the only issue with NATO is Article 1. Waive that requirement and it would be perfect.

temp/staffing agencies. They are middle men whose sole purpose is to be a prophylactic on a shitty manufacturing company’s high employee turnover affecting stock prices. Every single one of them is a “rent-a-meat” outfit, and literally no one should EVER work for any of them. They are almost as bad as payday lenders, preying on desperation to turn a profit. The perverse thing is that with one small tweak, they’d be on par with unions as one of the greatest bulwarks of labor empowerment, but nope, gotta profit on protecting the bottom line! (What I’m thinking of is something like a member owned/operated trade union that actively works to continue training, and to place members in viable and long term employment, that will also have your back as the worker, offering legal representation and arbitration services if your contractee employer treats you in bad faith.)

I mean, strictly speaking, the vast majority of Russia isn’t. They are just poor brain washed shills. They deserve our pity more than ire. The Russian DUMA however…

Smack a founding member of NATO…hmmm…

puts on pirate hat would this work for uploaded memes by chance? I make Minecraft content and having to separately download .gif’s and .mp3’s is getting a bit tiresome when I’d like to drop in some cheeky brain rot in for the top kek lulz while I edit the footage in Resolve.

Given how the site has legitimately gotten worse since I was kicked off it back in May, I’m actually kind of glad I got off the ship before it went to pot. Besides, I don’t want to just make another account. I want MY account. It’s a matter of principle even if I never go back.

redlib (while permabanned) is a bit like being kicked out of the bar and staring back in through the window. You can look, sure, but a bar is about interacting and getting drunk. You are doing neither.

FUCK SPEZ

I gotchu fam.

enough that I can huck most of it in a trust and still be able to live off the interest. Yes, this makes it hard to tax, (I see taxes as rent, not theft, so this would be an UNfortunate side effect) but it also keeps me from “discovering” people to whom I’m apparently distantly related, suddenly appearing at my doorstep looking for handouts.

I’d also probably move somewhere remote, where the locals are few, don’t really care what you do as long as you keep to you and yours, and aren’t murdering people.

😂 🤣

Fair, I mean: if you want to do collage work MAN, GIMP pops off. but yeah… to do what you described, you kind of have to get inventive with the plot select tool, and hope to hell you can cleanly enclose that loop.

I’ve been using GIMP to make every one of my thumbnails for the video uploads I make. The issue with GIMP is that it does some things a bit obtusely, and kind of requires you to build a database of art files. Photoshop is better for (surprise!) editing photos, where as GIMP is better at pure “Art” stuff.

GIMP also is not really geared for Tablets, which is also why most people are down on it.

Ive been using GIMP for years and once you adjust to how it operates, it’s quite powerful. In fact it has some rather useful features once you unlearn Photoshop. It reminds one a bit more of Corel Paint from back in the day.

“tis a poor carpenter that blames their tools.”

I know that he won’t win a peace prize, But this man needs some recognition for unmasking the Putin regimes’ Paper Tiger status. He’s out there making life just a little better for the rest of civilized society, and has really raised Ukraines’ international profile. There’s no way that Ukraine is not coming out of this as a real power player on the European stage, NATO admittance or not.

But yeah, drop in the bucket. At least some of these shitty AI bots are gone for awhile. A reprieve is a reprieve.

this is what I’m saying. You may make a fortune but it will always be dependant on a house of cards built on shifting sands.

Remember when the disclaimer “please allow 6 to 8 weeks for delivery” was practically ubiquitous on mail order packages? It’s almost like that was a SANE way to run a logistics network!

I’d suggest that the 1929 stock market crash get an entire unit in elementary school, High school, and every economics course in college. Do the same for the 89’ crash and the Dot com Bubble. Really drill it into these young entrepreneurs how Speculating in the stock market NEVER EVER leads to anything good. It’s a Faustian bargain. The consequences WILL arrive; not a matter of “if” but “when.”