Recessions are also great opportunities for neoNazi recruiters, Russian social media trolls, and people who want to destroy our country. Billionaire lovers of neofascist strongman government are licking their lips and rubbing their hands in Bond-villain glee. For them, it’s a great time to be alive. Here’s why.
The stock market has been crashing in response to Trump’s tariffs, trade war threats, and embrace of Vladimir Putin and the possibility of a wider war in Europe. Back last December 18th, you’ll recall, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) predicted this exact scenario. https://hartmannreport.com/p/
It might have been nothing but the biased opinion of a coddled European, but life in America felt needlessly hard, and riddled with impossible drawbacks that render the pursuit of happiness virtually impossible, reducing it to the pursuit of survival.
If free means free to live or die with no one to lend you a helping hand, then yes, it certainly felt like that.
This was his Napster moment.
And he failed.
Everything comes back to the music business. Which was the canary in the coal mine for digital disruption. When they finally started stealing movies…there was a trailer in the theatre scolding moviegoers not to, PAYING CUSTOMERS WHO WERE ALREADY THERE!
Never forget, those with money and status protect money and status first and foremost, they cannot question their beliefs.
Like Chuck Schumer.
Schumer seems to believe it’s business as usual. That the system works. As it is crumbling all around him. He reminds me of the executives who kept saying that the CD was perfect, who would want anything more…after ripping off the public with one good track on a disc they sold for fifteen bucks. The public was angry, the industry was ignorant, and then an explosion happened.
The Chinese electric vehicle maker BYD has unveiled a new charging system that it said could make it possible for EVs to charge as quickly as it takes to refill with petrol.
BYD’s Hong Kong-listed shares gained 4.1% on Tuesday to hit a record high of 408.80 Hong Kong dollars, as investors bet that the company could strengthen its already commanding position as one of the world’s biggest electric carmakers.
Two new BYD models will be capable of receiving peak charging power of 1,000 kilowatts (kW), enabling them to travel 400km (249 miles) on a five-minute charge, the BYD founder, Wang Chuanfu, said at an event livestreamed from the company’s Shenzhen headquarters on Monday. https://www.theguardian.com/
I believe in Southwest Airlines.
I think it’s the irreverence that hooked me. The flight attendants who pick up the intercom with attitude, who make jokes, like regular people. You see more of that in advertising these days, what works is the vernacular, with a sense of humor. But on most airlines… Everything is deadly serious, and the flight attendants are working reluctantly. You go into the back and ask for something, anything, and they roll their eyes and…
Not on Southwest.
And I like that it’s egalitarian. That we’re all in it together. That there’s no first class. You line up and you get on. And if you’re willing to pay a small fee you can get closer to the front of the line so you can get a seat that will satisfy you. I’ve always gotten a seat on the aisle, which is what I am looking for.
But in the past couple of years… https://lefsetz.com/
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No one has been convicted of murder in connection with his case, but a civil jury earlier this month awarded Schwartz’s children nearly $200 million in a wrongful death lawsuit.
The defendant? Their stepmother.
Rebecca Schwartz, 64, was found responsible for her husband’s death in civil court on March 4. She has not been criminally charged in his killing, though the Pinellas state attorney says the investigation is still open. She has denied killing him.
Each night, you look into your lover’s eyes and ask, “Will no legacy media outlet tell me about the best movies on Hulu?” Luckily, Vanity Fair is here for you. One glance at the platform’s A-to-Z listing reveals that there are almost too many good movies on Hulu to choose from, and it can become a chore to figure out which to choose.
After a deep dive into the Hulu archive (the Hu-chive?), we’ve selected a top mix of classics, comedies, dramas, horror pictures, documentaries, and, importantly, a few titles that got overlooked upon their initial release. Our list is in alphabetical order, so you gotta scroll close to the bottom to get to Y Tu Mamá También. Hu loves ya? https://www.vanityfair.com/
Ruby Franke turned her life into content for years, so there is a bleak irony in her content being repurposed now to reveal the extent of her crimes. As a vlogger, she and her husband, Kevin, made a living from YouTube, posting videos on the popular channel 8 Passengers, now defunct, about Mormon family life and parenting their six children in the picturesque city of Springville, Utah. But in 2023 Franke was arrested and charged with aggravated child abuse and sentenced to up to 30 years in prison. The astonishing three-part documentary Devil in the Family: The Fall of Ruby Franke tells the story, from the beginning of the family’s internet fame in 2015 all the way to Franke’s imprisonment. https://www.theguardian.com/
There have been a few contenders for the crown over the years, but none has come as close as Jack Thorne’s and Stephen Graham’s astonishing four-part series Adolescence, whose technical accomplishments – each episode is done in a single take – are matched by an array of award-worthy performances and a script that manages to be intensely naturalistic and hugely evocative at the same time. Adolescence is a deeply moving, deeply harrowing experience. https://www.theguardian.com/
A woman goes into a Bass Pro Shop to buy a rod and reel for her grandson's
birthday. She doesn't know which one to get so she just grabs one and goes over to the counter.
A Bass Pro Shop associate is standing there wearing dark shades.She says, "Excuse me, sir. Can you tell me anything about this rod and reel?"
He says, "Ma'am, I'm completely blind; but if you'll drop it on the counter, I can tell you everything from the sound it makes."
She doesn't believe him but drops it on the counter anyway.
He says, "That's a six-foot Shakespeare graphite rod with a Zebco 404 reel and 10-LB. test line.It's a good all around combination and it's on sale this week for only $20.00."
She says, "It's amazing that you can tell all that just by the sound of it dropping on the counter. I'll take it!"As she opens her purse, her credit card drops on the floor.
"Oh, that sounds like a Mastercard," he says.
She bends down to pick it up and accidentally farts.At first she is really embarrassed, but then realizes there is no way the blind clerk could tell it was she who tooted.Being blind, he wouldn't know that she was the only person around.
The man rings up the sale and says, "That'll be $34.50 please."
The woman is totally confused by this and asks, "Didn't you tell me the rod and reel were on sale for $20.00?How did you get $34.50?"
He replies, "Yes, Ma'am. The rod and reel is $20.00, but the Duck Call is $11.00 and the Bear Repellent is $3.50."
Today's compilation jokes Pythagoras’ Theorem.…………………………24 words. The Lord’s Prayer……………………………………66 words. Archimedes’ Principle…………………………………67 words. The Ten Commandments……………………………….179 words. The Gettysburg Address………………………………………286 words. The US Declaration of Independence………………………..1,300 words. The US Constitution with all 27 Amendments……………………7,818 words. EU Regulations on the sale of Cabbages……………………………………26,911 words Impossibilities in the world. 1. You can’t count your hair. 2. You can’t wash your eyes with soap. 3. You can’t breathe when your tongue is out. Put your tongue back in your mouth you silly person. Ten (10) things I know about you. 1. You are reading this 2. You are human. 3. You can’t say the letter ”P” without separating your lips. 4. You just attempted to do it. 6. You are laughing at yourself 7. You have a smile on your face and you skipped No. 5. 8. You just checked to see if there is a No. 5. 9. You are laughing at this because you are a fun loving person & everyone does it too. 10. You are probably going to send this on to see who else falls for it. You have received this email because I did not want to be alone in the ‘idiot’ category. |
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