If they nuke Ukraine into oblivion, they’re not spending a single kopeck building it back. They’ll engineer a second Holodomor to “get their money’s worth” before that.

Interestingly, this law also paid the newly freedmen $100 to fuck off to Haiti

It’s easy when you only pay workers five dollars a day, work them like mules for twelve hours a day, are building in the open desert, don’t need to do environmental impact surveys, and use cheap building materials and workmanship that starts to fall apart after ten years

The Yakuza in Japan in past decades are a great example of what happens when organised crime does hire lobbyists

It was the UK that did that. In the US, slavery was abolished through straight up “property confiscation” (from the perspective of slaveholders)

France doesn’t have “trillions”. There is nothing that can be done to force France to pay, so demanding too large of a sum, even if justified, is a good way to get them to say “fuck that” and you get nothing.

It’s a nuke threat. Again.

This comment is shockingly bad taste on a post about innocent civilians being bombed to death in a war zone.

Almost none of the people who are excited about AI know anything about computer science. I say this someone who always encounters idiots claiming my computer science degree will soon be obsolete because of AI… lol