My parents had cable, but I never did. Do you have an over the air antenna? I bought one and pretty much never used it nor the TV, but it was useful to occasionally de-stress last year (mainly as background noise or some sporting events) when my bedroom-come-office became an enemy.
You can get an adequate one for as little as $25 if you're in an urban area, and not that much for an extended range in suburban places. It's an OK otherwise free fallback if you ever, rarely, have the itch to put on TV.
Never mind, in that case you're doing God's work. I don't know who would be stupid enough to seriously think any serious modern-day liberal is an ally.
They're just useful pawns, at best, and I hope the TERFs and LBTQIA+ groups keep at each other's throats; mutual extinction would be an ideal outcome.
I work remotely but I've gone into work a few times. Us adults have it easy - I often drink coffee and tea, so I have large stretches where I take the mask off. There's barely anyone in the same building, never mind the floor. I can schedule meetings in unoccupied offices, where pretense of a mask isn't even required.
Kids, in comparison, are completely fucked. They have to do this every day in high-occupancy rooms, have to beg for breaks, and nobody mentions this, but their ears are probably hurting a lot from the bands too. All for some sub-par level of education.
Edit: Some of us adults. For now.
I feel like I've heard this sentiment before, though I can't find it.
The other CA incident (last week) linked in the article, "Entire California District’s School Board Resigns After Mocking Parents During Virtual Meeting", I'm pretty sure was covered here.
Biden also rescinded an order threatening financing for cities that the Trump administration felt curtailed support for local police amid the summer’s anti-racism protests.
Obvious, but I feel this warrants its own story/thread rather than being buried by the lede, which is also important albeit odd.
Where is this data? Is it even possible for us civilians to know? I've found some metrics indicating increased drone usage under Trump, but even if that's true, it's to be expected given this is the modern military weapon.
Death totals seem generally centered around Obama's tenure, since that's when it became a concern. I can find some partial yearly data, but would need to dig further into them...it's a circuitous route either way.
Obama killed a lot, that's obvious and uncontested here. Trump killed some as well. How many were collateral damage, who knows?
It doesn't help that he revoked the 2016 EO on civilians killed in strikes outside of war zones. Obama might have been sly in his timing, but forgive me if I'd rather have the bits of transparency from the CIA that we can get, even if it's politically motivated.
NY Post doesn't deserve clicks - https://archive.vn/wip/voeNv
We're definitely returning to neocon politics, and I do expect the continuation of pointless wars, but if we're being fair Trump used drones as well. The most famous being the 1 with advanced warning.
Drone strikes are a part of modern day military, and aren't going away irrespective of which party or president is in office.
Edit: And, it goes without saying the double standards that mainstream media will hold. That's also to be expected.
You're absolutely on the mark.
Even though it takes a lot of sophistication to come up with the high-IQ play of shorting 100+% of a float, there's legit no way the markets would remain so bullish during a fucking scamdemic being treated as a pandemic if this wasn't true.
Not to mention some percentage of people have even taken the stimulus money and directly injected it into stocks like the filthy degenerates that we all are.
Sure, the ~$28T in debt and constantly super-low interest rate might fuck us over, but that's a problem for 'Murrica of Tomorrow.
Case in point, September 28, 2020: Some Minneapolis city council members would like a redo on defunding the police: report -- https://archive.vn/Klt41
Of course, their excuse was 'confusion' or 'misinterpretation' of the original proposal.
I still find it hilarious that even a Harvard-graduated professor hated this race baiting POS while he was in office - https://archive.vn/nRIyr
There has been some migration, but I don't think most of the subreddit knows about the WIN community...and as we've seen with KIA2, people are lazy even when aware. It's technically not moderated by the original Reddit moderators, though my understanding is that Doggos and the rest have (or had) the intention to hand it over if they ever expressed interested.
As for the subreddit, I won't pretend to be an expert. I rarely browsed it because even before GameStop shenanigans it was generally only useful for looking at loss porn. But from what I saw of the bearish sentiment, IMO it was mostly shills with the occasional peasant that has no brains nor testicles to justify being anywhere near stocks.
Oh, and Congress is busy clutching pearls about these institutions but we know nothing will come out of that.
We do know that they're trying to nail DeepFuckingValue on market manipulation, but they're out of luck as evidenced by, y'know, his comment history encouraging nothing of the sort and everyone on the subreddit mocking him years in advance.
If there are any rule changes, it'll probably be to the detriment of retail investors, but that's to be expected by our political economy.
Image taken from c/wsbets for convenience.
Preface: I own zero shares; I considered it but figured I was too late, which was wrong. I don't care money wise since I'm doing my own long-term thing with a traditional IRA, would have loved to participate in fucking over Wall Street. Oh well.
Anyway, for those out of the loop, the WallStreetBets subreddit has had shady happenings, with old moderators being booted. It was clarified to be an 'admin decision', but coincided with tons of seemingly inorganic postings.
(The subreddit has organically shifted in tone, since everyone and their mother thinks the purpose of the forum was the digital equivalent of Occupy Wall Street -- it wasn't, at least not until the brokers started limiting purchases.)
Since then, many people - NPCs or not - have been suggesting that the "squeeze is over" and to take losses before it goes further down. Between the short-ladder attacks and shorting via ETFs, this stock has been clearly suppressed as evidenced in price and daily volume.
I don't know what high the stock can and will hit, because I'm not a retard that can or would naked short a stock (nor trades on margin to begin with), but "synthetic shares" and the likes aren't long-term solutions when the piper has to pay. And now we're seeing correction BACK to some norm. Wherever that lands.
Restrictions are again in play, but it's not necessarily as simple as the brokers (e.g. Robin Hood) themselves, alone, being corrupt. Either way, this bitch has always had life despite what the media and robots have parroted, and we're seeing it play out.
It was a pretty fun read (caught up to the scanlation). I've seen multiple moral reversal titles before on Syosetu, 1 of them might even be the basis for this, but this manga really balanced humor and raunchiness
Yeah, that definitely had the perfect amount of plot and culture. Thanks!
I can understand the resentment. It's natural. I've always been pro-WFH even prior to the pandemic since commuting sucks, but it's a shit experience to have to wear the mask.
I think some companies will relax commuting requirements after this is said and done, both out of pragmatism and cost savings by reducing the office space. Many, though, will never have that benefit due to employer paranoia or logistics of the job.