@Mikolaj1918@NeoliberalShell@Clint_Davey1 That's one assumption after the other. I'm not German. You don't have a clue about my knowledge. And you sure don't have a clue about what and whom I pity. If anything, I pity you and the hate in your heart.
The mother of my ex was forcibly evacuated from Breslau. What you call Wroclaw. By the German army. She was German. No one in that family was Nazi or sympathising with them.
When the area was given to Poland after the war, they didn't have a place to rebuild, because the Polish people hated them.
What you say is simply not true.
@JohnLeePettim13 Former professional sailor. Used to captain a traditional 80ft sailboat, did a lot of charters.
Lots of passengers were enthusiastic and wanted to buy a boat.
I always advised them not to. Rent one.
This is not exactly how it works. The next train can't enter the track that is occupied without breaking the rules. The safety system prevents 2 trains occupying the same piece of track. It will give a break-command to the computer of the next train. The engineer is there to oversee it happens.
This means that delays have effect on the entire schedule, simply because the timetable is full.
Delays don't mean crashes.
Smedley Butler was one of the most decorated Marines in U.S. history.
He received two Medals of Honor, one of only 19 Americans ever to do so.
He spent thirty-three years in the U.S. Marine Corps, rising to Major General.
In 1935, he wrote a book called War Is a Racket.
He said:
"I was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism. I helped make Mexico and especially Tampico safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in. I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefit of Wall Street. I helped purify Nicaragua for the International Banking House of Brown Brothers in 1902-1912. I brought light to the Dominican Republic for the American sugar interests in 1916. I helped make Honduras right for the American fruit companies in 1903. In China in 1927 I helped see to it that Standard Oil went on its way unmolested. Looking back on it, I might have given Al Capone a few hints. The best he could do was to operate his racket in three districts. I operated on three continents."
One of the most decorated Marines in American history said this.
In 1935.
It is not assigned reading.
The football stadium still says, "Thank you for your service."
But the general who explained what that service was actually used for is still kept outside the official mythology.
The US Epstein class gets away with it again;
Elon Musk has agreed to settle the SEC case over his delayed disclosure of Twitter stock purchases with a $1.5 million civil penalty, paid by a trust in his name, without admitting wrongdoing and without returning the roughly $150 million the SEC alleged he saved by delaying disclosure.
That is the whole sickness in 1 number: the regulator says the delay saved him around $150 million, then the system offers a settlement where the penalty is basically 1% of the alleged benefit.
For every $100 allegedly saved, the punishment is $1.
That is a transaction fee for people rich enough to treat securities law like optional paperwork.
The case goes back to Musk’s 2022 Twitter takeover, when he was buying shares before the $44 billion acquisition.
Under US rules, investors must disclose when they cross the 5% ownership threshold within 10 days.
The SEC alleged Musk missed that deadline by 11 days, allowing him to keep buying while the market still did not know the world’s loudest billionaire was building a major position in Twitter.
When the stake became public, Twitter’s stock jumped sharply, with reports putting the move around 27%.
So the public version is simple: Ordinary shareholders sold without the information they should have had.
Musk allegedly bought cheaper because the market was still in the dark. Then, years later, the system returns with a fine so small compared with the alleged gain that it looks less like enforcement and more like a receipt.
This is exactly why normal people no longer believe in equal rules.
A retail trader misses a filing, violates a platform rule, gets liquidated, banned, flagged, frozen, audited or destroyed.
A billionaire delays disclosure during one of the most chaotic tech takeovers in modern history, allegedly saves enough money to buy whole companies, and walks away with no admission of wrongdoing and no disgorgement of the alleged benefit.
And this is not even the only legal shadow around the Twitter deal. In March 2026, a San Francisco jury found Musk liable for misleading Twitter investors during the acquisition process, while also clearing him of some broader fraud allegations.
Plaintiffs estimated damages in the billions, and Musk’s lawyers have said they plan to appeal.
That matters because this is not just about Elon Musk.
It is about the architecture of elite impunity. The richer you are, the more the system turns consequences into negotiations, violations into settlements, and public damage into private paperwork.
The law still exists, but it bends differently depending on who is standing in front of it.
They call it a fine.... I call it a price tag.
And once the richest people on earth learn that the price of breaking the timing, disclosure and trust mechanisms of the market is lower than the money allegedly saved by doing it, the lesson is not “never do it again.”
The lesson is maybe much darker;
Do it bigger next time.
You don't know anything about my income, my job, or anything else. Your post is riddled with shortsighted assumptions.
I make a decent living. I'm perfectly happy living in one of the wealthiest countries there is. There's opportunity in my town too. And indeed, lots of people don't work where they live. Who cares? I want my town to be relaxed and beautiful. Not a huge highway.
@dannycantalk@PayaCahuite@MidFanEnergy And that's where society took a wrong turn. Big SUV'S, guzzling gallons, with 1 person inside that hates walking. You're in for a rough time if your president keeps up his antics.
@SJohn_1974@Coinvo Incoming tariff revenue? You mean extra tax that you paid to import stuff that was cheaper without tariffs? Which was illegal so your government is now paying the companies that had to charge tariffs back.
Tariffs made guys like Bezos richer. 🤣
@lady_valor_07 I'm too European for this. Where I live, waiters and waitresses earn enough without tips. We tip when you provided good service and the food was good.
The blame for not making enough lies with the employer, not the customer.