The story of Moses is of God's Chosen People being insulated from bad events while the Pagans are made to suffer.
The moral of Exodus (and Kings and Judges) is that if you're following God's Will, nothing bad will ever happen to you.
The Man of Steel’s declaration, “I’m tired of having my actions construed as instruments of U.S. policy,” follows accusations that he caused an international incident in Tehran. Superman flew to the country during a huge protest, where he stood silent for one day, to show his support for the demonstrators. The 24 hours pass with a mix of appreciation (flowers and flags) and fear (hurled Molotov cocktails). But the government of Iran sees Superman as an agent of the United States and feels his action is an act of war. “Truth, justice and the American way – it’s not enough anymore,” Superman tells the president’s national security adviser. “The world’s too small. Too connected.” He then makes the decision to go before the United Nations and renounce his American citizenship.
Shame they did stick with a white actor. Imagine the chuds losing their minds over a Superman played by Pedro Pascal or Michael B. Jordan.
you don’t contribute tens of thousands every year
Really depends on the business model. If it's business software, I very well might because it's cheaper to finance hours for improvements than to commission custom code from third parties. I've worked at a number of companies that operate this way - letting the lead spenders define future work while the small fries just take what's on offer.
Most 100% unmonetized FOSS projects just don’t have a stable revenue stream and to make it worse, the users can be real assholes, hounding the devs to work more or put someone else in charge to accept PRs quicker, etc.
Sure. It's far from a perfect system. But public financing of projects and official lines of communication can improve this significantly.
Universities are great at churning out FOSS applications for this reason. A lot of the mainline software has derivative applications. So you'll get a library that's great at file management/transfer used for purely academic work and financed by a public grant to that end. But then you've got people picking up the library updates on Git and applying them to all sorts of tangential projects without needing to go out of pocket to finance it.
They might contribute bug reports and the occasional feature improvement (or just fork and let the OG authors pick up improvements as they please). But they aren't on the hook for thousands of dollars to use something that is just a useful improvement to existing technology.
One of the youngest members of congress is Kyrsten Sinoma.
Kyrsten Sinema. And she declined to run for reelection, ceding the primary to Ruben Gallego (slightly younger, at 45) who looked good-ish on paper a couple years ago. But now he's fallen in with the Crypto-Bros, he's been seen taking money from the Qatars, and he's otherwise indistinguishable from any of the other pro-war, corporate-friendly Schumer style liberal Democrats.
they’re trusted to protect the interests of capital.
The irony of it all is how we're immolating our industrial base and flinging trillions into tech sector lucid dreams in a way suggests a very bleak future for actual physical capital in the country.
I really don’t understand why Warren keeps being put in the company of Bernie or AOC.
For the same reason Corporate Dems kept screaming "Biden is the most progressive candidate since FDR!" at any left-liberal who would give them the time of day. She's not a serious politician. She's a fence post. This is how far the party is allowed to go and absolutely no further.
You put Warren in with Bernie and AOC today. Then, when we get another Hillary or a Buttigieg or whatever on the ticket in 2028, you can tell progressives "See? Warren is being reasonable and joining with the very popular center of the party. They have progressive cred. Idk wtf Bernie and AOC are on anymore. They've clearly gone off the deep end. Besides, Bernie is a misogynist and I think I heard AOC is part Chinese. And don't even think about voting for the Green Party. They're all a bunch of KGB-infiltrated Russians."
The Hillarycrats Ride Again!
Glances at Eric Adams
Some of those that work forces...
Engineer: "We can't explain how it works."
Human: "So that means you won't be using it for anything?"
Engineer: "Oh no no no. We'll just put a black box over it, slap a delta symbol on the box, exploit the hell out of the input/output, and hope for the best."
people want to be paid for their work
There's multiple flavors of this, unfortunately.
Love to contribute money to a project I support.
Hate to have my favorite software suite acquired by a Big Tech company that pays some oversees software sweatshop to shove pop-ups in my face trying to sell me glitter icons.
This is how the world ends
This is how the world ends
This is how the world ends
Not with a bang, but with a big popup you can't close that's asking if you'd like to become a premium member.
Thank goodness for the real nationalist icon ~~Captain America~~ The Punisher.