Ironically, every level of Maslow’s Hierarchy is behind a paywall.

Self-actualization is only a luxury for the rich.

“No way. It’s only fair if everyone has as miserable of a life as I have!”

His acting was superb in Oceans Twelve!

(He played “Bruce Willis as himself”.)

Joke (whoosh)

My head

I’m afraid I don’t follow you. Why would you sand down your dice? Wouldn’t that bias them?

issues with the Covid-19 vax

healthy for opposing viewpoints

Vaccine skepticism is not a “healthy viewpoint”, but quite the opposite. Vaccines and inoculations are about as much “proven science” as we have, with hundreds of years behind the science. Spreading anti-vaxxer propaganda kills people.

The way I read, it just calls he a “Hon”.

I’m convinced it takes a special kind of sociopath to be a CEO.

Universal Healthcare (behind a paywall)

Yes and, they also needed to break a filibuster by the Republicans, which took 60 votes in the Senate, despite severe illness and Republican shenanigans. It was a huge lift to get what we got.

Blame Republicans and a couple of Democrats. Yes, it was half-baked, but it was also almost defeated, and later almost repealed. The alternative of “nothing” is so much worse.

When my Mom was in a coma, they asked me as the oldest child to make that decision. I based it on not only my wishes for myself, but per her directive.

However if it was my own child, I would probably make the same decision. Parents make thousands of decisions on behalf of their children. This one, however horrible, would be another one of them. I would support my wife in aborting the (already dead) child, rather than further risk the life of my wife. It’s the only and best choice, however tragic.

I meant I’m interested in communities about the act and craft of creative writing.

Despite your sarcasm, those communities are ostensibly about writing about a real situation.

It’s pretty active with Superb Owls, just like you’d expect!

What’s this one-time sports game you’re talkin’ about?

Wait - writing communities on Lemmy?

That anonymizes Google results. It’s Google, all the way down.

And then some genius cooked it AGAIN and invented toast!

Brother printers to the rescue. I think they are still untainted by crap bloatware and just do the thing.

I’ve heard “dub-dub-dub”. But yeah, saying the abbreviation is longer than the words it’s abbreviating! 😀

Some heros don’t wear capes, but you can if you want to