April 1, 1946. Push a very pregnant Mary Anne Trump down a very steep set of stairs.

They look like they missed their chance at carrying out a school shooting and now they’re hoping to make up for lost time.

Yep. And boot-lickers of that kind of business ethics will always say “Well that’s capitalism, baby!”

But it’s really not. Capitalism as an economic theory IS those small businesses that are being driven under. It’s human beings making a living from their own labour." Even if that human being is the person in charge and doesn’t set foot on the sales floor (for example), it’s still a human being at the helm.

My goto example for some reason is always furniture, I don’t know why. But someone making bespoke wooden furniture out of his garage because he enjoys it and other people want to purchase it. That’s capitalism.

If that same guy’s product gets so big that he starts a company, get’s a factory, and now has employees making the furniture for him, it’s still capitalism because he built that company with his own sweat and he deserves to reap the benefits of such.

What’s missing from what the bootlckers call capitalism is the human element.

When the human equation is taken away and everything is at the whim of a stock price, it’s not capitalism anymore, it’s called a Corporatocracy. Humans themselves become just another metric on a spreadsheet called “labour”. Something to be accounted for, controlled and minimized for the sake of the share price. Those shares aren’t owned by humans either (for the most part), they’re owned by other corporations and hedge-funds. Humans are so far removed from modern corporatocracy that there’s no room for (or even understanding of) empathy.

History podcasts are my catnip at the moment

Mine as well. Regular history for sure (I was an archaeology major after all), but also history mixed with category one, murders. I love a good historical unsolved mystery.

There’s a youtube channel called Criminal Core that posts about cases that are solved after ‘x’ number of years and it’s always because of DNA.

Sadly it’s AI narrated, which sucks. I’d much prefer a human. But the stories are interesting in an “Unsolved Mysteries” kind of way.

Watching Unsolved Mysteries on PlutoTV, I like that the producers of the show actually add updates to the end when things have been changed or solved. They could just replay the episode as is, but they make the effort to introduce new updates. I appreciate that from them.

To put it simply, cost isn’t the same for everybody.

Economies of Scale

I can’t even fathom how much self-loathing Graham must have to be so afraid of whatever Trump/Israel has on him that he’d spend the last few years of his career doing…whatever this is.

With you 100% on that. I love Picard, but it’s Janeway I’d trust to get me through the delta quadrant.

The new show was cancelled because not enough people watched it.

“Outsized influence” my ass.

Money talks. You think if the show hit the top ten in the streaming Nielsen stats that they’d cancel it because some people “didn’t like it”? Get real.

People are allowed to like something. People are allowed to dislike something. If enough people like it, the show gets enough viewers to continue. If not. It doesn’t.

People who don’t like it aren’t obligated to watch it just to prevent it from being cancelled for your sake.

For sure. I’m well aware that real life doesn’t work that way. Because real life kinda sucks right now.

Exactly. A hidden command gets sent out by the Secret service and suddenly the security details of Vance, Trump, Kegsbreath, Bondi, etc… all do what needs to be done.

In any other country on earth, Trump would have been dragged into the street a lynched by now.

I think the best American’s can hope for is that his own security detail order 66’s him.

/e/os/ on a Motorola One 5G Ace.

Modern conservatives are the dumbest fuckers in history.

Is there a polymarket where I can bet how long it’ll be before Kegbreath’s “pastor” is caught with CSAM?

I agree with you to a point. I would say however that it’s not the fact that government exists that’s the problem. It’s the fact that government is controlled by corporations and billionaires that is the problem.

Take all of that away and have a government is actually by the people and for the people…we’d be golden.

That would require that I use Gnome. Which would be worse than reinstalling everything.

I used to bother doing all of that too. I just found symlinking achieved the same results without a bunch of manually configuring of mount points.

If by movement you mean bullets…you’re almost there.