I just scrolled past three depressing posts because I didn't want to deal with it this early and clicked a comic instead, only to have it be this comic.
I heard (don't remember where, could be true, could be right out of someone's ass) that the reason the show ended is many of them started feeling bad about doing a light-hearted fun show about cops. Basically the actors all started feeling like Rosa.
WTF? Do I have to allow shit in my car and phone to start tracking me to provide evidence in my favor when some ai decides it has "tracked" me? The only reason this lady got out of it without getting a lawyer and going to court is she allowed all the bullshit in her phone and car that I block. And if she didn't have it, what would have happened in court?
My dipshit contractor did something similar.
Me, before demo on a big remodel: "Hey, if you could get rid of these soffits, (on the first floor, with a lot of weight above them) that would be cool."
Them: " Yeah, after we get it open we'll take a look and let you know."
I swing by a couple days later and this is how they rerouted things that were in the soffits, without saying anything to me.
So anyway, I'm in litigation now.
I'm glad our fuck up in the US is inspiring others to step back from the edge. It's at least a silver lining I can console myself with while everything crumbles around me.
Whoever is in charge of writing this simulation is just getting lazy.
Yeah, they kind of had a point until they busted out the incel-speak at the end.
I don't know what "very little" means to you, but I have friends that are married with children, unlikely to face violence motivated by bigotry (location dependant, YMMV), and have legal protections from discrimination in housing and employment.
When I was a kid they could get fired or evicted with no recource, and if they had the temerity to poke their head out of the closet someone could kick their ass with impunity unless they were seriously injured or killed, and sometimes even then.
But sure, "very little," let's go with that.
It's a lot easier to tolerate the copaganda when they're almost exclusively going after rapists.
The thing I found funny about SVU is someone obviously said "shit, Olivia has been at this for decades, she should be a captain by now," so they made her one but she's still taking calls, the first on the scene, and participating in the investigation.
It'd be a damn shame if everyone started putting pixelfed at the end of every message to both deny threads content and create a Streisand effect.
If you want to know how bad we're being fucked, search for the PPI, the producer price index. CPI, the one we always hear about, is the measure of inflation to us, the consumer. The PPI is the measure of inflation to producers, what they pay for goods and services to produce the goods and services we buy.
The PPI has been back to "normal" for a while now. Pretty much as soon as the post COVID logistics issues were mostly ironed out. The difference between PPI and CPI changes is almost all profit.
We don't get daily articles on the PPI though, I wonder why.
Tell people about PPI whenever you can, online or off, the more people know, the better. It's easy enough to say inflation is just down to greed but being able to back it up by comparing two simple charts will help people really understand.
We've all heard "it takes money to make money." But rich people know it's better to use other people's money.