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Isn’t Cyprus still caught between Greece and Turkey?

OP, make sure to get your thyroid levels checked, that can also lead to lethargy and depression.

He allegedly coordinated the repeated periods of honking, telling the protesters to lay on the horn every 30 minutes for 10 minutes at a time […]. “Hold the line,” he said in video posts, appearing also to delight in the gridlock and misery of locals: “Pretty hilarious that people haven’t been able to sleep for 10 days.”

Yeah, hilarious alright.

I fully expect Musk to target NASA so he can try to slide SpaceX into it’s place.

Tbf, the amount of computing power they’re using is probably less than one billionaire’s private plane flight.

To deport someone, the receiving country has to agree to accept them. Mexico will accept their own nationals, and possibly those of some other countries, but they won’t accept everyone. What do you do with people who’s country refuses to accept them back (this has happened)? And what do you do with them when you can’t determine where to send them back to? You’ve already promised they won’t be let loose, so you’ll put them into containment facilities - all very hastily-built, because there are so many people you’ve accumulated so quickly.

But you have more people than you know what to do with, and they’re all just idling in the camps, and the nation is desperate for workers. The temptation is too great: instead of spending all this money maintaining the camps, you can offset the expenses by renting them to various industries as cheap labor.

It’s still expensive, your people still resent spending money on them, and you still want to deport them, so you don’t spend much on food or medicine or clothes or sanitation. Winter comes, disease rips through the camps, and masses die - but that’s not your responsibility, these things happen …

Just a reminder that most of the concentration camps Germany built weren’t extermination camps, they were slave labor camps but the administration didn’t care if the prisoners died of disease or injury, they’d just round up more people to feed the German machine.

To be fair: there are home fridges that sell for over $20k, and that wouldn’t be out of place in a $6.5m condo.

“It is racial because the people who carry in the Capitol are primarily white people“

Because the black ones are accosted and harassed if they’re armed? Something I heard a long time ago was that whites fear becoming a minority because they know how minorities are treated. I just find it odd that they use that as a reason to obsessively cling to power instead of trying to make everyone’s lives better.

Back in 2020, Democratic lawmakers requested a change to firearm regulations in the Capitol when armed demonstrators and militia members went into the building demanding an end to COVID-19.

Funny how gun laws and gun restrictions are okay when it comes to protecting lawmakers, but not okay when it comes to protecting schoolchildren.

I saw some professor online, saying that the first victims of fascists are the true believers of the party they grew out of, and to watch for that happening with the Republicans.

The Mars Climate Orbiter crashed because some fuckwit programmer at Lockheed Martin programmed their tiny piece of software in freedom units, instead of metric like they were required.