ThePowerOfGeek

Hopefully he can get amnesty in another country, like Canada or New Zealand. Because this administration will continue to relentlessly go after the poor guy.

Ah okay. Thanks for the heads-up.

During the election campaign many Trump campaign rallies had sign-up tables for people to apply for a government job. Many younger gun-nut guys and proud boy types there were encouraged to sign up. And now there’s a bunch of them in ICE driving around terrorizing latinos and people of color. Hmm, write the coincidence, right?

FIFA officially now stands for Fawning Incompetent Feckless Assholes.

No mention of Obama being invited.

Nothing says “I’m innocent” like “you are going to come to regret this!”

Strong agree on the lack of punctuation.

Medium has become a bit of a cesspool for low-effort hot takes. Sometimes the articles make a great point but are not very well written (as is the case with this one). But more often than not they are a single, unfounded, absurd rage-bait argument that’s been spun out into an article with the help of AI.

Whataboutism at its finest.

Whatever. Lock all the predators away.

Literally went missing. As opposed to his followers. Their brains went figuratively missing when they started following him and his modern acolytes.

Your 15 minutes of game is over, Kim Davies. Stop trying to milk it. Go back under your bridge, you miserable little troll.

The ultra wealthy already got their ‘tariff dividend’, in the form of not tax breaks and a discrete heads-up of when to play the market to real maybe amounts of extra wealth.

As for the rest, this offer is just more bullshit. If it does surface (which is very unlikely) there will be some strings attached. And it will in no way fully compensate most people for the turmoil caused by these tariffs.

So we (the working and shrinking middle class) are still paying our taxes. But now our taxes are going to Argentinian ranchers, and gaudy and unnecessary ballrooms.

Meanwhile those who are financially willing and able are helping out their family, friends, and neighbors in need to not starve. Which is basically an unofficial extra tax - on top of the extra expenses charged to us via frivolous tariffs.

What a fucking joke. Every time I think the government can’t get any more flagrantly greedy and irresponsible, they find a way.

A lot of the comments here seem to be missing some key points from this article:

• The writer made her own likeness available to everyone on purpose. She did this knowing what would happen, but it was part of the exercise of seeing how weird it would get. So the points that she was stupid for doing, or that she was outraged by this, this are missing the point. Was she stupid? Maybe, but she made a conscious sacrifice on her likeliness. Was she outraged? Clearly not.
• It’s short-sighted to say “yeah this will happen, so don’t put your is image out there”. There are lots of people (especially women and girls) who have gone out of the way to avoid having their image/likeness out there for these it similar reasons. But they have still ended up the victim of humiliation and trauma from photoshopped images or deep fakes made against them.
• This second point was a big part of what the author was trying to point out. It’s both a warning to others about being careful of protecting your identity, and an alarm sounding that there are some really weird and creepy fetishes out there that people can get their likelinesses pulled into, even when you actively try to avoid that.
• It also highlights the lack of safeguards on this kind of issue. Consent, age, level of fame… none of that matters in this issue. And in most cases the companies behind these tools don’t do shit to address these concerns.

As I recall, there were some fiscal shenanigans with that, which led to the budget looking balanced/with a surplus but it wasn’t exactly that way. Something about kicking some debt into future years.

But still, your point is still good. We were far better fiscally then than we are now. It’s pretty horrifying to see how far we have gone off track over the last 25 years. Especially since the ‘party of fiscal responsibility’ was the one that send to have caused the majority of that debt.

Here’s the “top 10” list (there are a lot of countries tied), if anyone was interested, like I was:

• Singapore 1st 193
• South Korea 2nd 190
• Japan 3rd 189
• Germany 4th 188
• Italy 4th 188
• Luxembourg 4th 188
• Spain 4th 188
• Switzerland 4th 188
• Austria 5th 187
• Belgium 5th 187
• Denmark 5th 187
• Finland 5th 187
• France 5th 187
• Ireland 5th 187
• Netherlands 5th 187
• Greece 6th 186
• Hungary 6th 186
• New Zealand 6th 186
• Norway 6th 186
• Portugal 6th 186
• Sweden 6th 186
• Australia 7th 185
• Czechia 7th 185
• Malta 7th 185
• Poland 7th 185
• Croatia 8th 184
• Estonia 8th 184
• Slovakia 8th 184
• Slovenia 8th 184
• United Arab Emirates 8th 184
• United Kingdom 8th 184
• Canada 9th 183
• Latvia 10th 182
• Liechtenstein 10th 182

The US ranks joint 12th with Malaysia.

Source.

That’s why she wants to speak to the manager… of the hurricane classification department.

That’s just crazy talk!

Yes

This reminds me of ppl when they think chocolate milk comes from brown cows

Yeah that’s just crazy.

Everyone knows chocolate milk comes from any cows that are fed large amounts of chocolate.

Citizens United strikes again.