A country that didn’t truly exist in its current form until 1989 when the Berlin Wall fell and two differently-governed landmasses were joined again, and unified Democratic governance began. (Counting territory, governance, name, culture as the usual delineations of what makes a nation.)
Deutschland is a Millennial. The heritage: avocado schnitzel.
“Vigilante” justice is built into the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution in the case of tyrants.
It’s common in Denver metro restaurants to not only expect a 20% tip, they’ll sometimes sneak a tip in and then not tell you so you tip twice. Others bake in random restaurant fees that they claim go to the kitchen staff, but even if that were true, why not just raise your prices instead of lying to the customer?
Best one, the state passed a law allowing businesses to charge a different price for using credit cards, (they called it a “fee”) with the caveat that the restaurant/business has to post somewhere that they do it. Often, a tiny sign near their register you’ll never walk up to or pass by because they take your card and whisk it away to the machine. I was at one place where they charge the credit card fee by default and you have to be aware of it to ask them to remove it, otherwise they’ll charge you the credit card fee when paying cash by default. That particular “establishment” also whisked your cash into a back room to make change, as they figure everyone’s going to pay with card, so why have a till at the register? Better be fast at counting change in your head to make sure they gave you the right amount of money back.
Unless you do your research, read reviews, and ask up front about how pricing works, chances are you will always be surprised and charged more. About the only restaurants safe from this nonsense is the big chain restaurants, which means people will either frequent them to not get fleeced, not notice or care, or, like myself, stop eating out almost entirely.
Other notables I’ve observed:
I worked at a company that made electronic devices and the diversity of the teams made it so we caught so many glitches white people would have missed before shipping. Sensors that didn’t work right because skin color or makeup. Things that even TurboHitler would have been annoyed at.
It’s illogical and short-sightedly dumb to forfeit knowledge and skill from any shape, size, color, or orientation of a human.
Haters won’t learn, I fear, until they’re truly marginalized as well.
Honestly, the best kind of “survive but strike” would literally be to buy the bare minimum everything. I’ve already started myself. Cancel streaming services, get a cheap $20/mon cell phone plan, downgrade to the cheapest Internet connection, drive less to buy less gas. Everyone do everything in their power to spend as little as possible, collectively, across the entire country. That punches those shits in the “economy” while collectively we still mostly survive. It also means you will have a surplus of money to save up, or pay down debts faster.
The one thing to truly make this succeed, however, is an advertising campaign to let them know we are all doing it. Billboards, ads on every DC TV/radio/stream/podcast, robocalls and emails to every government official that this won’t stop until they get their heads out of their collective asses. That part would take some capital.
The best part of the advertising campaign is it’s basically reverse-propaganda. As more people see it, more people will start doing it.
Edit: The propaganda should be designed to look like the US propaganda from WWII like “buy wisely - cook carefully - eat it all” to enhance the gravity of the situation.
If that doesn’t work, and it comes down to full-on fascism, it isn’t going to matter if your family has a home or not, because we’re all collectively fucked.
They’ve always been two sides of the same oligarch sandwich. The mask is just finally off. There are one or two good eggs like Bernie or Warren to make the party look good, but Dems are just shitty oligarchs that pretend to care while profiting just the same. Oil production was up under Biden, Harris loved fracking in her campaign, Pelosi rolled her eyes during a Biden State of the Union when he mentioned going after big business, it’s all just lies and bullshit for profit from both parties.
Sucks really, I genuinely thought they were the party of “Good” myself, or at least mostly good-adjacent by comparison, and worth fighting for to have a chance at functioning governance. The last 25 years have shown that was not really ever the case.
There’s some thriller book around the collapse of the US power grid that had a Zuck in it, he pre-replaced all his teeth with ceramic (I think?) so he’d never need a dentist. Had a bunker built off-book twice underground with food, supplies, security.
I assume this Zuck is that Zuck (6 months from now, with our current timeline speed.)
That Zuck died pretty quick, hilariously. Terrible people never win in the end, and they’re always alone.
It’s not because a fiction book on the human condition is right, it’s because when it comes right down to it, survival of the fittest kicks in, and no being in the universe would pick a piece of garbage as the winning choice.
The mistake these oligarchs always make, is that they think the “alpha male” in a pack chose his role because he was greedy and powerful. In reality, the alpha male was chosen by the pack, because he was the best chance of the pack’s survival.
That’s the thing, his being a “businessman” has never really meant anything. When a person starts out with a large pile of money, they can make bad decisions their entire lives and still stay rich, as long as their accountants don’t let them spend down the seed money. His mom front-loaded his idiot life and he’s been claiming to be successful since.
Reddit’s response to this will reveal where Reddit likely falls on the Spectrum of Evil. They’re a privately-held company, so any possible protection money they may have paid to the Nazis won’t be visible like Meta’s and such until the FEC report is (likely never) released in 3 months.
Yeah, it started in WWI.
From a 1976 interview with German-American T. Max Kniesche, who moved to San Francisco in 1907, and worked in restaurants and cafes there:
Teiser: What was it like in San Francisco for Germans during the first world war? You were working at a clearly German restaurant. […]
Teiser: Did you change the kind of food that you served, or the decorations?
Kniesche: Well, the hamburger steak was Liberty Steak. French-fried potatoes were Liberty Potatoes. [laughter] We called it Liberty, but the liberty wasn’t there. Anyhow, everything went to “Liberty.” [laughter]
Oh yeah, I’d still try too. Once rescued a phone from a saltwater beach. It sat there buried for 6 months ish in saltwater. Was able to extract all the data from the MicroSD card and find the owner to give them their lost pictures and such. Would still try, despite knowing the science.
Unrelated, f cell manufacturers for removing MicroSD card slots.
It’s much more simple than that. One can’t help others until one can help oneself. A country can’t help others until it can help itself.
Due to the outcome of the election, all of the United States of America and its territories have been kneecapped and set in a terrible direction that will result in Just. More. Death. There will be no helping others, no helping ourselves, no helping.
All death sucks, and now we have more to layer upon it.
Welp, they just made the do not read list.
“If X is less than the cost of a recall, we don’t do one.”
Hard drives, except for helium-filled ones, actually have an air hole in them with a filter attached to it so they can keep enough air in the drive so the heads can properly fly over the disk surface. Completely possible that moisture ingress would be an issue after years of sitting in a landfill in who knows what. It is a darn tiny hole though.
I’ve seen this tech bro corpo slave labor H1-B mechanism in real life for a long time, it’s always been disgusting.
I talked to an H1-B coworker at my going away party when I was leaving a toxic tech corpo job, and she remarked, almost in tears, “I’m so glad you get to leave!” I remarked to her, “well, if it’s so bad, why can’t you just leave?” “They’d send me back to India.” That particular job had one working 7 days a week rather frequently throughout the year to meet always unrealistic deadlines. The H1-B employees basically lived at the office.
I also remember talking to a new coworker that came from India at one company and he explained to me that this particular company was used as the easiest path to get from India to America. Probably more stories I’ve forgot off the top of my head, because there were so many.
One of those employers also had a greater-than-zero suicide rate of employees.
Time and time again the corpos claim they can’t find the talent they need domestically when there’s plenty. (Which is the legal mechanism they use to apply for or increase H1-B employees.) They just don’t want to pay domestic salaries to workers that may actually be able to push back on their rights as humans.
Fuck tech bros.
Everything being done right now is a social contract between the administration and media. Report my stuff, I’ll keep doing stuff worthy of reporting. Bad precedent.