As someone who has spent a lot of their time around wanna be gen z tech bros, 99% of people have more in common with a damn antelope than gen z tech bros, especially the fanatically devoted ones. Those guys make some Jonestown people look like they aren’t weren’t in a cult
I mean, we spend more on defense than the next several nations combined and we haven’t won a war in 80 years.
We spend more on healthcare than every other nation and it’s still the most expensive healthcare system in the world.
We spend hundreds of billions on a welfare system that forces people on it to keep working until the day they die.
We throw out billions in kickbacks and “incentives” to billion dollar companies.
I could go on with the numerous, seemingly never ending problems with the US, but the point is that our system is indeed bad and dumb. Nothing we have works, and all of it is extremely over funded and under delivering. At this point, tearing it all up and starting again seems like the easier way to fix things, and getting to that point is never good
But remember, having all these private companies run the system is good, actually! The alternative is communism despite every other capitalist country in the world using the alternative!
Ehhh that’s kind of a stretch. Blaming all the shit in the middle east on one person or country really ignores the century+ of bullshit western powers enacted on that region
Oh yeah, he’s a massive chunk of the reason that almost everything is as fucked today as it is, I just think trying to pick a singular villain to blame any thing this big on ignores the systemic issues spanning decades that enables this
Coming from a city where it was 80 last week and 45 last night, we don’t have a lot of snow equipment here to deal with it, so our roads end up being SUPER dangerous to navigate whenever we get the lightest of snowfall. My city has to borrow snow plows from outside of the state just to manage the roads
Baldur's Gate 3 colossal new patch adds a playable epilogue set six months after the game ends with 3,589 new lines of dialogue, 2 new difficulty modes, and I'm running out of headline space (www.pcgamer.com)
It just doesn't stop.
in Australia, when we pay taxes, we get a receipt. The receipt shows what our taxes were spent on (lemmy.world)
I assume “Other purposes” is govt kickbacks to mining and gas companies 😬
Patch #5 Now Live! Version Number: 4.1.1.4061076 (forums.larian.com)
THE DAY HATH COME (i.imgur.com)
They don't stop coming (lemmy.world)
And they don’t stop coming and they don’t stop coming and they don’t stop coming and they don’t stop coming and they don’t stop coming
I feel like his character's catchphrase would be irritating (startrek.website)
Yes. We're better than you. (startrek.website)
"Pineapple Pizza" by Salo_Comic (telegra.ph)
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Pirate IPTV network in Austria dismantled and $1.74 million seized (www.bleepingcomputer.com)