I’m glad you confirmed it is fringe extremists you’ve seen saying this and not women at large.

I don’t know anyone who is gloating about these unemployment numbers. It’s clearly a crisis for young men in the workforce and it’s a bad indication for everyone. There’s no positives there for anyone.

I understand why they voted for him in the first place. I’m wondering if there’s going to be a reckoning for things not only improving, but drastically becoming worse.

Thank you for linking to the proposed bill!

Exactly what is driving the trend is manifold, but increases in healthcare, education and hospitality jobs — industries dominated by women — compared to shrinking jobs in the male-dominated tech, business, and manufacturing worlds appear to be playing a sizable role, Ullrich said.

“The research does not show that men are caregiving at higher levels,” Ullrich said. “It certainly has become more common for men to stay at home with children than it was 20 years ago, there’s no doubt about that, but it’s not like there’s some big wave of that. It really is a decline in just work activity.”

That research was published in the Journal of Political Economy in 2017 and found that young men spend about 70% of their off-work hours playing video games, according to Fortune.

“All sorts of things, whether it’s the opioid epidemic, or depression or disability are all hitting men harder,” Ullrich said. “Young adult men are much more likely to be living with their parents than young adult women.”

Since Trump’s second inauguration in January 2025, the US economy has added 468,000 payroll jobs due to the enormous growth of healthcare and education, according to Wolfers.

Of those, 86% — or 403,000 of the jobs went to women — with only 65,000 going to men, the data shows.

Woof, those are incredibly rough numbers for men in the US. I wonder how that will change their voting records as we move forward - I wonder if young men who overwhelmingly voted for Trump are starting to feel disillusioned?

There is no evidence that states are purposefully misclassifying abortion care when reporting statistics to the CDC. The implication that certain states are hiding abortion services behind the label of emergency care services is particularly egregious given that many women have died or nearly died after physicians denied them miscarriage care due to state-level abortion bans.

He’s got a talent for being relatable, that’s for sure.

Ah I was just about to post about this!

“This policy stops corporations from using personal data to squeeze more money out of shoppers,” Wilson said in the announcement of her new initiative. “They’re not compiling all this information about us to charge us less; they’re trying to maximize what they can charge. Businesses are free to set their prices in a fair and transparent manner. The same product, in the same store, should cost the same no matter who’s pushing the cart.”

It would be a first in the nation law.

Wilson’s office says the bill has been crafted after months of engagement with labor unions, consumer privacy advocates, and “industry partners.”

The bill is the latest thrust in Seattle efforts to regulate industry efforts around dynamic and algorithmic pricing. In 2025, the city council passed a ban on “algorithmic rent fixing” after the state sued property management software company RealPage and a group of large landlords alleging they colluded to inflate rents through a price-fixing scheme.

It is also City Hall’s latest salvo against the grocery industry. 2025 also brought a ban on “negative use restrictions” prohibiting the use of covenants preventing a property from being used as a grocery store or pharmacy after a large chain closes a store.

Under the proposal unveiled this week, large grocery retailers defined as chains with 20 or more global locations, such as Safeway and QFC, and major delivery platforms like Instacart and DoorDash would be barred from setting individualized prices based on sensitive personal metrics including race, employment status, browsing history, location tracking, or AI chatbot interactions.

The ordinance also prohibits using electronic shelf labels to display algorithmically altered prices.

Source for these quoted segments

When I saw the headline, I immediately thought of the RealPage bullshit and rent fixing. This is great news!

At the beginning of the 20th century, Bentz realized that the process for brewing coffee was difficult and frustrating. From her experience as a housewife, she converged upon three major pain points with coffee makers. First, at this time, coffee was usually prepared with percolators. This led to a phenomenon known as overextraction, where too many compounds are extracted from the coffee grounds [1]. Percolators work by cycling boiling water through coffee grounds. However, this constant overexposure to high temperatures, combined with already brewed coffee cycling through due to poor filtration, led the percolator to be particularly susceptible to overextraction [2]. Secondly, already existing espresso filters left grounds in the drink. Not to mention it took up to five minutes to produce a cup of espresso [3]. Bentz then turned to linen bags or cloth filters, but they were difficult to use and impossible to clean. Therefore, Bentz’s solution aimed at creating better-tasting coffee while making the process easier. After some trial and error, she stumbled upon a new solution. She ripped a piece of blotting paper from her son’s notebook and placed it in a perforated brass pot. Next, she added ground coffee and poured water over it, dripping through the holes in the pot into a cup [4]. Bentz had just created the coffee filter. This solution addressed the pain points in a number of ways. The clean-up process was easier and more hygienic as the paper filter went straight into the trash, reducing the presence of messy coffee grounds. In Jun 1908, Bentz was granted a patent for her paper filter by The Imperial Patent Office in Berlin.

Wow this is so cool! Thanks for posting!

If she was inept, he should’ve been straightforward with her instead of trying various ways of bullying her into silence while pretending to be her friend.

https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/environment/spokane-arson-suspect-told-prosecutors-he-started-25-other-fires-documents-say/

A man suspected of starting one of three catastrophic Spokane-area wildfires on Saturday is facing additional arson charges after allegedly admitting to starting 25 other fires around Riverside State Park since last July, according to a memorandum prosecutors filed Wednesday in Spokane County Superior Court.

By Wednesday, detectives had corroborated evidence indicating the man started at least four of the 25 fires he had described, prosecutors said in the memorandum.

The 37-year-old was arrested Monday at his West Spokane apartment, two days after prosecutors allege he sparked the Old Trails fire. He was booked into the Spokane County Jail on suspicion of first-degree arson, where he is being held on $1 million bond. The man is scheduled to be arraigned 3 p.m. Thursday in Spokane County Superior Court.

Maybe, maybe not. This guy has been starting fires for a while apparently and this is after he murdered his father over dishes.

Winner, winner, chicken dinner!

You should’ve seen the kind of talk that was happening here when the Graham Platner story broke.

I was talking about this earlier in a different comm, but we have severely regressed on these issues over the last 10 years and the left has not been immune to it.

In January, WMUR revealed private text messages showing Howard telling then-gubernatorial candidate Jon Kiper that “[Democrats] keep losing” because the party is run by women who don’t support “cis white men.”

Piece of shit indeed!

“Last year, a fellow state representative and someone I considered a close friend called me repeatedly, telling me not to run for Congress,” New Hampshire Rep. Alice Wade (D) wrote in a public Facebook post. “He told me our friendship would be over if I stayed in the race. He questioned my integrity. He tried persuading me with promises of future political support if I stepped aside. And, most painfully, he told me that because I’m an openly transgender woman, I stood no chance of winning higher office in New Hampshire. That person was [New Hampshire State] Rep. Heath Howard [D].”

With “allies” like these, who needs enemies?

This shit makes me particularly upset as the current Washington State fires were caused by an arsonist.

10,000 acres burning and only 13% contained.

I wouldn’t kick $120 a week out of bed, that’s for sure.

That’s literally my weekly grocery budget.

Hah you’re right! I’ll blame it on my lack of coffee thus far this morning ;)

I have to admit that I’m unsure how LA does it, but up in Washington the voters have to approve more funding for transit. Which is difficult if voters feel like transit doesn’t work well to begin with and then it’s an uphill battle.

Double-edged sword, I’ll admit.