Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't part of the problem that the auto industry wants to chase the higher profit margins on larger vehicles? As long as the perverse incentive is present it's going to be an uphill battle to get them to produce more compact, cost effective cars.

Comedy gold, except for everyone who has to try and shop at a Walgreens.

My parents, who were both public school teachers, saw this coming well over a decade ago. They've seen the slow strangulation of the public school system as a basic inevitability ever since the Bush Admin. I'm not gonna go out of my way to defend the current schooling system as without issues, it's DEEPLY flawed, particularly in how funds are allocated and how it handles children with developmental disorders/neurodivergences. However, handing everything over to for-profit groups who will have no interest in promoting the public good over making ever greater profits, is NOT the answer. Watching this happen in my own state at the same time leaves me sick.

Happy to see Apothecary Diaries so doing so well. It really deserves every bit of attention.

Proof of the value of looking beyond the most base layer of news. You'll make it easy to be fed a narrative that fits the elites worldview.

Thanks for including the explanation. Well, that gives a small ray of hope I suppose? Things haven't ALREADY collapsed.

Thank goodness that unimportant side-character, who definitely won't end up being important later on, was there to catch the kitten for her! So glad to have this series back on-air, I just love the nice mixture of small little mysteries, intrigue, and Maomao's selective obliviousness.

Yeah I had a huge laugh, this is just gonna suck for the people who get suckered into it.

Yes, and it's an absolute TORTURE. I can't say I have any good advice other than maybe trying to structure things so you are forced to get around to it. Or just embrace the fact that you're flighty and jump from one thing to another. Anyways, I should stop scrolling lemmy and finish that book I started last month.

Funny how convergent evolution works sometimes.

Black Beans, Yogurt (a truly ungodly amount), rice, cheese, and red lentils. I've been trying to cut back on meat consumption last year, it didn't work perfectly but I've made a dent and reaped some health benefits from it too. I'd highly recommend you all try to get more beans in your diet, I've become quite the evangelist for legumes this year.

Our society already does effectively nothing to reconcile people's conflicting schedules. Nor did it attempt to resolve this before the rise of the dual income household. You can see this is in the amount of media that portrays children's trauma from fathers that are "too busy" being a breadwinner to be present in their life. Children want, and NEED all members of their family involved in their life. So I don't think that the rise of women in the workforce deprived families in any unique way. Instead, I'd argue that it simply divided that neglect between two people. It's not "good enough" to have one parent there 24/7 and another who exists to put food on their table and otherwise barely exists in their social life. They need to interact with their father, with their mother, with their uncles, aunts and grandparents. It's simply rational socialization. I think there is a legitimate argument to be made for a "max workhours per household" instead of per person, instead of trying to divide households into a labourer at home and a labourer at large.

You are not supposed to downvote "unpopular opinions" because you disagree with them folks. That is not how this sub is supposed to work. OP posted a legitimately unpopular opinion, tell him why he's wrong or upvote responses that disagree, don't downvote him.

For my two cents OP, I think you have a point about more time needing to be devoted to child rearing. But I disagree that it needs to be a specific parent. If you reduce both parents workload enough to let them balance life responsibilities that's actually BETTER than letting one parent take up all the slack. We require simply TOO much labor from EVERYONE, it's totally unnecessary and wasteful and it's part of what leads to our culture of burnout.

Stands for "Dual Income No Kids".

I think they will "obey" but it will cost Trump an enormous amount of political capital. Any trouble at all in a war like that, any serious insurgency or international blowback, will have an outsized effect on public perception. Americans DO NOT like foreign wars, it's weirdly part of what got trump elected, frustration with neo-liberal interventionism is an often overlooked element of his bases sense of grievance.

Realistically, do we believe he'll make a serious attempt at taking control over these by force? Or is this just bluster? I'm starting to believe he may be legitimately intending to make a move for this territory, and frankly, I don't think there are forces that would have the interest, or capability to oppose him. Too much of the global community has been browbeat into aligning with US interests. That for them to make a clean break, or even directly oppose the US is not a realistic expectation. I could easily see them folding to these sorts of demands, and that worries me.

I have hopes for this, I haven't been able to really sink into a nice comfy anime in a while, so maybe this will scratch the itch.

For a LOT of them it's just inertia and a handful of comfort channels. This is the way it is with my parents. They spend 90% of the time watching streaming, BUT, what if they needed to watch something on cable! So the subscription keeps going, even though it's long outlived practicality.

Why would he call it a religion? Is it just bitterness over getting disagreed with?

Genuinely? I've reported multiple thefts over the years, never had any of it returned. Had to get a bike that was stolen from me (with my full name engraved) back by literally stealing it back from the person I knew stole it in the first place.