The state attorney sounds like a cunt.
I think Putin thought of this first, that's why huge queens Graham, McConnell and Gingrich are all bending the knee.
I wish he'd crush his windpipe already, preferably after a comically long fall down some stairs.
Pretty sure that's why they invented the stock market in the first place... Faustian deal where innovators and disruptors trade their future potential for a leg up today. In exchange the wealthy slowly seize whatever new technology or IP is created, guaranteeing their position into the future.
Big tech wonder boys like Zuckerberg and others coming out of Y Combinator aren't miracle stories - they are the chosen few handpicked by yesterdays elite to help them close the circle from others.
It scares me that generations before and after millennials are not as proficient with technology. Before makes perfect sense, but younger people being unable to use a computer or tell if they're being scammed really disheartens me. I blame the excesses of capitalism and ignorance of our lawmakers.
The way the web and services are structured is extremely unfair to the consumer. We pay for access to the internet, then we pay for access to premium content sources and to stop ads for showing. So many middle men.. where is the benefit exactly? How is a podcast better than my community radio?
The ownership of digital goods is the worst part of all. Games, music, tv shows.. stuff that is a formative part of your life you should be able to pass onto your kids isn't yours. You own a "license" which is just a record in some database that can be revoked between company acquisitions.
Give it to Jeffrey Epstein post humuously! Make him the first ever Eternal Attorney General.
What is the charge? Biting a breast? A succulent Chinese breast?
Yay ineffective posturing! I hope they spent millions on Facebook ads.. /s
Efficient for whom? The rich all have millions invested in commercial real estate so if it's not about voluntary resignations it's about that.
For once, I agree with this demon.
A unified China/Russia alliance
The Red Alert and Generals cross over we don't want!
More realistically, he'll probably die of old age or be ousted by someone younger and more exciting to the wealthy elite that keep Putin in power. Real change may come after that, but a change in leadership is not going to immediately fix long term issues like corruption, wealth disparity, etc.
What about affording any of that? OR a home... or getting time off work for the 100th time this year.
Life is often unkind to those who need a bit of kindness the most.
The worst part is when people call somebody lazy or make other assumptions about them cause of their lack of wealth or expensive things or tidy hair. Some people never grow out of that schoolyard shit.
Better than Facebook - I had to delete my account and start over cause it kept showing me memories with my ex and old holiday photos. Cause that's what people need - a reminder of their time in hell.
Sounds like that sheriff aught to be in jail! What a cuntbrain!
The only thing more pathetic and limp than this law is the men who wrote it.
I think they've navigated a situation that looked hopeless better than anyone in the west could have expected. We all hoped economic sanctions were enough to elicit a peaceful outcome when negotiating with Russia failed, but instead it's turned into things like BRICS.
How to cope with existing right now?
It feels like no matter where I turn some septuagenarian, or older, is making life miserable for myself and others. Usually these are older white Christian conservatives, obsessed with a delusional sense of reality that no longer has a basis in fact, or perhaps never did.
There is a disproportionate amount of wealth concentrated in the older generation and those who will inherit it will probably be even worse with that money than the last generation. Certainly we see evidence of that already, anyone in their 30's who has parents who help them out VS those who don't have that have radically different outcomes. For some reason those lucky enough to come from good families ascribe laziness and bad attitude to those who don't have the family support, as if they are somehow enjoying "self made success" while mummy does their laundry for them.
No generation previous needed this kind of assistance well into adulthood, but this infantilisation of working adults has happened because of the hoarding of wealth, refusing to pass on the torch in workplaces and just blocking change for the sake of stoking petty politics. Most of us will never own our own home but all the politicians want to talk about is whether it's OK to dehumanise trans people or not.
I'm 36 this year. For most of my teens I thought there'd be some kind of tipping point where the conservative boomers would fuck off or at least let the next generation step in, but that hasn't happened. Back in the 1990's you could be a girl and wear jeans and be empowered, now this is considered some kind of woke statement. As if we recently invented this idea of women and men being equal.
The faces of my two dogs, my cat and my husband are all that keep me going. Knowing they need me gives me just enough to get out of bed in the morning and start moving... but I'm struggling to do even that without having a breakdown. My husband and I have medical expenses we can't afford and are borrowing money to survive right now. I run my own business and just feel this immense pressure on my shoulders, that again is compounded by how unfair the world is right now.
Anyone got any advice for coping with this late stage capitalist hellscape?