@KC_Invests They're going to keep it going until we run head-first into the wall, I reckon. There's physical realities that no amount of jawboning or propaganda can change, and we're coming up on some of those physical realities pretty damned quick.
@the_P_God It's a strong desire to possess Secret Knowledge that They don't want you to know. It makes people feel unique, like they're tapped in to something special that not everyone can understand.
Its magical thinking. Its the same thing that leads to cults and conspiracy theorists.
You don’t see this very often.
The Nasdaq 100 is quite literally moving in a straight-line lower.
Now down -4.5%, on track for its biggest daily loss of 2026.
@barbarismcrit "Even a broken clock is right twice a day" shows how much effort must go into being wrong EVERY SINGLE TIME and that sounds fucking exhausting honestly.
You’re not the only one who feels like you’re losing your mind. Everyone I talk to has said this to me. This world is taking a toll on all of us, even those who are trying not to pay attention. Let this connect you to other people in solidarity rather than isolate you.
@ThisLeadenPall@TheatreSpoonie Are you in the UK?
Can you use a single-sex bathroom?
Congrats, you have more rights than a trans person.
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@lordofblocks@OxfordAnalytics When we get a true general artificial intelligence, or when you can run an infallible LLM off of a handful of fruit and nuts, we can revisit the idea. Until then, there's no replacing humans.
Sometimes I forget how "normies" see the world. There are people out there that believe "consumers just decided to switch to streaming and give up physical media".
Youtube lost money for a decade before it made a profit.
Spotify lost money for 17 years.
None of this is accidental or organic. People didn't "choose" these systems. They outright rejected them for literally decades while these systems operated at a loss that made competition with them impossible, funded by people who wanted to change the world into what we have now. A system where you own nothing, consume whatever is offered on-demand and nothing else, and you have no privacy or anonymity.
Netflix killed Blockbuster with by-mail PHYSICAL MEDIA at a loss. The entire time they were eating Blockbuster's business they were losing money. After Blockbuster died, Netflix phased out physical media and I remember the severe backlash, but the choice was streaming or nothing. Still many (maybe most) people just cobbled together private collections from bargain bins and garage sales. Netflix continued to lose money....10 BILLION dollars of loses in the 2010s even after Blockbuster went out of business.
Understand the truth, that a cabal of global institutional investors funded companies that nobody wanted for literally decades at a cost of untold billions of dollars....until there was NOTHING ELSE LEFT for you to use.
@ABhummingbird@TSLAQrabbithole@DonMiami3 At first my response was "you're not fucking wrong"
But if even I, a complete layman, know about the dangers of the salt domes getting too low or draining too fast, someone higher up still does.
They just aren't being listened to.
@southernmsgurl@TheatreSpoonie@_celia_bedelia_ I think, without being unduly unkind, that there is very little chance I am your sweetie
Why inject yourself so readily into an unrelated conversation to decry "I am glad to see someone admit (trans/homosexuality) is a choice!" with such glee?
What drives you in that moment?
@southernmsgurl@TheatreSpoonie@_celia_bedelia_ Did you read the actual paper? Or just the abstract? Because I'm reading through the study now, and the abstract didn't even support whatever point you think you are making, let alone the actual paper itself.
@TSLAQrabbithole@DonMiami3 It's a twofold problem as well.
Emptying the reserve too much means the surrounding pressure from the earth can cause structural failure in the surrounding salt domes.
But also, pumping out too much too quickly can cause damage, like back in 2022.
We're bearing down on both.
@tomoparasite I gotta do the little rhyme still, and I'm almost 40.
"30 days have September, April-June-and-November, all the rest have 31 (except February)"
🚨 Arkansas State Trooper Michael Austin Kennedy resigned after his wife filed 30+ screenshots of his white supremacist text messages in their divorce case including calling areas “N*GGERLAND” bragging about detained Hispanics as “trophies,” and pushing to repeal the 19th Amendment.
The messages to his wife Alana were packed with racial slurs against Black and Hispanic people, rants blaming “illegal immigrants” and Black people for traffic and crime, and extreme views like banning Muslims from America. One message read: “You don’t f*king hate them enough. The s*t that clogged up [their son’s] toilet is worth more to me than any of them.”
Kennedy also sent selfies posing with detained Hispanic individuals while on duty, calling them his “trophy.”
Alana amended her custody filing seeking sole custody. She stated his beliefs would “poison the minds of the children” and that the kids feared him because of his hate and irrational thoughts.
Kennedy resigned from the Arkansas State Police on May 15 shortly after the messages surfaced. In court papers he acknowledged the language but claimed it was “outdated” and didn’t reflect his values today after therapy and church guidance. Arkansas State Police reviewed his traffic stops and citations and said there was no indication his views affected his job performance.
A man sworn to protect and serve all citizens was privately holding this level of hatred.
What screening or accountability should law enforcement agencies have so white supremacist views like these don’t stay hidden until they surface in divorce court?