Gentle nerd freak of the pacific northwest. All nation states are vermin.
Stealing a physical item from a giant corporate store is also always morally acceptable.
Having power neurologically suppresses empathy. Therefor resources controlled by the powerful will on average be used more harmfully. Taking resources from the powerful reduces total harm done.
You will use a loaf of bread less harmfully than Walmart will use the profit from it.
Oh look, another member of putin’s US regime going out of his way to sour US relations with a major ally.
A responsible editor would’ve put the Neo Nazi madness part in the headline.
Google encourages “protecting your business against costly state regulations”
Just remove the ‘y’ from ‘your’ and the sentence goes from lie to truth.
This kind of system is how you get the consistency and excellence that microsoft are known for.
Unless they’re axing the top 5% of the org chart, they’re not cutting the lowest performers.
She’s trolling trump. It’s not a serious proposition.
This is a really interesting point - that fascist political identities are increasingly built around a willingness to believe the unreal, ignoring left/right beliefs.
But it also massively overstates how much commitment people had to those ideas to begin with. For example:
No “conservative” defender of traditional family values would propose, as ambassador to France, a convicted felon who sent a prostitute to seduce his sister’s husband in order to create a compromising tape
Family values Republicans have always been rape-friendly hypocrites who accept any behavior from their priest-kings.
Giving the powerful free-reign is the conservative value. Everything else is secondary.
Don’t touch public things and then put your fingers in your mouth.
Health and safety gone mad!
Sinking a ship is a dramatic overreaction to accessing unclassified Treasury documents.
We spy on China as well, we just don’t make announcements like “in retaliation we’re going to continue hacking their shit too”.
Besides, if china needs to know anything actually important they can just ask putin to ask any member of trump’s cabinet.
The report said about seven in 10 households reported murder cases to the police nationwide with 33 per cent of households responding that the killer was an unknown person, and 23.4 per cent confirmed that the murderer was a member of the household
It doesn’t specifically say that these stats are from a single year, but everything in the report seems to be about May '23 - April '24.
Seven in 10 households reporting a homicide within 12 months is hard to comprehend.
DMCA was entirely created for illegitimate uses though right? It’s been rife with abuse since it started.
That quote has been going through my mind since I first heard the news.
Although to be honest I was thinking that parents who send their kids to christian schools are more likely to deserve wrath than the general population are. I’m not especially proud of that thought, I’m just upset at the way christians want so many other people to suffer.
Sakartvelo is the endonym for the country Georgia
Are you sure? The Big Beats Manifesto was only like 11 words long and that was described as an all encompassing way of life.
One of the earliest widely publicized school shootings was a female shooter in San Diego, 1979. The shooter’s explanation inspired the song “I don’t like Mondays”.
statistically significant amount of whistleblowers are actually just liars … When their lie catches up with them … decide to end it all"
This is a very unlikely situation.
These stories of nefarious liars abusing poor defenseless corporations would be publicized widely if true. We’d have prominent, well known examples.
This needs people who think the threats and reputational damage of being a whistleblower are worth it for the ‘recognition’, who are smart enough to construct a believable sounding claim but not smart enough to see the inevitable consequences. That specific kind of person is going to be much rarer than people who work for a legitimately shitty company and don’t like it.
The level of vitriol against pelosi is in no small part because of republican efforts to demonise her. Yes, she’s a corrupt plutocrat. But why do people hate her specifically, versus every other corrupt plutocrat that makes up the leadership of the democratic party?
She forced out biden and was one of the few dems who actually wanted to fight this election. But she was also a driving force behind the kamala campaigns failed right turn which destroyed her own good work.
She’s a more complicated corrupt plutocrat than people give her credit for, is I guess my point.
This is Russia targeting the core alliances of the US.
That’s not really harm in the way that hunger or poverty or lobbying against workers protections is harm. That’s more like a temporary inconvenience that doesn’t stop anyone getting what they need, right?