That’s fine, billionaires do not add to an economy, they drain it. So if they leave it will remove a useless burden on the economy and whatever country is dumb enough to take them in can deal with them instead. Meanwhile, if they are pulling money from our country we can find ways to tax it and prevent them from draining our resources (and yes, money is a resource like any other).

So glad I have never given a dime to that fucking company.

The price of everything is too damned high.

Yeah a couple of weeks ago Google secretly activated Gemini on every Pixel user’s phone. I ran into the same problem, my phone suddenly activated and Gemini popped up interrupting a song that I was playing while I was away from my phone. Ended up screwing up the song and having it repeat over and over and over.

It’s called a blockade. And the U.S. has a long history of using it.

I don’t agree with Israel at all. But Iran is a theocratic ethnostate as well. One that has pretty loudly proclaimed that the day they have nuclear weapons is the day before they use one on Israel. There’s nobody out there who’s in a morally high position.

I was referring to the mental breakdown that institutionalized her. Which is even listed in that health section you’re so obsessed with. But there’s far more to it and her conversion to Islam if you had read anything besides the Wikipedia page. She was pretty vocal about her reasons for converting and she was fairly adamant about how much becoming Muslim helped her mentally.

But feel free to continue with your prejudices based on little to no information.

Did you read anything else? She converted to Islam in 2018/2019. Her mental breakdown happened in 2017 and was mostly a result of losing custody of her kid.

NBC did not rebroadcast the live performance unedited until 2025, when it was featured in the documentary film Ladies & Gentlemen… 50 Years of SNL Music. In it, Lorne Michaels stated that he had “admired the bravery of what she’d done, and also the absolute sincerity of it”, though no mention was made of prior negative comments from him or the show.

Oh FUCK Lorne Michaels. What a lying sack of dog feces.

I don’t think her switching religions had a detrimental effect on her mental health. Probably quite the opposite. And it really doesn’t matter that she switched from one mainstream religion to another mainstream religion. It’s not like joining an offshoot’s going to be any better or worse. She was seeking peace. Maybe she found it, maybe she didn’t, that’s for her to decide in whatever afterlife she ended up in.

And when SpaceX does it with real full size rockets and they explode scattering debris and chemicals everywhere, the nearby towns pay the price.

I don’t see any towns being decimated by Honda’s approach.

Yeah, you are still pinning her for her belief in Islam because members of Islam have been and continue being vile detestable people. But they aren’t vile detestable people because of their belief in Islam any more than the Christians, Catholic or otherwise, are evil because of their belief in Christianity. They are vile and detestable people regardless of their belief. Their religious beliefs isn’t the source, though it does end up being a justification for those acts. But that’s just sophistry used to cover their own prejudices.

She dumped Christianity and chose a different religion. That doesn’t make her culpable for the evils of that religion any more than anyone else is for the deeds of others who believe in the same religion they do.

That is not why starship fails. Starship fails because like everything that Elon does lately it emphasizes style over practicality. Starship is a very badly designed rocket that looks cool to Elon. Not unlike the Cyber truck which has been an abject failure in every way possible.

Again, religion does not equal church. She spent a lot of time as a Catholic trying to make other Catholics see the evils within the church. I think she just became tired of being the town cryer in a world that doesn’t give a shit. And Islam, the religion and belief system not the various organized churches, might have held some amount of peace for her soul. Criticizing her for converting and not starting a whole new crusade to stop the myriad of abuse found within the various sects of Islam is just silly. Especially since there are already a million voices pointing out the faults in the Islamic churches already.

Islam in and of itself is not problematic, not anymore than Christianity at least. Like with literally every religion, it’s the strict conservatives within the religion that are the ones who enforce ridiculous mores and dress codes and other things that are detrimental to the health of the followers of that religion.

Yeah Wyoming shouldn’t even be a fucking state. Let’s just call it what it is, southern Montana… Or northern Colorado, take your pick. There are towns in my state with a higher population than all of Wyoming.

The idiot governor of Florida just ok’d running people over with a car using the excuse “they were a protester”.

So, yeah. It’s not just the reporting, Florida is a fuck show.

Anyone who thinks this wasn’t the LAPD ramping things up with their gestapo tactics modeled after Trump, who most of them probably voted for, has not been paying attention for the last 50 years. The LAPD has a long long long history of this kind of behavior.

Quite frankly it boggles my mind why the entire force has not been fired and replaced by now.

I’ve been looking everywhere for somebody to explain it. Like, there are dozens of articles outlining exactly what happened. Which I don’t need because I was there. I know what happened. I just have been wondering why and finally you have provided a link that actually gives me a reason.

So, thank you kind stranger.

It’s going to be interesting to see the reaction on the ones who approve when Trumpflation really gets going because farms can’t hire enough workers to pick their fields and work their cattle and poultry mills.

Good time to plant a victory garden. You’re gonna need it.