It used to be pretty simple to save money: just don't open your wallet.
Now days, it feels like companies are actively finding leverage to force me to open it.
That is, saving money used to be a relatively passive activity, but now I have to actively invest energy to keep companies out of my wallet.
This is the Grifting / Enshittification economy.
LOL "Friend with benefits" (what kind of benefits? FBI SWAT UNIT).
Take that, other suitors! He may have absolutely NO qualifications to run the FBI, but he can order the SWAT guys to protect HIS GIRL.
(does he realize she's going to realize those hunky, well qualified FBI SWAT guys are way more of a catch than he is? 🤔 )
https://www.ms.now/news/kash-patel-girlfriend-fbi-detail-alexis-wilkins-rcna243999
@feather1952
Yeah. It begs the questions: What are they thinking? Are they thinking at all?
I think it is partly due to the shifting of the Overton Window (seems to be a cool thing to use these days) to the right by the Labor party that is causing this aberrant LNP behaviour. What is seen as politically acceptable has shifted — thanks to main stream media — so far to the right that the right-wing of politics only has far-right policies to differentiate itself from what Labor is driving. This is bunkus of course. To believe that the electorate is too dumb to understand subtle policy differences is a dumbing down of all Australian voters. The Independents’ successes have proven the contrary. I think the true reason for the Libs and Nats going full-on #Fascism has to be manaical thirst for public attention. Even if they do not get into govt, they can bask in an ego-stroking pastiche of power given them by a diminishing minority of electors and have their daily 5 minutes of fame (draw a decent salary to boot) curtesy of the #Grifting #Rich and the insane #megalomania of #Media moguls. The closer to irrelevance the RWNJs are, the more unhinged they get. This can’t last. It won’t last.
@auspol #Antifa #EatTheRich #inUnity
Q: What happened to me tooting I’d said my last on the LNP? Go figure… when you’ve got an itch, you need to scratch it — It promotes healing, so I’ve read.
Erika Kirk dressed like a temptress alien from 1960s Star Trek.....
@mojo
Baby steps in the right direction. So much #StateCapture, encouraged by #LNP when in govt, needs to be undone and returned to public hands. Baby needs to grow up and take bigger steps.
“"AEP, [Australian Energy Producers — peak lobby for #FossilFuelIndustries ] with the support of EY [Consultants to AEP], produced sophisticated disinformation that misled policymakers and influenced the national climate strategy to expand gas production, and delay the energy transition under the guise of credible analysis," said Claire Synder, the director of Climate Integrity.” (Source: ABC News)
Who would’ve known? The Govt and bureaucrats receiving the AEP’s advice to keep/build Gas Peakers on the electricity grid to support the transition to ‘green energy’ certainly would have seen it coming. They’d have to have been blind and stupid not to. Hence, the conclusion has to be that govt support for continued fossil fuel use (in terms of ‘natural’ - being anything but - gas extraction and combustion) must be intentional and in keeping with the #GasLobby ‘s wishes. Not only is our #Labor govt purposefully inactive on the #ClimateAction and #Environmental left-wing agenda, it is actively funnelling #PublicFunds to #Grifting fossil fuels #Corporations which pay #NoTaxes and piddly #Royalties.
I’m not a conspiracy theory advocate, but this sure looks like #Corruption, #Collusion and #NestFethering activities if I’ve ever seen any.
All the while, any ‘new’ gas fields developed in Australia will be exported to fulfil contracted gas futures (which are then re-sold at a profit on the international market by #Japan - a lucrative business all round).
Read more:
New Tech Bros hustle coming......"Quantum Computers!"
Do you need one? Do they work? Who cares! It's the Tech Bros!
Put 'Quantum' on every product! Hype! Hype!
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c98d00nq47jo
#QuantumComputers #TechBros #SiliconValley #Technology #Grifting
Trump is now more UNPOPULAR than Obama, Biden and himself the 1st time.
Also business life is turning away from him, because it's clear to everyone but the most deep end #maga fans, that he is hurting America, only building himself a throne and kingdom.
#TrumpDictator
#FascismIntheWhiteHouse
#Grifting
#tariffs
#freepress
Paywall, but apparently religious grifting crosses cultural lines. This apparently has AI involved, LOL. Can't read the article, or even a summary, LOL.
"money minded" monks and clerks
Ike
AI6YR Ben
RaymondPierreL3
Lazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈
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