The problem with making carbon into butter is it will just be released once someone eats it and burns off the calories. BUT, I think you can make soap from just about any oil. So you could turn carbon from the air into fake butter, turn that fake butter into soap, and then store the soap in caves, solving any potential soap shortages for the next several millennia while also solving the climate crisis.

I feel like both parties are trying as hard as they can to lose this election.

We can say the media is being unfair to Biden, and it probably is. But it doesn't matter. Biden is clearly terrible at getting positive coverage - whether that's his fault or the media's (and I think we can all recognize it's at least partly his fault). If the goal is to stop Trump, we need someone who can get better coverage.

Just recognize reality. Trump has spent his life in media. He's skilled at crafting a narrative that appeals to the dumbest 51%. His wide variety of horrible characteristics works against that, but you need a candidate who can take advantage of those horrible characteristics. Rather than doing that, Biden has played into Trump's narratives, despite tons of time to prepare. If we would let ourselves see it, we'd recognize it's a binary choice. Go with Biden and make Trump president, or go with anyone else and stop him.

And promoting disinfo. The blue checkmarks are basically just a way to pay for prioritized disinformation-spreading.

Which is exactly why it's really important to have an opponent to Trump who doesn't say dumb things.

Look into switching jobs. Unemployment is on the low end. People who switch jobs tend to make more money, and it's easier to get a high-paying job when you have a job already because employers can't help but think more highly of you if someone else is wiling to employ you.

Depending on what you do a recruiter or staffing agency may help. What's worked best for me is posting an updated linkedin profile with keywords that recuriters will look for that relate to buzzwords for your job. Remember recruiters are typically trained as salespeople and may not know much about your actual job, they just look for words. Put in that you're looking for work (but only show it to recruiters) and see if anyone bites.

Are we pretending impeachment does something useful again?

“We will take over the horribly run capital of our nation in Washington, D.C."

Can't disenfranchise us, we're already disenfranchised. Give us 2 senators and a representative, then you'll have something to take away.

I mean the gift part of it is ridiculous and all, but Putin's hometown is St. Petersburg. A trip to St. Petersburg in 2003 is probably tourism, more a sign of being on Harlan Crow's payroll than Putin's.

No, that's a system without rights. A democracy can have rights. In fact, it's hard to have rights without a democracy, because when power isn't shared equally, those with power tend to remove rights from those without or fail to enforce them.