we’re still not remotely close of a universal wealth tax

No, but this is a step towards it.

It’s unlikely it will happen someday, especially in the current political context.

My brother in Christ, YOU and EVERYONE around you has the power to shift the political context.

And that doesn’t mean shifting it overnight. It will take actual effort from you, not just whinging online to other apathetic souls having an “all is lost” collective wank.

You’ll have to speak with friends, family, coworkers, random strangers at the bar, and anyone and everyone who’ll engage with you about wealth inequality and taxing wealth not work. That’s the bare minimum.

Next is organising in your community or at least going to meetings and marches.

Finally you have to more actively engage with political people as an activist.

I’ll be the first to admit that I only do the first one, but it sounds like you’re not even doing that.

So either start doing that with me and everyone else here, or sit down, shut up, and go back to sucking your thumb and crying in your corner of the internet.

As an engineer I would like to second this motion to get “Mach Yeet” adopted as an IEC standard technical term.

All of that perfectly marbled meat 🍖

I think this is more a comment on the particular strain of misogyny that pervades Japanese society and not being surprised that a country which has women only metro carriages out of necessity to prevent sexual harassment is also having a problem with AI generated deep fakes. Though the latter is also a problem in many other countries which have access to these image models.

Has someone not made this a thing for the terminal?

Please, he’s Pound-Stretcher Trump. Not even Poundland would stock him.

100% they’re literally diarrhoea-shitting policies up the wall and seeing which fecal stains the courts and the economy miss or don’t care about.

But can we just do it with the sticks and stones we were promised?

As an engineer: 1000% agree.

Seriously, why do I have to pay a value somewhere close to £1000 for a set of FUCKING PDFs?!?

This is ridiculous. Make money from audits, certifications, training, and conferences. You can still make absolute stacks from those. Why the fuck do I or my company need to shell out thousands just so we know what to certify against to be able to sell stuff?!

It’s a fucking racquet and they know it. But it’s either one of 3 options:

• Find someone who’s willing to send you the PDF or log in credentials for a library service that has access to these standards.

• Take the risk downloading PDFs from dodgy sites you found on the 5th page of duckduckgo.

• Bend over and spread open your wallet. Because good luck getting anything delivered to a customer without it.

Nope they should have realised that even though they “own” this government, the president is communicating with a foreign server they don’t own.

Ok, but in general so can any organisation/institution become corrupted. So can your local authority or the upper management of where you work or the local school board or the organisers of your favourite activity club.

Your statement is tantamount to saying “corruption exists and is bad”. Well yeah, it has since people put a name to greed.

Its good to keep an eye out for it, but unless there’s growing evidence for the case that French courts have been corrupted, like how there’s now a mountain’s worth for the US supreme court, then it’s not being skeptical it’s being very cynical.

And your evidence for the bold claim that the French justice system has been corrupted enough to fabricate and enter false evidence and land a conviction?

What about evidence that french media freedoms have been suppressed so badly that every single news agency has been intimidated into not revealing leaked evidence of fabrication?

Send in the fucking Swedes.

Absolutely no shit taken by Swedish peacekeepers when either side of a conflict shoots at them.

It’d still be something. Bemoaning “oh there’s no point because it’s hopeless” gives these fuckers more fuel because the opposition is just etting it happen without any complaints.

It’d be like a cop kneeling on your neck and not bothering to scream “help I can’t breathe! they’re killing me!” because you’ve just accepted that they’re going to suffocate you to death.

(Deutschland by Rammstein Intensifies)

Some other German brand then? BMW? Mercedes?

Seize the German Tesla factory and hand it over to VW.

Show musk that the bite of his orange lapdog has consequences.

Sounds like a suit for the strong German unions.

Hey guys, please don’t pay any attention to the history of the modern Olympics (early 20th century) being started as sports day for the wealthiest of society because us toffs got scared about the formation of proper sports federation events allowing the peasants to compete in our leisure activities because they offered cash prizes making them a viable career so we made a set of games where the only prize is prestige hence why you get a lot of working-class background olympians selling their medals on eBay…

Don’t mind anything of that because for the first-time (and probably the last for about 20 years) we got a woman for the first time in charge! Woo! We’re so progressive! Please keep watching so we can rake in insane sponsorship money and bankrupt cities that host our overhyped egg-and-spoon races.

I thank you for the sentiment, but save your words and don’t spare the ammunition.