how destructive.

MacLean argues that despite the rhetoric of Virginia school acolytes, shrinking big government is not really the point.

The #oligarchs require a government with tremendous new powers so that they can bypass the will of the people.
This, as MacLean points out, requires greatly #expanding #police #powers “to control the resultant popular anger.”
The spreading use of pre-emption by GOP-controlled state legislatures to suppress local progressive victories such as living wage ordinances is another example of the right’s #aggressive use of #state #power.

👉Could these right-wing capitalists allow private companies to fill #prisons with helpless citizens—or, more profitable still, right-less undocumented #immigrants? ☑️They could, and have.

👉Might they engineer a #retirement #crisis by moving Americans to inadequate 401(k)s? ☑️Done.

👉Take away the rights of consumers and workers to bring grievances to court by making them sign #forced #arbitration agreements? ☑️Check.

👉Gut #public #education to the point where ordinary people have such bleak prospects that they have no energy to fight back? ☑️Getting it done.

👉Would they even refuse children #clean #water? ☑️Actually, yes.

MacLean notes that in #Flint, Michigan, Americans got a taste of what the emerging oligarchy will look like — it tastes like #poisoned #water. There, the Koch-funded Mackinac Center pushed for legislation that would allow the governor to take control of communities facing emergency and put unelected managers in charge.
In Flint, one such manager switched the city’s water supply to a polluted river, but the Mackinac Center’s lobbyists ensured that the law was fortified by protections against lawsuits that poisoned inhabitants might bring. Tens of thousands of children were exposed to #lead, a substance known to cause serious health problems including brain damage.

Libertarian economist Tyler #Cowen has provided an economic #justification for this kind of #brutality, stating that where it is difficult to get clean water, private companies should take over and make people pay for it. “This includes giving them the right to cut off people who don’t—or can’t—pay their bills,” he explains.

To many this sounds grotesquely #inhumane, but it is a way of thinking that has deep roots in America.

In "Why I, Too, Am Not a Conservative" (2005), Buchanan considers the charge of #heartlessness made against the kind of classic liberal that he took himself to be.

MacLean interprets his discussion to mean that people who “failed to foresee and save money for their future needs” are to be treated, as Buchanan put it, “as #subordinate members of the species, akin to…#animals who are dependent.’”

Do you have your education, health care, and retirement personally funded against all possible exigencies?
Then that means #you.

https://www.ineteconomics.org/perspectives/blog/meet-the-economist-behind-the-one-percents-stealth-takeover-of-america

A World of Slaves:
Most Americans haven’t seen what’s coming.

Nancy MacLean notes that when the #Kochs’ control of the GOP kicked into high gear after the financial crisis of 2007-08, many were so stunned by the “shock-and-awe” tactics of #shutting #down government, #destroying #labor unions, and #rolling #back #services that meet citizens’ basic necessities that few realized that many leading the charge had been trained in economics at Virginia institutions, especially George Mason University.

Wasn’t it just a new, particularly vicious wave of partisan politics?
It wasn’t.

MacLean convincingly illustrates that it was something far more disturbing.
MacLean is not the only scholar to sound the alarm that the country is experiencing a #hostile #takeover that is well on its way to radically, and perhaps permanently, altering the society.

Peter #Temin, former head of the MIT economics department, INET grantee, and author of "The Vanishing Middle Class", as well as economist Gordon #Lafer of the University of Oregon and author of "The One Percent Solution", have provided eye-opening analyses of where America is headed and why.

MacLean adds another dimension to this dystopian big picture, acquainting us with what has been overlooked in the capitalist right wing’s playbook.

She observes, for example, that many liberals have missed the point of strategies like #privatization.

Efforts to “reform” #public #education and #Social #Security are not just about a preference for the private sector over the public sector, she argues. You can wrap your head around those, even if you don’t agree.

Instead, MacLean contends, the goal of these strategies is to radically alter power relations, #weakening pro-public forces and #enhancing the #lobbying #power and commitment of the corporations that take over public services and resources, thus advancing the plans to #dismantle #democracy and make way for a return to #oligarchy.

The majority will be held captive so that the wealthy can finally be free to do as they please, no matter how destructive.

MacLean argues that despite the rhetoric of Virginia school acolytes, shrinking big government is not really the point.

The #oligarchs require a government with tremendous new powers so that they can bypass the will of the people.
This, as MacLean points out, requires greatly #expanding #police #powers “to control the resultant popular anger.”
The spreading use of pre-emption by GOP-controlled state legislatures to suppress local progressive victories such as living wage ordinances is another example of the right’s #aggressive use of #state #power.

👉Could these right-wing capitalists allow private companies to fill #prisons with helpless citizens—or, more profitable still, right-less undocumented #immigrants? ☑️They could, and have.

👉Might they engineer a #retirement #crisis by moving Americans to inadequate 401(k)s? ☑️Done.

👉Take away the rights of consumers and workers to bring grievances to court by making them sign #forced #arbitration agreements? ☑️Check.

👉Gut #public #education to the point where ordinary people have such bleak prospects that they have no energy to fight back? ☑️Getting it done.

👉Would they even refuse children #clean #water? ☑️Actually, yes.

MacLean notes that in #Flint, Michigan, Americans got a taste of what the emerging oligarchy will look like — it tastes like #poisoned #water. There, the Koch-funded Mackinac Center pushed for legislation that would allow the governor to take control of communities facing emergency and put unelected managers in charge.
In Flint, one such manager switched the city’s water supply to a polluted river, but the Mackinac Center’s lobbyists ensured that the law was fortified by protections against lawsuits that poisoned inhabitants might bring. Tens of thousands of children were exposed to #lead, a substance known to cause serious health problems including brain damage.

Libertarian economist Tyler #Cowen has provided an economic #justification for this kind of #brutality, stating that where it is difficult to get clean water, private companies should take over and make people pay for it. “This includes giving them the right to cut off people who don’t—or can’t—pay their bills,” he explains.

To many this sounds grotesquely #inhumane, but it is a way of thinking that has deep roots in America.

In "Why I, Too, Am Not a Conservative" (2005), Buchanan considers the charge of #heartlessness made against the kind of classic liberal that he took himself to be.

MacLean interprets his discussion to mean that people who “failed to foresee and save money for their future needs” are to be treated, as Buchanan put it, “as #subordinate members of the species, akin to…#animals who are dependent.’”

Do you have your education, health care, and retirement personally funded against all possible exigencies?
Then that means #you.

https://www.ineteconomics.org/perspectives/blog/meet-the-economist-behind-the-one-percents-stealth-takeover-of-america

A World of Slaves:
Most Americans haven’t seen what’s coming.

Nancy MacLean notes that when the #Kochs’ control of the GOP kicked into high gear after the financial crisis of 2007-08, many were so stunned by the “shock-and-awe” tactics of #shutting #down government, #destroying #labor unions, and #rolling #back #services that meet citizens’ basic necessities that few realized that many leading the charge had been trained in economics at Virginia institutions, especially George Mason University.

Wasn’t it just a new, particularly vicious wave of partisan politics?
It wasn’t.

MacLean convincingly illustrates that it was something far more disturbing.
MacLean is not the only scholar to sound the alarm that the country is experiencing a #hostile #takeover that is well on its way to radically, and perhaps permanently, altering the society.

Peter #Temin, former head of the MIT economics department, INET grantee, and author of "The Vanishing Middle Class", as well as economist Gordon #Lafer of the University of Oregon and author of "The One Percent Solution", have provided eye-opening analyses of where America is headed and why.

MacLean adds another dimension to this dystopian big picture, acquainting us with what has been overlooked in the capitalist right wing’s playbook.

She observes, for example, that many liberals have missed the point of strategies like #privatization.

Efforts to “reform” #public #education and #Social #Security are not just about a preference for the private sector over the public sector, she argues. You can wrap your head around those, even if you don’t agree.

Instead, MacLean contends, the goal of these strategies is to radically alter power relations, #weakening pro-public forces and #enhancing the #lobbying #power and commitment of the corporations that take over public services and resources, thus advancing the plans to #dismantle #democracy and make way for a return to #oligarchy.

The majority will be held captive so that the wealthy can finally be free to do as they please, no matter how destructive.

MacLean argues that despite the rhetoric of Virginia school acolytes, shrinking big government is not really the point.

The #oligarchs require a government with tremendous new powers so that they can bypass the will of the people.
This, as MacLean points out, requires greatly #expanding #police #powers “to control the resultant popular anger.”
The spreading use of pre-emption by GOP-controlled state legislatures to suppress local progressive victories such as living wage ordinances is another example of the right’s #aggressive use of #state #power.

👉Could these right-wing capitalists allow private companies to fill #prisons with helpless citizens—or, more profitable still, right-less undocumented #immigrants? ☑️They could, and have.

👉Might they engineer a #retirement #crisis by moving Americans to inadequate 401(k)s? ☑️Done.

👉Take away the rights of consumers and workers to bring grievances to court by making them sign #forced #arbitration agreements? ☑️Check.

👉Gut #public #education to the point where ordinary people have such bleak prospects that they have no energy to fight back? ☑️Getting it done.

👉Would they even refuse children #clean #water? ☑️Actually, yes.

MacLean notes that in #Flint, Michigan, Americans got a taste of what the emerging oligarchy will look like — it tastes like #poisoned #water. There, the Koch-funded Mackinac Center pushed for legislation that would allow the governor to take control of communities facing emergency and put unelected managers in charge.
In Flint, one such manager switched the city’s water supply to a polluted river, but the Mackinac Center’s lobbyists ensured that the law was fortified by protections against lawsuits that poisoned inhabitants might bring. Tens of thousands of children were exposed to #lead, a substance known to cause serious health problems including brain damage.

Libertarian economist Tyler #Cowen has provided an economic #justification for this kind of #brutality, stating that where it is difficult to get clean water, private companies should take over and make people pay for it. “This includes giving them the right to cut off people who don’t—or can’t—pay their bills,” he explains.

To many this sounds grotesquely #inhumane, but it is a way of thinking that has deep roots in America.

In "Why I, Too, Am Not a Conservative" (2005), Buchanan considers the charge of #heartlessness made against the kind of classic liberal that he took himself to be.

MacLean interprets his discussion to mean that people who “failed to foresee and save money for their future needs” are to be treated, as Buchanan put it, “as #subordinate members of the species, akin to…#animals who are dependent.’”

Do you have your education, health care, and retirement personally funded against all possible exigencies?
Then that means #you.

https://www.ineteconomics.org/perspectives/blog/meet-the-economist-behind-the-one-percents-stealth-takeover-of-america

Rolling Releases - irgendwann hat es sich ausgerollt

These: Rolling-Release-Modelle verlottern nach einer gewissen Zeit. Insbesondere bei Anwender:innen, die ihre Distro engagiert konfigurieren.

#Releases #Rolling #Rolling_Release #LTS #Konfiguration #Linux

https://gnulinux.ch/rolling-releases-ausgerollt

When #snow is piled from car road clearing, blocking #walking, #cycling & #rolling, sending your city info is needed. #Equity. Children, non-drivers, people getting places outside of a car need to have their needs met too.
This is the multi-use tunnel at 33rd St and 9th Ave N in #Saskatoon, which links North Park & City Park. Major active travel route to downtown & schools.
Every person not driving is one less car on the road. Which is good for everyone.
#SnowRemoval #yxe #driving #urbanism

GLN025 - Android Launcher, Faster Faster Faster, Linux Smartphones, Kopano

Shownotes der Folge 25 des GnuLinuxNews-Podcasts

#Podcast #GLN-Podcast #GLN #App-Launcher #Launcher #Distributionen #Linux-Smartphones #Rolling-Release #Kopano #Groupware

https://gnulinux.ch/gln025-podcast

Kaisen Linux è una distribuzione desktop basata su Debian a rilascio progressivom ovvero una rolling realase.
Il progetto ha come scopo quello di essere utile per i professionisti IT. Da poco è uscita una nuova versione la 2.1.

A questo link troverete le relative note di rilascio: https://kaisenlinux.org/blog/kaisenlinuxrolling2.1.php

Sito del progetto:
https://kaisenlinux.org/

#Debian #gnulinux #Linux #aptget #deb #synaptic #fork #news #rolling #distro