The one benefit of the Black Plague was that decimation of workers shifted power into the hands of workers as there was fewer of them. While eliminating 1.3 billion people would massively change the power dynamics. However, 1.3 billion gone would cause major society upheaval.
Removing one billionaire allows society to continue with minimal disruption.
They say death and taxes are the only the constants in life. I would like to add "BMW drivers not using the turn signals."
Billionaire hands down. No need to think about it. No moral dilemma here.
The only stress would be making sure th trolley actually runs the billionaire over.
For added bonus, I will even dress up like the traditional villain with the cape, top hat, and th twirly mustache.
Are You Smarter Than Fifth Grader: The Presidental Election Edition.
It has to be hosted by Muppets. Why? The Presidential election is now a game show. Might as well lean into the absurdity of it.
Blasted into the depths of space, works for me.
I love ready some good alt image text.
Thank god, all these employees lost their jobs so Satya Nadella can pad out their already insanely high salary.
We don't want Satya to starve like the rest us of plebs!
You could say Trump's arguments moved Bezos into a bigger house.
They would give some sort of motivational speech about how back in the day; they pulled themselves up by their bootstraps and screwed the lightbulb in themself.
Meanwhile completely omitting the fact that they were born into generational wealth.
Gandalf: Hello Frodo, what's happening? Ummm, I'm gonna need you to go ahead and take this ring to a volcano in Mordor. So if you could start around 9 that would be great, mmmk... oh oh! and I almost forgot ahh, I'm also gonna need you to go ahead and just do it, kay. We ahh lost some people this week and ah, we sorta need to play catch up.
I say send all the billionaires on a one way trip to Mars. All these billionaires think that civilization needs them, well go build a new civilization. We'll all sit back and watch them fuck up.
Someone is doing with some gusto!
I mean we still send out people to collect bags of ice. It's a shame we keep losing people. Probably should sell the bags for more than $2.50.
Yeah except the concentration camps come with free room and board.*
*Charges for the room and board will be deducted from your earnings as a slave.
Visiting Rome this week, Keir Starmer might have been expected to signal political differences with Giorgia Meloni. Instead he endorsed her approach to repressing migration, showing how much liberals have swallowed the far right’s agenda.
>This week, the prime minister is in Italy breaking bread with Giorgia Meloni, a leader who came to power at the head of a party built in the aftermath of World War II to maintain the legacy of Benito Mussolini and Italian fascism. Starmer says he wants to learn from and cooperate with Meloni’s approach to migration.
>It gets worse. Starmer and his foreign secretary, David Lammy, have also signaled that they will look to European arrangements with Libya and Syria for inspiration.
>The promise of social democrats and liberals was that they would restore decency to politics, not take policy tips from far-right governments. Rather than repeating the previous government’s strategy of migrant-baiting and brutality — which was a factor in mobs attempting to burn down people seeking asylum only weeks ago — Starmer should use his majority to chart a different course: one that meets our obligations to protect, rather than harm, people seeking safety and does not attempt to divide us by where we were born.
The truth about what's happening on America's roads—and how we can stop it.
The truth about what's happening on America's roads—and how we can stop it.
The president of the Log Cabin Republicans said the new GOP platform wasn't anti-LGBTQ+. He didn't expect the blowback he got.
The president of the Log Cabin Republicans said the new GOP platform wasn't anti-LGBTQ+. He didn't expect the blowback he got.
Photo of a couple with one of them wearing a black t-shirt that says "I'm very vulnerable right now if any goth girls would like to take advantage of me.
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A photograph of Ernie smiling quite happily. Ernie is holding a plant.
Text underneath says I like to use my victims as fertilizer to grow small plants, which I then send to the victim's family as a condolence present. Most people neglect potted plants they receive as gifts. So, in a way, it's like they're letting their children die all over again.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.myserv.one/post/9823448
> Driving the news: The high court voted 8-1 in favor of Starbucks in a case the company filed against the National Labor Relations Board involving the so-called Memphis 7, a group of unionizing workers who said they were unlawfully fired after they appeared in a TV news segment. > > - Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, who's effectively become the court's lone labor supporter, wrote the dissent. > > - The decision will make it harder for the NLRB, the agency that administers the national labor law, to go after employers for violating its rules.
Driving the news: The high court voted 8-1 in favor of Starbucks in a case the company filed against the National Labor Relations Board involving the so-called Memphis 7, a group of unionizing workers who said they were unlawfully fired after they appeared in a TV news segment.
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Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, who's effectively become the court's lone labor supporter, wrote the dissent.
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The decision will make it harder for the NLRB, the agency that administers the national labor law, to go after employers for violating its rules.
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Top image is Poochie on a bicycle slam dunking a basketball in a radical manner. The Sega logo is covering Poochie's face.
The writing on the bottom of the image says "Sega does what"
The bottom image is Ralph Wiggum sitting at a Coleco computer with an image of a cat and the letters C T. Ralph is trying to spell CAT.
The bottom text says "Super Nintendo Chalmers-Don't"
TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — A wayward kangaroo was corralled safely by sheriff's deputies Thursday after it was spotted hopping around the pool area of a Florida
TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — A wayward kangaroo was corralled safely by sheriff's deputies Thursday after it was spotted hopping around the pool area of a Florida
A man in Oakland, California, disrupted web development around the world in 2016 by deleting 11 lines of code.
Mr Giuliani filed for bankruptcy last month after he was ordered to pay $148m to Georgia election workers he defamed
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/11251965
> Mr Giuliani filed for bankruptcy last month after he was ordered to pay $148m to Georgia election workers he defamed > > Donald Trump’s former lawyer Rudy Giuliani has listed a claim against the one-term president over unpaid legal fees in a new bankruptcy filing. > > The ex-New York City mayor includes a “possible claim for unpaid legal fees against Donald J Trump.” in the 26 January filing, which states that the amount is “undetermined.” > > Mr Giuliani filed for bankruptcy last month, days after a federal judge ordered him to “immediately” pay more than $148m to a pair of Georgia election workers a jury determined he defamed. > > Mr Giuliani represented Mr Trump in a string of unsuccessful lawsuits contesting the results of the 2020 election that he lost to Joe Biden. > > Mr Trump’s legal fees owed to Mr Giuliani have previously been reported. The New York Times wrote in August 2023 that “Mr Trump has never explicitly told Mr Giuliani why he is effectively stiffing him, but the former president has pointed out that he lost the cases related to the election.”