Sir, this is a Wendy’s.

This is what keeps the Third World in the Top 3!

Realistically, between this and the FBI, what we’re going to discover over the next year or two is how well the Three-letters have actually been keeping terrorism at bay over the years.

Very common at places up in Lapland as well, though not super useful anymore since everyone just has an app that does the same thing.

Not at all. This person is only describing life/work in some of the post-WII developed world. Historically, this is the anomaly, not the norm.

For a large part of recorded history, the formula was that land/resource holders offered anyone the cheapest, lousiest, and worst acceptable conditions in exchange for work. The conditions of the resource holders also actually sucked, and when leveraging economies of scale, offers of relative physical and economic security (sure, you’ll be kinda poor, but you don’t have to travel to another town to sell grain to survive because the Lord will always buy it from you at a “fair” rate.) were typically the value add that made it worth it to consider share-cropping under nobility as opposed to simply going it alone.

I’m not sure why Reddit and Lemmy seem so hell-bent on this fantasy version of history where farming is a joy denied us by the wealthy, but its hilariously misguided. Considering where things are headed, it sounds like for many it will end up being a dangerously wrong fantasy that others can take advantage of easily, and people that post things like this will learn the lesson first hand.

You rang?

The data is based on a sample, so unless your relatives collected a phial of spit from you and didn’t tell you why, there’s not a lot they would really have. Maybe name and DOB based on a family member adding it to a family tree, but you can likely just ask your family of they did that. IIRC, that’s a premium feature anyway.

Sure, I’m just a lot more pessimistic about how bad things get between now and 8 years from now.

It’ll take until 2034. Don’t use her up early.

The most terrifying thing about this moment in time is that simply being the victim of something shitty means that predators will descend upon your weakened body and fling it about for political points until nothing is left in your wrinked husk but shame and the empty hole of fake opportunities to further whore yourself out just a liiiiiiiitle more for one more pay day, one more event, one more podcast, one more YT video, one more hot take, one more anything before the news cycle finally slam dunks you into the trash forever.

Not even. It’s a two-pronged populist treat.

1. You did the thing and released the docs.

2. No matter what comes out, it will be boring and droll. And the documents being old means there will be gaps. That allllllllllll pushes the far right conspiracy loons directly into “tha Deep State did um!”

It’s not actual cost cutting. Stop calling it that.

I’m still so mad at the Skoot Corp CEO for that ridiculous re-skeet where they memed the javalina charrp boys on doop.

Am I having the stroke? Or is everyone else?

My favorite one so far.

This is the year 2025, and you all are worried about paper records?

Stop to think…where does a paper classified record come from? If “printed from a classified computer” didn’t cross your mind, I suggest you check your underinformed outrage. Anything old enough to be historical should already be at the National Archives.

USAID is moving out of all its offices, so getting rid of paper copies of records falls squarely into Federal records retention policies.

And he’ll rescind them all by this time tomorrow.

The only rational answer.

That’s correct. This was entirely to pay for work done before the Stop Work Order, with contracts already in place, money obligated and ready to go.

Dine and dash is the perfect comparison.

I especially love how this decision was 5-4 that the government has to honor a contract it signed, and the MAGA folks are upset that the government can’t simply scam everyone and everything.