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Introvert and internet Old Person. Here to read news, memes, jokes, and other foolish things.

You can also find me posting and appreciating art at @dapplezee.

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The perfect video game holiday drink crossover doesn’t exi—

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"I witnessed atrocities against civilians."

60-year-old former Russian intelligence colonel Igor Salikov has fled to The Netherlands to hand himself in to The Hague.

He claims illegal operations in Ukraine were ordered directly from Putin's cabinet.

https://eenvandaag.avrotros.nl/item/voormalig-wagner-officier-in-nederland-om-zich-bij-strafhof-te-melden-bevelen-voor-oorlogsmisdaden-kwamen-rechtstreeks-uit-het-kremlin/

Voormalig Wagner-officier in Nederland om zich bij Strafhof te melden: 'Bevelen voor oorlogsmisdaden kwamen rechtstreeks uit het Kremlin'

"Ik was getuige van wreedheden tegen burgers." Dat vertelt een Russische ex-officier aan EenVandaag. Hij is vandaag in Nederland aangekomen en wil een verklaring over Russische oorlogsmisdaden in Oekraïne afleggen bij het Internationaal Strafhof.

EenVandaag
Evolution, environmental sustainability and the periodic table of the elements have been cut from science textbooks in India. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/india-cuts-periodic-table-and-evolution-from-school-textbooks/
India Cuts Periodic Table and Evolution from School Textbooks

The periodic table, as well as evolution, won’t be taught to under-16s in India as they start the new school year

Scientific American
Studien belegen: seit der Übernahme haben homophobe und rechte Desinformation und Hass exponentiell zugenommen. Musk selbst platziert sich gerne in seinen Äußerungen in diesem Spektrum.
Nun droht Twitter die Abschaltung in Europa wegen des Austritts aus dem Desinformationsabkommen

The billionaire Sackler Family and Purdue Pharma will pay $6B & serve 0 prison for knowingly selling horrendous amounts of OxyContin while claiming it was non-addictive—resulting in 564K+ American deaths by Opioid overdose.😓 And that doesn’t even begin to contemplate the global harm and deaths the Sackler family caused.

And for all that suffering and atrocity—not one person will go to prison. Not one.

“If the penalty for a crime is a fine, then that law only exists for the poor.”

It's interesting seeing economists finally come around to what has been obvious for ~18 months now: the majority of inflation is being caused by a handful of large companies using economic upheaval as a fig leaf for profit-seeking. It's called a “a profit-price spiral,” and it's what has beset the United States. The solution? Competition! Enforcing anti-trust law! Break up oligopolies to restore functioning capitalism. https://www.npr.org/2023/05/11/1175487806/corporate-profit-price-spiral-wage-debate https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/30/business/economy/inflation-companies-profits-higher-prices.html
Happy #Caturday from a pensive Mittens.