2027: “Well, yes, twelve studies by well-respected universities concluded that our social media app is addictive, especially to children. But, we didn’t intentionally design it that way, it’s just a consequence of…”

2028: “Yeah! We did it! So what?! What are you going to do about it!? Yeah! That’s what I thought, bitch!”

Minister says ‘law abiding citizens have nothing to fear’

Fuck that asshole.

That’s just theft. I mean, how could I use a stranger’s card to withdraw money from my account? How would I get a stranger’s card?

There’s this:

https://thecashtracker.com/

If you get your cash out of an ATM, the machine could (I don’t know if it does, but I suspect at least some do) scan every serial number of every bill it gives you. To counter that, you’d need to “launder” it though some other person, the more times and the farther away the better, until it gets spent back into the system, where it can be, once again scanned.

If you get your cash out of an ATM, and then turn around and stick it in a bill receiver at some self-checkout machine, that could possibly be tracked. I don’t think this is hypothetical, I just didn’t find any evidence in a quick search, but the site above shows it happens somehow.

Yes, cash is much better than a card that tracks every purchase, but it’s not completely anonymous, either. And, it takes effort to ensure it’s anonymous. It’s not a given.

Hmmm. Since defacing a bill isn’t a crime, marking out the serial number of every bill you receive would break the chain, except that you’d be one of the very few doing it. That would need to become widespread for it to have any real impact. Oh, but probably the machine would reject a bill with a marked-out serial number.

Something exists.

People complain about it.

“It is better that ten guilty persons escape than that one innocent suffer.” Blackstone’s ratio.

We’ve lost this as an ideal. The fear, hatred, and apathy of the billionaires for literally everyone but themselves has been spread by the media they control. The unavoidable endgame of unregulated capitalism.

Solar is great, but will never be the only source. The same way burning carbon has never been the only source.

We need to be able to cleanly generate electrons any time, any place and solar can’t do that. Neither can wind, neither can oceans, neither can hydro. We have nuclear now, we still need fusion and geothermal ASAP.

If it’s just a checkbox, “yes, has a degree”, to get you to the next round of the interview, and it really doesn’t mean anything for your field, then do it.

Eventually, if you need the knowledge taught, and you don’t have it, you’ll be discovered and fired. This is true whether you have the piece of paper, or not.

It could have been the arms. That would have worked.

Looks like it was upscaled. It has that play-doh look.

… to be held before…

Same here. Not the working in IT part, though.

Zorg: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7VTsFtwO0u0

Right. Fire the people making the decisions. Leave in place all the people who do the actual work.

Try to imagine a party where phones aren’t allowed.

No one taking pictures or video, everyone talking to each other in the moment, just for the moment, just for each other.

If your commute is 30 minutes, you’d need to drive twice as fast to do it in 15 minutes. So, in the 35MPH zone, you need to do 70, and in the 50MPH zone, you need to do 100–consistently. Which is clearly impossible. If you follow this logic through to a realistic conclusion, you end up at saving at most two or so minutes by speeding as much as you can. Congratulations, you got home two minutes earlier, what will you do with all that free time?

Also, the idea that you’ve “saved time” is a bit silly. It’s not like you can bank that time. You’re not going to start work two minutes earlier every day, and end up with ten minutes of “free time” at the end of the work week. You get to work two minutes earlier, or maybe two minutes less late, and you get home two minutes earlier, but that’s the extent of the “savings”. So what?

Do yourself and everyone else a favor, leave for work two minutes earlier and have a nice, easy commute. Stop being a dick, it’s not your road, it’s not your right, and it doesn’t help you at all. Learn to control yourself, grow up, gain some emotional maturity, stop speeding around, you look like an idiot.

Hold still…

Oh, that’s a tortilla! I guess it’s just the lighting that makes it look gray? I hope.

You just know these guys will do their best for Epstein after weeks of eating nothing but the finest cuisine.

Rigged. They won’t hand it out to some rando.

Okay, but why, specifically, a dog sitting on a face? Are there more details to the event? Or, is this just an assumption?

This is a shitpost, you know that right?