OPEC (+ Russia & USA) hates this one weird trick.

makes you wonder if/how/by who its been used all these years

yeah, the timing is ‘interesting’

The most disappointing part of school is taking a 101 class and making a bunch of deductions based on what you learn, and then taking the 201 and learning that other people had the same ideas first.

Are you suggesting that golf balls migrate?

eating a what?

Born of contraband smuggling?

mfw Bezos wants to build Mikoshi

the school’s owner siphons off all the resources, leaving very little for the teachers, staff, and students to utilize.

2 guys cook cafeteria fare for the whole school - they don’t have time to get fancy. they want to make good food, even though they don’t get paid very well, but the ingredients they’re given are mid shelf cans of things purchased from bulk warehouse stores like Costco or Sam’s Club or whatever the local equivalent is. it tastes decent and checks all the nutritional boxes, but is less exciting than food you can make at home or buy from a restaurant.

They’re still talking about doing it if they can’t raise enough money to make it through the next R&D cycle. The deals with Nvidia and USA’s federal government gets them about half way there.

oh my how the turntables

Yeah, its no shocker that 2 oversize and overpriced SUV’s are not selling well, and neither is the yet-another overpriced luxury sedan.

Both of the people who can afford to buy them already own vehicles.

BYD is going to have a monopoly at this rate. All the other auto makers seem to have preemptively surrendered to the competition. For example, Ford recently hyped a big announcement of their ‘new Model-T moment’ which turned out to be just another shitty overpriced, underperforming truck that has some secret sauce they hope will pad the profit margins (ie they plan to build it to lower quality w/ the same manufacturing techniques that are causing Cybertruck failures).

eugenics

if the people human livestock who need medical treatment to live are allowed to die, then the babies of the survivors will be cheaper to maintain because they’ll need less medical treatment

link is broken:

“You cannot negotiate with authoritarians. You cannot negotiate with fascists. They don’t stop ̶u̶n̶t̶i̶l̶ ̶e̶v̶e̶r̶y̶o̶n̶e̶ ̶c̶o̶m̶p̶l̶i̶e̶s̶.”

FTFY.

Fascism requires an “other” to exist. When all the current “others” have been killed, they must invent a new one or perish.

The goalposts are ever shifting, and the in-group forever shrinking.

Its autocannibalism.

https://www.nato.int/cps/en/natohq/topics_49187.htm

Since the Alliance’s creation in 1949, Article 4 has been invoked seven times:

1. On 10 February 2003, Türkiye formally invoked Article 4, asking for consultations in the NAC on defensive assistance from NATO in the event of a threat to its population or territory resulting from armed conflict in neighbouring Iraq. NATO agreed a package of defensive measures and conducted Operation Display Deterrence from the end of February to early May 2003.
2. On 22 June 2012, Türkiye requested a NAC meeting under Article 4 after one of its fighter jets was shot down by Syrian air defence forces.
3. On 3 October 2012, Türkiye requested Article 4 NAC consultations when five Turkish civilians were killed by Syrian shells. Following these incidents, on 21 November 2012, Türkiye requested the deployment of Patriot missiles. NATO agreed to this defensive measure to help Türkiye defend its population and territory, and to help de-escalate the crisis along the border.
4. On 3 March 2014, Poland invoked Article 4 following increasing tensions in neighbouring Ukraine, as a result of Russia’s aggressive actions.
5. On 26 July 2015, Türkiye requested that the NAC convene in view of the seriousness of the situation following terrorist attacks, and to inform Allies of the measures it was taking.
6. On 28 February 2020, Türkiye requested consultations following the death of Turkish soldiers in air strikes by the Syrian regime and its backer Russia in Idlib province.
7. On 24 February 2022, Bulgaria, Czechia, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania and Slovakia requested to hold consultations under Article 4 following Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

the userbase has become degenerate and the site is now unusable due to lack of moderation

the better way is to stay far, far away

No good deed goes unpunished on Reddit.

I caught a temp ban for something similar, and decided to never return.

They accused me of “abusing the report button” for reporting a post that was advocating violence to advance the political agenda of a far right, ethno-nationalist, religious fundamentalist ideology.

Reddit admins are terrorist sympathizers when it advances the class interests of the site’s owners.

https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/2009-04-16

This move is being framed as a response to an annual stress test, however it also has the effect of reducing inflation without increasing interest rates, raising Federal taxes, or reducing government spending.

Bankers hate it because it reduces their profits, and in different political climates that has been enough to convince donation-dependent politicians to instead raise taxes or cut funding to necessary government programs that benefit the non-donor economic class.