Indeed. The original intent was to promote the arts by making sure an author wouldn't see their work immediately pirated.
Now the author's great-grandchildren are getting copyright protection ... an no incentive to create anything other than more extensions in the hope of getting more blood out of the stone.
The point seems to be to define an ever-larger section of the population who can be dismissed from service, leaving the remainder as True Believers.
Now, the interesting question: Why would you need a military that's primed to not even view your own population as people worth defending?
Yeah, it's pretty much "let them fight" at this point.
My father used to work in a union. It was a small, specialist one in a small, specialist field that more-or-less demanded that the union actually behaved properly ... they weren't even run at a thumping loss!
Needless to say, they got Borged into another, bigger union (who had seen their bank balance) that treated members as serfs and reps as aristocracy, and pulled stupid shit like needless strikes - my father's old union struck once in it's 100+ year history, and almost brought the government down when it did.
Strikes are your nuclear option. Over-use them and countermeasures will be deployed, and then where do you go? But the new union didn't care about the welfare of the members, merely that the reps got to look like they were doing something.
Either that, or they're set on protecting those very upper-class, very unemployed students from Just Stop Oil from being told "Fuck off, toff" when they enact their next entirely performative stunt that inconveniences thousands and may kill another couple...
(Source of income: Mother)
I think it's fairly clear that people like BlackRock have decided what's best for the world is some form of feudalism, where people like BlackRock are the only ones with the money to own anything.
They want everyone else impoverished. That way their own money has far more effect. And they're willing to take a big financial hit to make it happen, it seems.
To be honest, though, the clampdown on the actual events of Jan 6th doesn't do anybody any actual favours if they're trying to navigate what happened when.
All that's happened is the misinformation has ballooned, and now there's an official misinformation that you'd better bloody get in line with if you intend to work in or with the Washington swamp.
Then what do you call cancel culture, a tactic the left has embraced whole-heartedly for almost a decade now?
I mean, if you're saying that they're lying, duplicitous shits who don't mean anything that they push out into the public sphere, I agree with you, but how to address those people rather than getting bogged down in semantic arguments about precisely which flavour of totalitarians they are?
You're not, I did. Maybe not so relevant, then, Tanzania's all the way over the other side of the continent.
Bit dicey assuming common practice over such a vast distance. You can kinda get away with for Nigeria - Ghana, because they do quite a few things in very similar ways ... even if they don't like to admit it!
(Thing English and Scots for the kind of antagonistic relationship they've got with each other)
... you know what?
There's a decent chance I'm an Aspie. My brother too. Neither one of us has ever gone for a diagnosis, because what does it matter? I still have rent to pay, still have kids to look after. Still need to work.
What about my life would be improved by getting a diagnosis, let alone pandering to me moping around feeling sorry for myself ... ?
Oh, and some commentators have noted that some of the designs look to use the same fabric on a different specific piece of clothing.
From what I understand of African fashion, that's quite common - at least in Ghana. This looks to be more Nigerian than Ghanaian, so I am guessing it's close (Ghanaian formalwear tends to leave the head bare, from what I've seen, and much more black-and-white) - but they'll run off a big roll of fabric, the roll will be unique, and it'll then get used in several individual bits of clothing. At least, that's how most of my in-laws get their Ghanaian clothing made.
Can't see how any rational person would figure that.
Everything's still primed for it, because the people trying to lie and defraud us into a totalitarian state have suffered no repercussions for their actions. The only issue is that they have to try again so they will