Right…
They’ll try to use it for “security” but the fact is that just tells the people they pay one of two things:
There’s a bunch of gold where you work. And only you and your coworkers have guns
There’s no more gold so you might as well leave.
There’s a pretty good show with a great premise called Billionaire’s Bunker that gives a third option, the billionaires would really hate that one, but it’s pretty good plan
“The fall of Rome, Spain’s imperial decline, the French Revolution, the end of Bretton Woods [the 1944 agreement establishing today’s international monetary system]… this is effectively a transfer of real wealth from the poor to the rich elites who protect themselves with gold,” Bertrand wrote. “We’re witnessing what may be one of the great pivotal moments in financial history yet it’s being barely discussed.”
It’ll never get old to me that the Uber wealthy know money is only valuable because everyone agrees it is. And when they accumulate too much, everyone else stops caring about it make Ng it worthless…
And their response is always to hoard a different thing that is mostly valuable only because people all agree it is.
Like, gold does have some actual uses, but none of this is being used for that. Just hoarded because people think others want it.
But shit gets bad enough, it’s like a zombie apocalypse.
You can have all the gold in the world, doesn’t mean someone will trade even a gun with a single bullet for it.
There’s just no real way to hold onto that insane levels of wealth it inequality, because it’s totally unnatural. It’s unmaintainable, but the people who benefit will try everything to keep it.
Do you think anyone in England is waking up thinking about ways to suppress Irish culture?
…
When someone says Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, do you think that person is talking about every common Israeli citizen, or specifically the Israeli government?
Like, this confusion is a much larger problem than Ireland/England. So I want to put a good effort into explaining it.
But first we need to get on the same page that the English royal family isn’t even eth ically English, they’re a cadet branch of the old French royalty before the French decapitated all their royals…
So pretty much the only people who’s had to put with the English royal family more than the Irish, are the English commoners. That’s why the English language is such a mess, there was no upper society enforcing rules on it as it grew, because the ruling English didn’t consider themselves English, they were the ruler of the English people.
Their culture was already pretty much erased by the time the English royals starting carrying about “England” and that was mostly just so the English royalty kept their heads. In private they likely don’t see themselves as English so much as as they see England as a representation of them, which is why they try to erase every other culture.
I hope some of that made sense because like I said, it’s important to understand when people criticize a country, they’re almost always referring to the government of said country, and not every last citizen…
It’s not weird if you know Irish history.
For centuries the English has tried to erase Irish culture.
Something the vast majority of Irish aren’t happy about…
This spreads Irish culture, so theres likely a lot of support for it. Like, think about how much 99% of the world hates the English for erasing their culture and centuries of human rights abuses…
The only culture that’s been fucked with by English royalty more than England is Ireland. And there’s a lot of culture pride there as a result because they’ve never given up.
but like i think i still would rather have artists + influencers ubi then none
Right…
But first you posted a comment about how pissed you were that another group were getting it and they shouldn’t.
Even if you know you meant “everyone should get it”…
You didn’t type that, you were manipulated instead into only saying a group you don’t like shouldn’t get it.
No one reading your initial comment was/is capable of reading your mind. You did what the wealthy wanted, and may have influenced those who just read your first comment.
All these good sounding programs sound great in theory, until you find out that the lobbist controlling their actual enactment will make it a lot easier for CEOs to request the funds than actual homeless artists
No, means testing is so ignorant people switch from:
We should all get this
To
The people I don’t like shouldn’t get this
If people drawing one dick but a month gets this, it’s only so people like you will be turned against UBI.
Shits too important to allow that ignorance to go unaddressed.
Because after it’s explained, you either get back on the side of the people, or make it obvious that you’re just against UBI for reasons other than you said
Reminds me of when Ireland uploaded one of the most ridiculous rap videos ever to their country’s youtube channel:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljPFZrRD3J8
They’ve always prioritized the arts, mostly because the English have been trying to erase Irish culture for centuries.
It makes perfect since why Ireland would prioritize Irish artists.
That attitude is why the wealthy will always insist on means testing to oppose progress…
The attitude we need is:
I hope as many people as possible get it now, and we’ll keep working on the rest.
Influencers suck, pretty much as a rule.
But everyone deserves to live. And them being UBI proponents and constantly talking about it because they’re genuinely happy they got it is a hell of a lot better than them taking cash from a billionaire to pit us against each other.
It was both a warning to Israeli-linked gangs and collaborators, as it was a statement about who still governs the war-ravaged Palestinian enclave.
Literally the only reason Hamas exists is because Netenyahu solicits donations for them from Muslim majority countries like Qatar, and then literally smuggles the cash from Israel into Palestine.
If Netenyahu really wanted to get rid of Hamas, he’d just stop paying them.
I don’t think it’s for training really.
It’s way more likely they want to get people together and talking about AI in the hopes they hear literally any plausible method of monetizing it. And stealing that idea.
With the added bonus when you check out, if you subscribe to it’s AI you get 50% off the drinks, if you don’t you get a month of the AI service with you’re drinks.
The way AI effects your brain is kind of like drugs. It’s feels fun and novel at first, and a lot of people get tired and let it go. Certain people are wired different and get hooked.
Maybe it’s because I just re-watched Snowfall, but it feel like when Franklin cooked up his first key and just gave it away. They’re trying to hook people who would never intially buy it, because some of them won’t be able to stop.
Yeah. There’s a Webley and an Ak laying around too.
But the FC9 (3d printed 9mm AR “pistol”) was hidden away in a loft even tho it wasn’t in a firable state. So there’s very little chance they left operable machine guns just laying around
They’re not airsoft, and I doubt they’re replicas. Most likely decommissioned collectibles
Usually they get the firing pins removed and then the action welded shut thru the frame, or a cut made in the same location. Sometimes the barrel gets plugged too.
But at one point they were actual guns.
While definitely a serious issue…
The picture of one of their bedrooms is fucking hilarious. You can’t get any more on point for assumptions than the juxtaposition of Nazi flags on one wall, and the kind of wallpaper you put up in a nursery on the other wall.
I mean…
The US military has been using various media like videogames for propaganda for a long time.
Obviously SA is going to influence things too.
Back in the day wed hook up old desktops straight to living room PCs. There was no apps so we’d just go to websites.
I’d be surprised if there isn’t some kind of raspberry pi mini PC with a good guinerap around Linux.
Some people will use a PlayStation/Xbox as well.
I think my comment is more about privacy than ads
I agree …
Everyone else was talking about one thing, and you acted like I was talking about a bunch of other things.
That’s why you’re confused, we were talking about ads, and you got upset we weren’t having another discussion.
Now why are antelopes the super ungulates?
See how little sense that makes?
We’re talking about ads (and maybe privacy) on TV’s mate…
It’s not even personal opinion, it’s objective fact…
Amazon shoves ads on everyone of their products far and above any competitors.
Oh sweet summer child, Google is NOT going to be any better at this. That will just be changing one corporate evil for another.
The track record for people using that condescending phrase while not understanding what’s happening continues…
The smart TVs operate on Android TV, made by Google.
Amazon uses their own version of Android, and that’s where all the shitty stuff comes from.
I’ve got a nice name brand android TV, the only ads are “this movie is on streaming” or “this show premieres in a week”.
I got a cheap Amazon TV in another room, in the same place for ads on the home screen, it has ads for random products
There is a marked difference. They are “better” at this. Obviously no one in 2025 thinks google is “good”
I legitimately don’t know, but if you read the article, this wasn’t their plan or their protests.
They’re just reporting how many of their members have been infused by police for protesting, and how many have been killed.
Like, if I go to a BLM protest, there’s gonna be some assholes I don’t agree with there too.
Putting different groups against each other to derail a protest isn’t anything new. Neither is acting like a giant protest is only worth as much as the worst people to support the cause.
I understand why the AP is doing it. And I understand why you’re doing it.
She was right the first time…
Israel has been caught multiple times for ing released hostage to lie about conditions:
I have zero doubts they told her horrific stories, it’s just there’s no reason to believe them. Especially considering the hostages/bodies Israel released have undeniable evidence of extended torture, mutilations, and other evidence where we don’t have to take anyone’s word on what it was like.