Means a lot coming from you.

Maybe not, but that is democracy. We all choose one person to trust to make decisions for us.

Also unfairness and theft are not the same thing.

To be clear. I don’t support the existence of billionaires, but I might be more forgiving if the contributed to society in big ways. Instead their only interest seems to be getting richer.

What I mean is that if I ever amassed 1 billion, I would spend everything over the billion on social projects, dog shelters, medical research that is considered by for profits to be unprofitable. I would never have more than 1 billion as I would use the interest to fund things that would help as many people and animals as possible. If billionaires voluntarily did such things I would mind them less. Instead I support 100% tax on anything over 1 billion. As for the burning question do any of these billionaires contribute as much as they are rewarded? Hell no

But you can be damn sure Company income increased…

Thing is, you wouldn’t mind if he used his vast wealth for the betterment of humanity. You know, like how he used to market himself before the pedoguy event.

Instead he uses it to promote right wing politics, marginalised vulnerable groups and trying to get richer for the betterment of Elon.

I like to think that if I was ever lucky enough to have a billion, anything over it would be used to support causes I believe in… Oh wait that’s what he’s doing, it’s just his beliefs are messed up.

I don’t think they think there will be a next administration, but that doesn’t mean they wouldn’t want to spy on their own disloyal staffers…

https://getyarn.io/yarn-clip/2c61fde2-8355-4eae-8fec-0ed5f12a0ea2

Reminds me of this… https://www.ipsos.com/en-uk/yes-prime-minister-questionnaire-design-matters

They are asking the questions in a way that gets the answers they want just like in yes prime minister.

Sounds like a pathway to security vulnerabilities. Instead of just code you could now also physically alter a circuit to change it’s behaviour.

It is insane that simply by being a big company you automatically get the benefit of the doubt from the police and that it becomes a matter for the courts while everyone is free.

Stealing $200,000 as an individual would get you in serious shit, locked up before trial, and ruin the rest off your life financially, but doing it as a company at worst gets you bad publicity apparently and if it ever goes to court, there is a presumption that everyone involved is respectable and meant no harm - it was all just poor decision making but no malice.

I hope nobody who hears this story shops in any of those franchises and I hope the story travels far and wide. The CEO’s behavior on camera was very informative about the intentions behind the act.

The most infuriating thing is that they could walk away from the stock and be materially no worse off. Its not like they go 200,000 into debt, but for the person it belongs to, it is devastating.

He should just go. It’s become a distraction and it always ends the same way. Clinging on damages politics and pushes people towards populists who offer you the opportunity to have your cake and eat it while but actually just making things worse. If Nigel Farage gets in we will end up like America. High time we had proportional representation so people stop strategic voting or voting to make a point. Reform mostly did well just because they are not Labour or Conservative, not because they are actually a good choice.

“What benefit does the Internet connection offer?”

“You can make toast remotely.”

“but don’t I have to put bread in?”

“…”

“don’t I need to be there to eat it?”

“…”

Going to the video rental store with my family and browsing for movies to watch. Shelves with multiple copies facing you, then you realise that behind the front ones are blank, empty boxes to bulk up the display and none of the ones on the shelf are the ones you actually take home anyway. Seeing the 3D cardboard cutouts advertising new releases.

I also miss christmas TV. Getting a 2 week TV guide and going through it with a pen putting a star next to the things you wanted to see. Recording one channel while watching another when there was a conflict. Big movies that were at the cinema 6 months to a year ago being on TV. Popular series making good Christmas specials. I guess the scarcity of media made it more desirable and christmas tv was an event. Now it is shit but not only because of what’s on, but because you’ve already seen the food stuff that’s on, and the Christmas specials are rarer, and not good. Also there’s too much ‘classic’ TV from the 70s I don’t care about. Feels lazy that they rely on filling the program with the old instead of making new.

I’d say she is a social democrat.

… but to most Americans that is far left and thus labelled socialism because America is a very right wing country. Even the ‘left’ in America is basically a right wing party in most other western democracies.

Bad move. I never knew about this aspect of the war until today and it is japan’s protest that brought it to my attention.

I don’t understand why you wouldn’t condemn the way these women were treated and support the installation of these statues. People would respect the Japanese government if they did that but instead they give the impression they are not ashamed of the actions but only worried about people finding it about it.

Anyone who takes them up on their offer to buy a new Kindle should check themselves in for a mental health screening.

They just told all of their customers that you cannot trust a device you buy from them will continue to work in the future. So buy one from a different manufacturer and hope they aren’t as evil

I get that it may be expensive to perpetually support old devices but there is surely a middle ground between supporting them and bricking them.

Even if you have a large library on kindle I hope you have the ‘calibre’ to move devices.

Anti-wokeness can be directly tied to many of society’s current problems. So maybe that means the answer is an indirect “yes”?

I mean if people are going to go around thinking and empathizing with others we wouldn’t be able to bomb the middle East every 20 years, would we?

*The art of excursions

Relax, don’t worry it’s below the all important 50k paedo protection threshold so we can talk about this and everything else for the time being