Yet, if some citizen tells another citizen directly, “I’m going to kill you until you are dead,” and that second citizen then goes to the police to report it, the police will respond, “we have no proof other than your hearsay, person one has to actually commit some act of violence before we can even issue a restraining order (worthless) let alone do any ‘police work.’”

This is how it acts in citizen-to-citizen interaction in the real world. A business gets special treatment versus a citizen, yet again.

(Regardless of how crass or inappropriate her angry comment was. Remember: America lets Nazis exist because “free speech” - it’s a huge hypocrisy.)

Gotta love living in 1984: The Reality Show.

Sad, but likely true. Especially sad given how fast the Harris team just rolled over and shut up.

Obviously the bomb was waiting for read receipt before arming, duh.

The officer applied the brakes

Of course they applied their brakes, just like they “fear for their life” or “told the citizen to comply” while beating their brains out - they just make up whatever fanciful lies they can to escape the justice they purport to represent.

That way the corpos can try and focus the energy of the low-education religious folks (trying to frame that in a non-disrespectful way as people be people, yo, even the misguided) that live off being constantly angry away from the fact that they all should be targeting their anger at CEOs and instead to some of the old soft made-up topics not based in reality. How long until the corpos spread a rumor that a covid vaccine generated his behavior?

We citizens get unity and the corpos are all proper fucked. About time we did get some unity. We’re darn close.

Much like how DC politicians live in a bubble where they think everyone in the US has grocery options and plentiful healthcare (due to how business around DC structures these things so those “leaders” just assume all of the US is like DC), the C suite lives in a tone-deaf rich-person bubble with zero comprehension about what it is like to actually live in the shitty world they orchestrate and manipulate.

Reading some guff about the Kroger-Albertsons attempted merger was case in point. These corpos said: “Oh, if we don’t merge, we can’t compete against Walmart and Amazon, and we’ll have to close stores.” Like, no? What business goes, “hey, so we can’t compete with adjacent-market companies, time to close up the places that generate our revenue!”

Or the recent Congressional vote to spend THREE BILLION OF OUR DOLLARS paying telecom companies to remove Chinese hardware from their networks. Something they were told to do years ago. The same carriers that will continue to raise our service rates every few months are making us (via Congress) pay them OUR money to do what they should have done themselves years ago.

None of these morons get it, they just keep corrupting their way to profits off of our backs, while digging out the ground we stand on from underneath us.

Why not beta test a general strike on Jan 6, 2025?

The Dollop is an American history podcast. Each week…

Both that and Behind the Bastards are podcasts on history stuff. Dollop trends more towards comedy while reading about terrible things to lighten the mood. Dave reads to Gareth (most of the time) who hasn’t heard the thing before, and plays off his reactions.

These fuckers aren’t going to be happy until there’s just one mega corp that owns literally everything (including the government).

“We’re calling the corporation: X”

(I hate the source but it’s one of the top ones reporting on it)

No surprise, corpo media is busy clutching its’ collective pearls in fear and trying to control the narrative like it always does.

I wanted to reply and add on to the other comments about the generalized horsefuckery of politics before rulemaking, but everyone hit the bases real well!

learn history or you’re doomed to repeat it

Joke’s on us all, that implies people even learn accurate unbiased history, or learn history at all.

I’ve spent a lot of my life trying to learn all I can, but since I’m not in any position of power, my knowledge only lets me know just how hard and fast we’re all screwed without really being able to do anything on a grand level. (Not meant to sound defeatist, just realist, and the knowledge was still all worth the learn.)

Many in even semi-rural areas don’t. It’s Walmart (located just outside town so they don’t have to pay city taxes) if you’re “lucky”, or Kroger/Soops/CityMarket/other names for Kroger. No way to vote with one’s dollar when one needs to eat. Good sentiment though, sometimes people develop patterns and don’t look into another option.

I’ve been using the Renfro salsa litmus test, as a name-brand-but-universal product sold at most stores to compare how their mark-up works. Kroger’s often one of the worst.

I learned this random factoid a while back while looking into some medical claims with UHC from an insurance contract manager as a random example of how the industry sucks. Apparently ultrasounds can be used in place of mammograms for women so they don’t have to have a titsquish and are just as effective at detecting cancer. Unfortunately, insurance only pays for the titsquish.

Did you check at a FedEx store to see if they had other unlisted rates? Web sites often cater to the lazy for the profits. That being said, I seem to recall an overnight FedEx document envelope across the US costing around $60, so it might not have any advantage.

Police have only ever protected the rich. That was why they were created. Check out all the union-busting they were involved in on behalf of Henry Ford, among others. The Dollop has a few good episodes on the topic.

Basically, because we don’t own our devices. We are allowed to use our devices by the good graces of the manufacturers that charge a premium for them.

This really needs to change. I remember the preinstalled app antitrust suit(s) in the early 00s. Those need to happen again, but likely the EU will have to as the US is entering a dark age, and the US will continue to have inferior everything to the rest of the world for the foreseeable future.

Anything to distract people right now, it seems. Like any one individual can do anything about it. Carriers weren’t even transparent on their outages that were likely a result of trying to defend against this.

Never saw a need for accounting between a couple. The couple is a team, pay the bills, live life. Who cares. Just always seemed like per-charge accounting and “keeping track” is an easy fiscal path to tit for tat complaints/annoyance/arguments. Might as well map how much electricity each person uses at that point, who flushes the toilet the most, etc.

Each should have private charge and checking accounts if for nothing else than gift buying. Have a joint account for most of the money, especially important if one or the other becomes ill or dies. Otherwise survivor access becomes tricky instantly.

Not poo-pooing the methods of others, the more complex methods just seem like overhead, but if they work, they work.