The power games are for the people at the top, the ones with money. For the rest of the sheep its [religion, racism, nationalism, patriotism, whatever bogeymen that can be made up]. Just like in the US today. There’s no shortage of complete fundy nutcases wishfully cheering trump’s war in the Middle East as a path to Armageddon when in reality it’s nothing more than trump desperately trying to control the petro energy market as a power and money grab. Except he’s an idiot.
Surprised they didn’t shoot him to kill the witness.
X1C. The new version looks even better. Pretty happy with the XIC’s performance, though. Way better than my old Lulzbot.
I don’t even know if that’s a thought. This country has little hope of a third party without radical changes to how we vote.
But keeping loud progressives in the party where they can be seen and heard is good to keep progressive voters engaged. Note that Bernie, AOC, and the more outspoken libs are given more airtime come election years whereas they only get minor sporadic coverage the rest of the time. So the Dems attract the progressives by amplifying convenient voices when it suits them, but otherwise progressive policy is essentially nullified by neo-lib willful failure to block shitty conservative policy.
Weather, my hobby groups some of which I admin, email, looking up various parts and how-to’s for a car I’m working on, messaging, and occasional housecleaning of the phone itself - getting rid of unnecessary photos, email, SMS and all that.
All your power and water are belong to us
Climate change.
Literally.
Time to lay off some of those consumers and cut wages so we can claim to be positioned better for profits from the very people we’re cutting.
My favorite tech buy is a good 3D printer.
The ability to imagine something, model it in 3D, and then send it to a box and have it “magically” become real via 3D printing will never not amaze me or stop being cool.
Plenty of other useful tech toys like a jellyfin PC or a 3D scanner, but the printer is the thing I enjoy the most.
Can’t prove a negative.
They think they stopped school shootings based on criteria they made up. Unless someone was physically on the way to a school, armed, they didn’t stop anything.
Wannabe Minority Report.
Well their work sure as fuck isn’t based on objectivity.
Don’t let facts get in the way of a good fascist takeover.
All the presidents back to the 1920s, combined, up to this term for trump, made $400 million while in office.
All of them. Added up to $400 million.
Trump had made over a billion dollars in his first year.
Best grift ever.
That means stupid people would have to run the State and make those rules.
Well, shit…
Seedlings take years to grow into large fruiting trees. Best tine to have bought them would have been under trump’s first presidency.
It’s like he doesn’t understand markets, trade, geopolitics, or just basic business.
Not like we didn’t know that about him before he got elected. The first time.
That is the standard plot for any good story.
The most basic version is: normal person gets pushed out of their comfort zone, undergoes turmoil, comes out of this turmoil changed.
Unfortunately popular movies tend to make them all “tough guy gets pushed into violence, destruction ensues, he gets the girl and/or revenge” or “uptight person gets put in absurdly contrived cringy situations that are supposed to be funny, then comes out of the situation not uptight and gets the girl.”
Ugh. I dislike titles like this.
Lowest high? Highest low?
Just say “record lowest” or “lowest ever recorded” or something.
Your manipulation of government with billionaire money has paid off in an inconvenient way. The crazy MF who you thought you could control and give you all the tax breaks and power to manipulate the market has gone rogue battling the billionaire authoritarians of other countries for nothing more than ego.
Congrats. You have survived the initial catastrophe. Thank goodness you somehow knew to be prepared for such a situation. Hmm, how did that happen?
As the world is plunged into nuclear winter, chaos, starvation, and warring with whatever weapons are left, you will watch it all happen from the comfort of your bunker as your supplies and fuel dwindle only to die just the same from starvation, some infection, or most likely painfully and slowly from a radiation induced illness thanks to the now completely poisoned world. “King of the hellscape” would be on your tombstone, except there’s nobody left to make one. #winning.
Drowning Pool’s Bodies done by Psychostick.