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It's by design: https://newatlas.com/bicycles/two-chain-buffalo-bike

The idea is that if you lose one chain, you can keep riding till you get somewhere that you can get it fixed. In places where infrastructure is iffy, this could be a life-or-death feature.

Line this up with the recent article about how the (very modest) capital gains tax isn't returning as much as was expected.

I think we can ramp up taxes on the wealthy a little more.

Of course, some of them will cry and threaten to leave. Let them go, someone else will step in and do what they do for less money. Keep in mind, these people do not, by and large, add value--quite the reverse, they skim off the value everyone else adds through their labour.

When they cry about a brain drain, let them. Don't be afraid to throw in a "don't let the door hit you on the ass", too.

I miss Tom Mulcair. He really was very good, but apparently people thought he was "angry" or somesuch nonsense.

And now we have petulant Millhouse as our next potential PM. Tell me about "angry Tom", again?

You know why we're at this stage?

Because citizens are sick and tired of being abused by criminals, and they're doubly sick of being told they should feel compassion for the people who steal their stuff, break into their businesses, assault them and/or spoil every park and public space.

Sure, we shouldn't do this specifically. But we should do something (housing, healthcare and--this is the unpleasant one--humanely incarcerating people who are an immediate harm to others and themselves) because doing nothing is going to eventually get us an electorate who will vote for Duterte-style methods.

Voluntary treatment sounds terrible to people who's goal is to help addicts, but literally everyone else doesn't care. They just want to stop being victimized, and telling them that it doesn't really work as well, well, it doesn't matter.

What's extra depressing is I'm sure governments won't spend money on this, either, since the problems of drug crime don't really affect rich people, the taxes needed to pay for a solution--housing, healthcare or incarceration--aren't something they'll pay.

It’s crab-bucket public relations.

If you drag everyone down to your level, everyone looks bad, or at least you don’t look as bad by comparison and the voting public loses confidence in the system in general, which tends to benefit fascists.

It sadly doesn't quite work right on KDE. You can get close: you can show an application launcher, or a exposé-like window overview, or a pager, but you can't show all of them at once in a way that's easy to work with between like Gnome does.

Heck, even Gnome regressed Gnome 40, as you don't get the vertical desktop overview any more. At least there's shell extensions that let me get Gnome 3's behaviour back.

It's a real pity, because I like KDE, and definitely the KDE apps, more, but the Super-key overview is no hard to quit.

Aren't these things trackable? Don't phones have an IMEI and can't they be remote-bricked if stolen?

I mean, police don't care, but Apple could render these useless if they wanted to.

The only reason I don't use KDE is because it doesn't do the super-key expose/dash/overview like Gnome.

Set phasers to burrrrrrrrn.

A better idea is to do to the Democratic Party what the Tea Party and MAGA did to the Republicans.

Primary out corporate candidates and push for progressive ones at every level. President, congressional rep, school board trustee, dog-catcher: it doesn't matter.

The problem progressive voters have is that they don't show up, and the especially don't show up during off years, in primaries and in down-ballot races. The polticial right, by comparison, has been getting people in place on small races for years.

Sanders did more for progressivism by enthusing Democratic members to vote in primaries and down-ballot races than Stein or any third party has ever done, and we're seeing results. It needs to continue.

If you thought Viagra and Ozempic had a market, just wait...

This will be huge amongst the wealthy.

Jesus Christ, if that's real, the WaPo editorial board needs a slap upside the head.

Stop. Rationalizing. Trump.