(For example, option one might have the plain arc flash, biohazard, and radiation as the jack, queen, and king specifically, while option two would have a designated jack of biohazards, queen of biohazards, and king of biohazards, each with unique designs)
rough concept for the queen of biohazards. my treat
I vote we stop calling it inflation at all. Seize the language. It’s price gouging, not inflation. Inflation is a nebulous concept that invokes feeling of being too complex for the layman, a struggle as old as economy itself against a beast no one has ever truly slain.
Price gouging is the truth of it. And it makes it very clear who is to blame, and what must be done to end it.
Can confirm this works wonders. Australia is in a cost of living crisis rn and the two major supermarkets are a big part of it, as they pretty much have a duopoly on not just the grocery shopping market, but a bunch of others considered to be essential (things like fuel). They are trying to blame their price rises on inflation, but the media recently started reporting it as price gouging (which it is), and it got the average person pretty worked up, better than blaming inflation did.
I vote we stop calling it inflation at all. Seize the language. It’s price gouging, not inflation. Inflation is a nebulous concept that invokes feeling of being too complex for the layman, a struggle as old as economy itself against a beast no one has ever truly slain.
Price gouging is the truth of it. And it makes it very clear who is to blame, and what must be done to end it.
Can confirm this works wonders. Australia is in a cost of living crisis rn and the two major supermarkets are a big part of it, as they pretty much have a duopoly on not just the grocery shopping market, but a bunch of others considered to be essential (things like fuel). They are trying to blame their price rises on inflation, but the media recently started reporting it as price gouging (which it is), and it got the average person pretty worked up, better than blaming inflation did.
55 years for a unsuccessful burglary, theft, and the murder of a friend that was killed by police, when his only crime was breaking and entering when he was 15 years old.
As of March 2023, his sentence was reduced to 30 years. I know there’s a lot going on in the world, but if you can even just spread his story, please do! It makes a difference.
his petition is still sitting at 911,000 out of a needed 1 million signatures. maybe if we start spreading the word again we could get some justice for Lakeith
55 years for a unsuccessful burglary, theft, and the murder of a friend that was killed by police, when his only crime was breaking and entering when he was 15 years old.
As of March 2023, his sentence was reduced to 30 years. I know there’s a lot going on in the world, but if you can even just spread his story, please do! It makes a difference.
his petition is still sitting at 911,000 out of a needed 1 million signatures. maybe if we start spreading the word again we could get some justice for Lakeith
Day 2 in the Middle School Time Loop: you remember that last time, everyone ignored you at recess because they were talking about a TV show that you hadn’t watched. This time, you lie and say you’ve seen it. They ask you who your favorite character is, and you don’t know any of the characters, and so you’re tongue-tied. They think you’re weirder than ever, or maybe a liar, which is worse (and true).
Day 3 in the Middle School Time Loop: you tell your parents that you feel ill. They let you stay home while they’re at work. You spend the whole day watching past episodes of the TV Show.
Day 4 in the Middle School Time Loop: Recess again. The same person asks you who your favorite character is. This time, you’re ready. You eagerly tell them, and supplement your reasons for liking them with solid evidence from all 4 seasons of the show. But! Tough luck: you’re now too invested. The atmosphere turns uncomfortable. They go back to ignoring you like they did on the Day 1 that you didn’t know was Day 1.
Day 2 in the Middle School Time Loop: you remember that last time, everyone ignored you at recess because they were talking about a TV show that you hadn’t watched. This time, you lie and say you’ve seen it. They ask you who your favorite character is, and you don’t know any of the characters, and so you’re tongue-tied. They think you’re weirder than ever, or maybe a liar, which is worse (and true).
Day 3 in the Middle School Time Loop: you tell your parents that you feel ill. They let you stay home while they’re at work. You spend the whole day watching past episodes of the TV Show.
Day 4 in the Middle School Time Loop: Recess again. The same person asks you who your favorite character is. This time, you’re ready. You eagerly tell them, and supplement your reasons for liking them with solid evidence from all 4 seasons of the show. But! Tough luck: you’re now too invested. The atmosphere turns uncomfortable. They go back to ignoring you like they did on the Day 1 that you didn’t know was Day 1.
Day 2 in the Middle School Time Loop: you remember that last time, everyone ignored you at recess because they were talking about a TV show that you hadn’t watched. This time, you lie and say you’ve seen it. They ask you who your favorite character is, and you don’t know any of the characters, and so you’re tongue-tied. They think you’re weirder than ever, or maybe a liar, which is worse (and true).
Day 3 in the Middle School Time Loop: you tell your parents that you feel ill. They let you stay home while they’re at work. You spend the whole day watching past episodes of the TV Show.
Day 4 in the Middle School Time Loop: Recess again. The same person asks you who your favorite character is. This time, you’re ready. You eagerly tell them, and supplement your reasons for liking them with solid evidence from all 4 seasons of the show. But! Tough luck: you’re now too invested. The atmosphere turns uncomfortable. They go back to ignoring you like they did on the Day 1 that you didn’t know was Day 1.
Pride season is approaching and if I hear ANYONE speak poorly of bisexual women with boyfriends/husbands I’ll pop all your tires okay thx for listeninggg <3
The strike comes after the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers announced that 94.6% of union members voted to reject a proposed contract from Boeing. The deal would’ve included a 25% pay raise over four years, much lower than the requested 40%.
This is expected to halt the production of aircraft in Washington state, where most of the union members are located.
if fallout 76 really is a world where “every character is a real person” & there’s no NPCs im making it my civic duty to be like this lowly tavern barkeep and then once i’ve established enough of a rapport i’m going to nuke all of west virginia and it will be in character
someone help where’s the screenshot of some post somewhere about the mmo player who barkept for a longass time then fucked absolutely everyone over
if fallout 76 really is a world where “every character is a real person” & there’s no NPCs im making it my civic duty to be like this lowly tavern barkeep and then once i’ve established enough of a rapport i’m going to nuke all of west virginia and it will be in character
someone help where’s the screenshot of some post somewhere about the mmo player who barkept for a longass time then fucked absolutely everyone over
Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly’s announcement Tuesday that Canada has suspended 30 permits to export military materiel to Israel may have been meant to placate pro-Palestinian activists demanding an arms embargo. But without more transparency, it remains a political muddle.
One week out from a byelection in a previously safe Liberal seat in Montreal where New Democrats (and their pamphlets) are pushing Canada’s response to the ongoing violence in Gaza as a ballot question, Joly proactively used her scrum at the governing caucus’s retreat in Nanaimo, B.C. to rebut claims the Trudeau government isn’t doing enough.
“Our policy has been clear,” she said. “Since Jan. 8, we have not accepted any form of arms export permits to be sent to Israel.”
Accepting her claim that the government’s policy has been “clear” means forgetting the mess last spring when a New Democrat MP introduced a Commons motion calling on Canada to “suspend all trade in military goods and technology with Israel” that had to be watered down at the last minute so more Liberals could support it.
Activists point to the many millions of dollars in defence trade that may continue to flow Israel’s way under previously approved and still-valid permits.
Joly told reporters she asked her department to look into Canadian companies’ existing permits.
“We are asking questions to these companies. Following that, I asked my department to look into any existing permits of arms or parts of arms that could have been sent to Israel,” the minister said.
“Following that, I suspended this summer around 30 existing permits of Canadian companies and we are asking questions to these companies.”
She did not say what her questions were.
A suspension is not a cancellation. Last spring, Joly was among those warning that sudden, arbitrary or politically motivated terminations invite legal action by firms that hold the government responsible for their business losses. Supply chain disruptions also cause problems for Canada’s defence procurement relationships with allies.
There may be over 200 valid permits to ship to Israel right now, so 30 suspensions falls well short of the total arms embargo activist organizations — not to mention 22 Liberal MPs — have demanded.
Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly’s announcement Tuesday that Canada has suspended 30 permits to export military materiel to Israel may have been meant to placate pro-Palestinian activists demanding an arms embargo. But without more transparency, it remains a political muddle.
One week out from a byelection in a previously safe Liberal seat in Montreal where New Democrats (and their pamphlets) are pushing Canada’s response to the ongoing violence in Gaza as a ballot question, Joly proactively used her scrum at the governing caucus’s retreat in Nanaimo, B.C. to rebut claims the Trudeau government isn’t doing enough.
“Our policy has been clear,” she said. “Since Jan. 8, we have not accepted any form of arms export permits to be sent to Israel.”
Accepting her claim that the government’s policy has been “clear” means forgetting the mess last spring when a New Democrat MP introduced a Commons motion calling on Canada to “suspend all trade in military goods and technology with Israel” that had to be watered down at the last minute so more Liberals could support it.
Activists point to the many millions of dollars in defence trade that may continue to flow Israel’s way under previously approved and still-valid permits.
Joly told reporters she asked her department to look into Canadian companies’ existing permits.
“We are asking questions to these companies. Following that, I asked my department to look into any existing permits of arms or parts of arms that could have been sent to Israel,” the minister said.
“Following that, I suspended this summer around 30 existing permits of Canadian companies and we are asking questions to these companies.”
She did not say what her questions were.
A suspension is not a cancellation. Last spring, Joly was among those warning that sudden, arbitrary or politically motivated terminations invite legal action by firms that hold the government responsible for their business losses. Supply chain disruptions also cause problems for Canada’s defence procurement relationships with allies.
There may be over 200 valid permits to ship to Israel right now, so 30 suspensions falls well short of the total arms embargo activist organizations — not to mention 22 Liberal MPs — have demanded.
It’s fun watching sociologists try to refute the Fermi paradox because 90% of the time it’s like “the idea of Fermi paradox says more about the institutional psychology of the STEM community than it does about the nature of universe because it reveals their unexamined assumptions about the nature of extraterrestrial life, and here’s why”, then proceeds to unwittingly put the commentor’s own unexamined assumptions about the nature of extraterrestrial life on full blast.
Bonus points when they try to flex their sociologist cred to position their framing of the issue as obviously correct, and in the process end up making universalising assertions about hypothetical extraterrestrial civilisations that aren’t even universally true of human civilisations.
I hate being back in the suburbs so much I’m watching not just bikes videos of the Netherlands and yearning so hard right now
Gosh imagine being able to just go places
I’m like genuinely so sad that I’m stuck here again. I hate cars I hate American suburbs I hate it I hate it I hate it I’m so upset at how impossible it is to go anywhere for me right now
I left the damn cave with the shadows and got shoved back in it
so loving men isn’t a curse. loving men isn’t “unfortunate”. loving men isn’t a bad thing. yes, we can joke about how awful men can be, but it gets to a a point where this mentality can really hurt. it can really feed into you hating yourself for something you can’t control. loving men is something special. loving yourself is just as beautiful.
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