Skip the fries and get red beans and rice with your chicken. It’s surprisingly good for fast food.

Doesn’t look like the same guy to me.

Because one school will be better than the other. Most likely the private school, because they charge money for parents to send their kids there in addition to the money they (unfairly) get from the government. So families with more money are more likely to send a kid to private school, which immediately creates social stratification between the private school kids and the public school kids.

The private school kids will perceive this inequity, even subconsciously, and internalize that they are better than the public school kids on some level. Often the private schools are religious too which is another can of worms.

I could keep going but I think that’s enough to get the point. Private schools shouldn’t exist. All the money given to them should be given to public schools so they are better for every kid no matter how much money their parents make.

In many such cases the lobbying group actually writes the law, the congressperson just signs it.

I’m not having any luck searching for it. I read about it a few days ago, sorry.

I realized in my search that I wasn’t even aware of the two games that came out on PlayStation.

Cigna has a new policy, starting 2025, that you can only get your medications covered at either CVS or Walgreens. Not both. So now I have to move two prescriptions to CVS which is way farther away and I prefer Walgreens. This Walgreens is always out of stock on two of my prescriptions, so they forced my hand.

They didn’t even send a letter, just an email about it. A bunch of people are going to get a very expensive surprise.

I know it’s not on the level of murder, I’m just kinda surprised they went through with it after what happened.

Any time this happens it leads to greater social stratification.

I would. I’ll ask him. But he’s not much of a reader. He was there teaching art. What kind of books are you looking for?

Oh and he’s American. He just moved to Shanghai for about three years to teach. His Mandarin is decent but not fantastic. But what can I say, I don’t speak a word of it myself.

That movie was so good.

jaybone figured it out in a comment right above this, and won the bounty.

It was actually called Chopper Commando.

Hell yeah I’ll wreck some sardines. I also like fried spam with rice. I like most canned meats really. I LOVE corned beef hash from a can. I fried some up with eggs for dinner just a couple days ago.

I’d never heard of the bird cage economy idea, I’ll definitely look into it.

Sure, the offshoring was all but inevitable due to capitalism. I’m just wishing pointlessly.

China is doing great on renewables and bringing prices down for the world. At least until the ridiculous tariffs start up.

I misunderstood. I thought you were saying it’s a real thing rather than discussing the idea. Thanks!

Haha fair enough! Love it.

No, but I love all three strike games. There’s a new one coming out and I’m excited!

That’s brilliant, you’re hilarious.

Hire him apparently.

Holy shit you got it! Chopper Commando is the one! You won the bounty - PM incoming. The others look fun by the way.

Wings of Fury looks intense. I’m going to try to emulate all of these. Maybe even try to get a controller working for them.

No, we shouldn’t, but that’s what is happening.

And yes, I agree.

I’m glad we’re kind of on the same page about Mao. What do you think about the rest of my comment though? Modern China seems like a capitalist country in a communist hat to me. Which comes back to the beginning of the debate about the US giving away all its production to a ML nation.

Don’t get me wrong, I very much wish America didn’t offshore everything. If they hadn’t, it would be good for inequality and better for the climate.