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But not to vote, huh?

Priorities…

truuuu

If Thrawn is canon, Mara Jade is canon. I don’t make the rules. ╭∩╮（︶︿︶）╭∩╮

And “a boot” is “about” in Canadian. 😜

To add a funny one:

(Hint for Americans: the joke makes more sense if you pronounce it with a British accent)

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

39 trillion national debt, but national healthcare is “too expensive”.

To capitalism’s credit, we’re reaching a point where money doesn’t really seem to matter a whole lot anymore.

You know, unless you own gorillians of it.

Maybe, but I think sociopaths have a real “ok, well fuck you, too, then. I’ll do/get it myself!” mentality when it comes to God.

And yet you will never hear the 2A crowd chant the implied variant of their favorite mantra, “AI doesn’t kill people; people kill people.” 🙄

The NDAs and TS/SCI labels are going to obfuscate the decision chain to the point that culpability won’t be able to be established at all.

marauders

So basically just like… the internet is banned?

TBF, this kind of disaster planning is not uncommon even outside the current context.

Most major metropolitan hospitals have disaster planning/simulation committees that regularly game-out responses to catastrophic incidents, including a nuclear bomb incident.

This also isn’t the first time WHO has done this kind of disaster preparedness (yea, even for nuclear weapon usage).

Actually, I think that’s the main process of enshittification, but I don’t think enshittification is always deliberate.

Very often software products are tweaked, changed, or even degraded in an attempt to “simplify” or “improve” a particular user experience at the expense of another UX.

And to make matters worse, some companies end up with a Frankenstein product of confusing functions because they are trying to cater to two entirely different user bases within the same product.

E.g. Microsoft may genuinely have believed that changing their system settings UI in Windows 11 to “consolidate and reduce drift” of system configurations would improve the everyday user experience, but they failed to account for the decades of inertia they’d built up from their prior OS user base and how that would piss off a not-insignificant number of other users who had grown accustomed to the way the product had previously worked.

Israel could just not allow its settlers to fly crop dusters over the border to spray poison to kill Lebanese crops and none of this would happen.

Listen up, young 'uns—shit’s gotten real bad when the Germans start going broke.

They’ve clawed their way back from all that WW2 debt for awhile now, and were the ones bailing people out left and right during the 2008 financial crisis.

If the Germans start going bust, only God can save us.

“Nur noch ein Gott kann uns retten.”

These aren’t "double-tap’ strikes. These are war crimes.

They aren’t just bombing civilian infrastructure. Obviously they’ll hand-wave the incident away via some vague reference to some sketchy intelligence.

The followup strikes are a war crime because they’re waiting for first responders to arrive and then they kill them, too. That’s stupidly illegal, immoral, and inhumane. It’s akin to shooting a medic tending to a soldier on the battlefield.

Rohollah recalls how his daughter wanted to become a doctor.

“She used to tell me, ‘I promise I will become a doctor so you won’t have to pay medical bills anymore.’ I would hold her and say, ‘You are already my little doctor’,” he said.

“When I saw her smile after coming home from work, all my pain disappeared. Now I don’t know what to do with this pain. I don’t know how to live with this.”

😟

What fucking stupid, late stage capitalist, Pollyanna codswallop. Wow.

DoorDash doesn’t provide a delivery service. They don’t pay delivery drivers to deliver, they don’t provide vehicles, benefits, or even consider drivers employees. People pay DoorDash for access to use their software/platform to receive requests from customers for delivery services. DoorDash offers a series of contract plans in which a driver pays fees for various tiers of DoorDash acting as a payment processor, can opt for a per-job rate reductions to guarantee a “base job rate” (without any guarantee of jobs assigned), and are otherwise uncompensated for “non-active” time.

The exploitation comes in the form of a monopolized rentier platform. In the same way that you might pay a landlord for access to a space to rest your pretty little head at night, restaurants and drivers pay premiums for access to a digital space to market services to one another. DoorDash doesn’t make anything other than software, and you can’t even “buy” DoorDash’s software.

Instead of creating value through the production of goods, DoorDash acts as a digital landlord that extracts surplus value (rent) from both restaurants and laborers by controlling the digital infrastructure necessary for exchange.

Just like a landlord, DoorDash owns the digital “land” (i.e. the application, algorithm, and user interface) connecting customers, merchants, and workers.By controlling this infrastructure, DoorDash acts as a tollbooth. It charges restaurants a high commission fee (ranging from 15% to 30%+) for every order. This fee is a form of monopoly rent, where DoorDash takes a portion of the restaurant’s profits simply for allowing them to access customers, similar to a landlord extracting rent.

DoorDash does not cook the food or directly employ the delivery workers as staff (again, they’re “contractors”, which DD has lobbied heavily to ensure). The restaurant produces the value (the food), and the driver performs the labor of delivery. They are a glorified phone service, however convenient or “neato” you might think they are.

Doordash absolutely is rent seeking, though. Restaurant operators are paying the rent—for being furnished with SaaS services that used to just entail calling the restaurant and placing a takeout/delivery order. Nevermind the SaaS platforms restaurants have to pay for in order to integrate their SCM software with the ordering apps.

We used to call to order a pizza. Now, both the restaurant and we—the consumers—pay various abstracted-away “fees” to have a middle man do the same fucking thing.

The restaurant doesn’t “own” the software, and it doesn’t “own” the data produced by its day-to-day operations. They pay to have third parties warehouse and manage their sales data for them, and sometimes even sell that data back to them for additional fees.