I am prepared to be downvoted for this, but I believe in Occam’s razor here: do not attribute to malice what is adequately explained by stupidity
I think it is much more likely that nobody bothered to check their background until it was too late.
To be franc (or to be billion francs), France has enough money, guns, and United Nations Security Council seats to give Haiti the middle finger
If they nuke Ukraine into oblivion, they’re not spending a single kopeck building it back. They’ll engineer a second Holodomor to “get their money’s worth” before that.
Interestingly, this law also paid the newly freedmen $100 to fuck off to Haiti
It’s easy when you only pay workers five dollars a day, work them like mules for twelve hours a day, are building in the open desert, don’t need to do environmental impact surveys, and use cheap building materials and workmanship that starts to fall apart after ten years
The Yakuza in Japan in past decades are a great example of what happens when organised crime does hire lobbyists
It was the UK that did that. In the US, slavery was abolished through straight up “property confiscation” (from the perspective of slaveholders)
France doesn’t have “trillions”. There is nothing that can be done to force France to pay, so demanding too large of a sum, even if justified, is a good way to get them to say “fuck that” and you get nothing.
It’s a nuke threat. Again.
This comment is shockingly bad taste on a post about innocent civilians being bombed to death in a war zone.
Almost none of the people who are excited about AI know anything about computer science. I say this someone who always encounters idiots claiming my computer science degree will soon be obsolete because of AI… lol
Mint the damn trillion-dollar coin
Probably. I didn’t consider that, but everything is AI generated nowadays
But this is legitimately impressive
Can you not realise what is and is not a joke?
I am aware of the Government Accountability Office. I want something more powerful than that. The Government Accountability Office is a toothless organisation without the resources and power needed to really identify and defeat Government inefficiency.
Elon Musk nonsense aside, a Department for Government Efficiency is honestly not a bad idea. Apparently, the military is tremendously wasteful, as are most other government departments. This could genuinely save some taxpayer money and free up funds for good things.
Closest I can get is a statue of nativist racist beating up immigrant
I don’t have a problem with snaps as a technology. If you want to use them, then who am I to judge?
But what I do have a problem with is when I don’t have a choice and I am being forced to use what the distro maintainers think is good for me. That is what finally made me quit Ubuntu and switch to Fedora.