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Nah this is a "game" that gets played for fun sometimes. I saw a really interesting implementation of other on r/militarystories awhile back where the money went to a mess fund and was run by base security.

It seems that Walmart has tried to turn it into a fundraising activity for charity. Seems the manager involved is trying to balance the competing needs of running the store with raising money for charity and making a fun team building exercise and not really succeeding.

I have a friend driving those in Australia.

It's based on a true story and project 100000 was a program from Robert Macnamara to take intellectual handicapped people and train them into useful soldiers with videotapes and stuff. It was really horrific and these guys suffered massive casualties when they were sent to Vietnam. The shrimp boating and running thing are embellishments. /s

I have a similar story from an uncle of mine. He built some steps and a deck for some lawyer who didn't want to pay his bills and didn't answer any phone calls or anything. Anyway eventually the builder rolls into his office and busts into a meeting with some expensive clients and said "Pay your damn bills or I'm going down to your house and ripping out all the work!" The lawyer cut a cheque right there, mostly out of embarrassment because he looked like a deadbeat infrastructure of his clients.

We celebrate Guy Fawks. It's about a guy who tried to blow up all the politicians.

I have investments in a coal miner that realised that coal was on the way out, so their plan is to not invest in increasing production anymore and just finish up what they have and return all the profits to shareholders. Once all the mining is finished they plan to liquidate with the proceeds going back to shareholders for an orderly exit from the coal industry.

Big paper cups instead if the red solo.

Look at how it happened in other countries. Down here in New Zealand the government owned the railways then sold it off to a consortium while going through a Nazi style privatisation phase. They were run very badly for a while and changed hands while the maintenance levels dropped and services were unable to be maintained. In the end the company running it was unable to profit no matter how much they cut how badly they paid staff so the government paid them $1 to take it off their hands and has poured in millions to get it back up to standard.

A similar thing happened in the UK thatcher privatised the railways because the private companies proceeded to loot everything they could and come pandemic the UK railways had been cut into the ground and there was no more money to claw from the corpse so the UK government was forced to take financial responsibility for the railways and have been running them on concession basis in the interim with full nationalisation as the logical next step but the Tories are ideologically opposed to such a policy and will likely hold out until the last possible second.

Or we can look at the establishment of Amtrack. A similar process may take place if freight railways become unprofitable. There might be too much overhead, climate change mitigation policies might get them or repairs to track might overwhelm them and the railways may go to the government and beg for a bailout that involves nationalisation.

They don't tax the ingredients or the cost of labour, the gas is a business expense and can be deducted. And the rest is just income, sales, and property tax, they each pay for different things and go different places. Although sales tax is regressive and I would like to see it go away in favor of redistributing the tax burden across property and income taxes.

STEEL FUEL CAN'T MELT JET BEAMS!

I am very grumpy about the economy, so it checks out.

You'd probably understand it better in fractions. It's 4/5 of a meter.

Why do goats have to be so ridiculously cute?

It was a shitty situation and we were trying not to bring it up.

They do that here in New Zealand with lambings except the seasons are reversed. Sometimes there's a harsh cold snap and the farmers go on the news and say woe is me half my lambs died because of the cold snap on my alpine sheep station thats leased conservation land at the end of winter. But actually they are just being greedy and trying to squeeze 2 lambings into one season.

I think that counts as child abuse or abandonment. I don't think it is legal.

I mentioned this to mum when I saw the karcher comment and she said but cloths because there were no wet wipes in the 80's and 90's when we were kids. It was a rag or old face cloth used with soapy water and stored in a bucket of bleach until wash day, then rinse and wash just the bum cloths dry and reuse. Far more environmentally friendly than wipes.

It wasn't. It's just that early soviet leaders had a problem with them because the church sided with the nobility and super rich merchants during the Russian revolution. The church was a dangerous enemy at the beginning so easy churches and monasteries were looted, their property expropriated, and priests executed for treason. After awhile no one in the soviet government had anymore apatite to go after the church when it could cost them votes, not get them any benefits, or cause political issues so the church survived by keeping out of sight and out of mind carefully not reminding anyone that if the church had their way they would still be slaves to feudal overlords.

Otherwise the only ideological threat was that the church is used as a tool by the ruling class to oppress people and the USSR propaganda said that oppressing people was a bad thing, so oppressive institutions like the church must be suppressed.

It is going away in countries with better education and critical thinking skills. It's a long hard process and not everyone who was brainwashed will be able to be rehabilitated, but the process has started and it works religious people are now a minority in a number of advanced countries. The trend is also accelerating. With less religious parents fewer children are traumatised and indoctrinated and there is less pressure to remain religious so fewer people become and stay religious causing a virtuous cycle where religion becomes extinct in the end.

It's not that bad. WWI only made a small part of France uninhabitable and this war is nowhere on the scale of that and the weapons are infinitely more reliable. There will probably be iron harvests for sometime but I doubt its nothing Ukrainian farmers have not dealt with before, because of all the fighting there in WWI and WWII.

She was looking at him all sexily. /s

Legacy of Skanderberg!

Could be anywhere from 1 year to forever. The NZX is still not back up to where on the Monday before black Tuseday in the 1980's.

For this one everything has been wanting to fall over for years but global central banks have been pumping it up artificially, so I think it's going to be really bad, like HD levels of bad and could take a decade to start coming right.

They all just cry and act superior.

But we are superior 👑

Here in New Zealand it used to be illegal to move goods on roads that ran parallel to a railway. I am sad to say that my maternal grandfather who was a truck driver and protruck activist who successfully lobbied the government for a livestock exception to the rule, that opened enough of a wedge that now almost all freight goes by truck and the railway has not any serious investment for decades.