Gonna be Romania I reckon.

Don’t forget the absolute dregs of humanity, the Vulture Capitalists!

Hot sand storage.

Drops mic

She willingly took on responsibility for the shitshow, risk/reward. She happens to be holding the bag when the music is stopping, I couldn’t care less how long she personally has been in the role.

It’s not like this class of people works harder than others, so that massive fucking pay packet has to be for something. I assume it’s for the risk of taking on the responsibility.

“Something went wrong” with the system they’re ultimately responsible for, the system that they’ve stripped to the bone in search of growth in a saturated naturally monopolistic market.

Loss of bonuses should be the least of their fucking worries. -.-

So far.

Nope. Mostly gambling adverts. Every other advert, some cuntrag gambling company.

Why aren’t you gambling? It’s easy, we have an app for it so you can do it on the sly and everything. Do it. Gamble now, all your friends are doing it. Look at all these joyous people gambling, don’t you want to be like them? Gamble now!

Not interested. Will never be interested. The more I get advertised a thing, the less interested I get; one of the few useful artefacts of my spergness. Advertising genuinely doesn’t have the desired affect on me, it just annoys me and I mentally blacklist any product that advertises at me.

The entire advertising industry is a cancer on humanity as far as I’m concerned. A net drain of resources that serves no purpose other than to prop up the throwaway consumerism that’s destroying the only place in the universe known for certain to support life.

Fuck all that shit.

My aunt did fine getting shopping delivered, until she had a stroke that took out 20% of one hemisphere. Using a kitchen knife after that was downright dangerous. Is she supposed to avoid providing pizza or similar for her kids’ birthday parties in your world?

Just one real world example that took me but seconds. Think beyond your bubble.

What if the customer is incapable of some or all of the chain of tasks required to produce the home cooked equivalent?

Could be they work pretty much their whole waking life, running 3 or more jobs.

Could be they’re disabled and can’t do grocery shopping, or food prep, or cooking.

Before you judge someone, spend a few minutes imagining why exactly the circumstances are the way they are, and aim for a bit beyond the hateboner fantasy you already had in mind, yeah?

It takes two. You’re obviously aware of compromises made, referring to an example as you did. I’m reasonably sure someone aware of -and willing to discuss- such things is someone who makes an effort with others’ feelings and wishes. That alone puts you above most people I meet, so give yourself some credit. 💛

Nope. Leaving that one alone. Not today.

They’re paying the protection racket, obviously.

Fucking love it.

I’d imagine so. It worked well for the energy backbone of the country, the water supply and sewage system, and the education system, to name but a few.

(giant neon flashing “/s” for clarity)

How so? You think Ukraine will stop where they are with those, seeing the success they’re having? lmao

They’ll be hanging over Moscow like party balloons given the right wind conditions, what with Russia laying into Kyiv with anything and everything they have.

Given that they’re sticking Pantsir launchers on the roofs in Moscow, Russia are indeed expecting it to get worse yet.

Bullets indeed do essentially nothing against weather balloon type craft. Bullets from ground level, even less so unless they’re significantly larger rounds. Oh, and you don’t want to be downrange of all those misses either.

Flak would probably be the “cheapest best bet” for ensuring damage to the balloons’ payload, but the collateral damage from debris could be significant. They will probably use some small missile to do the job, which is the only way to be sure, really. However, that’s not ideal from a cost ratio standpoint, which leaves them wide open to the fact that;

Those balloons are also probably cheaper than you estimate, when produced at the same scale as the rounds of which you speak.

Which means that when and if the Russians put something in place to attempt to stop the balloons, the Ukrainians can simply send arse-loads of decoy balloons to waste Russian ammo supplies.

Shot down with something cheaper than a balloon?

Brother, handgun rounds probably cost more than balloons, and I can’t think of anything cheaper, offhand.

They are when they’re sedated, which is the only way to image most animals. This is why imaging at the vets costs so much and is shied away from in older animals where possible. The older the animal, the riskier sedation gets, for myriad reasons.

Throw in the hills of Sheffield, and I’m driving around having to rev the balls off in 2nd, or labour the fuck out of it and kill it trying to do it in 3rd.

Less of an issue if your car is an oversized wanktank, like most. See, the bigger problem is the American influence on our vehicles; stupidly large, unnecessarily heavy, consuming more fuel to move, and doing more damage to roads and whatever mommy hits between the house in suburbia and little fucking Timmy’s football practice half a mile up the road.

Tax vehicles by a multiplicative factor of physical size, weight, and engine displacement, with a reduction for electric powertrain, or part thereof, and watch the gormless SUV craze end in a fucking hurry.