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BodyBySisyphus
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If you wanted, you could argue it from a purely technocratic perspective and say, sure, the lack of state funding for colleges made college less affordable, but there was still the implicit promise that if you took out loans to finance your education and that education didn't make you financially better off, the state would reassume the burden. In fact, the affordability crisis might have gotten attention sooner if it did lead to a lot of bankruptcies because the federal government would suddenly be out a lot of money and it would be incentivized to pressure states to keep costs down.
Focus the conversation on Joe's decision to remove bankruptcy protections, because that's the issue - there was a safety valve (that most likely sucked, but it was at least there) where borrowers could get relief, Joe took that valve away, and that has allowed the problem to fester far beyond the measures he's taken to ameliorate it.
Calls for genocide, looting, women's underwear obsession
POV: you just pledged to the psychotic ethnostate frat.
Counterpoint: What reasonable person would think "Oh gee, I need to make sure my business isn't too close to a church for it to sell alcohol." What, are all the little old Mormon ladies going to get drunk on the wine vapor wafting across the street?
That's really funny, he turned the idea of a Faustian bargain completely on its head.
Please please please do one on the health benefits of adrenocrome next week, please I have been a loyal and steadfast servant of chaos and this is all I want now
Oh, that's funny - is white nationalism running around with the idea that deals with the devil are actually awesome?
Can't tell if I'm too young to understand this or too old to understand this
The fuck is Faustian individualism? The climax of Faust is him realizing he fucked up when the devil comes to collect.
Building out public transportation to organically reduce demand for personal vehicles, even electric ones, which are still less GHG efficient than trains or buses 
Passing laws calling electric cars "a pretty nifty doodad that'd be a smart fetch for a right-thinking man about town" 
Slightly older interview with the Indian writer Amitav Ghosh. He points out that a lot of anxiety over climate change is related to anxiety over the end of Western dominance, because the tropics are already experiencing climate driven catastrophe on top of the damage done by colonialism:
The West has also come to rely on what Ghosh calls "an expert discourse" from scientists. The result, he believes, is that science is giving fearful westerners a hope in business-friendly "sustainable development," biofuels, or carbon-capture technology, which they think will save the system before it collapses.
The alternative, a massive-scale economic adaptation to a new distribution of resources, is too scary to consider: The end of capitalism would be as bad as the end of the world.
"The people who saw the climate crisis first are at the absolute other end: farmers, fishermen, Inuit, indigenous peoples, forest peoples in India, and they've already had to adapt, mainly by moving, finding new livelihoods," says Ghosh. "And indigenous peoples have already lived through the end of the world and found ways to survive."
It's a grim sort of optimism, but it is a reminder that there are opportunities to adapt and persist if we don't push our biosphere to the point of collapse in an effort to maintain a failed system. We're not going to do that, right? 
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Florida Legislature Considering Bills Banning Production and Sale of Cell Cultured Meat
(www.foodandwine.com)
From this post: https://hexbear.net/post/2063160. The whole comments thread is gold, this guy is on a reply streak.
Someone get him on the lathe, let's see more CEOs getting held personally liable.
Also, bonus points that this guy can take time away from his busy day of running a company to post on IGN comment threads, really speaks to the important work he's doing.
Another Beany Tuesday classic and a must-add after he surfaced in real life here: https://hexbear.net/post/2021804?scrollToComments=false
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Not to get too into the weeds here - I honestly don't care about the specifics because the regulation is dumb theocratic NIMBYism and I doubt the commission goes out of its way to make it clear - but the proximity is just vaguely listed as something DABS is required to consider. Neither information on their website nor the regulation itself has a distance measurement.
Of all the things you can dunk on a business for, this one seems weird and nitpicky.