*Games without frontiers, war without tears. *

That’s all we are to these billionaires disconnected from reality. They have no limits and no consequences.

I don’t think I see anyone else saying it: Because High School was the last school for the vast majority of people.

In American history a lot of people didn’t even make it to High School. You got enough of an education to work whatever job, or were forced to quit schooling and start working because of family financial needs.

College wasn’t needed for a good paying job that would be enough to own a home, car, have a family, etc.

So High School was the end of the line for being a kid in school and whatever freedoms came with that.

Parque de el Retiro, Madrid.

$4/gal today.

Wow.

It’s a turbocharged engine on a PHEV Mini. This car is finicky AF.

Yeah. For sure. Bought some stuff off marketplace, even used is expensive.

No, it’s a turbocharged PHEV Mini. They’re very finicky, unfortunately.

That one I know all too well. Been that way for years.

I’ll go first. One of our local gas stations is out of premium gas. It may not seem like a big deal but one of our cars is a plug-in electric that also has a gas motor that requires premium. While it’s only one station now, It’s likely a direct result of US action in Iran. I think it’s just the leading edge of problems to come.

Guess I’m surprised that any of them would waste time on Lemmy/the fediverse. It doesn’t have enough clout to seem to be worth the effort.

We absolutely have trolls and there was pretty much no possibility at all that there wasn’t some kind of State monitoring going on, but active organized State Trolls seemed a stretch. There are far more popular platforms to manipulate the denizens of.

There’s more than a few of these around. They start shit on otherwise seemingly normal posts for no reason, and often have a couple (friends? Alts?) to give them a couple upvotes to keep them afloat. IDK why they seem more prevalent lately and they’re only there to be dicks and not actually engage.

This moron has no strategy other than hitting harder until he gets what he wants. Problem is that this isn’t one of his kids or wives he can beat up and lawyer his way out of trouble, these are nations that have the world by the balls and he’s too stupid and narcissistic to understand that.

The last line indicates we’re already headed there. Just how bad and how long remains to be seen.

I’d refine that slightly - tax loans on anything except those for a primary residence, and loans used to create businesses that employ less than 100 people, or any business in service of the loan recipient. I’m sure that could be refined quite a bit. The intent being that they can buy a primary residence like anyone else and not be taxed on it - restrictions would apply like they’d actually have to live there, not sell it for “x” years and not build another primary residence for “x” years or then be taxed on it. The businesses would have to be big enough to be useful, not a business of rich guy’s 2 buddies that would just use the “fake” business to throw venture capital back in the rich guy’s business, or the rich guy buy a yacht and the “business” be him paying his own crew through a shell company to drive him around in his own yacht.

The issue is when people are so self-absorbed they treat everyone like idiots, so the “stare” becomes a default.

“Jailed” would be better.

Just 3 down from this post in my feed.

Let’s start with Faux News. Seems to be that they’re a revolving door for employment with the administration.

You answered your own question.

We export the oil. The oil is bid on via a global market. That market sets the price of oil.

The companies selling oil and gas from the US sources have no loyalty to the US, they’re going to make money however it suits them.