My grandma was amazing. She made me a lowly worm stuffy when I was a kid. It had the hat and everything. I loved it to death. I actually still have several of the stuffed animals she made for me as a kid, my kids get to enjoy them now.

Yeah, which makes the burn story kinda flop at the end. It was a good idea, a resource everyone has become dependent on becomes scarce. There was a lot of untaped potential there IMO, but a great premise. Then it gets turned into this asnine root cause. They could have done so much better. Imagine if they turned it into a tragedy of the commons. A warp superhighway wore a crack in subspace and that interacted with a nebula or something. It was a death of a thousand cuts and everyone ignored it. Maybe Starfleet even knew it could happen but ignored it because that's how they have always done it, and even if Starfleet stopped the cardasians and the gorn etc would still be using dilithum based warp bubbles (excuse after excuse)... Heavy handed, maybe, but more meaningful.

What's actually making their life worse? Like clean air and water? Universal pre-K? What exactly are you referring to?

What's going on in that second picture?

Well if you crush the Republican party midterms become a free for all and real progressives can be elected?

They used to have a reputation for employing smart people... Dumbass middle managers took over a while back and started making the stupidest decisions.

When COVID shut down my state (we were considered essential) we got furloughed one day a week. I was getting paid less so I was concerned, but it was honestly the best thing to happen to me. We started a garden, I got so much more done. I was healthier and happier.

Going back to 5 days a week, and longer commute (no more COVID clear freeways), I can absolutely feel my life shortening. I've gained a ton of weight, and increased stress significantly.

Hyper capitalist emotional exploitation.

Take a normal human emotion, feed it through a system optimized to wring out profit, this is what is left.

They forgot to mention he came up on a pony rather than a real horse.

Merican bitch ride up in his civic

Trynna act so slick like he wit it

Pen a G on his belt call it Gucci

Gonna wreck his self fo som hoochie

It's not good I know.

Don't forget racism.

https://origins.osu.edu/article/illegalization-marijuana-brief-history?language_content_entity=en

You have a point, however, there seems to be a difference in severity. It's like how openly and aggressively racist some of these folks have gotten. Sure, they always probably harbored those feelings, but now they are more brazen about it, and the behavior is getting worse as a result.