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I'd prefer to see fines linked to profits AND length of time they were stealing, ie: $20 mil x 44 months of theft = $968 million fine

That will get their immediate attention.

Shiggles is my new favourite word.

Makes me wonder what links she has to the plastics' conglomerate.

I always expect Preston to age gracefully, and turn into an old-school conservative.

Me too. There was a time I admired him for doing what he said he'd do (declining to live in Stornoway, the opposition leader's official residence) but the last few years have shown me the error of my ways.

Yup. The orange menace wants to be POTUS so jail is postponed.

Long live 'Merica.

In reality, the Amazon founder isn’t the only American billionaire doing his best version of “Stars—They’re just like us!” The long pastime of underplaying wealth is baked into our nation and it’s recently gained the nickname “quiet luxury.”

It’s a tactic to seem humble, despite the inside of a pocketbook that would suggest otherwise. “Theodore Roosevelt said: ‘Speak softly and carry a big stick.’ The ultra-high-net-worth corollary to this would be ‘Don’t be flashy, and keep your wealth out of view,” David Sadkin, president of Los Angeles–based Bel Air Investment Advisors, told Fortune, adding that many clients engage in said behavior as to also avoid uncomfortable expectations from others.

Non-paywall link.

Non-paywall link.

In 2022, at least 25,000 untested rape kits sat in law enforcement agencies and crime labs across the country. This figure only accounts for data reported by 30 states and Washington, DC; the total backlog number is unknown.

https://usafacts.org/articles/how-many-rape-kits-are-awaiting-testing-in-the-us-see-the-data-by-state/

Honestly, these researchers could have saved themselves some work and simply looked at the current income disparity to come to the same conclusion ...

The other side of that "hero" coin is whistleblowers in movies/TV who, in rl, are vilified beyond even the real criminals who tank the world's economy selling banded, illegally-authorized mortgages as good investments.

Occupy had no central leadership and nobody on earth seems to be able to accept orgs like that. Seems we've been conditioned to believe that everything must be run in a hierarchy.

Here's a map of America that shows how many contaminants are in the water and the percentage they are over EPA minimum reporting standards.

It's not good.

edit -- and if you want to see what might be a reason behind some southern states' issues, check out Gadsden, AL with 7 pollutants at 4320% over limits; Bremen, GA with 3 pollutants at 3266% over limits; or Pensacola, FL with 12 pollutants at 4350% over limits.

Yup. When the populace is under extreme stress to grab their share of the miniscule amount of crumbs that fall from the rich man's table - leading to thousands of homeless and/or unable to find work that pays a living wage - that is when we lash out over seemingly insignificant incidents ... because the majority of us are burnt out and bled out from the rich pushing us to fill their coffers.

The satisfaction we should have from a good day's work has disappeared, and we are the shells of what's left.

I quoted a source. If you don't agree with it, quote another.

And please don't call me ignorant. It's rude and uncalled for.

And Fauks is doing that now. So what would be different in a criminal trial?

We already have excellent reporting on Trump's civil trial going on right now, proving that it can be done well.

Name checks out.

Technically he didn't say anything in a public forum tho. The article states he was briefed on the storefront by someone else, and seeing as it seems to fall under classified info it's unlikely we will ever find out who that someone is.

Yup. The Guardian put out a great article about that path in 2021, here.