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My boss also went hard on no private calls during work time. My colleague immediately switched his work phone off at 5pm sharp because not mixing private and work. Of course soon there was an issue at 5:30pm. It was amazing how that policy got reversed so quickly.

Install grapheneOS on your phone, and their MFA app doesn't want to run anymore.

It just means they have to write "mistakes" or "performance issues" on the paperwork instead of "replaced by robots"

to do their version of the Handmaids Tale

Other way around. Handmaid's Tale drew some of its inspiration from those states, mainly the historical slavery part.

In general, pirates spend more money on media than the average user and push up sales by hyping the good stuff.

Usually all the best defense hardware is concentrated around the elite. It'll take a lot of effort to punch through. That also means Russia's critical energy and manufacturing is less defended now.

And Ukraine keeps the Kerch Bridge untouched because Russia keeps using it for bringing in new drone targets in the form of very expensive defensive material, because giving up that region is Russia admitting defeat.

Private Equity summarized

They're going to try and buy all the right politicians to remove the competition so you don't have any choice.

Seems appropriate: Monster Crash

Okay, so circuit 1 is an ever increasing circle of money > power > corruption > more money

Circuit 2 is powered by the first and grows with it: corruption > abuse > afraid to lose power > need to hide actions > scapegoating minorities + media capture > more corruption

The end result is a corrupted society ruled by a few insanely rich sickos.

Don't open the spoiler tags or you run into a wall of text.