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I hate you for making me remember that God awful season

They never will be. I never have to worry and scramble to find care at 6:45 because the sitter I've been using called in sick or hungover. I drop the kid off with a multitude of highly qualified caretakers whose pay and benefits I also don't need to worry about doing correctly or not. Not to mention I was only paying $1370 a month for 40 hrs/week of care by adults with bachelor's degrees in art, music, and early childhood education (the degrees of the teachers in my daughter's daycare class). Can't do that alone while paying the sitter a decent wage which they are entitled to. Sure you can split the cost with others if you know people with similarly aged kids, but then you're back to congregation of children and you need to register with the state here in VA, subject to inspection and licensing, etc. Anyway, back to "why" and it's pretty straightforward: one, kids are far, far less likely to die or get seriously sick from covid compared to adults; two, they need the education and social interaction and online just doesn't cut it especially for younger kids (and high school aged kids aren't a whole lot better based on my wife's experience as a high school teacher last year fully remote); three, with masks, filtration, fresh air, community vaccination, testing, and distancing you can safely open up a school.

Cost isn't the only issue with childcare. Reliable, quality childcare is just in short supply period, and can really only be had in an institutional setting

federalist goon finally joins the War on Cars

And nothing of value was lost

It is a shame that the states monopoly of violence is run by chuds who are ok with this stuff

Parking kills

all board meetings should be broadcast to the public but not open to the public example #46743589

Oh yeah that is deranged. The only upshot is this nonsense will disproportionately affect their voters

Yeah, and YoY isn't a good metric because of this reason. That said, if we didn't spend all of this money we would be in a deeper, deflationary hole, a much bigger issue than what we face today.

Excessive inflation isn't happening you dumb fuck. And the national debt is 100% not an issue, we issue debt in our own currency

This would be a great time for uncle Joe to step in and mandate these people get vaccinated

Big orange said that about everyone who still kissed his ass after leaving the admin

Leverage. No bipartisan bill, no recon bill goes both ways. Keeps moderate Dems on board for the Dem only budget, and keeps liberal Dems on board with bipartisan infrastructure.

Yeah, many Republicans didn't really care about that. Sen. Kennedy has said as much on record. I think even they realized that you can't really tell the majority "no" on their whole agenda if they've got the ability to pass much of it with a simple majority. I agree with this take, too:

There is the racism and also Biden being better for negotiating in a place he spent his life, but also there was the need from dumb centrist democrats and virtually all Republicans to have a big bipartisan bill pass the senate to help stave off filibuster reform; a pressure that didn't exist during Obama's time until 2014 at earliest. This will be further used as "proof" that no change is needed, the senate "works", etc. It's coming!

Taps the sign That's why. Nancy says she's not passing the bipartisan bill until the Dem only budget passes. This is good

absolutely deranged

Ah, the minute man defense

I can't speak to Europe but here we don't even have a nonbinding plan to meaningfully move away from carbon, and that includes carbon from natural gas (otherwise you can easily defend the CCP "carbon intensity" bullshit metric) which is what is largely replacing coal. It's pushing, again, the hard work that needs to happen now down the line making changes more difficult. And if there is further increases in gas prices who is to say we won't backslide in the absence of policy? Hell, the majority of power plants going offline this year are existing nuclear plants! This should not be happening! (And I'm not even a big fan of nuclear because of my family history but recognize it's importance)

And yet the US has ~5% of the world population, and the bulk of US emissions reduction is from switching from coal to natural gas which can not only take us only so far and will suffer diminishing returns as we continue down this path. (And the related reduction in the transportation sector is almost completely offset by larger cars that eat up the efficiency gains made). We shouldn't be throwing stones in glass houses if we won't meaningfully reduce emissions ourselves, let alone have a policy that even so much as pretends about pollution reduction.

"No need to change anything, Americans, this whole thing is China's fault!"

legitimately pro virus