With the current wave very quickly picking up steam, chances are we will be through the worst of it by the time vaccines are available / taken by those still willing to go through with it.
I think I am 4-5 shots deep at this point, and have had a natural infection once. It was horrible where I fully lose my taste for a number of weeks.
Then as taste / smell began to return some things were “wrong.”
It took months for coffee to return to normal.
If I had to live like that… well, let’s say those months had very unwelcome new dark thoughts that took me by surprise.
That’d be hilarious as that what the alt-right claimed happened with Biden. That he was secretly in prison for his ‘crimes’ but it was decorated to look like the White House.
“Regarding the dangerous and aggressive actions we recently witnessed by the People’s Republic of China in support of its illegal maritime territorial claims in the South China Sea, we … strongly oppose any attempt to unilaterally change the status quo in the Indo-Pacific waters,” the statement said.
No link to more detailed information about the poll? I do not like that.
I don’t support an arbitrary ban on TikTok. If you want to ban TikTok because they are spying on people or otherwise behaving maliciously, you ought to make that behavior illegal and hold Facebook, Google, and everyone else to the same standard.
My cynicism says TikTok just won’t hand the data to our government / cannot be trusted to be 100% bitchmade for our government, when compared to Facebook and Google.
Then where’s the call to ban apple products? They famously defied the FBI’s call for a backdoor during a terrorist investigation after all. Apple’s actions have proven themselves to be more resistant to regulatory actions than frickin tiktok which actually proposed letting an American company host and oversee tiktok’s infrastructure and data collection for the USA as a solution to such concerns.
How about we pass a goddamn federal-level privacy law in this country?
Oh… I see…
You say it’s too hard to reconcile privacy laws between 50 states? Hmm, yes. Sounds impossible for a global superpower. Let’s just get back to banning things. Cool!
Modernized privacy law alone wouldn’t be enough. The danger from social media apps (not just TikTok) is algorithmically swaying public opinion. It’s an ultra-refined form of propaganda.
Taking the GDPR as an example, a modern and widely recognized privacy law, there is virtually no protection from manipulation of your news feed. GDPR is primarily worried about gathering and resale of personal information to data brokers. Within a service, it’s virtually guaranteed to obtain consent from people to gain full access to the site.
I think the surprise really is that there’s a group of people directing his campaign, and it’s not just him yelling random thoughts through the bathroom door.
Okay but am I the only one disturbed that somehow tomatoes are too expensive but pizza…which is made with tomato sauce…is getting cheaper? Unless…what is dominos making their sauce out of?
Tomato sauce is produced in the hot months, sterilized, and stored in large aseptic containers to be used all year long, or more. This summer’s inflation isn’t inside the sauce yet.
Founded in 1973. It’s not a coincidence that we started to see establishment pushback organizations popping up in this time frame. Because in the 60s, people of color started voting en masse after generations of systematic suppression. The civil rights movement empowered them to express their political views like never before. The word “Heritage” in this context means “white people.” When they say “traditional American values,” they mean “no gays or mixing of the races.” When they say “limited government,” they mean “weak regulation.” When they say “individual freedom,” they mean “freedom from consequences,” specifically for white males. When they say “the war on drugs,” they mean “the war on black people and liberals.” And so on. They’re speaking in code, and their very name is a code. But it’s easily cracked if you’ve been paying attention.
While I can definitely see Lex Luther being a conservative, I think he would hate the GOP because while he’s a bad guy, he took a pro-human stance against aliens like Superman and wouldn’t give a shit about wokeness.
their people are starting to get paid a bit better than other more easily exploited people in some other countries
That is hopefully the good part of the story, but a growing number of Chinese don’t find work at all, especially the youth. The government even refuses to release the unemployment data.
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Click here to see the summaryLONDON, Aug 17 (Reuters - Hedge fund EDL Capital is betting on further falls for China’s offshore currency and says the yuan’s slide could be the next “black swan event” to rattle world markets, according to an investor presentation this month seen by Reuters. EDL Capital, which manages about $1 billion, said factors weighing on the yuan include geopolitical tensions driving Western countries to re-home supply chains that will starve China of foreign investment. China’s labour market has also grown less competitive versus other Asian countries such as Vietnam and India, while a post-pandemic recovery has sputtered and foreign currency reserves “might be lower than what they are believed to be,” it said. A way to do this would be via derivatives called options aimed at profiting at certain price levels on dollar strength against yuan weakness, said the presentation, without confirming if EDL is using this strategy. The hedge fund, run by star manager Edouard de Langlade, was up about 8% this year, said the presentation. Trades on mining, short positions in U.S. equities and bullish bets on Chinese stocks detracted from fund performance, the presentation showed. — Saved 46% of original text.
Firstly, It has to be noted Sunak is doing nothing to tackle inflation. He is actively giving his donors free reign to fleece the population in many areas, energy being the most egregious. So the cost to the benefits system is firmly at the door of the Tories and their practises over the last 14 years.
My personal belief is that all benefits should be triple locked. We should not be arguing for the lowest possible denominator, we should be looking at what is needed. Some pensioners need that payment as much as people need wages. Don’t buy into Tory rhetoric that another group should be suffering as much as you are. Get a proper and fair tax system up and running. Stop the Tory donations from corrupting our politicians. Rejoin the EU so businesses can function again. Give us voting reform so we can stop this ever happening again.
The triple lock is unsustainable. After a 10% boost because of inflation they’re about to get an 8% boost due to wage rises at a cost of 2.2b to workers. During a decade of stagnation they got the 2.5% boost creating an unsustainable debt.
We give more money to old people than defence, policing and education combined. You get less than 50% return on your taxes handed over.
It’s just not sustainable. These are exactly the people who should be paying tax in a fair society. Rejoining the EU and taxing a few companies won’t suddenly reduce the problems we have, it’s stupid to even suggest it given the gravity of our situation. We have the highest taxes in 75 years, a student loan puts your tax rate to 63%. Boomers got paid to go to uni. Our debt obligation is practically where it was after the Second World War.
People need wage rises to pay for housing that’s tripled in price since the 90s. Old people don’t have mortgages and they got help with their gas bills through other schemes… so why are you defending giving them 18% uplift when workers had to strike for just 6%?
Nothing in my post is pro Tory. Tories are for the Triple lock and I’m against it. You didn’t read my post, you didn’t understand my post. You just typed some rude shit in like a dumb fuck.
We cannot afford to give people what they need is a constant Tory theme. We cannot afford the NHS, social benefits, care for the disabled.
You still cannot deny that 10% inflation should mean 10% extra taxes returned. And as such we can afford it. We could afford it even more if the well off paid a fair amount of tax or may be we stopped giving money to oil companies instead of actually taxing them.
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