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No, it's not worth thinking about. There are many videos of nazis starting the salute with the arm bent across the chest. They may not be putting their hand over their heart but

1. It doesn't matter, because it's still a fucking nazi salute, and

2. Elon needed to so his bullshit line "my heart goes out to you" might, just might, provide an excuse when he's inevitably questioned about this.

Let's not split hairs here. Next you'll be saying his arm wasn't at exactly 35° so it couldn't possibly be a nazi salute. Or during the second one behind him his hand was tilted slightly instead of going straight. If you can't see it for what it is you're in fantasy land.

Yep. Sky news is Australia's version of Fox news, so don't be too surprised. At this point there could be video of Elon chomping on a dead baby and they would still be saying "let's not take this out of context", "this is not what it looks like" and "what about that one time Biden ate something?". It's pathetic, but enough people unfortunately watch this crap.

True, but what's doing my head in is Bezos and Zuckerberg are both bending the knee and doing what they're told, yet Musk can say what he wants and is still all cosy with Drumpf. Why is it that some money is good but other money doesn't get a say at all?

Well atoms are pretty small so I'm guessing the user base is already bigger than them.

I'm sure it will get hit with the enshitification hammer soon enough..

The Democrats keep turning up to the dawn duel with a sword as agreed, while the Republicans turn up with a pistol because fuck the rules. Then the Democrats say "no, no, I'll continue with the sword because that's the rules", get slaughtered, and then wonder what went wrong. One day I hope they'll realise you can't beat an opponent who's not even playing the game.

Fair warning: nobody asked for it and nobody should listen to it. It's terrible.

That's a bingo!

Damn straight. In Australia we have massive fires every fucking year. When I was a kid it might have been one or two per decade. I remember large flocks of birds flying overhead in mornings and afternoons - none of that happens now. Insect diversity has fallen. National Parks almost look like graveyards of previously thriving forest, it's just depressing. In Victoria over half a national park just burnt out because rainfall has been low for 20 years and there just isn't enough moisture around to stop fires from spreading rapidly. Shit's fucked, and it's going to get worse.

The point of tipping is to incentivise staff to do a good job. Of course employers saw staff getting extra money and decided they didn't need to pay as much any more. Tipping has now grown to the point where you are expected to pay extra for just about anything or else the worker doesn't get paid, which is not only counter-intuitive, it's just stupid.

I travelled through Eastern Europe a while ago and got so sick of extra "taxes" added to the price of everything that I just stopped buying stuff. I imagine tip fatigue being pretty similar.

You're a victim of the system you're protecting. Enough with the Stockholm Syndrome.

It seems to me the only way to win at capitalism is to lose all sense of compassion and empathy. When a population turns from cooperation to wholly exploiting each other it can only lead to a breakdown of society - which is something I fear we'll witness in the next four years.