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The Y2K bug actually killed the internet and everything since has been a dying dream? Or rather, a dying nightmare like Jacobs Ladder?

Hoof arted

Nobody cares.

How do you walk away in the direction you were going to begin with

You mean 180 -_-

Police officers detain a woman who laid flowers for Alexei Navalny at the Memorial to Victims of Political Repression in St. Petersburg, Russia on Friday, Feb. 16, 2024. Russian authorities say that Alexei Navalny, the fiercest foe of Russian President Vladimir Putin who crusaded against official corruption and staged massive anti-Kremlin protests, died in prison. He was 47. (AP Photo)

Fucking convert it to housing and other uses instead of whining about not enough wage slaves in cubicles.

About $1.5 trillion in commercial mortgage debt is due by the end of 2025, but steeper borrowing costs, coupled with tighter credit conditions and a decline in property values brought on by remote work, have increased the risk of default.

Credit card interest

It's like they're just asking to be fired and replaced by AI

WingsOfGood

gynesexual,

This is bad right? All the "sane" republicans are just gonna give up and capitulate to the MAGA cult? They took an oath and should be working harder than ever to fight this shit.

But when "poor" people buy high quality name brand clothing instead of the WalMart brand, they're told they're living above their means and that's the reason they're poor.

i guess everyone just ignores the thousands living on the street in every major city and just assumes that theyre living there because they enjoy it, not because of capitalism

There is a real simple solution to dealing with people who value their wealth over the well being of other humans.

Which makes the cancer analogy stronger, not weaker.

When the shit hits the fan from climate change, all of those complicated civilized systems that let capitalists make so damn much money without really working for it will be the first to go.

none of you would last in a non capitalist country

Capitalism is more like a parasite. Cancer doesn't benefit anyone. Not even itself.

I've made this exact comparison many times over the years.

Capitalism is based on the ridiculous notion that you can enjoy limitless growth in a closed finite system. In Biology, such behavior of cells is called cancer.

Vancouvers sky-high rental prices have forced many residents to find creative ways to be able to afford to live in the city.
Turning to creativity is exactly what Tim Chen did to avoid paying rent in Vancouver.
For Chen, commuting to class looks very different, as a final year arts student at the University of British Columbia.
"I thought, why don't I just stay at Calgary and then just fly here, its like a one-hour flight, thats like the same as taking a bus, he said.

Chen is originally from Calgary. He had previously been living in Vancouver while studying at UBC, but gave up his rental unit while he went on vacation during the fall.
When he returned, he was met with sticker shock.
"When I checked the house price I thought, oh shoot, there was a big increase!" he said. I need to pay like $2,500 for the rent, so I don't feel like it's viable."
He began looking at the price of flights from Calgary to Vancouver and realized they were about $150 round trip.
He takes two classes per week at the university.
In total hell pay about $1,200 for the flights per month while he lives at home with his parents in Calgary. Ultimately, it's much cheaper than the average price of a one-bedroom apartment in Vancouver, which sits at about $2,100.
"I've got three hours of class in total, after the class, I go back to the bus and go back to the airport!" Chen said.
Vancouver continues to lead the way as Canadas most expensive city for renters. But, finding a place to rent is even more difficult with the 0.9 per cent vacancy in the city.
Chen plans to fly to UBC for his two classes until the end of the academic year, when he graduates.

The bruised body of Alexei Navalny, the Russian opposition leader, has been found in a hospital morgue in the Arctic, two days after he died in a nearby prison.

A paramedic told Russian opposition media that there were bruises on Navalnys head and chest when his body was brought into the Salekhard District Clinical Hospital.

Such injuries, described by those that saw them, appear from seizures, the unnamed paramedic told the exiled Novaya Gazeta newspaper.

The person convulses, they try to restrain him, and bruises appear. They also said that he also had a bruise on his chest. That is, they still tried to resuscitate him, and he died, most likely, from cardiac arrest.

Russian prison officials said that Navalny died on Friday after falling ill during a short walk at IK-3, a notoriously brutal prison in the Russian Arctic.

Navalnys mother failed to find his body at the morgue in Salekhard on Saturday and his colleagues at the Anti-Corruption Foundation accused the Russian authorities of a cover-up.

Reporters said no autopsy had yet been performed. They also said that two unscheduled flights from Moscow had landed on Saturday at Salekhard, possibly with autopsy specialists.

The first jet landed at about six in the evening. It was met by cars of the Investigative Committee. And the second one arrived an hour and a half later, Novaya Gazeta quoted an unnamed source as saying.

Navalny was Vladimir Putins most serious opponent. Western leaders have accused the Kremlin of murdering him. He was facing three decades in prison on various charges and had been transferred to IK-3 shortly before Christmas.

David Lammy, Britains shadow foreign secretary, said on Sunday that Putin should face war crimes charges for the death of Navalny.

Id like to see Putin in front of that special tribunal, held to account for all of his crimes, not just in Ukraine, but as we are seeing just in the last 48 hours in Russia as well, he told the BBCs Laura Kuenssberg programme on Sunday.

The sudden death of Navalny shocked liberal-minded Russians and triggered rare protests in Russia where demonstrations against the Kremlin are banned.

OVD-Info, a Russian activist group that monitors the Russian police, said that 400 people had been detained across Russia, mainly for laying flowers for Navalny at memorials to Soviet repression.
Reports from across Russia said that the plain-clothes security services, often wearing surgical masks, were following people who had laid flowers. Different police forces appeared to respond differently, with some blocking access to memorial sites and others tearing them down.

These were the biggest nationwide protests in Russia against the authorities since September 2022, when Putin ordered a mobilisation to recruit soldiers for his war in Ukraine.

Analysts said that the timing of Navalnys death is important for the Kremlin which wants to use a presidential election next month to showcase support for Putins invasion of Ukraine.

Ben Noble and Nikolai Petrov, both Fellows on the Russia Programme at Chatham House, said that the death of Navalny had undermined Russias beleaguered, fragmented and exiled opposition.
There is no obvious figure to take up the role that Navalny crafted for himself, of Vladimir Putins main opponent. There will be no Navalny 2.0 in the short-term, at least, they said.

On Sunday Navalnys wife, Yulia, posted a new picture of the two of them together on social media, writing I love you.

The post on Instagram showed a picture of the two together, their heads touching as they watched a performance of some kind.
Navalnys death has had deep reverberations.

Donald Trump, who has been accused of withholding funding and weapons from Ukraine via Congress, came under fire on Sunday for his continued silence over Navalnys death.

The fact that he wont acknowledge anything with Navalny either he sides with Putin and thinks its cool that Putin killed one of his political opponents, or he just doesnt think its that big of a deal, Nikki Haley, his only Republican rival for the presidential nomination, said on ABCs This Week.
Either one of those is concerning. Either one of those is a problem, added the Republican candidate, who is trailing far behind Mr Trump in the race for their partys nomination.

Navalnys still-unexplained death at 47 in a prison in Russias Arctic has drawn powerful condemnations from leaders around the world, starting with Joe Biden, the US president, who has squarely blamed Putin.

Preferably one of the ones without Hell.