Except that Biden is in no way evil. Being old is not evil, and his administration has done a lot of great things.
Except that Biden is in no way evil. Being old is not evil, and his administration has done a lot of great things.
To further your point, I’ve never understood why American billionaires want us to be more like Russia. Yes, it will make line go up in the short term. Do they know what happens to Russian billionaires? They have a tendency to fall out of windows.
I don’t know why they think they can get one of those without the other.
It’d help if we had more than the very slimmest of majorities.
AIPAC is American money.
https://readsludge.com/2024/03/04/whos-funding-aipacs-political-spending-barrage/
$5 million from WhatsApp, $2m from Home Depot, half a million from Kraft.
It’s tiered pricing. All the chains are doing it now. Jump through hoops or pay double.
A friend’s kid brought home Covid and they didn’t catch it because they masked up for a few days in their house.
I had actually bought masks in 2018 because I was tired of getting sick every third flight. And then chickened out and didn’t wear them because it just wasn’t done at the time, at least outside of Asia.
Ended up donating that box to my primary care when supplies were short at the beginning of Covid.
It does both. Others more than you, yes, but it does help both ways.
I was traveling recently and got so many dirty looks for wearing a mask, only one at O’Hare.
And then I didn’t wear it enough and caught covid for the first time. (I should have known better in cramped tourists spots). Then I had a reason to wear it, especially while temporarily homeless.
Just because of the whole murder thing? It was legal!
Yes, The DNC famously doesn’t care how maybe Republicans are in Congress.
Remember the name of this commenter, because he constantly posts the same shit.
I have to say, “you’ve been unpardoned” would be a great line.
Maybe they should take it to Russia with them, instead of trying to bring Russia here.
Turns out journalists still need to eat, though.
WaPo got bought out and just ran quite a brave article on how they’re about to be hollowed out.
I saved the authors names for when they get fired. Maybe I can follow them wherever they end up.
There are different types. The “financial duty” of corporations is generally overblown, however that is more or less what happened with Twitter. Elon made such a dumb offer that they had to put it to their shareholders. There’s some mechanism where shareholders can vote as a whole to sell, and if the vote passes then you don’t get a choice.
But generally corporations absolutely aren’t required to do whatever makes the most money. They’re allowed to put other values above pure profit, as long as they can justify it being in the shareholders’ interests. The shareholders may disagree and vote them out because of it, but as long as it was plausible, it’s legal. For instance, I believe the board of an Oil company could decide to shut down their wells and fully pivot to renewables, and I don’t think the courts would hold them accountable. Preventing climate change is easily arguable as in the shareholders’ interest, even at the cost of significant money. However that board would likely quickly be voted out. (And it’s unlikely they would have gotten there if they didn’t love oil money.)
If you own 51% of shares, public or not, you can’t be forced to sell afaik. And if you’re private, you’d have to do some pretty big illegal defamation or something to be forced to sell your property. Or you could die and your descendents could decide to sell.
One issue is that we’ve set up our tax system to encourage cashing out asap. For the most part in the US, you’re going to be taxed at 37% whether you sell now or whether you have the company pay you out for the next twenty years. So why not get out while the gettin’ is good? In the past, with a 90% top marginal rate at a higher income, it was often better to keep your money in the company and in the reputation, and just have it pay you out at a medium tax bracket for the next fifty years. All you really need to do as your job is make sure the company stays stable anyway. You can do that while spending four days on the golf course.
Do you use websites? They can also track your IP.
Heh, P2P absolutely does not minimize security concerns, especially of your IP being revealed.
Remember how people got DDoSed all the time because of Skype?
An IP address alone does not identify you. It might identify your general area.
Any other website works the same way. I can go buy a domain, set up a plain html site, and view the IP of anyone who visits the site.
What kind of features are you looking for?
Whoever you’d recommend is already exposed to the lemmy.ml people or worse, it’s just through Facebook or Instagram or Reddit. At least here they’re a little self-contained.
Eh, sounds like a conspiracy theory. It’s the kind of thing that would look really bad if it got out, but doesn’t have much upside.
If it signifit affected profits, maybe, but this doesn’t register there.