if you really believe Tim Apple isn't doing the same shit only a Little bit smarter so its les obvious then I'm sorry to wake you from your dream but:
All big tech is bad. Apple. Microsoft. Oracle. Meta. Snap. IBM. Digital Ocean. Amazon. Etc.
There are no good guys. Only bad and worse. Its not the good, the bad and the ugly. It's the bad (Apple), the really bad (Microsoft and most of the rest) and the obnoxiously bad. (Special place in hell for Meta, TikTok and Google)
After we tried to do our best to save Saab this is what you get.
Americanland! Let's not forget that one.
Well, that's easy. That must be "Kut", which, not surprisingly means cunt in Dutch.
.... Err .. no? Or you have very raw fabric clothing or something else is up, bud.
Or do you mean you normally used no underwear when working out and it isn't that long ago (months, not years) since you had the procedure. Then yeah, there is a difference. But it all err.. should work out.
Speaking as one to the other if you catch my drift. Be happy you did it bud, the pain was just the one of the nasty other complications possible.
Why does this guy looks so much as Dr Evil. He even mimics the facial expressions. It's scary.
I just love MiG's. Why? Because the ruskies just rawdogged everything. They saw the F16 with all that fancy fly by wire stuff and made a nimble MiG without any real computer assisted flying with the fulcrum. You have the fastest plane with the SR-71? Well fuck that, here , we've put an after burner on that MiG-31 so big it more or less matches the SR-71 speed. It just burns through the engine in one flight and the airframe also takes a big hit when you use it but who cares about costs, we're commies.
Soviet aerospace engineers man. You just have to love them. They really used that hammer logic (hit it harder!) on everything.
Or the approach which led to the hind heli. What? You need a gunship and you need a troop transport? What do you say, the Americans have pinpoint precision on that superCobra and that shiny Apache thingy?
Here, i've made it big so it can fit a lot of troops. I've added some large wings so you can fill her up with all kinds of low tech Rockets so you don't need pinpoint precision. Just point and click in the general direction and everything over there is annihilated. Yeah, that goes for that tank and that family of twelve 100m further down the street where you didn't aim at as well.
But, they aren't us anyway so.... And next to that the fucker is really fast for such a big helo..
The design principles are so fantasticly wack. Matching (try to) western computertech with low tech solutions.
Games, books and movies don't change your life. At most it makes you think about something a little deeper. A little longer.
Life events change your life. A child. Death. Life. Love. Hate. War. Hope. Loss. Peace. Safety. Destruction. And money. Or lack of.
The most impactful game I played, which story I still really remember after 25 years? Homeworld. Hiigara. Our home.
The exact workings im not familiar with but it's called "leveraged buyout" where the net worth of the firm which is bought is the collateral.
So .. you buy firm A with money you lended. When the sale gors through all belongings of firm A are yours! So you sell them off, you know what? You want to make a profit so you sell EVERYTHING.
Now firm A is but a husk of it's former self. So now is the time to put it in some holding company or something. Now the husk of firm A is indebted to you.
Oh noes! It goes bankrupt! With your investment firm as the biggest lender to it!
Thats a very shallow take on reality you have here.
Sure, being a good owner means providing care, safety, food, entertainment and most of all: love.
But still, its a dog. (Or cat. Or rabbit or whatever.)The moment the situation could sink you financially, that is the moment you pull the plug, take the hit, the pain and move on. You have that choice with an animal. And 9 out of 10 times it's the best option for everyone, including the animal.
You don't hurt something, create more suffering just because you can't take the loss.
Looking at the last year of my Fathers life we all (himself first and foremost) wished we had that humane option as well. Fall to sleep. Float away painless. But alas, for humans we don't have that option. For reasons no sane people can explain we humans must cruelly endure a lot of pain, mental stress and indignation in that final period.
And we should not extend that cruelty (because thats what it is, most life prolonging "final" care in our seniors) to our pets.
Accident? Broken paw? Appendicitis? Or similar fixable stuff? fix it!
Liver or kidney failure? Heart disease? Cancer? Brain damage? (Partial) Paralysis?
Nah. Don't hurt it and yourself more. Take the loss.
From a non US Perspective (most of the world) this is a non issue.
Because for the rest of the world the answer to this dilemma boils down to:
Do you want to be shook down by the big guy in the left corner with the can of coke in his hand or do you prefer to be fucked over by that big Asian guy in the right corner who's slurping on his bubble tea?
I choose the one who demands the least.