Yeah, the interest idea doesn’t make sense, especially since for most of the 21st century the interest on savings accounts has been negligible.
If it cost $6 on the $1500 loan, that’s most (of not all) of the interest right there, and it takes time for that interest to accrue significantly. It’s not going to happen in a couple of days.
If this was the scheme, then your ex-boss was no criminal mastermind.
Edgar Allen Poe laid out the rules for a fully satisfying revenge in his story The Cask of Amontillado:
The revenge has to be worse than the original offense.
You have to get away with it.
The person has to know who did it, and why, yet there’s nothing they can do about it.
Take away any of those factors, and it isn’t a fully satisfying revenge plot.
Their wives would be so mad!
“Glitter!? Again? How many times have I told you I to stay out of that strip joint? I hope you like the couch, that’s where you’ll be sleeping for a while!”
Don’t forget, the State decides if it’s self-defense or not, and Self-Defense states tend to be Red. Florida has some of the “strongest” Self-Defense laws, and the State would side with these goons every time.
That’s exactly what this is, a new form of lynching. In a way, it’s even worse than lynching. They may not be hanging them from a tree, but they are destroying the lives of entire families.
That’s not true in all states. In Florida, if you feel genuinely threatened, you can respond with deadly force, no matter what the other guy is threatening you with.
Better to be judged by 12 than carried by 6.
A payphone? Do you have a 21st century idea?
Brown shirts are so mid-20th century. This is the 21st century, were in the future! It’s Red Hats now.
Remember: Red Hat spelled sideways is Hatred.
Nah, Rand is afraid to go outside, where his neighbor will be at him up because he’s such a dickhead.
There are already reports that people are committing crimes disguised like this, and I’m starting to think that’s part of the strategy.
They know they cheated to get into power, and they don’t have nearly the support that they claim to have. They know they don’t have enough trained manpower to suppress the national mob that will arise when the Tipping Point happens. By establishing that this is the “uniform” of their “Enforcers,” ANYONE can align with them by embracing their ideology, no joining or training necessary.
Eventually, we will have volunteers joining them in their assaults on protesters, zip-tying their neighbors and dropping them off at the local ICE facility, and eventually just organizing their own little ICE Militias, and the government will be just fine with all of that.
Just judging by the cover, my guess is that this album sucks.
This is going to be the threat that EVERY employee will hear over the next several years, whenever they ask for any sort of a raise, promotion, etc. “Just be glad we don’t replace you with AI.”
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When everyone started getting excited about The Cloud, all I could think about was how stupid it was to trust EVERYTHING in your life to some third-party corporation. What could possibly go wrong?
Yeah, that thing with the Thai soccer team really opened my eyes. Later, I saw a documentary on the situation, and there was no way that his submarine idea could have worked, it simply would not have fit.
But rather than accept that those on the scene were more knowledgeable about the situation, he immediately jumped to calling the rescuers pedos, as if the only reason they wanted to rescue them was because they were young boys, and wanted to molest them. What an unhinged take, proving that he was more interested in playing the hero and feeding his ego, than actually rescuing anyone. He saw an opportunity for global promotion, and was pissed when it was denied to him.
It showed me a side that we hadn’t seen before, but turned out to be his real personality.
He’s trying to stay independent because he fantasizes about running for president one day. He even did a TV show where the framing device was him being interviewed as a presidential candidate, so they could show his life in flashbacks. It was an obvious ploy to position him as a legitimate political candidate in viewers’ minds.
Every rich and/or famous person now thinks they should be president.
Yep, this is how Michelangelo started, painting his bedroom walls. One day, it’s the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. Well, that’s been done, but maybe the food court ceiling at the mall.
I’m trying to figure out to move to another instance, and found my mod logs. Turns out a lot of my best posts have been deleted, often for stupid reasons. Apparently Lemmy isn’t much better than Reddit as far as tolerating free speech.
I managed to find a new instance, but my posts haven’t ported over. Looks like I’m starting over.
The chance of a payphone being handy in the middle of a demonstration is pretty small. If you have to run a half mile to find a pay phone, then the strategy starts to break down.
However, if you want to try this, maybe The Payphone Project can help you locate the nearest phone. According to the listing for my hometown, it’s likely a campground or cheap hotel.