A part of me hopes they fine him $130k. Fining him the exact amount he paid Stormy Daniels somehow feels like an even bigger “fuck you” than the maximum possible financial penalty.
I love how he waited until the day after Trump’s conviction to announce this, when the news cycle is still too busy covering Trump to spend any time on a covering it.
Too cowardly to do this when people are actually paying attention, which really is the perfect summary of his career in politics.
Lisa enlists the help of Smithers (because of his enormous Malibu Stacy collection) to find the creator of Malibu Stacy. When is computer boots up, a suggestive greeting from Mister Burns plays which Smithers urges Lisa to ignore.
This is the episode where the cocktail waitresses Homer and Ned drunkenly married in Vegas (season 10, episode 10 “Viva Ned Flanders”) show up in Springfield. At the end of the episode, Homer gets his Vegas wife blackout drunk and tricks her into marrying Grandpa which ultimately convinces her to leave.
It’s the one where Marge takes a solo vacation to Racho Relaxo and Homer is left to take care of Maggie by himself (until she escapes). I think this is the scene where Homer calls the “Department of Missing Babies” and “The Cat’s in the Cradle” plays as the hold music.
It also adds clutter and noise to a public space, making it more irritating to scroll through comments. It’s like someone having a private conversation on speaker phone while you’re waiting in line at a Starbucks or whatever.
I think in the end it all comes down to putting power back into the hands of regulators — power that corporate America has been slowly and steadily eroding for the last 40 years.
A more powerful regulatory state could start enforcing the anti-trust laws we already have on the books by breaking up the massive tech monopolies. Once that’s done, new regulations and new legislation against anti-consumer practices are needed, but those will only work if the punishments scale high enough to work as an actual deterrent against the multi-billion dollar tech giants.
Of course, we’d also need massive, MASSIVE campaign finance and lobbying reforms so that monied interested aren’t able to sabotage the system all over again.
Or we could just bring back the guillotine… that would probably do the trick too.
The bill doesn’t really “cancel” any debt, it establishes a grant fund with tax money and allows people to apply for grants they then use to pay off their medical debts.
Rather than telling the debt holders to pound sand, the federal government will front you the cash to pay the debt holder.
Our little (6months) Nori girl, has just been to the vet to get castrated. What a champ she was! She’s now recovering from the surgery, giving her unlimiteds (and much deserved) amounts of cuddles....
Traditionally we use the term “spayed” for female cats and “neutered” for males. It’s also common to say they’ve been “fixed”, which applies to either sex.
Apparently they announced the game at the same time as the layoffs so they’d be able to release a demo and some promotional material. That way the people they laid off would still be able to show off their work to prospective employers as they job hunt.
I’m sure it’s also a final hail Mary effort to attract the attention of investors so they might fund the rest of the game, but still, seems like a pretty practical way to shelve a project — definitely not as crazy as the headline makes it sound.
At the end of her failed venture as a real estate agent, Homer takes Marge to the unemployment office where they run into former president (and now unemployed) George H. W. Bush who’s also collecting an unemployment check.
'Old and decrepit' Trump rant exposed him as 'a shadow of what he was four years ago' (www.rawstory.com)
Joe Manchin leaves the Democratic Party, files as independent (www.axios.com)
Is Trump going to prison? What to know about the possible sentence after his conviction (www.cbsnews.com)
Guess the Episode [Medium] (lemmy.world)
5.3 points for episode, 1.6 points for scene, points are made up and don’t matter like losing your map when you haven’t been issued a map yet.
Guess the Episode [Hard] (lemmy.world)
1 point for the episode/main plot. 1 point for the joke/scene....
What is your country's "you can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear"?
Yes, that's a real pickle. (lemmy.world)
Guess the Episode [Genius at Work] (poptalk.scrubbles.tech)
This scene came up in a conversation with friends, wondering if you can do the reverse search! (Stealing MimicJar’s format)
If society collapsed what is your best case scenario for what comes after?
You can come up with the details on the kind of collapse....
Tips to reduce Enshittification of Internet
^Qn....
Big Tech to EU: "Drop Dead" (www.eff.org)
Bernie Sanders and Ro Khanna reveal bill to ‘cancel all medical debt’ (www.theguardian.com)
Republicans are pulling out all the stops to reverse EV adoption (www.theverge.com)
Is Boeing in big trouble? World's largest aerospace firm faces 10 more whistleblowers after sudden death of two (www.hindustantimes.com)
Unity's New CEO Nets Millions Months After Layoffs and Scandals (insider-gaming.com)
TIL Feminist Icon Gloria Steinem Was An Anti-Communist CIA Operative who Kept the Feminist Movement From Discussing Class; only Gender (medium.com)
Little Nori now castrated, what a champ! (slrpnk.net)
Our little (6months) Nori girl, has just been to the vet to get castrated. What a champ she was! She’s now recovering from the surgery, giving her unlimiteds (and much deserved) amounts of cuddles....
Ex-Lionhead developers announce new game, shelve new game, and confirm layoffs all at the same time (www.eurogamer.net)
Guess the Episode [Medium] (lemmy.world)
1 point for the episode/main plot. 1 point for the joke/scene....
Starfield Is About to Get Some Really Good Updates Soon, Says Howard (wccftech.com)
The great commercial takeover of low Earth orbit (www.technologyreview.com)
Whatever you say, billboard! (lemmy.world)