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What he means is he’s trying to funnel his wealth into assets that aren’t regulated and may be difficult to seize.

You know, to hide his money from the victims that he owes hundreds of millions to for his criminal behavior.

He realized he was spoiling the wrong side

I have black electrical tape over most led indicators. It’s stupid because now I can’t tell the battery charge on a lot of devices, but I hate the involuntary nightlights everywhere.

Rofl, like Unix OSes never have problems. Even developers, who are among the most tech savvy users, tend to drag their feet on installing updates unless forced.

That’s only on mobile browser mode. Open your browser settings and select Desktop site and you won’t see that modal anymore.

Still an asshole design, though.

It means a lot less when it’s coming from retired, or retiring, Republicans. It’s practically meaningless.

Especially when it’s a judge, who isn’t supposed to be politically aligned in the first place.

Yet, people still work normal jobs on earth. You have people serving tables because they feel like it? Families like the Picards that have vast orchards and a huge manse for generations?

The utopia has never really made sense outside of starfleet having their own internal economy that’s basically only limited by raw resources for energy to construct more starships / space stations.

Yep, I agree. But Putin has held on this long while he has royally screwed the Russian economy, and exposed their bumbling military for what it is. The oligarchs would have ousted him already if it was easy.

If NATO invades, Russia is doomed. Putin doesn’t care that Russia would still exist after a NATO victory, all he cares about is himself and his legacy. Both of which would be destroyed in a NATO victory.

So he would launch the nukes and watch Russia get wiped off the map, because if he can’t have it, no one can. And at least he would go out with a bang, rather than suiciding in a bunker.

The oligarchs would not be able to prevent it. They might hold the political power, but the military order to launch the nukes comes directly from Putin. The best we could hope for is conscientious officers refusing the order.

That’s not handing anything over. They’re going for one last big payout after a lifetime of exploitation.

They have their real estate portfolio that they rent at exorbitant prices, or sell at massive mark ups because they got into the market at sane levels and contributed to the feeding frenzy that has led to today’s unaffordable housing.

They strung their employees on, taking the increased profits from inflation without paying their employees enough to keep up.

And now they’re selling their small businesses to those same employees at prices that practically guarantee they will be unable to keep up. Because even though they have all the wealth that they’ve accumulated from a life of exploitation, they deserve to ride off into the sunset with a saddlebag stuffed with gold.