Skip Navigation
The boomer generation hit the economic jackpot. Young people will inherit their massive debts.
  • Regardless of the electoral politics, as Chris notes, the important challenge in social policy is helping people who won’t benefit from wealth transfers from wealthy relatives, rather than engaging in fantasies about “generational warfare”. What matters is not generations, but class.

  • 24 September 2024
  • 'Is it bigger or smaller than a breadbox' was a common question in games of 20 Questions and stuff when I was a kid, although I'm not sure why or where from originally (a game show I think?)

    So yeah here instead of a bread box it's a Bread Box factory and the thing being compared is also really really big

    E: yeah a game show https://boards.straightdope.com/t/origin-of-is-it-bigger-than-a-breadbox/245317

  • She was accused of murder after losing her pregnancy. SC woman now tells her story
  • While this prosecution was completely fucked up and was 100% linked to the criminalisation of abortion (and therefore miscarriages and pregnancy in general), the issue was that following the traumatic premature birth she didn't immediately remove the baby from the toilet

    Moving north wouldn't have helped on paper, as the alleged crime of letting your baby drown is still illegal

    That said, possibly a more progressive state might have had the good sense to not prosecute or even treat this as a criminal matter. On the other hand, the DA where this happened was a Democrat according to the article

    A grand jury declined to indict her, so it ended 'okay', apart from all the unnecessary additional horrific trauma inflicted on a grieving mother and being a harrowing sign of dark repressive times

  • 'All good here': Last messages revealed from Titan submersible before implosion: Coast Guard
  • There was a really good article on this and unfortunately I can't find it now to share

    But the gist was that Titan exploited a bunch of loopholes, among other things. The paying customers on the sub were in fact 'marine researchers' who coincidently made a donation, and things like that

    Some of the people who were at one point involved but left due to safety concerns raised the issue with OSHA (? - or whoever the more specific body was) who repeatedly failed to investigate or take any action

    So for me, whether or not they are able to charge the company, the industry regulators and government bodies overseeing them need to face some questions and judgements too (though it would take a more knowledgeable person than me to know what exactly that looks like)

  • Cemetery Staffer Declines To Press Charges For Fear Of Retaliation
  • In the UK, you can't decide whether to 'press charges' or not, the decision is the CPS's.

    But in practice, saying you aren't interested in pursuing a conviction often ends it, because:

    1 - the prosecution must be 'in the public good' which is undermined if the victim isn't interested

    2 - a lot of the time the testimony and cooperation of the victim is key to the prosecution case

    3 - the system is horribly underfunded so if they can justify dropping it they will

  • Rudy Giuliani handed $331,000 bill in bankruptcy case
  • I read in the paper today that a bankruptcy court is going to take 40% of Katie Price's OnlyFans income

    When i saw this headline my brain skipped to Rudy Giuliani's OnlyFans income

    Has Rudy Giuliani considered OnlyFans?

  • What are some pod casts worth checking out and why?
  • I'd like to recommend The Trojan Horse Affair. Its a limited series and a few years old now, but a a really interesting listen

    Its about the scandal in the UK in 2013, where an anonymous letter 'exposed' an Islamist conspiracy in Birmingham schools to radicalise children.

    The investigation in the podcast is helmed by two people; a rookie journalism grad who is muslim, and an experienced white journalist. The contrast in perspectives and emotion between them adds to it

    And yeah it'll probably make you angry, and for those not in the UK it might key you in a bit on the tensions that do and don't exist with British Muslims, how they're viewed and treated by lots of parties here (including the Government)

  • MAGA Republican says anyone who didn't vote for her is a "fa***t" after losing primary
  • “Yes, I lost this election, but I’m young, beautiful, and rich as f**k,” she concluded. She lost her job at Purina dog food over her extreme rhetoric and her campaign was unable to purchase ads.

    She came 6th. Its funny, but I think she was never a real candidate and hasn't learned anything

  • InitialsDiceBearhttps://github.com/dicebear/dicebearhttps://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/„Initials” (https://github.com/dicebear/dicebear) by „DiceBear”, licensed under „CC0 1.0” (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)KE
    Kellamity @sh.itjust.works
    Posts 0
    Comments 88