Now live in the 1850s US and try to buy a pair of underwear whose production didn’t involve slavery at some point in the chain.

The problem is the same as it’s ever been - supply chains are complicated.

We used to give lobotomies to those who didn’t fit in right in capitalist workplaces.

One fun version of this. I once read a fanfiction that included a character with an interesting trait. They were cursed to be completely, hopelessly, comically lost. They get lost going to the bathroom in their own home. They end up hundreds or thousands of miles from where they intend to be.

But the tradeoff is, if there is ever somewhere they actually really need to be, they will be there every time. A loved one about to get hit by a bus? By random chance, the character would just happen to be wandering at the right place and time to intervene. Their kid has an important school play they need to attend? They’ll by dumb luck find their way to the auditorium. They live a life completely unable to get to where they want to go, but in turn they will always be where they need to be.

I know it’s a joke. But this could actually be an interesting plot setup, with one modification. I would make it so that Trolley man couldn’t actually save anyone himself. Rather, he has the power to temporarily give anyone powers equivalent to Superman or similar. The only problem is this is so stressful on the person’s body that the power up kills them after it wears off.

I propose a new law. If the victim of a murder is someone who owns a fortune more than 1000x the median household income, then someone on trial for the murder can make an affirmative defense that it was ok, simply because, “he needed killin.'”

Literally, if you can convince the jury that the guy had it coming, you get off Scott free. Anyone who wants to avoid potentially being killed and having their killer escape unpunished can avoid this fate by simply not hoarding wealth over the critical threshold. Those who hoard such fortunes will just have to live with enough kindness that no one could ever convince a jury that they deserved to die. We’ll end up with no billionaires or every billionaire becoming like Fred Rogers. I’ll take either outcome.

Maybe St. Nick half-assed the sign of the cross. So when the traveling clerics were resurrected, they got resurrected in fun sized.

Source.

That’s not how this works. A mayor can’t pardon someone for state crimes.

What makes you think a mayor can pardon state level charges?

That isn’t how government works.

Well, he was physically with you there in Europe. Me and him were astral projecting our minds to a distant world around Tau Ceti at the time of the killing.

Another thing that gets me is that Mangione seems like just the kind of guy you would try to pin something like this on. He was a queer kid, estranged from his family (or at least out of contact for a prolonged period), and living in a hostel. Isn’t that the oldest police trick in the book when they want to “solve” a case, blame it on some drifter from out of town?

Someone should run for the governor of NY on a platform of offering Mangione a full pardon.

They would win in a landslide.

I’m sure it will be built by a contracting company incorporated just for this purpose. And after this, it will be dissolved. They’ll have no reputation to defend.

In the spirit of inclusive leftism, I say it stands for both!

Ban cars throughout the entire city. Delivery vehicles at night time only. Let the rich return to the ancient ways. To separate themselves from the rabble, they’ll be carried around in sedan chairs like the rich fat bastards of yore.

He should have the city seize the means of production. Specifically, seize the NY Post. Turn it into an actually useful news source.

Yeah, I enjoy the clankers meme as much as anyone, but it’s not hard to see how it could quickly end up in a dark place. Consider this. How hard would it be for the term “clankers” to drift from referring to the LLMs themselves to instead refer to the people who use LLMs? I could certainly see the word being adopted as an epithet for the fools that produce AI slop.

And now we’ve shifted from just joking about robots to actually referring to living human beings with a slur.

It should be legal to set fire to cars parked in the bike lane. By car brain logic, parking a vehicle in a bike lane is a form of kidnapping directed against cyclists. Look at the rhetoric car brains use to discuss protesters on roads, then apply the same logic to vehicles parked in bike lanes.

Eh. That’s how nearly everyone lived up until about 1850 or so.