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Maybe it can barely run a web browser because it's working so hard spying on you?

The sea lion roars at this clear example of pernicious favouritism.

I was crazy once.

So now you know they were never actually a "law and order" party, just as they've never actually been a "fiscal responsibility" or "liberties and freedoms" party. These are just words they say to their base when it is convenient.

pesant-minded

My comrad in class, unless you are a multi-millionare we are all peasants together. Many of us have excellent minds, as you likely do yourself. Do not tie our mental capability to our economic caste.

Remember how they couldn't get the cyber truck to not rust? Or the bullet proof windows to work? Or how the milage for most Tesla's was impossible, so people thought their cars were broken, and instead of either confessing or fixing the mileage they created an elaborate scheme to cancel appointment so people couldn't get their batteries looked at? These are the people you trusted to put a chip in your brain...

zero other providers in my area.

Your current ISP:

Drums, drums in the deep ...

For when your duce is so gnarly the lingering stench could soffcate a small child, and there is a lineup outside, and you realise your only option to avoid needing to look the next person in the eye and own your shame is suicide.

Polio is back too. No word on smallpox yet.

A terminal addiction

and after the burning, whatever is left, straight to jail.

🎶We don't talk about couches, no no no🎶

I completely missed the "with" in your first sentence and, wow, I had some thoughts and feelings which I am glad I didn't share without re-reading what you wrote first.

This is why we need to provide both careful vhetting and a positive work environment for folks like nurses, teachers, etc. These people literally hold our lives in their hands, the future of our kids, etc. It should be a high bar to get in, then we should treat them with the respect/compensation that their role deserves because you get what you pay for.

The view from halfway down.

1. Where will the locals go? They have networks of support, professional networks, etc. those are hard to replicate elsewhere?
2. How will they afford to leave and establish themselves? This is very hard to do when you already live close to poverty.
3. What's to stop the rich folk from bringing in cheap "temporary foreign labour" that is housed in the same conditions? Dishes still get washed, it's just the poor locals and the exploited TFWs that lose out.

we just forgot how to build houses or something.

Or something, yep. We financialized housing.

• Instead of building houses to live in, we turned them into investment vehicles to justify the mortgages and expense of owning/maintaining them.
• A house is now a pension, or a retirement savings account; primarily a place for capital to live (people living there isn't necessary).
• As such, housing value needs to continuously grow and anything that threatens that value growth is evil.
• Since houses are now a place to park money and the growth in value is always supported, increasing amounts of money are moved into housing. Individuals justify larger and larger mortgages and investors start to move money into housing from other productive forms of investment.
• Industries grow and are created to move money into, and extract money from, housing; investors also invest in these industries.
• As housing becomes more and more expensive, it outpaces the growth in wages of homeowners; increasingly in successive years those who would have been homeowners in previous years can only afford to be renters or own smaller and smaller homes.
• International investment and institutional investment, speculators and criminals looking to launder money get interested, since the value of housing has exploded so much it now looks attractive to these players; home values increase further as this additional capital comes into the market.
• primarily land, but also raw materials and labour become more expensive as a direct or indirect result of the inflation of housing market; increasingly homeowners are priced out of new builds, and investors are necessary to finance the building of new housing.
• because investors are financing new housing, it is built for them; cheap, small units that can be disposed of more easily and allow capital to be spread more effectively across a number of houses instead of lumped into just in one.
• the humans living in the houses increasingly become renters, useful to investors only as a means of paying some of their costs via rent; protections for renters threaten the value of the investment, so rental protections are blocked or eroded.
• in the end, houses are built but by investors, for investors, and in a manner that ensures the value of current investments cannot meaningfully decline.

We know how to build houses, but we built a system that builds houses for investors to house money, and not for people to house themselves.

It was Martin Seligman who did dog shock experiments and developed the theory of learned helplessness in 1967. While Seligman demonstrated that learned helplessness did occur, we still don't know why learned helplessness occurs (especially in humans).

Pavlov was much earlier (1897) and formed the theory of classical conditioning where a primary stimulus (food) was paired with a neutral stimulus (a bell) under the right conditions until the neutral stimulus would evoke a similar automatic response as the primary stimulus (e.g. drooling).

What you are describing also sounds a little like operant conditioning, where a learned behaviour is reinforced or punished with the application or removal of a stimulus. Or in this case, where the link between a behaviour and a stimulus is eroded to the point where the learned link goes extinct, and the subject becomes desensitized to the repeated stimulus.

A reminder, Yellen thinks unemployment is good to discipline uppity workers. In her view, we need to sacrifice about another 2.2 million people, families, futures to make sure everyone else who works for a living stays submissive and unemployment climbs to 5%. Provided for context because her "good" is probably the opposite of your "good."

Love how the cons are all "how does his wife matter, she isn't in the one who's the judge?" but also "impeach Biden because of what his son did and the honour of the office!"

But sometimes they do for some people because taste is subjective and based on visual cues and expectation?

So, just a caution. The folks in the area of the department you're working for may be chill and following the norms of leadership. But bureaucrats are cautious and traditional to a fault. Many still see formal wear from subordinates as a sign of respect for the hierarchy and office, and changes like those from Schumer as a temporary stunt that may or may not stick around. Further, the folks who are printing you are likely law and order types and are even more likely to make judgements based on appearance. Unless you know they are chill, caution may be best. In general, government work is highly context dependent, with lots of unwritten rules and judgements based on perception and relationships. Caution is best if there aren't written rules to follow.

Us against them math, divide the old and the young math, provide an easy target math.

Do boomers benefit from unearned wealth at the expense of the young? Yes. Did they all scheme to get it? No, most just showed up and it happened. The ultra-wealthy on the other hand, they (or people they paid) knew EXACTLY what they were doing. And what they are doing now.

The ultra-wealthy are untouchable, mostly unknown, and almost completely invisible. But Boomers? We all know Boomers. Fuck the Boomers! Let's go after em. Then the Boomers, regardless of the righteousness of their wealth or position will be frightened and defensive, and will say fuck the youth.

And we will war against eachother and the ultra-wealthy will laugh as they always have.

Just when you think you're in control

Just when you think you've got a hold

Just when you get on a roll...

We are all living through global climate change, and the collapse of late stage capitalism, etc. These and their I'll are selling copium to the masses of folks who can't face reality and choose to live in fantasy.

Yeah as soon as I saw Delloite I knew it was shit.

"No, please! Keep going!" moaned the thread, not nearly ready to be be done yet.

Know what else will be dangerous for potentially 100 years, maybe longer? Letting Russia win/hold territory. Like, folks, it's war. The front is already riddled with mines, many in strange places because of the dam wash out.

Is this crappy and dangerous for civilians? Yes. But come on, Russian occupiers are literally committing genocide and mining the shit out of stuff right now. At least if cluster munitions help end this war then the cleanup can begin and things can start to get less dangerous.

Maybe, but clearly they also think food safety is a thing too.

I was curious, so I did the (lazy) math.

1 USD is going for about 90 Rubles currently.

Assuming a Ruble is roughly the size of a USD...

A $1M USD stack made of 100 x $10,000, or 10 x 10 stacks measures 12" across x 13" front to back x approx. 5" tall. That is 780 cubic feet or a bit more than 22 cubic meters.

At $464 USD, assuming 90 Ruples per USD and that Rubles are roughly the same dimension as a USD (464 x 90 x 780 or 22) we get 32,572,800 cubic feet or 918,720 cubic meters.

Cargo ship size is usually measured in twenty-foot equivalent units (TEUs), based on the volume of a 20-foot-long (6.1 m) intermodal container. The internal volume of one of these containers is 1,172 cubic feet or 33.2 cubic meters.

Assuming a standard container size, it would take 28,710 TEUs to move the entire Trump bond via ship. The maximum TEU of the largest container ship listed on Wikipedia is 24,232, leaving Trump 4478 TEUs, 5,248,216 cubic feet or 143,296 cubic meters, and $72M short.

TL;DR: Even with the biggest boatload of Rubles, Trump would still come up short on the bond.

Yet another thing you could fix with a mask?

More importantly, why are your teeth not retractable?

It's spelt "ruining."