PugJesus @ PugJesus @kbin.social

Cripple. History Major. Vaguely left-wing.

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The heart wants what it wants, I guess

... reread the comment thread.

By pre-modern standards

RTO mandates did not improve a firm’s financial metrics, but they did decrease employee satisfaction.

Great success.

By pre-modern standards, it was actually pretty tame during the first two centuries of the Empire. Which says a lot about the stability of most pre-modern polities.

must be going real bad for russia

Mostly, it's probably terror that US aid could still pass despite their paid stooges in Congress.

Funny how "realism" always seems to amount to "repeating Russian talking points that have been circulated since the very beginning of the war."

The author is a member of a Russian think-tank with close ties to the government. Forgive me for not taking his opinions like "The generals don't understand that Crimea is actually a really tough nut to crack" and "Ukraine needs to be divided like Cyprus" seriously.

When you throw stones at the emperor, you make sure you don’t miss.

Doesn't work that way. The GOP learned that their base doesn't care about failure.

Increase it.

Unfortunately, only rarely. Too many got away with horrific crimes.

I wish I could lie to you. To give you sweet, comforting fictions.

But where do we find a sailor big enough to squeeze the trigger?

Public filings also showed that Huffman and Reddit’s chief operating officer, Jennifer Wong, were paid $286 million in 2023, including stock and option awards (the value accrues over several years, and the current cash value is substantially lower).

Over a FOURTH of the company's yearly revenue is going to TWO people?

Or, bear with me here, maybe going against the advice of every major school of economics in as many sectors as possible is a bad idea?

Annual inflation has hit 254 percent and since Milei ripped away hefty transport and fuel subsidies the price of bus tickets has more than tripled.

"Now I know what it's like to walk," 42-year-old domestic worker Yanina Salto told AFP, who used to take four trips a day to get between jobs.

The cost of medicine has soared over 300 percent year-on-year.

While the government decreed a 30 percent salary increase by March, this is far less than the 85 percent demanded by labor unions -- and the walk-outs are mounting.

On Wednesday, train drivers downed tools, and on Thursday healthcare workers across the public and private sector went on strike, with only hospital emergency rooms expected to function.

Teachers have called a strike for the start of school next week, and the country's main CGT union is debating another general nationwide walkout.

Great success!

It expired late last year. Or rather, the president's authority to lend more materiel expired late last year.

Actions have political costs, and optics could be the difference between Putin's lapdog and our current milquetoast administration.

I know which one I prefer, and, not coincidentally, that one is also better for Ukraine. So I do understand why saying "Fuck the law, we're gonna do it" hasn't been the first, second, or third choice.

anyone on the other side of the people who control the military are fucked.

That's how it generally goes. But in a civil war, the loyalties of the military are often divided as well.

Unfortunately, I don't think it matters what he spews. One-in-four Americans already have a positive view of Putin. I think he's got the crazy demographic already locked down.