This is misleading at best. If you subtract the largest 1000 earners in America the median income drops to $35,000.
That's all you need to know.
SoylentBlake
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So here I am scrolling as one do, and your photo slides into view. To myself I think, oh, nice mammaries, and then pause to think more people should say that, and then scroll down until the text comes up. And small? That is not what I would call them.
Anywho, quite right, good show, carry on, cheerio.
The Brits really have more fun with the language than we do.
Mediterranean literally translates to "middle of the earth"
Medi = middle Terran = earth Ean = of the
The complete sea name in a native romance language, not English, is Mar de Mediterranean. The word is obviously Latin in origin and the sea has been known as such since antiquity, probably predating Rome (who at the height of their control called the Mediterranean a Roman lake, since they encircled it on all sides. How quaint of them, yea?). This would have been known to Tolkien as the educated, well everybody really, back in the day, had more exposure to Latin, which had spread out widely due to the Church. Martin Luther and Guggenheim started that unraveling, tho Latin is still spoken in many many Catholic churches today.
Midgard does translate to middle earth as well. Tolkien was prob aware of this as well, tho i think that this is lesser well known than Mediterranean, just by the global reach of Spanish.
I mean Mediterranean is literally middle earth.
I think I was 27 when that gem hit me upside the head
In Tacoma, Wa.
I witnessed 5 police officers all hit a man on the ground with their tasers. Broad daylight.
Died on the scene of a heart attack. Apparently natural causes. The polices internal investigations found the police did no wrong, imagine that.
Unless you make enough money that you can regularly "donate" to the force, I suggest that you assume they are not there to help you and you protect yourself accordingly
With China's ludicrous assertion of their 9dash line, their increasing aggression against the Filipino fishermen and lately, against the Filipino coast guard, I highly doubt this does any damage to the US/Philippino relationship. Maybe a stink eye and then never brought up again. It's not like it's the first time the US has been caught flat out while fucking around in SE Asia, or the Philippines. We're about as graceful over there as your mom in the boys locker room (jk)
Duterte pulled back our relations during his presidency (while directing law enforcement to murder drug users without trial, real fashy, kwim?). After everyone got tired of his corruption and looting (to no one who pays attention to authoritarians surprise...) of the public coffers, Duterte got the boot, US/Philippines relations normalized, China went all 9dash dickhead and the Philippines even offered us our old naval base on Palawan back. <-- that pissed China off. Major, major force projection from there.
Don't expect much to come out of this news, is all I'm saying.
I love that about physicsduck, it def snaps me into attention, like, wtf he just say..?
My money is on energy drinks
Safest time ever bro. The police just need another fuckbillion dollars and harriers and then crime disappear, totes.
They are thinking the got the customer by the balls because they're a state sanctioned monopoly. They're so big the CEO of Samsung has essentially the same power as the SK president.
Every major corp out of SK is a state sanctioned monopoly. The government tells Samsung "make washing machines now" and Samsung does.
I know it's been widely overlooked to allow South Korea to economically develop after the armistice, cold war and all, but at some point the rest of the free trading world is going to have to hit them with tariffs to protect native, or critical industries.
Frankly I'm really tired of looking the other way for any reason. Every other day it's a headline about how some government or multinational led the public on a 20 year gaslighting campaign. If I were to say, "hey did you hear that story about XXXY(any well known mega corp)?" Do you think I'd have a positive wholesome story to share? No. Because there never is. The structure of a corporation is set up to protect financiers from liability from the crimes theyre guaranteed to commit thru abusive, shortsighted, toxic business. It's literally the fucking point. But we don't have to accept that, and we don't have to choke back and somehow keep down our sense of justice, or be passively complicit, which is to nueter your morality, your sense of self
Our individual actions do matter in this case. Like don't buy shit off Temu, theyre using slave labor. Don't endorse that. Don't buy anything out of Dubai or Saudi Arabia, they, also, keep slaves. Don't support slavery. Including wage slavery. Don't do business with Israel until an non Zionist coalition is back in charge. Don't buy anything Russian. Genocide is not an acceptable modern practice. It CAN'T be. Boycott Mississippi and Louisiana as well, since they like to let their prisoners die of treatable conditions and bury them in unmarked graves. That is ALSO a genocide. Don't fucking fund crimes against humanity. This is kindergarten levels of sophistication.
And hopefully enough people will actually live their morals and gain seats of power, because we have to. Otherwise waves hands THIS.
Ding ding ding!
And traffic. The absolute best part of sacrificing your melatonin is never having to drive in traffic. That kept me working nights for over a decade.