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There are, reportedly, many more making the pilgrimage without the permit to be authorized than previously…

And what’s the answer why they aren’t prepared for people who break their rules? Couldn’t be that those permits cost hella money for those people, and the price isn’t exactly a “halal” thing… could it?

Taking one right out of the Vatican’s earlier edition of the playbook I see.

I mean, its effective in its spread and ability to gain momentum at every opportunity, so its benefiting a select few at the moment, but…

Just like cutting costs and underfunding upkeep of a business “makes” money until there is nothing left, if conservativism reaches a broad enough population like it intends to, it will eventually backfire. Cause unlike a company you can just leave/divest from, you can’t just up and leave the world (yet) for greener pastures.

Hopefully we don’t have to wait until the earth has nothing left to give, and instead finally eat enough of the rich that they can’t make a comeback… hopefully

I mean, its not really. Unless you consider MBA’s to be clever… incredibly shortsighted regardless of how conservative a person is if you ask me.

That last bit hits home… hard

I’m often on the opposite side of your cashier experience.

For me personally, I appreciate the polite gesture and understand the automatic nature it can be for some, especially southerners. So unless I can tell that I’m being “sir’d” with someone who has clocked me and wants to show their smoothbrain, then I don’t care much.

That said, I like the general idea of treating everyone with a nonconfrontational politeness, so I’ve been replacing formal pronouns with chief, coach, Bud, comrade, etc. Its ended up being even more disarming for most, and has a nice side effect of reducing the amount that I get misgendered.

Hope it helps, Have a great day chief!

Hexagons are Bestagons!

I like the cut of his jib, just never connected with any projects of his really.

Do I sense another follower of the man I adopted as my new dad - Adam Savage?

Depending on the amount of different pills you have, something I did for 2 family members might work. Between the 2 of them, there were 22~25 Actual prescriptions, and they both insisted upon a suppliment regimen of about 25 more pills.

I bought them a screw/nail/bolt organizer drawer set from Harbour Frieght, and used a System of a few colors to label the drawer front with what pill and dose was in it, and who takes it&what time of day. The biggest help ended up being the lack of constantly messing with lids, bulk purchasing was much easier and saved a fair amount of money, and being able to see what was low.

Although I lost one of them last month (my Mom) too early, she often praised it for how much time it saved, and my other family member is in her mid 80’s and still keeps the regimen, supplinents and all.

The bigger drawer stacks may be too much, but I’d suggest looking in that area of products for something sized right. Planning out more than the 3/5/7 days of meds at one time is often half spent opening bottles and the mess many can make. (ノ°益°)ノ

As I anticipated, I’ve yet to find a replacement for most of the things I enjoyed from Tom.

My source of uniquely emoted monologues of the British persuasion is often somewhat filled by “Lost in the Pond”.

My engineering/hardware fix is a mix of many channels, a “newer” channel some may not yet know would be “Inheritance Machinery”

Funky Art projects/style has lately been Ali Spangola, she’s a real hoot

Unique Items of a vaguely educational nature would be Objectivity as well as Steve Mould

And Gameshows and the like from DropoutTv, thoughve I’ve yet to find anything like CitationNeeded.

Tom’s a hard guy to replace, but thats not really something I’ve tried to do anyways. I just get my fixes from many youtubers who also provide unique and wonderful content too.

And measure that was temporary from the very beginning, yet still resulted in contributing to increases in the cost of living everywhere.

Sure. Until landlords realize they can raise their rent without losing tenants. Or insurance companies. Or grocery distributors. I doubt this works without other laws and policies needing to go into effect beforehand.

It would be good to know how this works on a larger scale. Like, everyone in a city or county having UBI and watching to see what society and the local economy as a whole does in response.

If capitalism must persist, then this is the most reasonable suggestion. And it will persist so long as everyone is distracted or run down enough to lack the hope for change.

Any general effects you’ve noticed?

Given the older population’s proclivity to vote against the best interests of the next generations in hopes of finally lucking into that American Dream…

Sure, but lets just set a cap not dependent on housing situation.

Maths, because its maths all the way down/up.

I don’t think they’re going to recover at this point.

solo sorry, couldn’t help myself

Thats exactly what it is ¯_(ツ)_/¯

Exactly.

Nobody gets through life alone, and for fucking sure, nobody succeeds in life without the help of many many others.

If the way we measured success ever gets any further from the way the “universe” does, we’ll never fuck again and all these piles people have will just rot away. Capitalism is soooooo grody

I didn’t say he was an ideal vessel. He’s just managed to somehow be cool(?)er than they are with the population, and they benefit still. I don’t mean like some illuminati type BS, just a matter of happy coincidences, and a few convenient occasional suggestions I’d imagine. Oh, and money.

Besides, the amount he’s defrauded is essentially chump change once you consider insurance and assets etc.