I used to feel more suicidal. Nowadays I think if I was feeling like I truly wanted to do that, I would want to take an oligarch with me

this isn’t the only option but it’s recent and relevant

The large majority of resources and facilities are owned by a small minority of wealthy individuals whose only goal is making money. People with more interest and passion in the field in question would continue to innovate as long as they had the resources to do so.

Capitalism stifles innovation

I would love those 2 to have the most expensive trial in history

That’s only true of the too few people that control too much resources

If you’re in the states, new cars are legally required to have a screen for the back up camera.

My interpretation is something that isn’t the fediverse version of something else. Like Lemmy doesn’t count because it’s the fediverse version of Reddit.

I actually had a music teacher that used the 5th as an example. It’s a story of dundundun duuuun

A bunch of stuff in the classical realm fits that bill, holst’s the planets, a bunch of operas some with words some without many in other languages you wouldn’t understand. One modern song with words that I want to be in these comments is Albuquerque by weird Al. I’ll also mention Maggot brain by funkadelic

Slang is typically created to develop camaraderie and show mutual insight, which is a bit beyond respect

Anyone read Fahrenheit 451 and the bit towards the end where the police prove the robot dog always gets his man?

I heard from someone that works for Eric Adams that the name is Julian Cassio

That’s a naive statement.

just because he didn’t use a gun doesn’t mean he wasn’t killing people

Is Ukraine murdering Russians? Is Palestine murdering Israelis? Would it be murder if they killed Putin or Netanyahu?

It’s not execution, it’s class war.

In the classroom, on the floor, before class started, and was woken up when class was over.

I appreciate the great info listed here. And yes absolutely to your conclusion. I am wondering your thoughts on the Trump admin’s ability to come collect / how that might affect me long term.

The more people who don’t pay the harder it’d be for them to enforce it. How does accepting the situation now help me change the situation for the future?