Compulsory but severely underfunded.

And many of the more right wing religious people lean towards homeschooling, in which they can tailor to what they want their kids to learn (and more damaging) what they don’t want their kids to learn about.

That reminds me, isn’t his sentencing coming up in a couple of weeks?

At some point it becomes impossible to tell what is something Trump really believes and might actually do versus what is just blowing smoke, blatant lying, a thing that contradicts another thing he said, or something he forgot he said.

People who voted Harris did so because they either thought some other issue was more important or just didn’t care.

Or realized that Trump would be far worse for the Palestinians than any Democrat has ever been.

I guess Trump won’t see consequences,

Probably not given his age, diet, and general level of fitness.

And even if he does live that long, I doubt he will remember it given his clearly declining mental health.

In a bad economy, no one cares about your politics

That’s no excuse for electing someone whose stated policies and politics will fuck the economy even further and faster.

We might see censorship and destruction of art but information will survive internationally.

As well as imprisoning of people spreading information and making art that the regime doesn’t like.

Or copyright.

Whether honest or not, copyright claims are a very powerful tool to take stuff down now, and fight about restoring it later.

I’ll have to take your word for that.

I have no interest in using either platform.

And they dont work with gloves when it’s cold.

They should never have been allowed in the first place

Republicans, they’re not sending their best.

That’s been pretty clear for a few decades.

I’m hoping he can burn both to the ground

99% of everything I have ever seen on Threads is pure distilled engagement bait,

That sounds exactly like XTwitter…

In most states, it’s legal to walk around toppless.

However that doesn’t atop some Karen type from calling the police to come and harass you. And there’s no guarantee the cop that shows up won’t decide you are disturbing the peace or something.

Nor does it stop immature bros from being idiots about it and making the person feel unsafe.

The risk of the payment system getting shut down and people being unable to make payments for a while is real. And it is one good reason to be less reliant on digital payments.

Exactly.

Part of the card processing system goes down often enough due to various technical failures that it should just be good business sense to always be capable of accepting cash.

Stores where I live have had to go cash only a few times a year when one or another issues shuts down their ability to accept cards.

You would think any functioning capitalist would have a backup method of taking your money.

And who carries enough cash around to be useful any more?

I do. Maybe not physically in my pocket, but between my wallet and my home there’s enough cash to buy a tank of gas and a few days of groceries.

Parts of the debit/credit processing system are fragile enough that I’ve seen them down randomly for signifigant portions of a day.

Cash has got me food when other people have been stuck without the ability to pay more than once in the last couple of years.

Rich countries tend to have better functioning waste collection and disposal services.

These days it is a lot better, but it wasn’t always that way.

If anything he’s being a bit generous.