SolacefromSilence

It’s not common for people to itemize any longer after Trump’s tax updates a few years ago

They’ll strike a deal with some other country to take them. Then issue contracts for private chartered flights at $10k/person, given to their best buddies.

https://www.bbc.com/news/explainers-61782866

They couldn’t get it right before enshittification has gripped everything.

The companies involved, the industry, and the regulators currently can’t be trusted; this project should be killed.

The word from NCD, is that Zelensky wasn’t bluffing about the nukes. He doesn’t think Putin can radiologicaly retaliate after his generals looted the maintenance budget.

Israel has been taking part in a technology transfer. Any escalation in Eastern Europe takes eyes away from what’s going on in the Levant.

Iodine pills all around!

I use AliExpress for all the little items in my life that can fail without any real problem.

I need a comb and get 2/$1 to my door. $3/4/5 each in a physical store for the same. I don’t think you’re appreciating how often these are literally the same products.

The retail sector has long ago entered enshittification. I’m not blind to the real people working in the field, but paying more for a product does not increase the chance of any positive environmental or social outcome. Feeding the beast, feeds their investors.

There is no ethical consumption.

It worked four years ago.

“It was the best of times, it was the blurst of times”