Not entirely accurate. It *WILL* be able service a small proportion of major urban and metropolitan areas. And there are plenty of people in those areas for whom Starlink will not only be the best high-speed option but the *ONLY* option. Because the incumbent ISPs had no reason to offer anything other than shitty DSL…

Devil’s advocate — the two are effectively inseparable. They both feed off the other. Conservatives have been using this to further careers for, right, since America’s founding.

“If conservatives become convinced they cannot win democratically, they will not abandon conservatism. They will reject democracy.”

*FUTURE* shareholders, maybe. But not the ones making these decisions. They’ll be long dead before the bill comes due, which is why they keep making the same destructive decisions: it’ll be someone else’s problem, someone they don’t care about in the slightest.

Any system that allows for economic inequality is always going to end up going that route — someone with more money and power will ALWAYS use that money and power to amass more, setting off the arms-race power spiral that has rotted every nation from the inside. It’s basic human nature.

[insert Barbossa “Guidelines” meme]

In a nutshell, and growing more relevant with every passing day.

America has become the sociopath’s paradise. The politicians are almost all sociopaths. The finance sector is lead by sociopaths. The business sector is run by sociopaths. Take your pick, and the people in charge of it don’t give a shit about anyone else but themselves. So it’s no surprise that they’re only too happy…

Businesses and corporations will never be responsible citizens of society, because they and their owners exist *EXTERNAL* to society. So you either beat them into submission with laws, regulations, and wildly expensive settlements paid by the main decision makers alone, or they run roughshod over society, killing…

But it stars fantastic Laura Donnelly, so all your criticism is invalid. That’s how this works, right?

Not that many cultures, middle-eastern or otherwise, are gleefully misogynistic or anything...

“I’m a good person. I just like making people suffer, that’s all. No harm in that.” — GOPeons.

A duplicitous, narcissistic, pathological liar does exactly as he has always done his entire life — lie, cheat, and steal to enrich himself.

At a guess, the crowds are procedurally animated, while the main characters are all hand animated (which hadn’t been done yet).

It still doesn’t solve the fundamental problem with train service in the US: freight and passenger trains run on the same rails, which results in wildly unreliable passenger service, because freight always takes priority. Freight takes priority because it generates more revenue, but at no time in the US history has…

Seven officers getting rehired — at the ‘behest’ of the local police union -- in 5, 4, 3, 2, 1....

Public Endangerment. Reckless Endangerment.

No, this is not Facebook’s fault. In this instance, the blame falls squarely on the shoulders of stupid-as-dirt judges, sticking their heads up their asses.

She’s basically a national treasure. Keep winning, Marsai. Keeping winning and show all those f***ers what REAL talent looks like.

The louder they scream about corruption, the more they’re hiding about just how corrupt THEY are. Something about smoke and fire.