The German population went through serious economic troubles. Wheelbarrows of cash to buy stuff. Economically troubled people get angry and revolt, and in democratic systems that means firstly voting for the extreme candidates, the ones with a good story. Anger shuts down critical thinking and they don’t think about other consequences of their vote.
That’s how many elections went in a lot of counties in the last few years too.
We’re they visiting them in person and physically intimidating them?
Not this instance specifically, but other Chinese police stations around the world do indeed do that. It’s seen as an organization, not unlike the CIA, just less official.
These police officers are reported to also go after people of Chinese origin that have said things the CCP doesn’t like. Violating the right to free speech on USA soil doesn’t sit well with the local authorities and diplomats.
The TV is for the wife, but even she gets annoyed with the amount of ads and reruns to increasingly turn to streaming.
That’s how he runs. It’s like those people “summoning spirits” doing a cold reading, but in a much larger scale.
“I sense you are bothered by roads, airplanes, children, jobs”
“Yes, jobs. How did you know?”
“And it’s all the fault of trees, donkeys, cars, doctors, immigrants.”
“I really hate immigrants.”
“so we’ll build a bicycle, sidewalk, front door, barbed wire, a wall”
“Oh yes, we need a wall to keep them out. This guy is really telling it like it is.”
When asked later why he suggested a bicycle, this is vehemently denied even when recordings are shown.
Unless you use goat wool socks. Then you can go for a old school hippie build. Sandals, long hair, tie dye shirt and go from there.
Not really. Trump just adjusts his story when he notices it’s not well received. He even started to promote getting vaccinated to keep his base from dieing, noticed the pushback and changed his message to anti-vax again.
To upper management, it’s all fields in a spreadsheet anyway. That you need 3 cheaper juniors to replace that one expensive talent to in the end pay more for less is abstracted away and the source of many meetings to figure out why reality doesn’t match projections. That’s called the efficiency of private enterprises.
15% of people make $100k in the USA. That means 85% care and a large part of them are not in a good shape.
Paying tribute to King Donald the First, pledging fealty and be granted the title Duke of Cyberspace.
Seems these systems don’t need to shoot. It has interceptor drones. These can fly into the spy drone, so the rich guy can just claim it was a mid-air collision and offer to pay back the owner if they just identify themselves.
That’s Accelerationism for you. The goal is to totally distort society and rebuild in their image
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Yeah, and it went from “let’s just add some stuff” to outright “we will force feed you this slop and you will like it” from there. It felt like you were a goose being prepped for Christmas’ foie gras.
Businesses that were too successful are also called monopolies, and have a chilling effect on entrepreneurship all in their own.
Median wage in USA is about $20/h, so the actual numbers say there are a lot of people being closer to having trouble making ends meet. Even then, the ratio matters a lot. It’s the difference between “we’re all in this together” and “some of you won’t make it but it’s a sacrifice I’m willing to make”. In the latter situation there is a lot more resentment and sympathy for violence.
Ah, an upgrade for Lenny the chatbot. It can drive scammers nuts.
So you’re saying large corporations need to be broken up into smaller businesses I avoid concentrating too much wealth in upper management.
That’s actually been studied. Turns out that about 40 is the tipping point for most people, as in CEO earnings 40 times more than the lowest paid workers. Up to that point people think they boss earns it, above that resentment starts to grow.
They’re at 700. Yeah, that’s dangerous. People are very sensitive about relative earning for work. Fairness is just hard wired into all animals and it’s dangerous to ignore this, although humans react a bit later and that gives a false sense if security for those at the top.
Electronic products and software should get a “at least supported until” label on the packaging and legally obligated to keep the servers running until that time.