Pigeon, I agree. Raptor beaks are a lot more curved and pointy, and look more like a meat hook. He probably can’t fly, the pinions don’t look developed enough for it yet - young birds like this will often fall out of/leave the nest but still be fed and cared for by their parents on the ground for weeks until they’re old enough to hunt for food on their own, especially when they get to this size.

The sheer scale of globalized business means this is largely a non-issue for the company. You burn down their factory in New Jersey, there’s 10 other factories in other countries they can lean on to make up the shortfall. The owner likely hasn’t ever been physically in the factory (possibly even the country itself), so you can’t do the old Wobbly “how about you sign this contract or Mr Pistol gets angry”. Even if you manage that, the executive board will have a new CEO by the end of the month, and a flock of lawyers will find every way to tear that contract to shreds, or they’ll simply shut down your plant (if you’re in the US or a Western nation) or hire death squads to murder you and your union organizing friends (if you aren’t).

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It looks like it to the parents and the board, which is all that matters. Most of them don’t ever see the hours of putting together a curriculum, or answering questions, or grading essays and putting homework together and trying to keep kids interested. They just remember (wrongly) “well you get up and talk about stuff from a book, what if we fed that book to a machine and it said that stuff instead for the price of your salary, once.”

About a third to two thirds of literally everyone who wound up kidnapped into this camp, yes.

This is me. On the one hand, I am filled with rage that we have a society where a young mother can’t even afford a nice birthday for her kid, where the first part is the sort of story I witnessed over and over when I was in retail. On the other hand, this sort of story, even if it’s embellished or untrue, lets me hold hope for at least a moment that there’s good in this world worth fighting for.

Don’t forget “is getting their own airline operating 24/7 specifically for deportations and transporting people to international blacksites”.

It’s the suicide machine from A Taste of Armageddon.

Remember that Greenland is still a Danish protectorate, so we’d be getting into a shooting match with the entire EU, more than likely.

Nah, even if they weren’t the target, it happened in the “line of duty”. Same shit as when a SWAT team accidentally kills a kid through a wall after raiding a house, or when a cop runs a driver off the road while chasing down another vehicle.

I’ve actually asked one of the software devs at my company about this. The answer is “typing is too slow” - the idea goes that you can dictate 2-3x faster than you can type, and since the current software market is focused on FASTER FASTER MORE SPEED MORE CODE NOW, and your performance is often only measured in how many lines of code you produce, the only way you can stay competitive is to dictate to your dozen AI agents, with you just auditing and debugging the output when needed.

Note that this isn’t phrased as “the proceeds of that cargo”, or the value. We’re just doing Dear Leader’s favorite new pastime of piracy.

You should, it’s rough, but well worth the watch.

Yeah. When you put a tool that’s ripe for abuse in the hands of a group that’s KNOWN for abuse, you can’t be surprised when it gets abused.

I have bad news for you, which is that he posted a statement and a photo with Elaine in his hospital room. It sounds like he had a mini stroke or something - he fell, they’ve done a “battery” of tests “trying to find out what caused the fall”, and then caught a “mild” case of pneumonia due to hospitalization.

Even at 84, you don’t take up a hospital bed for three and a half weeks just from a fall and pneumonia.

Yeah don’t do that with snappers. I used to carry a shovel in my work van specifically to shove snapping turtles off the road or out of my worksites.

The color choices are literally just “this is the color of my suit and tie”. I wish I was making this up.

It also requires a lot of free labor and money from other workers that are willing to donate or put in time voluntarily. When you’re only just able to put food on the table and a roof over your head, that’s hard - and it’s harder to organize it all because you don’t have a critical mass of unions that communicate and understand each other’s struggles.

They weren’t even really anti technology - breaking the tech was the means available to them that worked. Protesting and petitioning didn’t get them anywhere, so they decided on direct action to make it hurt the capitalists in the only place they care about. That meant smashing looms and carders and everything else, because those were incredibly expensive.

How long. We’re in the “decline” period of the fall of empire, and I suspect that, like Rome, we’ll be cruising through this for another decade or two.

Massie is the other KY senator, not the governor. Andy Beshear is the governor, and he’s a Democrat.

A few months gives them time to purity test a few viable candidates and astroturf them to the voters.