Setting aside the fact that polygraphs are pseudoscience mumbo jumbo that don’t work in any meaningful capacity, and the results of which are really just the vibes of the person running it (with all of their bigotry/biases on full display.)

The bigger issue is that there are over thirteen thousand school districts in the US. If each school board is four people on average, that’s over fifty thousand people you’d have to do polygraphs for. And that’s if all you wanted to do was school boards.

Trying to get all of those people polygraphs would be an absolute logistical nightmare. There aren’t that many polygraphers out there.

And we shouldn’t be legitimizing polygraphs anyway. They have time and time again been shown to be absolute bunk, and to discriminate against people with issues like anxiety (or really, anyone who gets agitated when you accuse them of something). The only people who can reliably pass polygraphs are sociopaths, which feels like the opposite of what you want to be selecting for here.

Absolutely! It’s just a complete coincidence that the people who the school system is failing are barred from fixing it because in order to pass the test you have to have done well in school. It makes perfect sense.

It’s not like the US has a history of refusing to educate people, and then refusing to let them participate in civic matters by gating that access behind tests. The US certainly has never, say, made passing a test a requirement to vote to disenfranchise people.

And we all know that, of course, that any test would be super effective at preventing the abuse the above article is about. You just put the question “are you sexually attracted to children,” on the test. That way you’d keep out creeps. And no one would ever lie on a test. That’d be ridiculous.

I don’t know why people are disagreeing. It’s a perfect system!

The Jews control the media. /s

In reality, the article is arguing that the people in charge of LiveNation and a few other big concert management companies are run by pro-Israel leadership, and if a band refuses to play Israel they will get denied concerts in other areas those companies control.

Though the article also says that, in the old days, artists would only ever make music if they actually had something to say, never for commercial gain. So, you know. It’s maybe not the most intellectually honest opinion piece.

Not saying it’s wrong. I don’t know. Just that the author has some interesting thoughts writ large, lol. I don’t know that I’d take them as the most reliable source of information.

I feel like it hasn’t aged super well as a template, lol.

Guy in the bottom right of the thumbnail looks like Tim Robinson.

You know what’s funny, is that he didn’t even call him the n-word when I posted. He just said that you could call them “whatever you wanted,” no holds barred.

Really changes the tenor of my post now that his has been deleted. I’d meant it as a joke or whatever.

Though I think he might have edited it after I said that to include the n-word? Idk, it was weird, lol.

To be fair, I’d imagine most of these are deployed in places with much higher minimum wage.

It’s only 4-8 hours in California for example, using the same math.

Not saying it’s good. Just saying that they probably don’t have a wide deployment in, say, Mississippi.

For sure. But the problem isn’t palm oil itself, which seems like something of a miracle plant when compared to other sources of vegetable oil. It’s that the supply chain for it is rife with abuse. Similar to coffee, or honestly, most things that are harvested predominantly in poorer countries with less oversight.

But, like coffee, it seems there are organizations that certify certain palm oil suppliers as “cruelty free,” so it’s probably better to try and hunt those out in favor of foregoing palm oil entirely, which seems like a pretty incredible product otherwise.

That article you linked seems to be saying that palm oil is actually really good?

It says that it is a major driver of deforestation because people are tearing down trees to grow more of it because it’s a very useful and versatile oil.

It later says that switching away from palm oil isn’t a solution because palm oil is actually such an efficient crop that if you used something else the amount of land needed to produce enough oil would drive far more deforestation.

The article is a call for more regulation on deforestation, not a call to not use palm oil. It in fact almost argues the opposite.

Probably shouldn’t call him the n-word.

Oscar Shindler: pure cope.

Man, a triple-a, new release videogame used to cost 50-60 McDoubles. Now it’s only, like, 20-25. What a time to be alive!

Ah, fair. I only watched the non-short one. Didn’t even notice the shorts.

Has he released another video? I only see one on his YouTube page.

If read all together it sounds like something a Bond villain would say in some low rent, meat themed James Bond film.

Meat is murder, Mr Ribs…

I wish the video actually had him using it to hit a drone or something. As is, it only shows one actual launch, and it didn’t look all that impressive. His motors didn’t seem to have enough umph to let the missile stabilize properly.

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