Basically they’ve bought into the idea that the West, neoliberal capitalists to the core, is the root of all evils, so the leaders opposing the West must be good. Unfortunately, the enemy of my enemy isn’t my friend when it comes to geopolitics.
I feel sorry for people who don’t drink. When they wake up in the morning, that’s as good as they’re going to feel all day.
Dean Martin
“Hard to get pregnant the way we do it. Pull-out isn’t reliable enough so we go for the poophole loophole.”
“Are you two trying for a baby yet?”
“Not that it’s your business, but I prefer facials to creampies.”
Crypto and NFTs are money-laundering scams with a lot of technobabble thrown in to hide the truth from normies. I knew it was a scam when one of my friends, who is a smart guy but not a tech guy, bought into BTC because he thought it was clearly the future. I think he made money on his first BTC, and I’m pretty sure he lost on his second and third BTC, and I feel terrible for him because it was with some of his retirement. He’s going to have to work a trade job for years longer than if he’d just put that same money in an index fund, because he got sucked in by the allure of crypto.
I’m not huge on governmental regulation of people’s decisions with their money, but I have a personal rule. If you can’t explain it in a sentence to the average 10 year old or they understand it and it sounds like it should be illegal to said ten year old, it’s not a good idea. It’s easy to explain how a basic investment in a company that makes physical goods can be profitable. Try to explain NFTs to a fifth grader without using words like “profit from nothing” and see what they think.
If the stock market is already artificially high for a few reasons, crypto and NFTs were/are even a step higher in artificial pricing and being a tool for rich people to get richer and hide their money from the few governments powerful enough to dare tax them.
In its majestic equality, the law forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, beg in the streets and steal loaves of bread.
Anatole France
There used to be a stylized “Mid Atlantic” accent that many actors developed and the news at the time would use the same accent. With more modern movies, there was a move to actors with regional accents of their own, as well as a change in the way acting stopped emphasizing “projecting” their voices so the people in the back of the theater could hear them. Since movie audio is all recorded and mixed digitally, any lines that didn’t record well just get ADRed.
Can you give an example? Done you mean the dialogue, soundtrack, foley…?
Biden was responsible for the law making student debt much harder to discharge under bankruptcy proceedings. https://finance.yahoo.com/news/biden-defends-vote-on-2005-law-that-made-it-harder-to-escape-student-debt-143102760.html Senator Orrin Hatch introduced the bill and thanked Biden for years of tireless support for helping write and advance the legislation.
If Trump doesn’t run in 2024, I think Biden might be a one term president; he benefited greatly from a lot of votes against Trump and not for Biden/Harris and their political histories. And if the DNC is reading this, please, do yourselves a favor, don’t run Biden, Harris, or Newsom. They’re everything wrong with the Democratic Party and offer nothing new while embodying exactly what the GOP accuses the Dems of, pandering to urban elites and at best ignoring the working class. They’re neoliberal ghouls in skin suits.
Finally, you could be 100% clean.
Being able to breathe underwater, no boosts to handling pressures and no talking to fish. You can’t go rescue dumb submarines, you still swim slower than any trained seal or dolphin, and cleaning the office fish tank doesn’t require swimming.
Lemmy is methodone or saboxin compared to the tainted heroin that is Reddit.