Vasectomy if you don’t plan on having kids. Also consider mental healthcare. Everybody could use a little bit now and then.

I’ve explained elsewhere why the first two happened. The third was in large part due to the US blockade of Cuba.

Star Wars might as well get in on the suit.

Probably Toei animation as well.

All I can say is that the host of behind the bastards is an excellent journalist who does thorough research before each episode. I don’t have any expertise in this topic, but in other episodes where I am knowledgeable his research has been accurate.

Anything from Rusty is always good stuff!

Considering Chrysler stopped making sedans in 2016 and Ford stopped in 2018, I think they were well aware how far China was ahead. They didn’t even bother trying to compete and just make cars for people who will take the longest to make the switch to electric.

That death toll also includes China who also used Lysenko’s fake farming techniques. Russia didn’t want to admit their plan wasn’t working and China didn’t want to admit they were failing using the method that supposedly worked so well in Russia. Farmers reporting low crop yields in both countries were blamed and accused of hiding food for themselves. The deaths definitely fall on a lot of shoulders, but at its heart was Lyselko convincing the government to use his plan with false data and continuing that lie even after he knew it wasn’t working.

Communism didn’t kill the people so much as Stalin’s habit of killing people who disappointed or disagreed with him led to massive falsification of scientific data and crop yields.

I just got done listening to an old Behind the Bastards about Trofim Lysenko who was a Soviet scientist whose job it was to increase crop yield. He ignored Darwinian evolution in favor of a type of Lamarckian evolution that fit better with Stalin’s politics. This involved planting massive amounts of seeds per acre with the idea that the seeds would help each other grow better. He falsified his data to show that this worked and in the long run led to the starvation of 30 million people.

I don’t mean to criticize communism by mentioning this. Certainly capitalism has shown the same adherence to ideology in spite of evidence with climate change. I just think it was an interesting bit of history in light of the post which is actually good agricultural science they also fits with collectivist thought.

Manos: The Hands of Fate snubbed again

To protect their young would be my guess.

We need an ad tax. Whatever percent of revenue the company spends on advertising, they need to pay the same in a tax. That would punish the industries that advertise the most aggressively.

I mean, the server is a victim too, aren’t they? I would be horrified if something so simple I did killed someone.

While I agree service jobs deserve a lot more pay and better training, it just isn’t fair to put a person’s literal life in the hands of someone who just signed up to serve coffee. They didn’t sign up for that responsibility.

I’m sorry, but it is entirely unreasonable to put whether or not you live or die in the hands of a minimum wage service worker. If a sip of milk or a bit of egg would kill you, you need to prepare your own food.

And you can even fry an egg on the battery at the same time!

Definitely. She’s smart enough to play dumb to get what she wants.

4 week board and train program. It cost $4500.

Our standard poodle is a rescue that was heavily abused by her previous owner. She would get scared and bite. I figured the training would be cheaper than a lawsuit. It’s made a HUGE difference in her behavior.

The company pays dividends. You make money if the company succeeds, which is why stock was created in the first place.

The way it originally had value. You are loaning the company money and betting they are successful enough to pay you back with dividends.