Oh fuck! change the headlines! Gas is over $5 a gallon in the US and he wants to pull out of NATO and rapes kids?!? Distract!

Gas prices ain't comin back down in the US no matter what he says.

So what does everyone else do when people at their workplaces just don't message you back or say 'no we don't do that' when they do?

Is anyone doing proper news coverage of the impact of 50% loss of fertilizer in the world?

Ok, so car company is like 'put a deposit on the car you can get it back for any reason until it arrives' which gives us time. And I have to test drive, and decide if we did even get it, then resell in 12 months might be worth even more since prices might skyrocket.

These sickos are replying with this same statement to multiple trans reporters. If you go to their reply history - and it's very very limited - it's almost ALL targeting and bully trans reporters. Absolute nutters. Absolutely crazed.

Sure. I just spent $100 during Steam's spring sale and got six 40 hour games, and five 4 hour games. Anything I don't have time to play or don't own the console to play I watch someone on Twitch or Youtube.

The new WH app demands the following permissions that are not usual for a news app: Precise location access Modify/delete storage Appear on top of other apps Run at startup + persistent background activity Biometric / fingerprint hardware access Prevent phone from sleeping (bg activity)

What nobody tells you, is if you have motion sickness, as a passenger or a driver in an EV you will get so damn sick. So sick. Like JFC not a boat level sick, but pretty close.

Here in NZ - electric cars sold out until end of June, which after that prices go ^. Also out on a Saturday - lots of bikes, some motorcycles, town busy, outside suburbs/rural areas? Dead. Absolutely dead. Heard from stores how busy/not busy it is. Covid level of consumer spending hit hard and fast.

It's a bit worrisome to know that most people in NZ have facebook as an app on their phone and are constantly posting/buying during working hours.

Ok, so who do you think's at the wheel? Accelerationists? Disaster capitalists? Or Capitalists that want the conflict to end because of fuel costs? I think there's more general every day capitalists who are going to freak out and contact power/politicians. But not sure if they have enough sway.

OH, that's why it feels like 2020 right before lockdown. It's not the fuel shortage causing people to ...people. It's that everything is going to be moved online and people will self lockdown. Well. At least that anticipatory means I have a job for foreseable since I facilitate that ability.

Trump tweeted as much this morning, writing that ICE agents at airports were, "rehabbing a fake image given to them by Radical Left Democrat politicians."

Vent: how is private health insurance in NZ worse than in the US? If I ask if a provider is covered and give you their name, location, procedure, how do you not know if they're in plan? If I ask you the cost of a procedure that you do and bill for daily, how can you not give me an estimate?

I know this is USPS press release related, but I wonder if the press will follow up with other public services. Like emergency services and their internal discussions. I suppose that's not going to affect business costs.

Fuck this timeline.

It must be fun for people putting together ideas for brand battery specific tools. "It's too hard to hoe, so we made a battery powered hoe". "This one's a $300 mister". "Just a radio." C'mon.

Anyway, the Shiller P/E ratio is now 40, the historical average is about 17, the only time in living memory that it has been this high was in 1999 immediately before the big Dot Com crash. What could go wrong.

Someone just run on this. Run on doubling what Clinton did if not tripling it. Funding out of ICE and DHS, into infrastructure, health care, and fighting white collar crime. Hell, the money from taxes and stopping white collar crime would pay for the other two.

Ok, the fact that we lost power today and it was because most of the lines for our local transformer should have been updated a decade ago, may also play into us buying an EV that can reverse power our water pump. Just... sign #2 that we might have to drop some serious cash on this.

Can't believe partner and I are having to discuss dropping like 3 months of salary to buy an EV because there's a non 0% chance we won't have petrol coming into the country in a month.

Tonight I'm going down the 'how to make the best popcorn. Oh I have to import a whirlypop an flavacol?' and tomorrow will be 'how do accordion playing work?' You can tell I've opted out of the nonsense. Spent 10 hours this weekend tree trimming.

Can someone explain to me the whole everyone under 40 watches short form video as their main everything? Why are you engaging with something you don't get to choose what it is?

My package was finally shipped. It went from MI, KY, HI, to Auckland in under a day. Now to wait at least a week for NZ post to get it 50km.

Partner just got petrol/gas because it's rising like crazy. NZ prices == $8.36 a gallon.

So who else's workplaces are like 'welp, gonna have to figure out how we're going to survive these fuel price increases...'?

Is the new normal lying directly to everyone you talk to? I've had 3 separate people/instances in the last 24 hours of lies in business settings. Is this the norm now? Because we will have a complete collapse of society of everyone doing it now, nonstop. I will see to it.

This is not the kind of shit I need to day after being up for 3 hours last night with one of the most painful migraine and cramps I've experienced. Just, don't fuck with me today health insurance/hospital. Do the most basic of work.

Ok, maybe their genetics have switched to mine that take 3+ hours to fall asleep? Maybe their genetics have a circadian rhythm that's 27+ hours. And given a weekend or summer they wake up 8+ hours if you let them. And naps. Most teens have had this; sometimes gets better w/ age. (or in my case no).

wait. wait. everyone hold on. i've solved it

But there's news from 2 days ago indicating they already did.

And why did they Cyber attack a Fortune 500 company, instead of finding a way to attack children? Because they know that American politicians place more value on money than on kids.

Dear everyone, As per the post from the Bodleian librarian below, AI bots and scrapers are putting just about every website under great pressure, British History Online included. A lot of excellent tech staff are working hard to keep everything working, but outages and siruptions are inevitable.

Julia Angwin leads class action lawsuit against Grammarly/Superhuman www.wired.com/story/gramma...

Am hosting some chat servers at the moment and I have no idea what the kids are responding to me with. 'Hi, how are you?' responses should not confuse me.

HAHAHA weeks!??! Days. Maybe 2 or 3 max. And how long before food prices spike (again)?

Anyone else work for a company where the job is primarily to make it so the CEO doesn't go to jail or one of their reps don't get yelled at? Like, fuck me, this is dire.

Is everyone got gas/diesel runs in their country or not yet? No depression level panicking yet? hmm. Worrisome.

i don't care about any arguments against this. right now the sum total of my political advocacy is: crush the Republicans and make them pay. i don't care what comes after because until we do that nothing better is possible.

Maybe there needs to be some research on how the rich used to be ones with access to education, but now they're just as dumb as those with poor education. And it's far more fruitful (and easy) for grifters to gain access and trick them for bigger sums (thus leading to pain for the rest of us).

you do realize there are SCORES of books written by neurologists and philosophers and medical ethicists on this topic, yeah? like i'm begging you people for one time in your life to crack open a book and READ

So... the govt asked you if you had proof of this thing, you said no, have now asked me to do it... and I pulled up the document I made 5 years ago which is proof of this thing. Sure. I can slap a new font and date on it and send it to you. I'm good.

Democrats may not be able to prevent Mullin's confirmation, but they can certainly turn his track record of offense and stupidity into two days of televised humiliation so spectacular that he is wounded in Trump's eyes from day 1. That is the job.

So what percentage of people do you think take bribes? Or would take bribes? Say someone in the Epstein files came to you and was like 'work with me to rehabilitate my image?' or someone else you find morally repulsive -would you/people you know do it? Like 98%?

SCOOP: Proton Mail provided Swiss authorities with payment data that the FBI then used to determine who was allegedly behind an anonymous account affiliated with the Stop Cop City movement in Atlanta, according to a court record reviewed by 404 Media.

I see Adobe's taken up the Windows method of 'we're going to crash your system software to do an update you didn't approve and lose all your data'. JFC.

Per The Economist/YouGov, half of Americans support ABOLISHING ICE. Literally, "abolishing." yougov.com/en-us/articl...

The numbers are staggering: Rent is now unaffordable for a record *half* of U.S. renters. Some 30 million jobs pay less than $15 an hour. The average wage needed to afford a one-bedroom apartment has climbed to $28.17 — nearly four times the federal minimum wage, which hasn't gone up in 16 years.