It’s not really about fault at this point, it’s about solving the issue and bringing the ecosystem back into equilibrium. Like any pest, it’s natural to put ire towards the group of organisms actively causing something to deteriorate, and thus sympathy goes away. This makes eliminating them much much easier for locals.

Or until you’re explained just how much damage they’re doing to forest ecosystems by overbreeding and destroying native plant life. They’re becoming a locust-level issue.

Pepe Silvia

The world was different when you had to walk the streets and have random encounters with others.

That is surprising and very contrary to the narrative I’ve been hearing. I’d heard that our steel production had dropped to trivial values after the Pittsburgh forges had gone under.

How’s that narrative go when looking at raw material processing? My understanding is that a decent amount of products we manufacture nowadays have their parts manufactured elsewhere in the world and then are just assembled in the US. That would certainly shift the narrative a bit I think.

This is a genuine question. I know we probably still make our own petroleum products, we haven’t manufactured steel since the 1990s, with the collapse starting in the 80s, but everything else is an informational gap for me.

You’re aware no child left behind was literally that, and it’s a big reason for schools declining as they are right now, right? Because the standards it set were poorly thought out, and the execution of said standards was also terrible. And that was when the US government was still even mildly coherent.

The educators - the people who actually gave enough of a fuck to go through years of college and take a dirt poor job because they believed in teaching - should be setting the curriculum. Not some bullshitting politician on the hill.

Sounds like the knife fell out of the rack onto the heating element.

Personally, I don’t even put my knives in the dishwasher. Too much chance for them to be damaged or damage something else.

Edit: I guess redditors have never seen a fucking ceramic knife before? Or am I missing something here?

Could also just be a painted blade knife, which are also common.

This decision, effective this year.

To summarize:

• capitalism always results in the accumulation of wealth in a minority of hands through monopolies and oligopolies.
• once wealth accumulation occurs that minority will always utilize their wealth to manipulate the systems which control all our lives into their favor.
• regulation can be used to redistribute wealth, but is always going to be dismantled eventually through propaganda, lobbying, and bribery. Once dismantled, we’re back at square one.
• therefore, capitalism is an irrideemable system which will always reach a failure state.

This is arguable, and honestly this exact bullet point can be made for virtually any political system, but it’s most likely what OP’s on about.