https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military–industrial_complex

Edit: No idea how explaining the definition of the acronym “MIC” got 3 downvotes. Real reddit-tier energy on this thread.

Hickman also announced a reduction in force. The egg producer has approximately 850 employees, including contract workers and state inmates.

Headline News: Tobacco Business On Ropes as Planation Owner Lays Off Slaves

MIT is deep in bed with the MIC. Their administration is not friendly towards Arabs unless those Arabs have a line of credit with Boeing or Raytheon.

why not post the actual link to the archive.is unpaywalled version of the article from The Atlantic?

Spoilers: The soldiers were never “fighting for our freedoms”. They were fighting to pay off their personal debts and - particularly in the special forces - go on drug-fueled murder sprees in between binging and fucking prostitutes all over the world. If they served long enough without suffering a debilitating injury, they could make the jump to the private sector where the pay was way better and the jobs were much easier.

In the end, the US military is just a jobs training program for mercenary fuck bois. It is not some kind of Knights of the Round Table for liberal democracy.

“During the cold war, the anticommunist ideological framework could transform any data about existing communist societies into hostile evidence. If the Soviets refused to negotiate a point, they were intransigent and belligerent; if they appeared willing to make concessions, this was but a skillful ploy to put us off our guard. By opposing arms limitations, they would have demonstrated their aggressive intent; but when in fact they supported most armament treaties, it was because they were mendacious and manipulative. If the churches in the USSR were empty, this demonstrated that religion was suppressed; but if the churches were full, this meant the people were rejecting the regime’s atheistic ideology. If the workers went on strike (as happened on infrequent occasions), this was evidence of their alienation from the collectivist system; if they didn’t go on strike, this was because they were intimidated and lacked freedom. A scarcity of consumer goods demonstrated the failure of the economic system; an improvement in consumer supplies meant only that the leaders were attempting to placate a restive population and so maintain a firmer hold over them. If communists in the United States played an important role struggling for the rights of workers, the poor, African-Americans, women, and others, this was only their guileful way of gathering support among disfranchised groups and gaining power for themselves. How one gained power by fighting for the rights of powerless groups was never explained. What we are dealing with is a nonfalsifiable orthodoxy, so assiduously marketed by the ruling interests that it affected people across the entire political spectrum.”

-Michael Parenti Blackshirts and the reds

Every time China visits we get a hospital, every time Britain visits we get a lecture.

~ Dr Lubinda Haabazoka, Director of the University of Zambia Graduate School of Business and former President of the Economics Association of Zambia

Didn’t say anything about teaching it.

Classroom bell rings, signaling the start of the school day.

Announcements from The President on the glorious state of the country.

Pledge Allegiance to the Flag

Pledge Allegiance to the Ten Commandments

All Students Must Submit to Daily Gender Inspection

Teachers each pull out a Palestinian Flag and stomp on it, while pledging their allegiance to Israel

Burning of the Communist Manifesto

15-minute address by Steven Crowder and Joe Rogan

All students write a letter to a white person they know, apologizing for DEI

Physical Education Power Hour: All boys must oil themselves and engage in a greeco-roman wrestling match. Girls are removed to the Vice Principle’s lounge for further gender inspection.

Pep Talk by celebrity athlete and/or professional wrestler about the importance of eating raw eggs and drinking raw milk

Red Dawn Drills: Students rehearse how they will repeal an imminent invasion by Islamic Communist Far-Left Feminazis

Two-Hour Standardized Testing on Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics. Students are stack ranked on the results and the lowest performing child is beaten with bags full of soap

Five minute lunch break.

Classroom Bell Rings, announcing the Four Hour School Day has ended.

Students queue for the bus to the local coal mine, where there eight hour work rotation begins.

Microsoft had a check ready for $10B.

I can’t imagine how a new flavor of Buttcoin could compete with that.

What genuinely confuses me is who they’re finding to buy this shit to begin with.

I’ve seen so many of these failed “Join our club to score points to get tokens to buy virtual dongles that you can use to get into our more-elite clubs with better points and color tokens” schemes over the last ten years. It’s like everyone wants to be Chuck-E-Cheese, nevermind that the company went bankrupt five years ago.

Even if all you care about is profit, it seems like this is an abysmal means of generating it.

Your loss

Vaccine status?

I mean, it isn’t as though politicians are above fabricating a bunch of medicalized Trans bigotry. The UK’s Cass Report is one such example.

What’s amazing is that Utah’s researchers did the leg work properly, rather than conducting a series of FOX News style interviews and Steven Crowder inspired trolling.

All it meant was that the already rich and corporations were able to buy up real estate cheap.

Something like half of all real estate is owned by private equity.

If you genuinely care about wealth consolidation among the ultra-rich, and you seriously want to do something about it, there’s a Little Red Book with some helpful advice.

But just propping up Boomer real estate values for another ten years isn’t an answer either. It’s a losing game to pretend you can outwit Blackrock on home ownership.

How does this article change that?

Why don’t they do lay-down-only seats?

Bigger and older passengers would find it more difficult to get into the top bunk than to ride a standing-only seat.

But it’s all shit regardless. Boeing can barely even make planes that don’t fall apart on the runway. The American airline industry’s fleet is increasingly defunct. The FAA is gutted. Airports are falling into disrepare due to mismanagement. You’ll be lucky to get any kind of air travel in another decade.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anorthosite

The primary economic value of anorthosite bodies is the titanium-bearing oxide ilmenite. However, some Proterozoic anorthosite bodies have large amounts of labradorite, which is quarried for its value as both a gemstone and a building material. Archean anorthosites, because they are aluminium-rich, have large amounts of aluminium substituting for silicon; a few of these bodies are mined as ores of aluminium

Isn’t Greenland just part of Denmark? Why would Europeans doing mineral exploration in Europe hurt America?

I mean, would Alaska’s governor opening up more of the wildlife refugee for US industrial exploitation be a “blow to Olaf Schultz”?

They’re protected by court precedent citing the 1st amendment. Any five judges can change that, assuming they don’t simply wave through a decision from the circuit courts that amount to the same.