Monahven

☦️. Nerd. Hobbit.

[Monahven @monahven]

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[Cav Senpai @cavannastan]

Again for those in the back, Elon once offered to cut a check for $6 BILLION to the WFB to "eliminate World hunger" as they said the money could. His one condition was that the accounting was public.

They did not accept.

[Orthodox Christian @orthodox_33ad]

🔸 June 11 - The Holy Chinese Martyrs 🇨🇳🔸

Today, we also commemorate the Holy Chinese Martyrs of the Boxer Rebellion. A lesser known but touching story in Orthodox history, these Chinese saints gave their lives for Christ in Beijing during an anti-foreign, anti-Christian uprising which occurred in China in 1900. In 1685, the Russian Orthodox Church established an Orthodox mission in Beijing. In the two centuries that followed, many Chinese natives began to convert to Christianity, and some married Russian spouses.

The important missionary work in China was interrupted in 1900 with the Boxer rebellion - a violent campaign started by peasants and eventually supported by the Chinese government which sought to drive out all foreigners and foreign influence. It was named ‘Boxer rebellion’ as many of the Chinese rebels practiced martial arts and were known as ‘Chinese Boxers’. On June 10, 1900, leaflets were posted in the streets by the rebels, calling for the slaughter of all Christians, and threatening anyone who would dare to shelter them with death.

The bloodthirsty rebels marched with burning torches, holding aloft idols of traditional Chinese deities. About 70 Christians hid from danger in the home of the priest Saint Mitrophan who was the first Orthodox Chinese priest who had been ordained by Saint Nicholas, the Russian missionary of Japan. On June 11, the Boxers surrounded the house of Saint Mitrophan, and brutally slaughtered the martyrs who refused to renounce their faith. Before being executed himself, Saint Mitrophan was forced to watch the beheading of his wife Tatiana and 23 year old son Isaiah.

The rebels also cut off the nose, ears and toes of his 8 year old son John. In total, 222 Chinese Orthodox Christians suffered martyrdom at the hands of the Boxer rebels. The relics of Saint Mitrophan and other martyrs were placed in the Church of the All Holy Orthodox Martyrs, and a new church was erected on the site of their martyrdom. This church was destroyed by the communists in 1954, and the location of the relics are still unknown. Today, only a stone remains to signify their place of martyrdom.

[Flappr @flapprdotnet]

"If you won't let us get away with murdering people, then we're moving to Africa"

[Allie Beth Stuckey @conservmillen]

I really wanted to believe the group defending Karmelo was a limited fringe of radicals. But the show of mainstream support and utter delusion from many black politicians, celebrities & activists quickly dashed that hope. It’s one thing when we’re talking about a black person who was killed - you can at least understand sympathy for George Floyd or Michael Brown, even if the facts are disputed. But we are talking about an undisputed murderer. To defend him, one has to be so far outside of reality and the realm of moral truth that they can no longer tell up from down. It’s so extremely dangerous for people who think this way to have any say whatsoever in matters of law and justice.

[shoe @shoe0nhead]

@nkulw its a shame we cant have adult conversations about the state of society when libs are in the room playing “ur a meanie poopoohead” toddler politics

[Frontierism @frontierism]

“Your honor, this is only his first murder”

[Mountain Ğeneral @MountainGenera]

So this was really an omen

[shoe @shoe0nhead]

whats wild is this wasnt even like a “cop kills black guy” thing where there *might* be some debate about the police or whatever it’s just straight up a black kid stabbed a white kid and they’re losing their minds that he’s going to prison over murder. fascinating.

[shoe @shoe0nhead]

if you look around at everything happening and your conclusion as to why people are becoming more radicalized is still some shit like “andrew tate” and “podcasters” you should be wearing a helmet 24/7

[Alice Smith @TheAliceSmith]

This current establishment strategy of “don’t talk about the horrors of immigration or you’ll make matters worse” is the classic attitude of a domestic violence victim.

[Legal Bytes 🍽💙 @legalbytesmedia]

If you’re a business dealing with a PR crisis where the public has decided they hate you because they think you’re Goliath stealing from David, this is a great way to make that crisis significantly worse…

[Rock Solid @ShitpostRock2]

Periodic reminder

[Eva Vlaardingerbroek @EvaVlaar]

The left’s favorite fallacy: They claim right-wingers ‘use’ attacks like this to further our own ends. No. It’s because of attacks like these, that we ARE right-wing. The idea that we are secretly glad it’s happening so we can “further our agenda” is the most absurd thing I’ve ever heard. We want this to stop. We want our people to be safe. And it’s because of leftist policies that they are not.

[Matt Morse @MattMorseTV]

Young Americans have been so unbelievably fucked over it's actually unreal, lmao.

[J.T. Alexander @JTAlexander]

99% of lawsuits, criminal or civil, resolve before trial. This leads to a notion that if a case goes to trial, it must be a close one.

In my experience, this is not true. Of the 1% that go to trial, 0.1%-0.2% is a close issue.

0.8%-0.9% is because the Defendant is delusional.

They are usually too stupid or self-centered to understand that their defense is complete nonsense that the law doesn’t recognize. Sometimes they refuse to take a plea deal because it’s “worse than the last one.”

They think the fact they claim couldn’t get a ride to Court lets them off the hook for Failure to Appear.

They think the fact the store has a company policy against using force to stop thieves makes them immune from a Robbery charge when they use force against the employees.

They think that because what they stole is worth only $5 that it cannot possibly be a felony that they stole that item at knifepoint.

They think that because they got 9 months on their last misdemeanor that the 2-4 year presumptive sentence on their felony is absurd.

They think that because their zero-prior juvenile co-defendant only got probation that it’s unreasonable for a career criminal on his third felony to get more than a year.

These are all examples of not only cases I have personally prosecuted, but have personally encountered *multiple times.*

Not “multiple times over a 20-year career.”

Multiple times *every single year.*

I absolutely do not doubt whatsoever that Karmelo genuinely believed that stabbing someone over violating the utterly nonsensical ‘hood honor code’ qualified as self-defense.

As you can see here, plenty of his co-ethnics genuinely believe this as well.

They are utterly delusional.

This entire case is a great example of how much time and money our society wastes offering delusional people an opportunity to present their utterly delusional defense.

And because it is so absurd and such a waste, most jurors come into trial with a preconceived notion that the case must be a close one. Surely we can’t be dragging them away from work, wages, family, school, and all manner of obligations just to waste their time with bullshit.

So it must be valid… right?

They will grant the utterly delusional defense far more weight than they would under any other circumstance.

And occasionally, if you don’t keep people like OP here off the jury, it will succeed.

Despite the law having absolutely no concern whatsoever about this ghetto honor system, our justice system ends up ratifying it every now and then.

And nobody ends up giving more free incorrect legal advice than someone that got off on a crime they shouldn’t have. This triggers a cascading effect of ratification of the delusional belief across the local criminal population.

Thus, how you have so many people believing the delusion.

[𝐂𝐔𝐋𝐓 𝐂𝐋𝐀𝐒𝐒𝐈𝐂 𝐂𝐀𝐆𝐄 @CultClassicCage]

as a woman who has been gaming since 1998-ish I am a tomboy & I liked gaming because IT IS a guy's hobby. I despise frauds like you because you hijacked the hobby i love & deliberately try to change it for the WORSE. Gaming has gotten worse since these dumb ass companies kicked longstanding gamers GUYS to the curb to appeal to women/normies who came from candy crush and don't actually fuck with this hobby in any passionate way other than for the check to hit or to use the latest hype game release as the newest online fashion statement.

[Nard @Narddog4747]

America has lost ~$450 billion from outsourcing IT to India in the last 6 years alone.

I've worked through 15 different technology implementations for healthcare providers over the past 6 years. Small scale to enterprise level.

While the data is clear on the amount of foreigners that have been given US based tech employment, what it precariously omits is the enormous scale of reliance on offshored labor. This is an opaque process to most people, even corporate Americans don't understand what is actually happening.

Every single project I was involved in used Indian consultants. Scrum masters, data analysts, DevOps & SWEs, project managers - all Indian. The service team - call center reps, client managers, Their work was horrific and constantly needed micromanaging. It would take 6 Indians to complete a simple SQL pipeline for SFTP prep that an American dev could solo in half the time. Project documentation was atrocious, filled with grammatical errors making it largely undecipherable. Deliverables were always late.

Firms like Deloitte, Accenture, PWC, EY, Optum and Huron all have what PWC calls "acceleration centers" where these people are employed. Primarily in India, but also in Malaysia, the Philippines and Mexico. Massive corporate buildings that cram thousands of these people to do work that would require 1/10 of the amount of Americans.

I often wondered, why? The answer is simple - build a deliverable that (barely) functions but breaks enough to keep the client engaged long term. The money isn't in the project, but all the servicing behind it. Using offshore labor allows these companies to arbitrage labor cost exponentially, meaning massive profitability for shareholders.

Example:

A company pays Deloitte $400k to build a new inventory software system. After it’s live, they sign a 5 year support contract for $180,000 per year so Deloitte’s team fixes problems, updates it, and keeps it running. That turns a $400k project into $1.3 million total revenue for Deloitte over time.

But the devil is in the details.

Mostly all of development work for the inventory software is done offshore in India, where Deloitte’s developers cost the firm about $25k–$35k each instead of using American developers who cost $110k–$150k each.

In that same $180k per year support contract, Deloitte will use offshore teams in India (costing the firm ~$15k–$25k) instead of Americans (who cost ~$90k–$120k).

Every offshore hire means roughly $60k–$90k in American wages that never enter the U.S. economy.
Over 5 years that’s $750k–$1.2m+ in lost U.S. wages that will never enter the American economy, from one single project.

Scaling of this issue is imperative.

An estimated 150,000 projects have been completed by professional firms since 2020.

Low end: 150,000 × $750,000 = $112.5 billion

High end: 150,000 × $1,200,000 = $180 billion

However, these are only first order effects. If we account for second order (wages supporting local economy and everything downstream) we can conservatively estimate a 1x-1.5x multiplier so the real cost for America looks more like this:

Low end: $112.5B × 2.0 = $225 billion

High end: $180B × 2.5 = $450 billion

$35-70 billion per year on IT outsourcing alone.

Professional companies are expanding very rapidly on this front, largely through AI marketing slop to blissfully unaware boomer corporate executives, embedding their useless AI into their bread and butter - outsourced service model.

There are virtually no indicators that anyone will do anything about this.

[Seamus (FreedomToons) @seamus_coughlin]

this is how aliens talk in cartoons

[Matt Walsh @MattWalshBlog]

You cannot claim that you’re aborting your Down syndrome child because you don’t want him to “suffer.” First of all, killing a child so they don’t suffer is psychopath serial killer logic. You’re on the same moral plane as Andrea Yates. Second, children with Down syndrome are famously some of the happiest people you’ll ever meet in your life. They are not in fact living in a state of perpetual torment. So what’s really happening is that you’re killing your child so that YOU won’t suffer the inconvenience of caring for him. This is about freeing yourself of your own perceived suffering. If you’re going to be a child killing sociopath, at least be honest about it.