Is there a bottomless pit where we can throw all politicians and start again? That or someone wake up Cthulhu as it would be preferable to go mad than to keep seeing the stupidity that ends up forming the worlds governments
Companies producing furniture for the Swedish multinational homeware brand IKEA are sourcing wood from some of Europe's last remaining old-growth forests in Romania, an investigation published by Greenpeace on Wednesday has revealed....
Good to see a successful leader calling out the managers destroying games and game teams in a quest to maximize profit and minimize debt. Looking at you, Embracer Group.
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15 minutes after starting ice fishing with friends today, my phone fell off my lap and directly into one of the holes we had augured out. The kids had a great time but I spent most of it kicking myself for not putting the phone back in my pocket. #fishing#icefishing#stupidity#phone#lost
All of these MPs with their fine and not so fine words about assylum seekers overlook one simple fact. ..
Based on the trajectory of climate change, there will be increasingly larger numbers of people moving from the Sahel, the middle-east, Southeast Asia, and Central America
As an aside, we saw it with Brexit. 2 employees and a partner of another were given ‘notices to quit’ (the U.K.). Following expense on our part, the HO admitted it had been a mistake (my arse).
Subsequently more than half the people who worked for us (we are employee owned) have moved to the EU. We are now formally based in Germany. All those taxes lost to the U.K.
Back before the Internet, we thought the reason for human stupidity was the lack of information options. I’ll put it this way: That wasn’t it — Andrea Junker #quotes#quote#stupidity
Joyce Vance reprises things Republicans said this year, and sums them up:
"A lot of what we heard from the Republican party this year was just plain stupid. And mean."
She adds,
"There’s the persistent hate of those who are different, the need to make life even more difficult for those who are already struggling enough as it is without being denied health care."
"The ACLU says 2023 saw a bumper crop of anti-LGBTQ legislation from the right, including 508 bills introduced and at least 84 passed, nationwide. North Dakota, Tennessee, and Florida ended up with the worst records."
They think they are "winning" only when they are hurting someone, making some targeted and vulnerable minority community suffer. Their ego is constructed around the sense of superiority to cruelty to targeted others gives them.
Today I had a disagreeable experience going through security in Toronto Pearson Airport. The culprits, both staff of the security company, are too stupid to realize what they did, which is why I have no hard feelings towards them.
As Michael Tomasky says today, some of us console ourselves that the fascism of Trump and his followers is stupid. And while may be true that smart fascism can be more destructive than dumb fascism, the latter can still do a lot of damage. Witness the folks handling the faux impeachment of Biden right now.
Europe's last ancient forests being cut down for IKEA furniture, report shows (www.brusselstimes.com)
Companies producing furniture for the Swedish multinational homeware brand IKEA are sourcing wood from some of Europe's last remaining old-growth forests in Romania, an investigation published by Greenpeace on Wednesday has revealed....