You can hold someone accountable when a person runs over a child or a pet. Who is the responsible party when a waymo kills someone?

I understand the Congo War has been the most deadly ongoing conflict since WW2. But the Apartheid regime was far from the only outside player in the war

“it’s very important that every one quietly starves to death while being beaten by police, or else the government will starve the rest of us and beat them up as well!”

Funding guerilla campaigns in the aftermath of imperial collapse of Africa is miles different than waging war against the 4 largest economies in the world like Germany did.

South Africa and Chile didn’t have the capacity to wage war on all major powers. Germany is the closest case study to what is happening in the US

Oh they are beyond just avoiding being furloughed. They are getting all their earlier unpaid checks plus all their overtime pay.

The aquifer has been totally drained by wildcat wells since there is almost zero access to running water in Jakarta. The draining of the aquifer has resulted in the rapid sinking of the city

Jakarta is quite literally sinking into the sea. The government’s solution was to move the capital to a new island

Friendly reminder that Canada was a global leader in various vaccines until Mulroney privatized Connaught labs in the 80’s. Profits over public health has been the MO for the last 40 years

Who’s he going to replace them with? There is already s massive shortage of ATCs with most airports below FAA guidelines prior to the shutdown.

They thought like would go up forever, and now that the line is starting to slow down, they gotta do a sacrifice to make the line look like it is still going up

What’s the actual difference? You end up at the same place with either one.

They just do nothing to stop the fascists when they have power and do everything they can to compromise with them.

My dad grew up in St. Louis in the 70’s and 80’s. He never heard his parents say “I love you” to each other or even kiss. This is because in America, love for anything other than the accumulation of wealth is forbidden. And definitely not because my grandparents were a terrible marriage.

Yeonmi Park spends her time tourring far-right podcasts and conventions. You might as well talk to Cubans in Miami about Cuba.

Claims Lithuania doesn’t border Russia.

Post map showing Lithuania’s border with Russia

It’s typically best not to use things dependent on wealth to assess age groups. A kid growing up in Hamtramck had very different experiences from a kid growing up in Birmingham Michigan, even though those two areas are only 10 miles apart.

Depends on the cutoff line. But i would typically say Zoomers are too young to remember 9/11 and old enough to have grown up with Marvel movies. Born late 90’s-early 2010’s. 30 is around the cutoff between Millennials and Zoomers so that wwill come down to individuals. But also, generations are pretty suspect as a concept outside of the Baby Boomers since that was an actual charatable phenomen

Amazon has more money than most countries. They can outlast any company in court, or just ban you from their services in the future.

It’s also a baseball term for when a pitcher illegally stops their pitching motion.

BALK RULES! IMPORTANT!

1. You can’t just be up there and just doin’ a balk like that.

1a. A balk is when you

1b. Okay well listen. A balk is when you balk the

1c. Let me start over

1c-a. The pitcher is not allowed to do a motion to the, uh, batter, that prohibits the batter from doing, you know, just trying to hit the ball. You can’t do that.

1c-b. Once the pitcher is in the stretch, he can’t be over here and say to the runner, like, “I’m gonna get ya! I’m gonna tag you out! You better watch your butt!” and then just be like he didn’t even do that.

1c-b(1). Like, if you’re about to pitch and then don’t pitch, you have to still pitch. You cannot not pitch. Does that make any sense?

1c-b(2). You gotta be, throwing motion of the ball, and then, until you just throw it.

1c-b(2)-a. Okay, well, you can have the ball up here, like this, but then there’s the balk you gotta think about.

1c-b(2)-b. Fairuza Balk hasn’t been in any movies in forever. I hope she wasn’t typecast as that racist lady in American History X.

1c-b(2)-b(i). Oh wait, she was in The Waterboy too! That would be even worse.

1c-b(2)-b(ii). “get in mah bellah” – Adam Water, “The Waterboy.” Haha, classic…

1c-b(3). Okay seriously though. A balk is when the pitcher makes a movement that, as determined by, when you do a move involving the baseball and field of

2. Do not do a balk please.

Or you can get a window unit if you want your bedroom cooler in the summer and a heated blanket for the winter for a fraction of the cost. And once again, neither of those options will spy on you or stop working just because Amazon shit the bed 1000 miles away from where you live. My parents have a high end mattress that tilts but it doesn’t need an Internet connection, and cost half the price of this thing. IoT devices are a luxury tax on people too stupid for all their money.