circuscritic @ circuscritic @lemmy.ca

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Fumble what?

It's a completely regulatory captured industry that makes the majority of its profit from being financially engineered gift card style quasi banking institutions via their milage program agreements.

This is just more cash off the top. Free $$$$.

Butterymales vibes.

Also, Trump isn't the President. So whatever he may, or may not do, is hypothetical... It's also irrelevant to what Biden is actually doing...you know, because he's the current president....

What are you talking about?

This was definitely NOT a huge component of the Hillary Clinton campaign.

It also definitely did NOT play into the Democrat's delusion that any left leaning voters they lost by shifting to the right would be replaced by the GOP moderates it would attract.

Oh, and Chuck Schummer also NEVER repeatedly made these claims in public, or during media appearances.

So yeah, this is a bold and definitely BRAND NEW strategy.

No way it goes tits up.

......SCOTUS has been expanding corporate power since long before the current majority. This is a nearly 40 year long project and it transcends any nominal association of a justice as being liberal or conservative.

There's no doubt that it has been accelerated as of late, but don't kid yourself about who they serve

Also, that CFPB case would have wrecked the status quo of power and how government funding works. Not a subtle shift, or a quick jolt, but a fucking wrecking ball by making it so that programs that makeup nearly 2/3rds of the federal budget would have to be continually reauthorized e.g. Medicare, Social Security, etc.

You're referring to settlements where the accused pays a fine and maybe agrees to certain conditions, but is allowed to do so without admitting to any wrongdoing.

That part comes after the investigation concludes...which is exactly what I'm talking about.

I hope so as well, but am not optimistic.

If recent history has shown us anything, it's that this will just lock in the current rates. Of which the combined profits from, will be exponentially more then whatever legal costs and fines are ultimately paid.

Maybe a single pasty will get 36 months, with 24 suspended.

All of which will eventually be overturned on appeal to SCOTUS.

If this was to do with collusion against home owners, a significantly powerful voting block that is politically catered to, it'd be different.

But renters are viewed as livestock, the pay pigs for the elite, and only given enough illusions of justice or action to avoid bread riots.

I will provide the caveat that if this investigation dovetails into, or brings in, investigations into companies that also harm the interest of middle class homeowners, there might be some hope for it making a dent.

Exactly, and I bet you feel fucking stupid as shit now. Don't you?

Well, I'm not getting left behind this time. No fucking way.

I'm not waiting for the SCOTUS ruling to get in on this action. I've already got the ball rolling on all types of fraudulent and criminal financial dealings.

What's the opposite of a statute of limitations?

I always setup my own new installs offline, with no Internet connected and assumed that the was the workaround this was referring to. Guess that's my fault for not reading the article. I wasn't even aware of the fake email bypass.

But my reasons were primarily because I wanted to disable as much telemetry as possible and tweak other settings before putting it on a network.

Nursing homes and the entire home care industry have been thoroughly ransacked by private equity.

And what's even more pernicious about this case of corporate raiding, is that the public actually believes the lie that these industries and businesses are not profitable.

They are highly profitable, but all the funds are siphoned off and legally embezzled the way private equity always does: exhorbanant consulting fees and switching the vendors and suppliers to their own companies, and jacking up the rates they charge themselves.

And that's before you even get into the favorable legislation they purchase through donations, and the refusal to adequately staff the companies.

https://www.levernews.com/how-wall-street-profits-off-of-the-sick-and-elderly-private-equity-nursing-homes/

Sepuku or bust

Those Russian mercenaries are running recruitment operations to feed foreign nationals e.g. Syrians into the Ukraine theatre.

Energy generation has constraints, whether it's fuel, processing requirements, or the infrastructure's generation capacity.

At best, this is proof of concept that will revolutionize the environmental impacts of Big Tech's new and even more environmentally damaging data centers.

But we've seen that dog and pony show countless times whenever the environmental cost of data centers gets too much press.

This is most likely just a cynical PR prop to wave around, as the rest of the AI facilities aren't run so "greenly".

Gee. I wonder what the difference could be....

But, don't fear. As long as the current political trends continue, something tells me America might change its mind again.. shortly after the new administration is inaugurated.

He's not that old for a normal person.

But he's way too old to avoid the significant health impacts of constant hard drug abuse.

It's a catch-22: if he wasn't that rich, he both couldn't afford, or survive, the same levels of drug abuse for a man of his age, and with a body that looks like spring thawed goose shit warmed over.

This is mostly just public posturing and open diplomatic signaling.

Nuclear weapon submarines are always deployed, and have been since the advent of the Nuclear triad.

That's as true for America, as it is for China, Russia, UK, etc. Basically every county with both nuclear weapons and a capable submarine platform/program.

You're operating under the assumption that market forces can dislodge someone as wealthy and systemically entrenched as Elon.

Personally, I don't share that belief. I hope that I'm wrong.

Elon has reached a level of financial and material entanglement across such a broad cross section of key economic sectors that I'm having a hard time seeing any institutional mechanism or structures being able, or willing, to take him down.

Unless the powers that be were somehow able to ensure his assortment of ponzi schemes and pump and dump operations wouldn't collapse and start a chain reaction that would, in economic terms, fuck our shit up, far and wide.

But even if they could, I doubt those capable would want a precedent that the existing system was able to takedown such a powerful and wealthy person.

The only way I see him checking out anytime soon is himself. Unless he knows the secret ritual rights for a proper Moloch summoning, no amount of adrenochrome boosters or infant blood infusions can compensate for his insane drug use and poor personal health habits. You can't be that old, that out of shape, and take that many hard drugs without it significantly reducing your life expectancy.

That also provides an out for the scenario I mentioned above. If the impact of his downfall on the wider economy could be mitigated, his incredibly unhealthy habits provide an obvious vector for his removal, without it setting a public precedent.

Tl;Dr: Hope he doesn't get sober, or learn to summon Moloch.

The value of the items was either high enough to meet whatever internal threshold they have for opening an investigation or they were already aware of organized tool theft rings in the area.

That, or they were bored and said "Fuck it, let's do it".

That is a Project Veritas level edit to generate a completely out of context quote.