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smdh nobody wants to work anymore

how much are they offering?

not with that attitude

i dispute that it ended two days ago

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right? the pigs will murder a baby whose mother maybe was shoplifting diapers like they’ve caught fucking scarface and he’s about to get away, and journalists will happily imply the latter

Hugh and Barbara

wife

barbara is not hugh’s wife in the book, she is his daughter’s friend from college

thanks, i’ve been wondering about this

China’s economy hasn’t cratered. Quite the contrary: All available data on industrial output, automobile traffic, pollution, and other economic indicators suggests that the country is humming along as normal.

we seem to be seeing the results of a longer-term strategy. Back in 2023, many analysts were perplexed by the fact that China was dramatically ramping up its imports of crude oil and its refineries were pumping out dramatically higher amounts of gasoline and diesel, despite the fact that the country’s economy was slowing down. There appeared to be little demand for all that fuel at the time.

Whatever the case, China simply has a lot more oil on hand than we thought.

common w for “planning ahead”

When it began its oil-buying spree a few years ago, there was some speculation it might be preparing for a major global crisis

yeah, 2023 is about when this exact crisis was looking pretty inevitable. i agree.

but it’s playing directly on the “give the enemy nightmares” in the graphic. instead of giving the enemy nightmares, they gave the enemy $300 billion, a funny inversion of the original intent. so “the enemy” is used in the generic sense like in a childish aphorism. that’s how i read it, anyway.

i fucking knew it! the pigs murdered a child in mississippi the other day when the mag-dumped into a car after a reported shoplifting attempt, and the kid’s family wasn’t even involved in the shoplifting attempt! they were just done shopping and trying to leave when the cops opened fire!

https://www.yahoo.com/news/us/articles/officer-placed-leave-fatal-shooting-131721230.html

Civil rights attorney Ben Crump, who represents Wiley’s family, said the child’s mother maintains she was attempting to tell officers that a baby was inside the vehicle before shots were fired.

Marquell Bridges, president of the Building Bridges Coalition, has also questioned the use of force, saying Kohen’s mother was not involved in any theft and was neither a witness nor an accomplice to a crime.

good thing it only takes two months for shipments from the persian gulf to reach many of their destinations

Some disagree that Iran’s successful defiance of the United States will diminish America’s influence. American military defeat is, after all, nothing new:

the lower left corner of the bottom picture has a few splotches of color that look like it could be the same fish from the top picture, so it’s a fairly large tank

but i don’t know if it’s actually big enough. looks like it’s probably a few hundred gallons, at least.

one?

you know steel is too heavy to use for an airframe, right? a b-52 is mostly aluminium.

it crashed right after takeoff, so yes, it was full of fuel

nyc also has a pathway for tenants to take collective ownership of a building under some circumstances, i think being in arrears is one of them

sometimes it just feels like there’s no way to escape this

famously, only humans are able to read qr codes, which are indecipherable to machines

we didn’t have the wealth nor the leaded gasoline.

actually leaded gasoline emits lead into the atmosphere, which gets dispersed globally. the peak in atmospheric lead levels in the 1970’s affected everyone on earth.