Just once I'd love to see a major government force a company into bankruptcy by making them clean up their own mess.
Company: "We can't clean up our industrial mining waste, it's too expensive and we would go under!"
Government: okay well we will have the taxpayers pay for it. Here have a bailout. Remember, daddy loves you so much "Oh then I guess you should have factored that into your costs. Get to work. And when you have no more money to pay for others to clean it up for you, we expect to see the executives and management out there with gloves and a can-do attitude"
Honestly I find Russian general's belief in a 3 day offensive more credible than that.
Nearly 1000 days later, even.
I legitimately think he will die before ever seeing consequences.
The people in charge are too fucking scared to actually punish him because TERRORISM WORKS
They just straight up don't want to punish people because they're afraid some MAGAts might get mad and start continue to shoot things up.
They tried to murder members of congress and the vice president once, and nobody involved has recieved a punishment fitting of the crime. Certainly not the punishment we were taught happens when we were in school.
No offense to the bald comminuty meant, my favorite commanding officers were bald!
I just meant some of the right wingers are already making themselves bald (skinheads) like ferengi are bald.
Perhaps not forced birthers, they ARE however extremely sexist and force their women to be naked at all times, and have no rights...
I'd say the rest of us are more like aliens forced to LIVE on Ferenginar.
Don't even get me started on how the average right-wing/incel/pilled male is basically already an honorary ferengi...
Sharpen their teeth and give them some giant lobes and you wouldn't be able to tell the difference. Some of them even shave their heads already...
Bread is hamas now, I guess.
Also how many are repeat callers.
"Hey Bert, Old Man Jenkins called in another Santa Clause, do you have eyes on a plane around the airport?"
"Sure do, Tina. Small single engine is making it's approach now."
"okay thanks. I'll give you another ring when he calls in for the 243rd time this year..."
Back when I was a teenager in church, some of the local cops would be talking shit about the "crazies" they would arrest, and apparently one guy would call in about UFOs every time the nearest air force base used the training airspace that was overhead. Multiple times a week, and I guess never listened that it wasn't aliens.
Here's the one that convinced my dad that connecting everything is bad:
Your smart fridge knows what's inside and knows you just added a 12 pack of soda and donuts to the shopping list. They sell that data to a bunch of companies, including your insurance company. They know you have diabetes.
Your insurance rates just went up for the fifth time this year because your insurance company knows what you're eating.
And it's a good thing you don't drink beer or your car insurance would have gone up 'due to increased risk factors.' too bad you wanted to buy a new car this year.
Not only can you not afford it now, the price went up because they know you want a car. I'm sure they would make a payment deal with you though.
And every company will know all about the deal, the beer, the donuts, and all it took was sending money to whatever company had the information, and they were more than happy to sell it.
The more we allow companies to freely operate like this without regulation and without proper punishment for breaking the rules, we will continue sliding toward the hellscape of Ferenginar. For the non trekkies, it's a hyper-capitalist species of profit-driven assholes.
A friend of mine got this shoved in their mailbox today
Totally not domestic terrorists...
Nationalist Christians?
Hmm.... We should come up with a word for that.
How about Nat-Cs?
And elementary schools! Don't forget elementary schools.
Something something think of the children! calls in bomb threat
They wear their title proudly. Openly admit it in the streets.
And yet for some reason, are allowed to continue to operate freely.
Our country goes to war for less.
Edit: A friend of mine got this shoved in their mailbox today
Totally not domestic terrorists...
Red = ded
If you don't want ded, make sure no red.
It, along with anything high capacity and rapid firing, are perfectly designed for filling long narrow corridors with hot lead in a short amount of time.
Shotguns were just easier to carry. Still are, mostly.
To be fair, history is filled with people calling shotguns unfair for one thing or another. Like the punt guns that would take out entire flocks of waterfowl at a time...
They're all the same Q.
Which brings about the question: Is Alexander half-Q, or did Q just steal a klingon baby...
You know, I've also heard people saying this. Many people are saying this.
Who specifically? Oh, I can't recall.
But lots of people are saying this.