"[He] expressed lamentation about the imaginary enslavement and misfortunes of Ukraine... acquired...the fame of a significant Little Russian writer, and therefore his poems are doubly harmful and dangerous. With favorite poems in Little #Russia thoughts could be sown and subsequently take root about the imaginary bliss of the times of the hetman, about the happiness of returning these times and about the possibility of #Ukraine existing as a separate state."
So, TL/DR: #Tesla is cutting 20% of its workforce to save money, but also spending money by paying #ElonMusk to advertize to Tesla shareholders on #Twitter to get them to vote to give #Musk $55B in stock.
"Fun" fact: #ElonMusk's compensation plan, expected to be approved by the combination of retail shareholder enablers and the fact that many major market funds don't vote their shares, would be enough to pay 6-figure salaries to all ~14000 recently laid-off employees for 40 years.
Got support not just from 77% of #Democrats, but also 69% of #Republicans. Final votes will be on Saturday and are considered almost certain, as is quick #Senate ratification and #WhiteHouse signing by #Biden.
So apparently it's perfectly fine for the #US to spike the price of #oil ahead of an #election when it's over whether or not #Venezuela's #elections are fair, but it's not okay for #Ukraine to do so via refinery attacks in order to stopping the invasion and ethnic cleansing of #Europe's eastern flank. :Þ
On #Bluesky, a few months ago, #XKCD author Randall Munroe wrote a long story about the "Case of the Missing Hit", a song with the chorus "#LOL" with specific lyrics and style aspects, which other people seem to have also heard - yet the song doesn't seem to exist.
#Tennessee Republicans, spurred on by #chemtrail advocates, pass a bill that, on the face of it, appears to unintentionally ban all #CO2 emissions ("injection, release, or dispersion of chemicals into the air affecting temperature, weather, or the intensity of the sunlight")
