I think Putin’s hold on Trump was related to the Epstein files or something banal in comparison (the piss video?)

Trump has more or less gotten away with the Epstein scandal, so my theory is Putin no longer has any power over him.

That spending really isn’t accurate, as the way I understand it many of the programs get cancelled at 12 monthly funding reviews.

[warning 1 hour video essay, from 3 years ago] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jDUVtUA7rg

Probably why they went for the contract. That’s some big money headed Larry’s way.

Does the baseband count? (of course it does!)

no concern for digital privacy.

Huge difference between Digital and Physical privacy though.

Someone wearing these glasses can be legally recording inside your home by simply looking at your home if the curtains are open.

Someone wearing these glasses can legally record you and you children at the beach.

A bad actor nurse/doctor wearing these glasses can legally save photos of you naked.

These glasses need to be banned, pronto.

The same as when Google tried it.

Privacy Invasion turned up to 11.

Didn’t Lula already rule it out?

You were effectively given 8 weeks to finish up annexing Gaza. This didn’t come from no where.

Instead you chose to focus on killing innocent people in the West Bank, which has never been under Hamas control.

You chose poorly Bibi. The west gave you a massive free pass and you fucked it, now you get nothing - sucked in.

As an Australian, I’m going to Agree with Trump here.

It’s been 3 years since the start of the ‘special military operation’

It’s been 11 years since the start of the war.

Why is Europe STILL buying Russian Gas and Oil? It’s paying for the deaths of thousands of Ukrainians and you’re all happy about it, making excuses that it’s OK for Ukrainians to die so you don’t have to put on a jumper/sweater/coat/etc or use that nasty ‘icky nuclear’.

That’s a funny way of writing Germany…

Security Council shouldn’t exist.

I hope for all our sakes that you’re wrong

So do I.

Machining is a lot of learning, but it’s real, tangible work that gives more satisfaction than anything I did in corporate IT.

Moreover, even though the welding side can be a bit ‘blokey’ (macho?) you’ll find places fall into either horribly sexist (you’ll know within a few meters of walking in…) or millennials/onward that don’t mind who you are.

Machining side even the old men don’t care who you are, as long as you do a good job and don’t skimp on calibration.

It’s sexism in its own right, but a few of the older men prefer me doing the calibrations since they assume women=dexterous.

In a lot of ways, I fear that won’t be true and it’ll be held up as a shitty example of why misogyny ‘works’

Case in point, they can still sell their opium for a lot of money and use that money to bring in engineers from SEAsia that will risk it for the big money they’re being promised.

They can bring in nurses, etc with the same money, it’s a LOT of a money and unlike Oil, there isn’t a ‘opidollar’ like the ‘petrodollar’

It’s despressing that the right might run and win this shit, I’m just so tired of it.

By your powers combined I am Captain Backwards!

Captain Backwards

He’s a Zero, gonna take the Women out of school now

He’s the right wing, magnified and he fights against our equal rights

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Yeah that one is less a ‘westernism’ and more a ‘1%er-ism’

Not sure I’d include Odo there.

He was 100% perfectly fine with Fascism since it was more ordered.

No no, you see, the USSR couldn’t have and never did any wrong.

If they did, they parties wronged deserved it.

/s