Friendly reminder that incognito mode only prevents someone else using that computer from seeing your search history. ISPs still keep a record and have no problem throwing you under the bus. Commit your crimes with care please.

Glad human composting is catching on. Thousands of years of progress and we're finally catching up with every other living thing on Earth.

Obviously your film would be "The Plagueshipping News."

@2:

Except that, as I understand it, composting human remains still costs $$$$, because our Capitalist system has determined there is still money to be squeezed out of you even after you die. So, we haven't yet reached the stage where one can simply crawl under a fallen tree, or the front porch, or be buried in a cardboard box in the back yard like pretty much every other animal on the planet.

People aren't having kids because they can't afford them.

You want people to start reproducing again? Raise the minimum wage to $25/hour. Wipe out student loan debt. Establish single payer healthcare for all. Decrease the wealth inequality gap.

Don't want to do any of that? Fine, but then shut the fuck up about the lack of population.

soon only the
Richest among
us will Reproduce
this is as is Should be

the Rich
EARNED* it

need 'proof'?
they're fuck-
ing RICH.

*it's usually Best
not to Overthink it.

@1: Came here to say the same thing. Nathalie Graham really needs to learn how incognito mode works, and possibly fix that misleading line in the post.

So, Kushner has a book deal, eh? A memoir? That should only take a couple of pages: I was born on third base. Over-Achiever is my middle name. I carried on my family's tradition of very shady New York real estate deals. I worked on my body so I could get abs, and some people (the ones that matter) think I'm hot. I got me a trophy wife who gives Barbie a run for her money. Her daddy became president, so I got to play schooled diplomat and negotiator in his fascist-cartoon administration until we lost an election that we really won. The end.

Cruise ships are the worst. I don't think they'll ever be able to get it right. I mean, have you seen those behemoths up close and personal? Thousands and thousands of people cooped up on a huge ship. Think of all that human waste, for one thing. No wonder everyone gets sick with one thing or another. It's just an unnatural situation, and it's an environmental nightmare to our oceans.

As for women not having children? Yeah, bad news for the future of the Social Security Administration who counts on young and middle-aged workers for funding. But in this world? Having a kid may be an act of bravery. There is the woeful fact, though, that for single young women and older women without means, unless you're a trust fund baby, there is no guarantee of poverty more certain than having children you can't afford. And having them because you need to have them doesn't change that. So, no, if I were a woman without some impressive bank, I wouldn't have children either.

"Now the Washington State Patrol needs to catch these rock throwers."

Wait I thought we wanted to abolish police and prisons. Make up your mind please.

@12 - The Defund the Police movement was terrible messaging. Just ask Al Sharpton:

https://www.thedailybeast.com/al-sharpton-defund-the-police-is-just-something-latte-liberals-support

@12 if the defund movement wanted an easy win that would create goodwill and momentum they would figure out the rock throwing thing. It only takes vigilance to find the guy and there is a 99% probability he is lurking on a nearby encampment.

I know plenty of well paid female attorneys with kids and a spouse that helps out. That still doesn't extend the 24 hour day limitation all humans deal with. A person can only do so much. Even in cases where a family has sufficient funds the sheer exhaustion that results from trying to meet current expectations of child rearing and employer expectations is simply too much. I can see it in the burnt out faces of these women, who constantly complain of chronic exhaustion. This cannot be fixed even with free daycare for all.

@10: The rock throwing crime did not occur at CHOP and the local police have been clear that is the only crime they will ever care or talk about. Expect the rock throwers to get a free pass. "But did you hear about the people murdered a year ago at CHOP!"

@12: Agreed. We should have told the American people we want more money for more incarceration. Then while they were too busy celebrating to notice, we could shift the money to pay for a higher minimum wage and healthcare.

By the time they figured out the money had been wasted, it would be too late for them to do anything about it.

@9 you're forgetting the chapter where he talks about getting cucked by his father in law

People who say defund the police was a bad slogan were never intent on supporting any kind of police reform anyway. The poor slogan is a convenient excuse and wouldnt detract someone with convictions from supporting the cause.

@1: Yep, a VPN is a really cheap investment to make as part of the heist setup or murder room.

@9: I'm looking forward to the chapter about that time he hired all his know-nothing frat brothers to help distribute the PPE supplies (after they'd already confiscated them all from states), then fell flat on their face. Or, ooh, how about that time he decided to deny all material support to blue state COVID hotspots for political gain!

@19: That chapter - or that version of the book - will probably only be available on MAGA websites. You know big they are into that particular fetish, and B&N won't stock something like that.

@1: I tell all the murders in my family to degoogle and use DuckDuckGo

@16 I'm basing my judgement on the video from the WSP that showed a grown ass man throwing shit on the freeway and dumping a bike frame out there. I would suspect he is responsible for the majority of the incidents in that area at least but I'm sure there are others. Regardless is there any reason why some of the community groups that already exist and are chomping to take a bite of the police budget can't take this on and demonstrate how a pretty serious issue can be solved without using the police? It seems like pretty low hanging fruit and would give them a serious leg up on taking their share of the pie the council is going to serve up.

@15 nice out

@20: That is easily the best summation of anti-defund slogan people I have read.

Funny how they tried to use the same argument against the Black Lives Matter slogan. Until Derek Chauvin made that complaint untenable even for them. The ended up trying to counter with "Blue Lives Matter," which never really caught on.

"Reform the police" was perfectly fine. Just the fringe wanted more compelling optics.

Why the fuck would ANYONE want to bring a child into THIS world? Vilifying those who are actively choosing not to continues to be utterly confounding. All intelligence points to a dystopian future of epic proportion - but hey, have babies!!! They will work themselves to death in a poisoned world where only the wealthy matter and everyone else is just alive for their labor! Fuck off, seriously. This society has chosen to do nothing for the people who already exist - we refuse them affordable housing, livable wages, health care, etc. etc. etc. the list is too long to put here - and yet people want more babies? They are doing everything they can to force women to give birth (and Roe v. Wade is in serious peril). They are NOT doing much to discuss male infertility (and what's causing it). Basically, we are hurtling toward Gilead and the Handmaid's Tale. If last night's episode is any indication, that won't end well either.

@28:

I attribute that at least in part to the fact they were never able to identify any actual blue-skinned humans about whom we were supposed to matter...

@30 they literally do have footage from the freeway cams. Here is the link:
https://www.king5.com/article/news/local/rocks-objects-thrown-vehicles-i90-seattle/281-7513b404-dd36-4015-bd6e-d2de96b9ff6e

First he drags a bike frame out on the freeway into one of the lanes (he is lucky he didn't get hit) and then he starts lobbing rocks like he is practicing for the olympic trials. I don't think it's a big leap to assume this guy has some issues and given the proliferation of encampments nearby is most likely a resident there. That's not bias that's just making logical assumptions.

Mildly interesting that the chuds jumped to the "slavering needle-hobos" conclusion when the usual suspects when glass gets broken are "antifa militants."

Me, I reckon it's just another 4th-grader radicalized by Critical Race Theory, or maybe one of the dozens of local high-school girls driven to blind rage after being cut from their softball teams for trans students.

@34 The troll you are arguing with lives in SF and you are just wasting your time talking to them.

@37 I don't of course but I don't think it takes Sherlock Holmes to think someone doing shit like that is mentally unstable, there are numerous homeless encampments in that area and many people in those encampments are struggling with mental illness. Elementary Watson but feel free to draw your own conclusions or like @35 pretend there is no issue at all.

That still doesn't change the fact that one of these "community groups" could really step up here and show us how this is done without police.

@38 Well you comment on the stories without even reading them, so that's one reason.

@37 - We had this problem in Dallas from time to time. It killed at least one person that I can remember. We caught them most of the time. Anyway, most often it was rowdy teens. But 2nd-most often was a homeless person with mental health issues. It was probably a 75-25 ratio between the two, so you're probably right.

@42 Those of us that live here have been paying attention to this. That was point, I live right next to where this is happening.

But I do enjoy your theories of what is going on that just conveniently agree with your worldview.

@44 You see how possibly what happens where you live may not apply up here.

@39 Ah yes, there's your notable concern for untreated mental illness, always asserted several comments after you start in on your filthy needle-hobos tirades.

Is "encampment" your own idiosyncratic spelling of "psychiatric disorder?" Does it just take too long to peck out "mental illness" in your initial comment when the shorthand "homeless camp" is available?

Either way the homeless need to be moved off of the ledge there just due to the chances that something could fall onto the interstate right there.

When a mentally unstable person or criminal who is housed does something wrong, why is their housing status never mentioned?

Housed people crime is out of control. They account for most of the crime in fact. Fixed housedness now!

Fix*

@46 I'm just trying to bait you so you can post a study from Rhode Island that shows people throwing rocks at cars is completely within the normal standard deviation of human behavior and there is actually no problem at all.

@53 you're right. I guess my issue is they are not acknowledging the rock they are throwing is stolen land before hucking it an unsuspecting motorist.

@31: It's your own quandary to come to terms with of why the joy of life's most miraculous blessings escape you.

We need to defund the police. Use the money to create an organization that identifies the systemic causes, then creates a broad-based community outreach to educate all people that throwing rocks at cars is bad. But it can't be the fault of the rock throwers, but of society in general. They must be the victims of greater oppression imposed on them by a privileged class. It's not their fault they commit crimes and harm people. They have no other choice.

@61 I like your solution except we need to decriminalize rock throwing and end the quarry to prison pipeline. We should set several stretches of highway around the county where rock throwers can throw without fear of being stigmitized, we can call them safe hurl zones. Once they are ready to end their rock throwing ways (uncoerced) we can set them up with an Amazon tax funded condo in Belltown.

@64 We must ensure that these stretches of highway are within the community of the rock throwers so to not infringe on their identity politics. Where they must travel to throw rocks, we must provide them with free public transportation and to provide access to an area, preferably with a view, to erect storage facilities (tent-like structures) for their rocks.

The biggest takeaway from critical race theory is that Republicans should never win another race.

@52 Jeez man you spend months building up your Very Serious Debate Man account and when you finally decide to blow it up you go with "no i troll u?"

Lame, buddy. Come up with something better next time, OK?

Stop harassing persons experiencing rockthrowing. Calling them "rockthrowers" is pejorative and makes it sound like that is their most important characteristic.

@31 - completely agree. People who choose not to breed have been questioned and/or vilified as long as I can remember. Imagine how much better/cleaner/more peaceful the world would be if a couple of billion more had made that decision?

@70 I'm just having some fun with you on a Wed afternoon. Don't take it so seriously.

@65 We should probably look into providing the rocks via the government. It's not fair they have to source the rocks themselves and random rocks might not to be aerodynamic and generate too much friction to reach their targets. Let's be honest gathering rocks is a lot of work. I would suggest creating a single source contract that goes to a secondary agency to avoid city regulations around competitive bidding but secretly pays the right people to gather up smooth aerodynamic rocks and provide them at 5x the normal rate. They don't have to actually deliver said rocks but we'll pay them for it. We can call them Kshama Stones or Lisa Herboulders.

Sorry the previous comment was for @69, mr robot.

Republicans have really dedicated themselves to the Trump Titanic and all of its ideology.

As for the banning of teaching anything about race or racism in this country or this country's history - note they just passed legislation in D.C. to make Juneteenth a federal holiday.

So...federal employees will get an additional paid holiday.
But no one will be able to teach about what Juneteenth is?
No history lessons about the Civil War?
No history lessons about President Abraham Lincoln?
No history lessons about the Emancipation Proclamation?

What will be taught about Martin Luther King Jr. (a day honoring him also a federal holiday)?
No history lessons on the Civil Rights Movement?
No history lessons on the Amendments of the Constitution that pertain to race?

I mean if they are really going to follow the rule of teaching nothing about race or racism in this country or the history of this country, they're basically saying they are wholly against the teaching of all American history. That certainly will be interesting. It's impossible to believe this country can be any more stupid than it already is and yet there seems to be no bottom when it comes to stupid.

And all the while they throw the making of Juneteenth a federal holiday as a bone while they:

Don't pass voting rights legislation on the federal level to counteract all of the states passing legislation enabling and enforcing voter suppression and vote nullification.

Don't do anything to truly investigate, prosecute, and imprison Trump and his administration for his crimes against this country, its people, and its so-called democracy.

Don't do anything about all of the inequity in this country due to white supremacist ideology, policy, and violence - from birth to death.

Don't do anything about the violence against Black people by law enforcement in this country.

Etc.

@39:

The fictional Mr. Holmes would no doubt call you out with whatever the late Victorian version of "bullshit!" is - "Poppycock!" perhaps? He would also point out the fallacy of making assumptions based on spurious circumstantial evidence, to wit: “It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts.”

@6 kristofarian: BRAVO---sheer brilliance as usual!

@9 Bauhaus I, @19 Brent Gumbo, and @21 Knat for the Jared Kushner WIN, BAYBEE!!

@31 xina, re on not having babies: +1 Agreed and seconded. My heart weeps for my nieces (neither of whom have yet to bear children of their own, largely due to their own choices), and all women and girls currently of reproductive age as well as for pre-adolescent girls everywhere who have yet to begin menstrual cycles. I have no regrets at all about having had a full bilateral hysterectomy last year, other than wishing it had been done sooner. The surgery has finally--and blessedly---corrected 37 years of the most unspeakably miserable of chronic reproductive health problems ever imaginable.

@73 xina: +1 Agreed and seconded. RepubliKKKan men are truly immoral crime syndicate pigs.

@75 the game is indeed afoot. Poppycock as a phrase originated here in the United States in the 1800s and is probably derived from a Dutch word. More appropriate might be Balderdash dear Comte.

There is plenty of data that would suggest foul deeds arise from encampments. One only need purview any of the news publications to see it. As Holmes himself stated “When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth” So which is it? Roving gangs of teenager seeking thrills or mentally unbalanced people left to fend for themselves so our electeds can use them as pawns in their great game? If I’m a betting man (and I am) I’ll stack my chips on the latter.

RE: Rock throwing.

This thread sure got weird.

@77:

Except that, in this particular case literally nothing HAS been eliminated in terms of the identity or current habitation of the perpetrator. In fact, all we CAN say with any degree of certainty is that they appear to be male. Arriving at any sort of conclusion based on such a small amount of data is simply wallowing in rampant, unfounded speculation, nothing more.

Although based on your obstinate insistence that you KNOW the answer to the question: who is this person? - based on a few seconds of blurry video footage, one thing we CAN say with some degree of certainty is that you make Inspector Lestrade look like a veritable Holmes in comparison to you.

@79 ah but I have made no claims to know the villain of this piece. Simply that given the circumstances and location there is a likely place to look. You are the obstinate one for refusing to acknowledge what is most likely lest it repudiate that which you have so viguriously defended.