Yeah, there’s that, too. But you give that a *PROFIT* motive, and things achieve a whole new level of inhumanity.

It’s the for-profit prison mill system — prisoners who better themselves are less likely to return to prison, which reduces prison populations (for-profit prisons generate their profits off of prison population numbers) and reduces the number of inmates available for incarcerated labor (also where for-profit prisons…

There’s probably more than a grain of truth to that. Getting paid to just *look* like you’re doing stuff is certainly a lot easier than actually *DOING* anything. And, of course, all the rich-people shmoozing they do for personal gains would be negatively impacted by not bending over backwards to satisfying the…

I’m disappointed in his first year, but it has little to do with Biden and more to do with how many Democrats have assisted the GOP in sabotaging legitimate legislation and undermining any chance they will have next year in keep the GOP from taking over congress.

Mergers are usually like that regardless. It’s just temporary. They don’t *SAY* that it’s temporary, but it almost always is.

Honestly? Not likely. With the sole exception of small, grass-roots efforts, Democrats can’t stop tripping over themselves when it comes to doing just about anything (except for the things they’re in lockstep with Republicans over, like keeping the poor poor and the rich rich). But that’s a product of a political…

“You don’t own your body. You’re just license it from Omnicorp...for a ‘reasonable’ monthly fee.”

The gospel of middle and upper management types whose entire profession is predicated onmanhandling and intimidating employees into ‘maximized’ ‘productivity.’ In other words, a whole lot of bullshit and empty fluff talk to distract from the fact that the vast majority of them are dead weight, and they know it.

There are some logistical, technical, and security hurdles with a WFH model, certainly. But none of them are insurmountable either. What’s kept the larger industry from adopting it has more to do with general inertia — doing things the way they’ve always been done — that has already proven to be a self-inflicted…

This is the new normal, bub. The world-wide antivaxx crowd, not just those in the US, and nationalist greed has given Covid a fertile breeding ground to become an unstoppable mutating force of nature. It is *NEVER* going away. It’s a more contagious, more deadly ‘flu’ that has no ‘seasonal’ component to it. The only…

One does not, no matter how drugged up, spout racist shit without first being a racist shitbag at their core. The only thing the drugs did was remove her ‘social awareness’ filter from the things coming out of her mouth, so she’d say what she *REALLY* thought. You know, the ‘whole quiet part being spoken aloud’ deal.

Anyone arguing for the right to destroy official records is almost certainly doing something illegal. Keeping them confidential and requiring privileged access for external review is one thing, but outright destroying them? Hell f***ing no. And it’s not like they do a good job of keeping track of police misconduct in…

Some poor people do. Many do not. And certainly not to the amount that goes into those ‘programs for the poor.’ Because the only reason those programs get enacted is because some rich people stood to benefit more. Like food stamps. Do you know why those are around? It’s not for the poor people. It’s for the megacorp…

They kind of have to hit the ground running, and I wish them the best of luck, because the Republican party has made it known that they’re absolutely fine with fighting as dirty as it takes to get in power and stay there (but heaven forbid they lose, because then, clearly the democrats must have cheated). As it…

Of course something like this is ‘legal.’ Who do you think the tax laws are written by — right, by rich people, for rich people. That’s why the US tax code is so ****ing broken — rich people rigging the system to disproportionately place the burden of running a functioning society onto someone else. It’s also why the…

A lot of things are lost or diminished as a consequence of the whole world’s ever-increasing focus on commodification and profit maximization.

How many people were part of the suit? Because $80m isn’t exactly a significant penalty for Riot, and divided among all the suggested, applicable current and former employees and contractors, that’s a pretty diluted ‘compensation’ being given to the people Riot wronged.

Don’t forget about the possibility that they’re a bunch of fools who’ve lapped up the ‘can’t be wrong’ cop propaganda bullshit. I mean, there’s the high probability of also being racist, but that’s not the only reason.

At least several months. Jaskier and Geralt parted ways near the ‘end’ of season 1 — shortly after which, Geralt takes Ciri to Kae Morhen — and according to Jaskier, when we see him again, that’s how much time had passed.

“Look at all these awful things I have to do to win! Can you imagine what the those terrible Democrats are doing to win? Because it must be worse. Clearly.”