“We clearly haven’t made the working class desperate enough yet. Let’s have immigrants and students fight over jobs to make everything even nastier!”

I’m sure this won’t in any way result in a huge cohort of angry underemployed young people. No siree.

I’m also starting to think that businesspeople aren’t the Galtian ubermenchen that they think they are, given that they by and large can’t plan more than six months in advance.

“Going to be”?

Do they?

Because their actions imply otherwise.

We’ve even had an “Evil must be opposed!” moment.

So, robots blasting each other in the face, body horror and reckless child endangerment is “meh, whatevs?” but this gets censored.

Oookaaay, BBC.

On a side note, Earthspark is such a neat show. The sound and visual design is fantastic, the voicework is top notch and the animation is really well done. There’s a series one episode where the Seekers are attacking Prime and Megatron and it’s just pure visual poetry.

I’m afraid that homelessness is going to follow the path of addiction: that it won’t even be recognized until white ex-urban people are affected by it, and even then the measures that will put in place will be too little, too late and too worried about the cost on the rich to do much for the poor.

Gee, maybe you should have spent more time improving the lot of everyday people and less time playing footsie with billionaires?

A lot of neoliberal erstwhile-progressives are about to find out the consequences of selling out their principles for a seat at the rich kids’ table.

Most of Europe’s already found this out, Biden and Trudeau are looking at the same thing, and I expect Starmer will be out on his ass after four years of failing to help the poor and middle class, as he’s so busy right now assuring everyone that he’s not a socialist like Corbyn.

All those gains that were made in the 2010s? We’re at real risk of losing them as corporations try and triangulate their way to maximum revenue.

After Anheueser Busch welched, the right smelled blood in the water.

The progressive left is going to need to fight very hard and make a lot of allies because we’re so very close to snapping back to the 1990s, if not the 1950s.

How much of this is decline at the expense of Windows 11, due to Steam lowering barriers to entry, fatigue with Windows’ hard selling, and/or extending the useful like of hardware that W11 abandoned.

How about we just around kneecapping billionaires, instead?

So, money is speech, is pollution speech too?

Sometimes you get a 63-leaf clover, sometimes you get Gojira.

do the Liberals have any good options to turn things around?

Quit the party and vote NDP.

A liberal is a conservative whose privilege hasn’t been challenged yet.

I’d like to see them lose so badly that Sinn Fein has more representation.

Does it work the other way? Can I follow Threads users without being on threads.net myself?

How some federal employees are pretending to work using ‘mouse jigglers’.

FTFY.

This happens everywhere that managers are more interested in warming chairs than actually being productive:

• If you measure your employees by their work done, this isn’t an issue; if they’re getting what you think should be eight hours of work done in four, you promote them, pay them more and/or give them more responsibilities.
• If you measure them by the percentage of hours they spend warming a chair, they’ll…warm the chair.

Boy, imagine if we’d planned for this in the 1980s, like experts told us to, instead of just kicking it down the road because they money was too good?

Coincidentally, that’s what using it is like, too. :)

To be fair, that’s a British style of writing. It’s a loaded word in North American journalism, but neutral in the UK.