The type of organized theft described in the article with suspicion of insider information or involvement is not organized by people on the lower end of the socio-economic scale.

We bring up income inequality not as an excuse or as somehow giving permission. It is impossible to ignore that crime of all kinds, especially this sort of crime, directly relates to the size of the income gap.

“I say fuck the purists”

Spotted the 800 SAT-scoring loser.

““What is sinister and what we shouldn’t tolerate is the idea that local councils can decide how often you go to the shops and that they ration who uses the roads and when, and they police it all with CCTV.””

Conservatives getting mad about a thing they made up entirely, entry #4234314 in a series.

3rd and 4th gear:

Imagine not knowing what a Lamborghini Countach is. 

“I disagree with the idea of billionaires.” - everyone else 

Cybertruck for when your “Heavy Off-roading” is a Starbucks drive thru and you need a bed to haul a pound of high-end french roast with some quinoa

Is Wasteland Steve the new Fancy Kristen? I’m here for it.

Guess I need to put “visit Venice” on a higher priority for my to do list, before it goes completely under water.

Companies and people doing damage control criticism of the clown is different than companies and people actually refusing to give him any more money.  

But unions are the problem, not management.

Shut up and take my trade-in Honda Odyssey

I wish we had a big mini van culture here in the states hahaha

When an EV owner connects to the electric grid, how much are they paying for the extra generation, transmission, and distribution costs that they are imposing on the grid, and will those embedded costs rise over time?

Exactly. It’s propaganda.

Sex work is a perfectly acceptable profession (so long as a person gets to willingly choose it and have control of their clientele). The authors of that paper are just greedy assholes who find it easier to lie to the public than adjust how they make money.

You and I and even most people on this site know this. The problem (as always) is the people in power take it as gospel and create policy based on it.