Despite Apocalyptic Warnings, California Fast Food Wage Hike Didn’t Kill Jobs UC Berkeley study finds employment held steady — and only pennies were added to menu prices.

So it turns out paying people a living wage doesn’t collapse the economy; it’s almost like the rich have been lying to us to maintain their power over our lives.

How do you think Henry Ford would react if we travelled back in time to tell him that in the future, you will have to wait over an hour for your car to get a software update?

What is the psychology behind feeling empowered by the sound your high heels make while walking?

the human body was not designed to know what the worst person in the world is doing every fifteen minutes

Sword tournaments are a fun place where people introduce themselves by what color gear they wear #HEMA #swords #swordfighting #SoCalSwordfight

I was listening to a reddit podcast that was talking about a MIL from hell story when I get a text from my MIL. It was about a gift (something that I actually have been considering buying myself for a while) she got me just cuz. How'd I get so lucky?

I just hope everyone knows that I bought these tickets to Les Mis weeks ago

Republican Sen. Mike Lee of Utah took down X posts Tuesday making an apparent connection between Gov. Tim Walz and the man accused of shooting two Minnesota lawmakers and their spouses, and blaming “Marxists” for the murders. The change comes after blowback from Sen. Tina Smith and her staffers as well as Minnesota Democratic and Republican lawmakers. One X post said “Nightmare on Waltz Street,” with pictures of Boelter, who is accused of killing Minnesota Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband, Mark, and shooting Sen. John Hoffman and his wife, Yvette, in the early morning hours of June 14. Boelter also went to the homes of two other state lawmakers that night; one house was empty, and at the other, a police officer pulled up to the house shortly after Boelter arrived, so Boelter left. Another Lee post read, “This is what happens When Marxists don’t get their way,” with a picture of Boelter.

No elected official Democratic party will be as cruel about Kirk's death as Mike Lee was about the death of Melissa Hortman.

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“I think it's worth to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendment to protect our other God-given rights”

—Charlie Kirk

Gun violence is not an inevitability in the US. Data-driven regulation can save lives. Will people see the benefit?

“Not explaining science seems to me perverse. When you're in love, you want to tell the world.”

― Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

Not yet! I've just started learning single handed weapons, mostly rapier and saber. Sword & buckler and messer will probably be my next move just because of how popular they are amongst my club's members

I'm amazed how I went from "just longsword lessons" to "I'll try sparring" to "a local tournament might be fun" to "I'll keep doing longsword tournaments, but I'm not branching out to other weapons" to signing up for my first rapier tournament in under 2 years. #HEMA swordfighting is fun y'all

The plot twist is that the DM has told me, out of game, that it is, in fact, NOT my character because I have plainly stated that I don't like being in leader positions in the party dynamics of this group and he respects this. I'm sure hilarity will ensue.

A fun development in my #pf2e game: a member of the party is being told to "help her lead" and "she is the chosen one" by the voice in his head. Since my character is the only person who uses she/her pronouns in the party, everyone assumes it's me. #ttrpg #DnD

Unfortunately, I fear that no matter how hard I try, I will never be able to make a better #DnD based pun than when I made Tey Ksas, the horizon walker ranger

B-boy Jesus

Sneak peak inside day one of the conclave

a man in a hat and jacket says i am never going to financially recover from this Alt: a man, the Tiger King, in a hat and jacket says "I am never going to financially recover from this"

Me: tomorrow is Independent Bookstore Day.
My fiancé:

that was some SWANKY swordplay 😏

I can usually gauge my mental health by how well I take my losses during #longsword sparring. And seeing that I was audibly cheering for my fiancé because he successfully landed a point on me with a left handed zornhau, I'd say I'm doing surprisingly well. #HEMA

Observe that the one that complied and the one that didn't comply are treated exactly the same way.

Quote from tonight's Pathfinder session: "I regret to inform you that he is technically an ally." #ttrpg #pf2e #dnd

On a scale of 1 to 10, how unhinged is it that I'm starting rapier by learning Thibault? #HEMA #rapier #swords

We should all be terrified to live in an America where legal residents can be detained, held at gunpoint, or deported because of the color of their skin or because the President disagrees with their views.

The definition of who is and isn’t a citizen has changed over time and they have already shown their intent to roll it back, so don’t believe the illusion that you’re safer than anyone else

I feel bad for therapists right now, because there's only so much Lexapro can do given the current state of affairs.

Marco Rubio just made the argument, bold faced, not a mistake an intentional statement, that at any time the US can revoke your visa and then you are instantly here illegally and they can arrest you, deport you, torture you, all without any due process.

That means the United States is simply unsafe

When secret police agencies in other countries do what ICE is doing (abducting people off the street while wearing masks, throwing them into vehicles, transporting them to undisclosed locations, and not filing any criminal charges) we call it "disappearing" people.

That's what's happening here now.