kent_eh

'It used to be this and I want it to be this way, hold my hand for an hour while telling me its not this way anymore

Yeah, but that already happens every time Microsoft does a major version "upgrade".

Embrace, extend, extinguish will accelerate.

His dog whistles are as subtle as a foghorn

That doesn't mean that planting more trees can't be a part of the solution.

No, not the entire solution. But a cheap, quick and easy part of it.

TIL Alberta had state run liquor stores.

At one point every province did.

A lot of EU regulations will often cause an industry to standardize on their global products following the more strict standard.

I don't think American voters genuinely understood or expected most of what they're getting right now

Everyone who saw how trump behaved the first time Trump was president has no valid claim to that excuse.

Anyone who listened to anything Trump said during the campaign has no valid claim to that excuse.

Regardless, "evil people might thwart it!" Is not a very good reason not to try to do good things.

It wasn't my intention to suggest that we shouldn't try it.

I was merely (and cynically) pointing out the forces who will be pushing against the efforts to do some good for society.

That means that employers will need to be more attentive to their employees' needs if they want to keep them.

Or that they'll lobby even harder to expand TFW slavery.

They've been slowly getting their tentacles into the system for a very long time.

It's almost like the climate is changing...

They are usually written on K St by lobbying firms and think tanks, then handed to favorable Congress critters to be introduced.

And that's not a new phenomenon. It had been happening since Reagan (and probably before that)