Real life has officially passed 'The Dictator' in terms of absurdity.

So he's effectively been found innocent. If he was a normal person he might be stuck in jail until the trial resumes but since he's rich this is functionally the same as being found innocent.

I honestly wouldn't be surprised if the reason is as simple as buying them so Russia can't.

Damn OP is lucky, I get the opposite where every once in a while it feels like my brain suddenly downshifted and added a new layer of fog that never goes away, instead I just acclimate to the new feeling of reduced capacity.

Question for the economists in this thread. Everyone seems to be saying that a lack of at least some inflation is bad but also that wages going up to meet it is bad. Isn't this a system automatically doomed to fail? Eventually in such a setup no one can afford anything and the economy collapses.

You get what you pay for, pay your employees shit and get shit. Completely remove all rewards for hard work and no ones going to be incentivized to do more than the bare minnimum.

So I don't disagree that we need to get less chosey and start voting for the lesser evil at the very least (not even american here bu the UK also has a choice between fuckwad A and B right now) But the bar for 'extreme leftists' has now gotten so low that depending on the company simply suggesting that we shouldn't leave people to die on the street will get you classified as 'extreme leftist'

In defense of 'the computer forgot my password' guy I'm sure we've all experienced the following sequence.

• Incorrect password
• Go to change password
• New password cannot be the same as the old password

And? Its only a crime when regular people do it, for rich people its just 'eccentric'

Wasn't there a social media website that did a massive bot purge a while ago and most influencers found out that like 90+% of their audiences were actually bots anyway? sounds like this is just a logical conclusion and the rest of us can get on with our lives while bots entertain bots.

I miss non obtrusive adds, remember when add blockers weren't a thing and we were all fine with the adds in the sidebar trying to sell us virus laden glittery custom mouse cursors? Instead we have an arms race where the net is essentially unuseable without an add blocker.

'Throwaway culture' implying it was ever a choice and not something that was forced on us.