They already get lots of money without admitting their system sucks.

You assume those in charge are interested in helping out the average citizen, they aren’t.

https://www.nknews.org/2025/04/north-korea-has-earned-estimated-20b-from-military-support-for-russia-report/

https://www.nknews.org/2025/07/north-korea-to-receive-2-38m-in-humanitarian-assistance-this-year-un-data/

https://archive.ph/LoXVy

They actually do have weird stuff in them, but it’s because of corporate greed

I watched it Sunday because the premise sounded interesting.

I enjoyed the way it showed the difficulty of making massively consequencial decisions while simultaneously evacuating yourself, trying to listen to advisors over the chaos of themselves evacuating, thinking of your own loved ones, and staving off jingoist pressure. Had some great cast and good writing.

But I left feeling disappointed. The anthology format added absolutely nothing to the story, instead made me bored hearing identical lines over again for the 2nd or 3rd time. Then there were multiple completely superfluous characters and storylines. Maybe some lost original script gave them meaning?

It feels like Netflix hired a good cast and crew, had a good script. Then cut the budget by 2/3 when filming started. So they just asked AI cut to hack the story to a stub, and then edited their footage into 3 angles to triple the run time and call it a feature film.

As an aside, it fuels the liberal fantasy of a working federal government that hasn’t been looted by billionaires.

Anti-transit fascists accidentally create a walkable community

I do not generally like spin off shows but I would pay good money for a Sister Michael origin show

https://www.seriouseats.com/best-food-processor-equipment-review

The Disney College program is like a 3 month orgy. I know quite a few people who did in different parks and they all said the same things. They mostly hire attractive people, they put you in these big dorm buildings. There is nothing to do but go into the parks, which gets old, or shop downtown Disney which no college student can afford for long. So they just start fucking like rabbits.

$/€100 fine that doubles every minute the tram is impeded.

I get what you’re saying and agree with the basic premise, “economies are extremely complicated and it’s hard to ascribe x caused y, when so many other things can go sideways”. It drives me nuts when people think the US president controls oil prices, if they did it would just be perpetually free!

Where I wholeheartedly disagree with your message is because Milei promised quick and easy solutions to Argentina’s economy. He sold the story that 100 years of economic turmoil was due to corruption and gross incompetence. He promised he was not corrupt (which was a lie), and applying some basic economic principals would lead to a roaring economy (which never materialized and never will because economists already know the policies he’s proposing don’t work in the long run).

Yes his austerity measures led to inflation going down which his foreign apologists immediately point to, but the exchange rate skyrocketed offsetting any gains for a typical Argentine (most everything financial in Argentina is measured in USD, even ironically government fees).

If today you go ask typical Argentines “are you better off financially now than 3 years ago” the answer is going to usually be no.

I don’t live in America, and many people here actually do use MAGA or Trumpism to describe the local right wing people and parties because they are largely just copying America…

Oi malta

Given the purchase of Paramount by the Ellison family, I unfortunately think we are going to witness the eshitification of Trek in the coming decade 😢

Edit: meaning they will want to remove the “wokeness”

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/czdjrnvp972o

TLDR: Milei was full of shit, his policies created short term gains in exchange for long term losses, and his family was pocketing large sums of money from the health system. Now Argentina is more dependant on American bail out money.

The part few people seem to be mentioning is that visa fees are a source of funding for ICE, if companies actually end up paying these fees at current visa rates it would be $6.5 Billion annual funding for ICE

Thank you!

I saw an interview where one of the creators of Golden Girls said in their mind they were just making a show about four gay men sharing an apartment but because that was impossible under the Hayes Code, they layered it under four older women in Florida. I can’t unsee that perspective now.

It would tickle my funny bone if you share some with Garak and Bashir so I can feel double queer-coded.

That is the end game of AI. They are free now as they are in disruption and growth phase with lots of competition. But in a few years most will have gone bust or been acquired until only 2-3 remain. Society will become dependent on them, and then they will roll out expensive subscriptions.

Speed running us towards the Dune timeline, nice

It’s type N, the one that was invented by the EU to standardize Europe into one outlet. Unfortunately killed off by lazy bureaucrats but not before Brazil and South Africa adopted it anticipating Europe would join in.