I really wish that UK parlimentarians would try to spend at least as much time solving actual problems that the UK is facing instead of the constant, can we get rid of PM/party leader and sub in a new one, that seems to be their entire focus of the last decade.

Which could be accomplished by simply raising prices by that amount and then paying the staff appropriately and not have this end run around complicating mess.

That was the entire point of the IPO wasn’t it? Funnel money to Elon and his friends and leave the rest of the (less connected) idiot investors holding the bag? Anyone who didn’t own before it could sell wasn’t one of the in-crowd that was supposed to be handed money. If you did buy, you weren’t buying based on any business fundamentals and should have known to sell as soon as any gain could be realized which would have been hours or even minutes after buying.

All the fraud is in his home and with his friends. Even if all the people receiving benefits were making fraudulent claims, it would probably amount to less than he and his family are grifting from the US governemnt this year.

If the person driver is trying to escape culpability, too bad. They made the decision to use Tesla autopilot which is well known to go crazy and crash into things, so the fault remains with them.

Good. I believed in personal computers and the internet changing the world. However the promise was that it would make life better for everyone. It only made life better for a select few who then used it to further their own interests. I don’t think the new grads have anything to lose by refusing to play the game since it is completely rigged against them.

It isn’t that the US has changed. It is the same as it has always been. It didn’t come to Europe’s “aid” until it had to defend itself against the Axis. It has been a American propogated myth that the US aids any other country. The US creates situations to take advantage of other countries and make it seem a benevolent action. The only change is that Trump is too stupid to get the messaging right and says the quiet parts out loud while scamming the American people for his own gain thereby removing America’s political mask and showing America’s real face to the world.

Is it just me or do FIFA fans seem alot like MAGAs? Willing to believe any lie and pay any amount to prop up their corrupt cult?

Melania was right, she wasn’t an Epstein victim. She was fully in on it ready to sell her body to the highest bidder in order to stay in the US and bring her parents to the country. Epstein enabled that for her whether she performed for him and his buddies as well, who knows. If she wasn’t coerced, who cares. Or maybe she was but still felt the payoff was worth the price. She has a prenup and seems not to have slept with Trump since getting pregnant with Barron so maybe it was all worth it for her. I am assuming she was of age when she got to the US. If she was under 18, she is a victim, although maybe a willing one? Women do things that knowingly make them a victim if they cannot find any other way to achieve what they want. Doesn’t make it right, but I can understand why some would do it.

Trump and many others break the current laws with impunity. Which shows all we need to do, and what will be expected, is to pay off the surveilance. Tech Bros are the new mafia.

That same ‘west’ that would be blamed if they bowed to cultural conventions and allowed the release of the body and all those young men also died of ebola and spread it to other family members.

And don’t drive any vehicle made in the US in the last 15years?

If you really think your life should be over, try to do something valuable first. I just read a good long description of anarchy on another post. Could be a good place to start.

I used to feel this was a tragedy. Now I feel that those parents aren’t intelligent enough to have children. They deserve what they got. The child died but it was probably going to of something else stupid at some point anyway. A century ago, before we had all the modern medical procedures, a large percentage of children didn’t make it to adulthood. That is going to be the new norm for the parents who know better than “the elites”.

When I read studies like this, I wonder what variables they aren’t including. What else causes impaired blood flow in the brain? Anything? If anything else does, it is affected by consuming alcohol? Does alcohol impare flow more or less than the other thing(s)? For example if extreme stress impared blood flow but alcohol decreased the stress and then impared blood flow but impared it less than the stress did, alcohol would be a positive, but if it aded to the impairment, it would be a negative. Ancedotally I know plenty of people, now in their late 80s and 90s who have drank moderately and it doesn’t seem to have caused them any significant issues. I also know teatotallers that haven’t made it to age 65 without the beginning of dementia type deficits.

Unfortunately it seems that 8 in 10 Americans also think the Democrats are “just as bad”.

If there is any rationale other than the “we are the USA, we can do whatever we want, whenever we want, for no reason at all”, I would be surprised.

The bosses are much more likely to shorten the work week while shortening pay even more and then using the “not full time” to reduce any benefits. Be wary.

Most of the past history of raising minimum wage/payroll taxes/employee benefits has been immediate outcry by business groups over how all business is going to go bankrupt/the sky is falling followed by change that a year later has business chugging along mostly the same as it was prior to their catastrophizing. It’s not really surprising that employees who are able to spend more, spend more.

That’s where the cap needs to be. There will always be someone capable and willing to take the job without the enormous pay packet. Executive pay is the biggest scam ever created.