Unfortunately, the problem is that the Americans who think America is better than everyone else and are always shouting it from the rooftops, are also mostly the people who think Trump is great and will approve of just about anything he does uncritically.

A lot of us are super fucking embarrassed about the way our country behaves and vote against it every time we can, it's just unfortunately a very difficult battle and the way our elections works makes it a bit easier for Republicans to win at the national scale, generally.

Yeah, they're both pieces of shit but Trump is fundamentally pretty lazy... remember when he rode around in a golf cart when he met with the G7 and they walked through Sicily?

Musk is doing a great job of taking the flak for super unpopular shit that Trump wants to do, AND he seems like he's actually motivated to put in the work.

Municipal worker just means you work for a municipality (i.e. a city/town that has its own local government). Waste management, city hall workers, people that maintain local parks etc could all be municipal workers.

You could call them wastefighters?

And Gen X gets completely forgotten, as usual.

A lot of Japanese bidets have a water AND seat heating feature, no need for hot water hookup. I know it seems expensive but it's very well-made and I'm very happy with mine.

https://a.co/d/e0QTxAN

I also have an Apple TV and like it a lot. It's the only Apple device I use regularly, I'm definitely not an Apple fanboy, just heard that run well and there was a specific app they support that I wanted so I went with that. Only thing I dislike is the remote. God that touch pad thing is awful. My wife says she thinks it's because my hands are big, but idk. But other than that, great experiences with it overall.

China ranks second in the world in human population, too.

Every tech product update: "Exciting news, we've now incorporated AI!" Me: Cool, how do I disable it?

Being able to grow mushrooms legally would be fucking sick and would make the next four years a bit less shitty.

Requiring students to cite work is pretty common in academic writing after middle school.

Most species of wasp are not aggressive towards humans. I work out in my garden a lot and almost never have encounters with aggressive wasps--the only time I really do is when yellow jackets create a nest in an area that I haven't been to in a while.

https://xerces.org/blog/wasp-world

I'm having a hard time actually finding a source for this. Just a few poorly written articles that basically cite this video as a source. Something this potentially impactful seems like it would make the rounds more, so I'm very skeptical.