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  The article was mostly talking about how manufacturing has changed, becoming less blue collar and more white collar. Far far fewer people are employed at higher salaries due to automation (robots). So manufacturing can't support entire towns like it used to. Plus what we manufacture has changed - it's much more high end, high value products.

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  🤨🤔😐You win this round, smartarse!

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  Dems had a supermajority. They enjoyed widespread public support. Sarah palin made the loony right look pathetic. Obama was never afraid to overuse executive orders either - dems had a lot of levers to pull and a lot of leverage to pull them. If they'd investigated the rampant illegality, that would've been very hard for a post-loss republican party engaged in in-fighting to defend against. A new generation of republican hopefuls would've been tempted to get air time by twisting...

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  Cardamom rich coffee Night blooming cereus The smell of my best friend from back at uni - patchouli, henna and well-cared-for dreds. Burning Xanthorrhea trunk - the australian grass tree that acts like a firelighter.

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  It's not real. A delivery person wouldn't get to the door of the oval office. And almost certainly an aide grabs the bag, though the fast food delivery obsessions is partly about security paranoia, so maybe he is paranoid enough to grab the bag.

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  This is for shitposting, not whingeposting.

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  I mean they kinda are. It’s called hospice and it’s when they break open the good shit.

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  Mitochondria are so much more than that! They have the ability to kill the cell as well as provide power, they can communicate and transfer resources to other mitochondria, and they might be one of the reasons that organisms need sleep. I heard a science communicator suggest that in some senses, we might just exist to serve the needs of our mitochondria.

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  It has 20 hit points?

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  Literally word for word my first thought.

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  I don't think it's wise to believe tech oligarchs saying that orwellian surveillance tech cannot be exploited for orwellian surveillance. Besides companies can just require employees to opt in - "we just built this fresh horror, how companies use it is up to them" doesn't really fly.