Lowering workers’ wages is exactly why he got a pay bump. Capitalism working as intended.

Also Mustelids, because Mustelids are hella cute and who can blame nature for wanting to create more cute things?!

Ah, well, better skip “Strange Days”, “12 Monkeys” and “Gattaca” then…

June 12th:

“I am pleased to confirm the 6th round of Iran US talks will be held in Muscat this Sunday the 15th,” Bad Albusaidi, the country’s foreign minister said on social media.

Israel struck Iran later the same day.

So why should Iran have any reason to believe that “talks” will stop Israel and the US?

They don’t want to save Hollywood, they want to control it. They can’t control it if the studios shoot their films outside of the US.

Look all those plants don’t water themselves and I need to get ore from the mines for the sprinklers. I also have to fix the bus route, because I can only get enough iridium for the sprinklers in the desert. And I have to do some fishing to get Willy his favorite present for his upcoming birthday. And I need to get more seeds from Pierre’s, otherwise my planting schedule is all messed up. Besides I haven’t gone foraging in days and I need Fiddlehead Fern for the Chef’s bundle. And I haven’t even given my loved their second present of the week…

Ooooh, cookie! Thanks! 😋

Yes, do feed the squirrels!

The Guardian shedding crocodile’s tears? Boohoo, we spend years vilifying trans people and now look what happened…

From left to right: Le comte de Champignac, Fantasio, Spirou, Panoramix
On the ground: Spip and Idéfix

The tome it is referencing is “Astérix en Corse”, particularly the old men sitting in front of the Corsican village and commenting on what’s going on around them.

The last question is too much: I guess it would be the festival of Angoulême.

Edit: Misspelled “Spip” and damn… never heard of the festival of Ajaccio before.

It all may sound like a great big bucket of bad news for the car company, but the stock market has a different take. “If this is the worst it gets for Tesla, then certainly there must be some upside for the stock once tailwinds, such as the highly-awaited cheaper model and the Robotaxi, finally hit the market later this year,” wrote Thomas Monteiro, senior analyst at investing .com.

Quote from this article by Ars Technica

I am not posting this because I think it makes any sense. It only makes sense if you are a rich person with way too much money to be bothered by Elon Musk’s track record of just making shit up.

No, he didn’t make a u-turn. Kid Starver - ever the opportunist - only uses the moment to reveal his complete lack of morals and convictions yet again.

For years on end Fox “News” told these people that they are the vanguard in the culture wars. This is the intended outcome.

Yes, unconscionable opponents will always resort to violence, but people seriously underestimate the power of strikes. If an entire society comes to a halt because people refuse to keep it going, the power of authoritarians dwindles away. No dictatorship can control a complicated, modern society of millions of people through violence alone. That’s why they have always been worried by an organized workers’ movement and unions.

Fun fact: The mouse was already invented in the 60s and was part of the famous “Mother of all Demos” which shaped modern computing like no other single event since then.

Underground tunnels are not part of the US’ jurisdiction and thus the US government has no obligation to save them.

As other people have already mentioned: No, you are not paranoid. The pattern that you recognise is fake outrage or ragebait.

If you have some time to spare and are curiously about how the right-wing outrage machine works, I can highly recommend the video essay “Stellar Blade: The Fake Outrage” by Shaun. His videos can be a little dry, but he goes to great lengths to pick apart a single example (the video game Stellar Blade) and how the right-wing first embraced the game (in the name of their fight against “wokeism, DEI,…”), only to then do a full about-face when the game did not turn out exactly as they had envisioned (and claim that the game was full of “wokeism, DEI,…”).

It’s a long video, but it does a very good job to expose the mix of unsubstantiated claims, copy-pasted accusations and ultimately fake outrage that underlies right-wing behavior these days.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPsSguYNHpk

I am not a liberal, so I can totally be outraged about what the article is describing and point out the Guardian’s contribution to that particular problem.

Here is some news coverage of what’s going on in the Guardian. Mind, some of the articles are a little older, but the overall situation hasn’t improved. The only thing that has changed is the normalization of the transphobic content the Guardian has put out over the years.

The articles below contain links to various Guardian articles

• Hundreds Of Staff At The Guardian Have Signed A Letter To The Editor Criticising Its “Transphobic Content”, March 20
• Protesters demand the Guardian ‘stop platforming transphobia’ outside newspaper’s HQ, October 21
• Trans Journalists Pull Out of Guardian Newspaper’s Pride Coverage, June 22
• Columnist James Wong leaves The Observer and claims ‘institutionalised transphobia’, February 23

And let’s not forget that the Guardian has had no qualms to participate in transphobic witchhunting for years. No matter what hand-wringing they now do, they share a part of the responsibility for it coming this far and probably won’t stop pushing transphobia either…