One of the bills (the Restrict Act) seems like it is just remaking the Patriot Act but with more spying. So I doubt that this shit will be just allowed to not go into affect even if Tiktok is sold off.
Vid talking about it: https://www.tiktok.com/@sayheyjames/video/7216023076595813678
The bill itself: https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/senate-bill/686/text?s=1&r=15
Well if you want the glass to be able to possibly survive someone breaking into it or being hit by something from outside (which seems they are doing better since that hilarious moment on stage). Then it seems that it would be obvious that it would mean also not being easy to break from inside. Even if it were regular car windows, the shit is hard to just break out from the inside without a pick or something else with a hard point. Also very curious how fast she had to have reversed to not have been able to stop and switch to drive or open the damn door. Not meaning to defend Tesla (and more specifically Musk), but kind of get the feeling she would have met the same fate in some other brand. Very stupid for someone that runs a shipping company to not know why it is important to not just floor it while being so close to a body of water.
If we are lucky, we will see more CEOs meet similar fates. Put there by their own incompetence and their last moments having nothing but fear. Their wealth and egos being unable to save them.
If they are so honestly amazed at women showing some skin/curves. Just wait until they find out about Twitch. Or that yoga pants exist.
black-pill rant
I have somehow avoided getting it since the jump, and given how little the corps seem to care at this point. I sometimes kind of hope that somehow my entire department would catch a not place us in the hospital level version all at the same time. As it really feels that the "must slash as many workers as possible to make the most money" corps learned nothing from how badly the "just in time" setup falls apart if shit happens. Even though I have worked the entire time without getting sick, I feel like I (and my co-workers) have just been constantly punished for being well. Even when my department has seen massive churn from losing people so quickly (myself and my manager who was doing the same job as me before getting the title) are the only ones left from the start of things. And have seen at least four full cycles of people coming and going.
No one is given anything close to actual training, and when we do try to train them, we and they are just pulled in five other directions due to lack of workers in other departments. And the top leaders (the GM and other people right below GM) are the types to freak out if so much as two people stand next to each other and might be a line. Funny thing though is that they often pull people from the front check-out areas. So there are customers that walk up to the check-out and are just so confused as to how to even pay. The drive for artificially making the profit numbers higher needs to cause massive crashes soon. But they all just keep pushing for trying to copy the push for online sales above all else.
It is never enough, so I really really hope that their greed causes a cascade of failures. If they all want to punish us for even just showing up to work and can purge us at any time. Then I at least want to see the thing they care the most about fall harder. Their profits. I want to see C-suite, board members, and major share holders jump from their offices. And I want to see actual heads removed from those that don't. And I want to repeat their condescending speeches they gave/give to the workers when they speak of how "we all must make sacrifices." Would also be nice to force them to watch as we literally pour gas on stacks of money and light it on fire in their last moments.
Dude needs to have like 5 more strokes and STFU. The people are making actual demands of Biden and the whole Democratic Party. They have become just so used to just leaning on the "vote blue no matter who" stance and just literally put more effort in attacking voters for making any demands than they ever do when it comes to Republican Party policies that come up for votes. He is a bitch that threatened a jogger with a shotgun and convensed the victim that he had done more good than harm (even though the victim even outright claims that he was lying about all the actions he took with the situation). Fuck him and his false "man of the people" BS! They only ever "care" about shit like reproductive or various civil rights issues when elections come around. And they never even try to make protections for said issues when they have actual power to do so. I just hope the next stroke takes him out, seeing how being mentally unfit for a position of power no longer matters since Biden is being allowed to run again.
We have reached the point in capitalism where basically where the "premium" products aren't even as well put together as cheap ones from decades ago. Not like this is shocking coming from Tesla Motors, but even the newest and top-spec iPhone's are having staining issues (at least those can keep water out so that is nice). Can't even do your own repairs without getting permission and losing unrelated features if not buying their parts. Low-end or high-end is meant to just be completely junked and replaced. And somehow still get applauded for combating environmental damages.
I would guess that he was maybe hoping (foolishly) to freak out the Dem leadership and elected folks to wake up and break from what they always have done. Which is just always bow to conservatives and act like "bipartisanship" and "norms" are sacred above doing shit their own voters want/need. They saw the way Bernie and people like Stewart are able to get people jazzed-up and even inspire. And they went out of their way to undo all of it in the name of moderate/centrist can kicking. So done with the "we hear you and see you, but our hands are tied by insert excuse" excuse. At this point anyone that thinks Dem leaders are "fixable" and can in any way be trusted to fight for anything are just in the worst levels of denial.
They do have a point though about the administration being a big part of an election. But sadly for this person (and the other folks that will use this line of thought), I think that a very large amount of people that are anti-Biden are not fans of his team either. So they are just furthering the arguments of even the anti-Biden Dems that are becoming more and more embarrassed of the party they have blindly supported for so long. Which does open some gaps for leftists to maybe at least flip to Green votes for President, or at least start following the lead of protest movements like the pro-Palestine/ceasefire ones.
But we have seen how much rot the "blue no matter who" crowd has just ignored for my entire life from late 80's to now. The masses have been taught to be loud but not know how to do anything. Being fair Republicans aren't much better but have learned how to scare their established leaders here and there.
For real, them and basically all the big outlets weren't leaning into calling shit "alleged" when the IOF and Israeli media were making false claims about Palestine (along with calling Israeli children kids/children but calling Palestinian children shit like "youths").
That's what I always get annoyed by when brands known for caffeine get into alcohol. Is it bad to mix a high or kind of high level of caffeine with alcohol given the Four Loko stuff? For sure. But shit is basically false advertising for these things. I don't drink energy drinks for the taste, and there are much better things to mix if that is the point of this drink. It isn't even a very high percent in the first place. So calling it "The Beast" is also lame af. I am guessing it is perfect for the teens that already drink a lot of regular Monsters to jump to and looks enough like the non-alcohol versions to be easy to sneak.